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Actors: Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Sid & Nancy |
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This film tells the true story of Sid Vicious, bass player for the legendary Sex Pistols. He meets and falls in love with Nancy Spungen, with whom he has a dramatic, love-hate relationship. She is a heroin addict, and Sid becomes one as well. After the Sex Pistols break up, Sid's career looks more and more pathetic. Concurrently, Sid and Nancy's relationship begins to deteriorate. When Nancy is found dead in the couple's hotel bathroom one morning, the audience is left to wonder whether or not Sid was her killer.
--Judy Berman, Resident Scholar
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Sid Vicious (Oldman), born the working clas Brit John Simon Ritchie, becomes bass player for the suddenly world-famous Sex Pistols punk band in the late 1970s. Fame, money, and drugs swirl about him as he clings to any American girl named Nancy Spungen (Webb). The Pistols disintegrate after their U.S. tour, Sid tries to sustain a solo career, but heroin addiction drags him and Nancy down. One morning he awakes to find her stabbed to death and himself charged with her murder. Co-writer and director Alex Cox made this almost too-real 1986 story after his highly quirky "Repo Man." Oldman and Webb are amazingly good. Watch for Courtney Love in a bit role as Gretchen.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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He was Sid Vicious, bass guitarist with the notorious Sex Pistols. She was Nancy Spungen, a young American groupie. Bound by sex, drugs and rock'n'roll they became inseparable...until that fateful night in 1978. The cops are summoned to room 100 of New York's Chelsea Hotel, to find Nancy lying dead in a pool of blood. Sid is arrested, taken away and charged with stabbing his lover to death.
This is the story of Sid and Nancy.
--Linn, Resident Scholar
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A movie set in the '70s at the peak of the punk rock revolution. Two lovers become addicted to drugs, holing up in a hotel and letting their lives slip away day by day. Sid Vicious, the infamous bassist of the Sex Pistols, falls hard for Nancy Spungen, an American junkie, who introduces him to the life of drugs. When Sid breaks away from the Sex Pistols, Nancy helps him in steering a solo career, which he cannot keep up with due to his drug problems. The two are an irresponsible, yet loving pair, allowing their room to set on fire, missing gigs, and scaring Nancy's family...The epitomy of punk rock.
--Jaime , Resident Scholar
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Sid & Nancy is the tragic love story of two misunderstood people. Nancy, a junkie from PA. meets Sid Vicious of the famed Sex Pistols in London. She eventually turns Sid onto herion and from there his demise begins and his innocence forever lost. The band eventually breaks up on there USA tour, a betrayal - as he sees it, (by his bandmates & McClaren) he never overcomes, but Sid is delusioned that he can make it on his own and still be a junkie. Nancy perputates this idea. We watch them fall into a downward spiral of drugs, alcohol, and violence (both physical & verbal). Eventually, Nancy wants Sid to make good on their suicide pact. On Oct. 12, 1978 Nancy was found dead in room 100 at the Chelsea Hotel in NYC. No one really knows what happened that night, Sid was too strung out to remember. Most scholars believe that they became physically violent with one another (as they often did) and somehow she was stabbed in the abdomen and bled to death. Sid was charged with her murder, and did time on Riker's Island. While he was out on bail, he overdosed on herion Febeuary 2, 1979. His only request was to be buried with Nancy.
--xgirl1247, Resident Scholar
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SID & NANCY is a movie directed in 1986 by british director Alex Cox.
The director films the relation involving Sid Vicious, the Sex Pistol's bass player, and his girl-friend Nancy. "No future" is the motto and we are invited to follow the quick rise and the quicker fall of this boy unable to quit the image of loser he wears while a certain number of his fellow companions know how to separate show-business and reality. From London streets up to american deserts, Sid and Nancy, in a suicidal ride, drink, smoke, take drugs and, occasionally, play music.
Highly recommended.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Sid & Nancy |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- musician
Abuse on the job story?
Yes
Ethnic/Regional/Gender story?
Yes
Woman/class/friends story?
- story of lower class
Culture of surrounding area:
- British
Druggie/Wino problems?
- alcohol
- drugs
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- singer/musician
Age:
- a teen
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
- wild
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) very skinny
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- druggie/wino disease
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
- London
- dirty, grimy (like New York)
- dangerous
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
- bar
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
- sex under blankets
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
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