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Basquiat Official Trailer #1 - (1996) HD
Transcript
00:00 ("Famous" by The Cranberries playing)
00:05 (upbeat music)
00:07 - Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello.
00:11 - He was a struggling young artist.
00:16 - How long do you think it takes to get famous?
00:19 - Four years.
00:20 - Six to get rich.
00:22 - He lived on the streets.
00:24 - Looks like you could use a scrub.
00:27 - I'm clean.
00:28 - Then you're gonna have to hang out with famous people.
00:31 You know, make friends with the right, blond people.
00:35 You can't do all.
00:37 - You wanna buy some ignorant art?
00:39 Ten bucks a piece.
00:40 - Gee, ignorant art, you know.
00:42 - Oh, that sounds good.
00:44 - It's new.
00:45 - Gee, it didn't work very much in the days.
00:48 I'd give you like five.
00:49 - You don't even work on your stuff.
00:52 - One day, he was an unknown.
00:54 - I'm gonna paint a tooth.
00:55 - Really?
00:56 Too bad.
00:57 - You know, who did this?
01:00 - You got a real name?
01:01 - Jean-Michel Basquiat.
01:02 - That's famous already.
01:04 - In one year, he became a sensation.
01:07 - This is the true voice of the gutter.
01:10 - There's never been a black painter in art history
01:13 who's been considered really important.
01:15 - Do you consider yourself a painter or a black painter?
01:17 - Are you a writer or a white writer?
01:19 - I absolutely have to have this one.
01:21 I mean, this is super fantastic.
01:25 ♪ The more I see, the more I do ♪
01:28 - Miramax Films invites you
01:30 to enter a world where dreams become realities.
01:34 - What are you doing?
01:36 - You're painting out everything I do.
01:38 - I can't even see what's good anymore.
01:41 - And artists become legends.
01:43 - You dated Madonna.
01:45 A couple of months, man.
01:46 All this at the ripe old age of 24.
01:49 One might ask, is there anything left
01:52 for Jean-Michel Basquiat to do?
01:54 - David Bowie, Dennis Hopper,
01:57 Gary Oldman, Christopher Walken,
02:00 Claire Forlani, Michael Wincott,
02:03 Benicio del Toro,
02:05 and introducing Jeffrey Wright
02:08 in a film by Julian Schnabel.
02:12 - No one wants to be part of a generation
02:14 that ignores another Van Gogh.
02:16 - Basquiat.
02:18
02:25 ♪ Do me wrong ♪
02:28 ♪ Just keep it on the carpet floor ♪
02:31
02:35 [soft music]
02:38
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