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What movie(s) portray heroin correctly?
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They were not banging coke in Requiem For A Dream, it was heroin. I do recall the eye parts but I don't remember whether or not they got bigger or smaller, just remember a change in size. And the mother wasn't just on opiates OR speed. She was on a combination of drugs if you remember correctly, four bottles of different pills to take at different times. I'd assume uppers in the morning and benzos/opiates at night, but they could've been all sorts of things.
Quirks
Bluelighter
killing zoe. Particularly the dreamy hallucinations.
SovietContin
Bluelighter
You guys pick really overblown movies.
Watch "Bullet" with Mickey Rourke and Tupac Shakur. Some parts are far fetched as far as the story. But the actual usage is pretty accurate, the dialog is good.
Watch "Bullet" with Mickey Rourke and Tupac Shakur. Some parts are far fetched as far as the story. But the actual usage is pretty accurate, the dialog is good.
- "Hurlyburly"
I have written a character in my screenplay (which I will film on either 16 or 35mm in the near future, when I get the funding) that is an accurate portrayal of the tactile, physical comforting protocol that is the act of injection. The drug of choice not specifically being heroin, but...that's not the point.
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Sample script for a movie about an average heroin experience by the typical largest demographic of heroin users:
INT: A NORMAL AVERAGE EVERYDAY LIVING ROOM IN TYPICAL AMERICAN SUBURBIA. JOHN DOE ENTERS ROOM WITH A A HALF GRAM OF BLACK TAR.
JOHN DOE
Hey Jane, sorry I was late, traffic was kind of heavy and Essay needed a few minutes...
JANE DOE
No problem, I was just reading a book....how much did ya get anyways?
JOHN DOE
Just a half gram, The electric bill hasn't cleared from my balance yet, and I didn't want to overdraft my back account...
JANE DOE
Yeah, you could went to the ATM with my card if you needed too, I just stuck my paycheck in there...
JOHN DOE(Preparing a rig)
Oh well, fuck it, maybe next time...
JANE DOE(Adding water and cut to a chunk in order snort it, as she is afraid of needles, never touches them...)
Ugh, I can't believe you can do that shit, doesn't it hurt?
JOHN DOE
Nah, besides it beats that hell out of that horrible fucking drip you get snorting it...
JOHN DOE PREPARES A RIG, FINDS AN EASY HEALTHY VEIN W/ NO SCARS AND SHOOTS THE DOPE. THEY BOTH LOOK PEACEFUL AND RESTED, VERY RELAXED...
JOHN DOE(slow relaxed voice)
Hey...wanna watch that movie I got yesterday...
JANE DOE (itching)
Nah, here's the remote, find something on TV, ugh, my throat is dry...I need some water, you want some?
JOHN DOE
Sure... hey aren't the Simpsons on right now (changes channel)
JANE DOE
Here's your water, I'm gonna clean the kitchen for a bit it's a fucking mess...
JOHN DOE
Cool...
(They both relax for the next few hours itching and watching TV till they fall asleep.)
THE END.
See how fucking boring a primarily factual movie about doing smack would be? So the above scene which plays out in varying degrees more or less in thousands of house holds in America turns into this typical Hollywood Heroin scene....
INT: A TRASHY DIRTY FILTHY APARTMENT IN SOME BIG CITY GHETTO. AMBULANCE NOISES AND POLICE SIRENS ARE WAILING OUTSIDE ALONG WITH GUN SHOTS, ROACHES AND DIRTY DRUG PARAPHENALIA IS LAYING EVERYWHERE...JOHN DOE ENTERS LOOKING DISHEVELD AND HARROWED WITH A HALF GRAM OF SMACK....
JOHN DOE
Shit Jane, Sorry I was late, I had to rob my parents for the fucking money and beat my mom up afterwords, then knife an old lady for her milk money and share a crusty dirty needles with 3 diseased transvestite crackwhores before I found a car I could steal to get here...but I got the fucking dope... (salivating)...
JANE DOE(Looking crazed)
Give me the fucking drugs asshole, I need it so fucking bad, I whored myself out to 3 black gang banging drug dealers one after the other and they left without leaving me any fucking dope, so I decided to sell my last crack baby for a 1/4 gram and a dirty homemade rig that I pawned my grandmothers pacemaker for after sucking off a columbian drug lord on videotape 3 times for just a "taste"...but you got the fucking dope...
[INSERT TRENDY TECHNO SONG HERE]
BOTH PREPARE THIER RIGS WHICH ARE COVERED IN FILTH AND ATTEMPT TO SHOOT UP INTO HIDEOUS OPEN GAPING PUSSING WOUNDS IN BETWEEN THIER ELBOWS...OF COURSE THEY HIT A VEIN WITHOUT ANY PROBLEMS AND ENTER THE MOST INTENSE EUPHORIA MAN HAS EVER KNOWN....
JOHN DOE(Blissed out of his mind, nodding out repeatedly)
Oh my god, OH yes, even though I have been doing dope for an insanely long time and hardly shot a quarter gram into a the giant puzzing goo that is my arm, this feels like 10,000 orgasams and I am in heaven on earth....
JANE DOE(Nodding out every 15 seconds)
Oh thank you lord, this is like having sex with god himself, even though judging by the gaping wound I jabbed the rusty needle into I couldn't have hit anything but rotting flesh, but at least I can finally forget about all the extreme self-degredation and abuse I have gone through in the past 6 hours because my short term memory has been replaced by the best feeling ever known to man....
THE SCENE SLOWLY FADES OUT AND THEN FADES BACK (OMINOUS MUSIC) IN INDICATING TIME HAS PASSED WHEN IT ALL COMES CRASHING DOWN, SIRENS IN BACKGROUND...
JOHN DOE(Rolls over in his own filth to see Jane bright blue and eyes rolled into back of her head, bleeding nose, she has Od'd on that fatal 1/4 gram shot, she still looks angelic in the dark gehtto lighting)
Jane? Jane? Oh my god, no, Jane wake up, what's wrong, Jane, what's happening, WAKE UP please, PLEASE, NOOOOOOO, OH GOD WHY!!! JANNNNNNNEEEEEE!!!!!!
(He collapses weeping on her corpse because he has hit rock bottom.)
[INSERT EITHER MORE TRENDY TECHNO, OR ANYTHING BY LOU REED]
And either Roll Credits or offer a poginant token "redemption" ending that indicates he has survived, just barely...
Brainrape
Jesus christ I got carried away, but movies like Requiem for a Dream piss me off so much because they are just over-stylized art house flicks designed to offer a harrowing, honest view into the world of drugs, and you come to find out the "boy wonder" director has never even DONE drugs before (The asshole who directed Requiem has never even smoked pot), and when you ask him why it was so innaccurate he replies that he was going for "drama"...and next thing you know every idiot with a blockbuster card swears to "never touch that shit man". Goes home smokes 2 packs of Marlboro Reds Unflitered after having eaten 9 rolls and patting himself on the back, for respecting his body and not being a fucking "junkie"...
I need some smack.
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"Rock and roll adolescents storm into the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face. They open zoo's, insane asslyums, prisons, burst water mains with air hammers, Chop the floor out of passanger plane lavatories, shoot out lighthouses, turn sewers into the water supply, administer injections with bicycle pumps. They shit on the floor of the United Nations and wipe thier ass with the treaties, pacts, alliances."
INT: A NORMAL AVERAGE EVERYDAY LIVING ROOM IN TYPICAL AMERICAN SUBURBIA. JOHN DOE ENTERS ROOM WITH A A HALF GRAM OF BLACK TAR.
JOHN DOE
Hey Jane, sorry I was late, traffic was kind of heavy and Essay needed a few minutes...
JANE DOE
No problem, I was just reading a book....how much did ya get anyways?
JOHN DOE
Just a half gram, The electric bill hasn't cleared from my balance yet, and I didn't want to overdraft my back account...
JANE DOE
Yeah, you could went to the ATM with my card if you needed too, I just stuck my paycheck in there...
JOHN DOE(Preparing a rig)
Oh well, fuck it, maybe next time...
JANE DOE(Adding water and cut to a chunk in order snort it, as she is afraid of needles, never touches them...)
Ugh, I can't believe you can do that shit, doesn't it hurt?
JOHN DOE
Nah, besides it beats that hell out of that horrible fucking drip you get snorting it...
JOHN DOE PREPARES A RIG, FINDS AN EASY HEALTHY VEIN W/ NO SCARS AND SHOOTS THE DOPE. THEY BOTH LOOK PEACEFUL AND RESTED, VERY RELAXED...
JOHN DOE(slow relaxed voice)
Hey...wanna watch that movie I got yesterday...
JANE DOE (itching)
Nah, here's the remote, find something on TV, ugh, my throat is dry...I need some water, you want some?
JOHN DOE
Sure... hey aren't the Simpsons on right now (changes channel)
JANE DOE
Here's your water, I'm gonna clean the kitchen for a bit it's a fucking mess...
JOHN DOE
Cool...
(They both relax for the next few hours itching and watching TV till they fall asleep.)
THE END.
See how fucking boring a primarily factual movie about doing smack would be? So the above scene which plays out in varying degrees more or less in thousands of house holds in America turns into this typical Hollywood Heroin scene....
INT: A TRASHY DIRTY FILTHY APARTMENT IN SOME BIG CITY GHETTO. AMBULANCE NOISES AND POLICE SIRENS ARE WAILING OUTSIDE ALONG WITH GUN SHOTS, ROACHES AND DIRTY DRUG PARAPHENALIA IS LAYING EVERYWHERE...JOHN DOE ENTERS LOOKING DISHEVELD AND HARROWED WITH A HALF GRAM OF SMACK....
JOHN DOE
Shit Jane, Sorry I was late, I had to rob my parents for the fucking money and beat my mom up afterwords, then knife an old lady for her milk money and share a crusty dirty needles with 3 diseased transvestite crackwhores before I found a car I could steal to get here...but I got the fucking dope... (salivating)...
JANE DOE(Looking crazed)
Give me the fucking drugs asshole, I need it so fucking bad, I whored myself out to 3 black gang banging drug dealers one after the other and they left without leaving me any fucking dope, so I decided to sell my last crack baby for a 1/4 gram and a dirty homemade rig that I pawned my grandmothers pacemaker for after sucking off a columbian drug lord on videotape 3 times for just a "taste"...but you got the fucking dope...
[INSERT TRENDY TECHNO SONG HERE]
BOTH PREPARE THIER RIGS WHICH ARE COVERED IN FILTH AND ATTEMPT TO SHOOT UP INTO HIDEOUS OPEN GAPING PUSSING WOUNDS IN BETWEEN THIER ELBOWS...OF COURSE THEY HIT A VEIN WITHOUT ANY PROBLEMS AND ENTER THE MOST INTENSE EUPHORIA MAN HAS EVER KNOWN....
JOHN DOE(Blissed out of his mind, nodding out repeatedly)
Oh my god, OH yes, even though I have been doing dope for an insanely long time and hardly shot a quarter gram into a the giant puzzing goo that is my arm, this feels like 10,000 orgasams and I am in heaven on earth....
JANE DOE(Nodding out every 15 seconds)
Oh thank you lord, this is like having sex with god himself, even though judging by the gaping wound I jabbed the rusty needle into I couldn't have hit anything but rotting flesh, but at least I can finally forget about all the extreme self-degredation and abuse I have gone through in the past 6 hours because my short term memory has been replaced by the best feeling ever known to man....
THE SCENE SLOWLY FADES OUT AND THEN FADES BACK (OMINOUS MUSIC) IN INDICATING TIME HAS PASSED WHEN IT ALL COMES CRASHING DOWN, SIRENS IN BACKGROUND...
JOHN DOE(Rolls over in his own filth to see Jane bright blue and eyes rolled into back of her head, bleeding nose, she has Od'd on that fatal 1/4 gram shot, she still looks angelic in the dark gehtto lighting)
Jane? Jane? Oh my god, no, Jane wake up, what's wrong, Jane, what's happening, WAKE UP please, PLEASE, NOOOOOOO, OH GOD WHY!!! JANNNNNNNEEEEEE!!!!!!
(He collapses weeping on her corpse because he has hit rock bottom.)
[INSERT EITHER MORE TRENDY TECHNO, OR ANYTHING BY LOU REED]
And either Roll Credits or offer a poginant token "redemption" ending that indicates he has survived, just barely...
Brainrape
Jesus christ I got carried away, but movies like Requiem for a Dream piss me off so much because they are just over-stylized art house flicks designed to offer a harrowing, honest view into the world of drugs, and you come to find out the "boy wonder" director has never even DONE drugs before (The asshole who directed Requiem has never even smoked pot), and when you ask him why it was so innaccurate he replies that he was going for "drama"...and next thing you know every idiot with a blockbuster card swears to "never touch that shit man". Goes home smokes 2 packs of Marlboro Reds Unflitered after having eaten 9 rolls and patting himself on the back, for respecting his body and not being a fucking "junkie"...
I need some smack.
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"Rock and roll adolescents storm into the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face. They open zoo's, insane asslyums, prisons, burst water mains with air hammers, Chop the floor out of passanger plane lavatories, shoot out lighthouses, turn sewers into the water supply, administer injections with bicycle pumps. They shit on the floor of the United Nations and wipe thier ass with the treaties, pacts, alliances."
verbal
Bluelighter
Nice one Brainrape. =)
Verbal
Verbal
brainrape = phunny bastard...
Hey can peeps keep naming drug related films? I wanna some more of the bias, brainwashing crap anyway!
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"He who binds to himself a Joy,
Does the winged life destroy;
He who kisses the Joy as it flies,
Lives in Eternity's sunrise."
Hey can peeps keep naming drug related films? I wanna some more of the bias, brainwashing crap anyway!
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"He who binds to himself a Joy,
Does the winged life destroy;
He who kisses the Joy as it flies,
Lives in Eternity's sunrise."
CuriousCub
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Requiem was intended to be somewhat hyperbolic about the reality of things it portrayed, the director has blunted stated this many times...
For good, real depictions:
"Another Day in Paradise"...featuring Melanie Griffith, a real former opiate (Vicodin) junkie herself, gives an extremely convincing portrayal as a H addict. Check out the places she IVs it! Not the regular zones. This is probably the 2nd best portrayal, right after Leo DiCaprio's mimickry of Jim Carroll in "B..Diaries" of an H user.
"Drugstore Cowboy" one of the characters is similar to Melanie's in "Another..."
These depictions show how neutrally functional users are. Their whole lives revolve around H, yet it doesn't seem that way from the outside at all, becuz you can't even tell they're high on it. It's just a daily supplement for them. If they get their fixes consistently, everything just carries on smoothly, always.
Nothing is dramatic until they're desperate for another fix.
"Sid and Nancy"
Showcasing the turbulence of Sid Vicious & Co. Need i say more? They lived in the eye of the needle, literally. Also, this documents the reality of a bygone era in NY of what it was like to get drugs, where to get 'em, who was usin them, etc.
i think there's some more..can't think of any right now...i love watching the most realistic, nitty-gritty drug users, it's such an interesting peephole into what their life is seemingly like.
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Given the way we're living, Wouldn't you say we're killing, Ourselves? Why do you say you don't worry?
This is the way we're klling, Ourselves.
we would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
For good, real depictions:
"Another Day in Paradise"...featuring Melanie Griffith, a real former opiate (Vicodin) junkie herself, gives an extremely convincing portrayal as a H addict. Check out the places she IVs it! Not the regular zones. This is probably the 2nd best portrayal, right after Leo DiCaprio's mimickry of Jim Carroll in "B..Diaries" of an H user.
"Drugstore Cowboy" one of the characters is similar to Melanie's in "Another..."
These depictions show how neutrally functional users are. Their whole lives revolve around H, yet it doesn't seem that way from the outside at all, becuz you can't even tell they're high on it. It's just a daily supplement for them. If they get their fixes consistently, everything just carries on smoothly, always.
Nothing is dramatic until they're desperate for another fix.
"Sid and Nancy"
Showcasing the turbulence of Sid Vicious & Co. Need i say more? They lived in the eye of the needle, literally. Also, this documents the reality of a bygone era in NY of what it was like to get drugs, where to get 'em, who was usin them, etc.
i think there's some more..can't think of any right now...i love watching the most realistic, nitty-gritty drug users, it's such an interesting peephole into what their life is seemingly like.
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Given the way we're living, Wouldn't you say we're killing, Ourselves? Why do you say you don't worry?
This is the way we're klling, Ourselves.
we would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
CuriousCub
Bluelighter
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Requiem was intended to be somewhat hyperbolic about the reality of things it portrayed, the director has blunted stated this many times...
For good, real depictions:
"Another Day in Paradise"...featuring Melanie Griffith, a real former opiate (Vicodin) junkie herself, gives an extremely convincing portrayal as a H addict. Check out the places she IVs it! Not the regular zones. This is probably the 2nd best portrayal, right after Leo DiCaprio's mimickry of Jim Carroll in "B..Diaries" of an H user.
"Drugstore Cowboy" one of the characters is similar to Melanie's in "Another..."
These depictions show how neutrally functional users are. Their whole lives revolve around H, yet it doesn't seem that way from the outside at all, becuz you can't even tell they're high on it. It's just a daily supplement for them. If they get their fixes consistently, everything just carries on smoothly, always.
Nothing is dramatic until they're desperate for another fix.
"Sid and Nancy"
Showcasing the turbulence of Sid Vicious & Co. Need i say more? They lived in the eye of the needle, literally. Also, this documents the reality of a bygone era in NY of what it was like to get drugs, where to get 'em, who was usin them, etc.
i think there's some more..can't think of any right now...i love watching the most realistic, nitty-gritty drug users, it's such an interesting peephole into what their life is seemingly like.
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Given the way we're living, Wouldn't you say we're killing, Ourselves? Why do you say you don't worry?
This is the way we're klling, Ourselves.
we would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
For good, real depictions:
"Another Day in Paradise"...featuring Melanie Griffith, a real former opiate (Vicodin) junkie herself, gives an extremely convincing portrayal as a H addict. Check out the places she IVs it! Not the regular zones. This is probably the 2nd best portrayal, right after Leo DiCaprio's mimickry of Jim Carroll in "B..Diaries" of an H user.
"Drugstore Cowboy" one of the characters is similar to Melanie's in "Another..."
These depictions show how neutrally functional users are. Their whole lives revolve around H, yet it doesn't seem that way from the outside at all, becuz you can't even tell they're high on it. It's just a daily supplement for them. If they get their fixes consistently, everything just carries on smoothly, always.
Nothing is dramatic until they're desperate for another fix.
"Sid and Nancy"
Showcasing the turbulence of Sid Vicious & Co. Need i say more? They lived in the eye of the needle, literally. Also, this documents the reality of a bygone era in NY of what it was like to get drugs, where to get 'em, who was usin them, etc.
i think there's some more..can't think of any right now...i love watching the most realistic, nitty-gritty drug users, it's such an interesting peephole into what their life is seemingly like.
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Given the way we're living, Wouldn't you say we're killing, Ourselves? Why do you say you don't worry?
This is the way we're klling, Ourselves.
we would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
the_anatomist
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I completely deleted my last post on the grounds that it was completly irrelevant. I would like to say that Brainrape's post was entertaining. I'm finished now
[This message has been edited by the_anatomist (edited 05 November 2001).]
[This message has been edited by the_anatomist (edited 05 November 2001).]
SovietContin
Bluelighter
Hahah, Brainrape. Your real situation left out the part where they get on the internet after the Simpson's during the boring shows before falling asleep.
alba
Bluelighter
panic in needle park
starring young robert de niro
starring young robert de niro
Aja909
Bluelighter
Nice Post Brainrape!
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http://lookidz.homestead.com
"On something, somewhere at all times"
"I was always stereotyped as a lost cause--> so I became one and dealt with the side effects--> now people bang on my door and call me at random hours just to see if I'm alive and stuff"