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gavin6942 Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 60s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he continued to ignore her. So she shot him. This is Valerie's story.Dr. Dana Heller, professor of English at the Old Dominion University, argues that the film stages the conflict between Solanas and Warhol as less the result of gender politics – particularly because Solanas intended no connection between her writing and the shooting – than of the decline of print culture as represented by Solanas and the rise of new non-writing media as embodied by Warhol and the Pop art movement. In the screenplay, Harron and Minahan describe Solanas as "banging at an ancient typewriter" and the film frequently shows her typing, for which she is mocked by Warhol and other Factory regulars. Solanas' writing is set against the new technologies of reproduction championed by Warhol.The Andy Warhol in this film is nothing compared to the one played by David Bowie in "Basquiat". The voice and mannerisms are good, but Bowie just nails it. The film in general is excellent, though, and Lili Taylor was the perfect person for the role. What is she up to these days? It seems like she had a good run in the 1990s, playing off of John Cusack, and then disappeared.

Joseph P. Ulibas I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) was an interesting movie that I saw on satellite t.v. a few years ago. The movie was about the lesbian neo-feminist and founder of S.C.U.M. Valerie Solanis (Lili Taylor). She's an aspiring writer who's trying to fit in the mid sixties lifestyle of New York City. Valerie lives with her sometimes lover (Martha Plimpton) and co-worker. The two turn tricks, roll certain customers and hang out with a transvestite named Candy Darling (Stephen Dorff). One day Candy suggests to Valerie that she meet with Andy Warhol (Jared Harris). The rest is history. Michael Imperioli co-stars as a very catty Ondine, Tahnee Welch guest stars as Viva and Donovan Leitch appears as Gerald Malanga.If you want to see how Warhol's "Factory" and it's atmosphere then this is the movie you want to see. Jared Harris was perfect as Andy Warhol and Lili Taylor made Valerie Solanis into a tragic person who's life was filled with madness and heartbreak. I was also impressed with Stephen Dorff, I never knew how great of an actor he has become. This movie is perfect and ideal for those who always wanted to know what happened to Warhol during the late sixties and how his life and attitudes were changed forever.Highly recommended.

vincent-27 If you like indie counterculture flicks, this might be right up your alley. It is the story of Valerie Solanas, a radical feminist lesbian in the 60's who writes her revolutionary manifesto that attempts to rid the world of the male species. For someone who is supposedly very intelligent and who studied psychology, she is obviously unable to see this as being completely insane, not to mention impossible. Her hatred for men is text book, sexually abused as a child, forced into prostitution to support herself, that would lead any woman to lesbianism.So, here we have this man hating butch dike played to perfection by Lily Taylor, although since I have never seen Solanas (and I'm sure either had Taylor) I'm not sure if it was true to her, or just Taylor's own wild imaginings of what this woman must have been like. It's similar to Johnny Depp as Hunter S. Thompson, a great performance, but actually quite off the mark as an impersonation of Thompson. But since nobody knows anything about Solanas, Taylor is free to run wild, and run wild she does, as most of commented, completely carrying this film with her intensity and ferocity. If it wasn't for her, this movie would have been a complete bore, since whenever she is not in a scene, I nearly fell asleep, Harron has all these really slow panning shots in red filter that don't show anything of interest. I was kind of intrigued by Solanas philosophy, as bizarre as it was. Much of it was true, sex can be a very solitary experience, especially the kind of sex Solanas has had (rape and prostitution). Men can be governed by their insecurities based on sexual performance and desires (see most political/religious leaders). However what of the female insecurities and desires? THere are plenty and they are just as ugly as the male's. I often wonder if the world would be better off if women ruled it, because I have my own views on what is really driving our consumption based society which is killing the planet. It's the woman as much as the man, perhaps even more so. Women have an insatiable need to consume, hence turning shopping into a hobby, which no man has ever done.Anyway, check this movie out simply for Taylor, she is brilliant and unrestrainted and her tough talking New York chick impersonation will mezmerize you.

judy4mee1254 I Shot Andy WarholBefore I saw this film, I never knew Lili could be so, loud. Normally, on shows and in other movies she?s very soft spoken in most of the scenes. She portrays a Lesbian writer, Valerie Solanas, who is a man hater. She decides to write a manifesto, and create S.C.U.M., or society for cutting up men. She worked her way through collage by prostitution, and got a degree in psychology. Then she is often homeless, sleeping on ruffs, with her typewriter, and paper bag of things. She even comes up with weird ways of earning money, ten cents any dirty word, six bucks for an hour worth of conversation, and even some chest stepping, odd but true. This is how she meets Maurice Gerodeious. He's major porn publisher who wants her to write him two novels. She declines at first but later goes to dinner, all dolled up, and signs the contract. Then the next day she read the whole contract and sees that she got screwed...(... a rate of six percent for the first 20,000 copies, a rate of six percent for the first 20,000 copies, he wants to own scum....).So she tries to sell the manifesto, telling people it will change their life; she also charges 50 cents for girls, and 1.00 for men. Valerie has also written a play called up your a** about some experiences she has had with the "male species". Andy wont produce it, and it gets tossed out, but she specifically told them that she only had one other copy, that she needed that one back. she spends the remainder of the movie trying to get the script back, and develops the obsession. She now believes that Andy and the publisher are trying to steal scum and own it, alone. In order to do what ever she really wants to do, she gets dolled up, again, and goes to the new factory. Here she shoots Warhol and his assistant before running out of bullets, then she tries to shoot the other assistant so she pulls the trigger anyway, only to make noise that it makes, and she goes out the elevator. Valerie walks down the street and sees a police officer, she goes up and tells him the police are looking for her and gives him the gun. "I shot Andy Warhol, yeah, I had to he had too much control over my life.", as she hands over her gun, out of the paper bag. See a couple of days ago she got the bag and putts all her belongings in it. "See I?ve been carrying all my belonging in the bag for a few days now, including the ice pick, which I'd forgotten." is what she says when she is asked why she needs the ice pick. Lili masters this role, as usual, and SHOULD have walked away with that Oscar, she deserved it. Do you know how hard it is to believe you self in to a role the way she does? She has that unknown quality, the thing Judy Garland had, that magic, that nobody can copy. Not in a thousand years. Great movie, you should see it, but its not the greatest for children, they refer to a lot of sexual references, and intercourse.