Hall adopts a role distinctly different than his Dexter days, playing murder victim David Kammerer.ĭane DeHaan is slick, charming, and unapologetically bohemian as writer Lucien Carr.īen Foster exhibits, once again, his mastery of complex and troubled characters, playing the drug addicted author William Burroughs.
To that end, we’ve built out something of a GIFs roster in preparation for this ominous Beat Generation drama, which hits theaters Wednesday, October 16.ĭaniel Radcliffe reprises the erudite, scholarly look by sporting some Harry Potter-esque eyewear as Allen Ginsberg. Hall… It’s like the entertainment zeitgeist rolled into a single feature film. Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Ben Foster, Michael C. A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. John Krokidas’ cast credits for his directorial debut, Kill Your Darlings, read like a who’s who of the contemporary film and television worlds. Her first book, Found, Wanting, was published by Ultimo Press. Her work has been featured in The Guardian, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, SBS Voices, Kill Your Darlings, Mamamia and elsewhere. Radcliffe’s portrayal as Ginsberg solidifies the fact that he can extend beyond his work on “Harry Potter.” Radcliffe does not shy away from portraying Ginsberg as a man enamored by Carr.Dane DeHaan and Daniel Radcliffe in Kill Your Darlings. Natasha Sholl is a writer and lapsed lawyer based in Melbourne, Australia. Kerouac’s girlfriend Edie Parker (Elizabeth Olsen, “Liberal Arts”) and Carr’s mother Marian (Kyra Sedgwick, “The Closer”) are overlooked characters who influenced Kerouac and Carr. In 1944, budding poet Allen Ginsberg falls under the spell of Columbia classmate Lucien Carr, who introduces him to the nascent Beat movement. Though Ginsberg is affected by his mother’s illness, her existence is used for convenience to give Ginsberg advice and to bring him closer to Carr than for giving additional insight into Ginsberg’s personality. What is lost in the film are the female characters and their impact on the main characters.
Each member of the Beat scene faces his own personal demons that affect his work later in life, which Krokidas depicts. The first scene depicts Carr standing in a body of water with a bloody Kammerer in his arms, followed by a screaming match between Ginsberg and Carr over a manuscript. Caar captivates Ginsberg and the audience instantaneously as he leaps onto the tables at Columbia’s library reciting lines from Henry Miller’s “Tropic of Cancer” and even as he gradually falls apart due to his relationship with Kammerer.ĭirector and co-writer John Krokidas unabashedly depicts the Beat Generation’s formation as a meeting of brilliant but dark minds. Kill Your Darlings was established in March 2010 with a. DeHaan portrays Carr as a student who resists the constraints of society in life and in writing, and who is haunted by the endless sexual advances of David Kammerer (Michael C. Kill Your Darlings (KYD) is an Australian online literary magazine dedicated to arts and culture. Carr introduces Ginsberg to William Burroughs (Ben Foster, “Contraband”) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston, “Boardwalk Empire”), two of the Beat Generation’s central personalities.Īlthough the film follows the Beat Generation from Ginsberg’s perspective, the film clearly depicts Carr as the central person who brought the writers together. The film, directed by John Krokidas, is set in 1944 and follows Allen Ginsberg (Radcliffe), then a freshman at Columbia University, who befriendsand eventually becomes infatuated withthe. Carr takes the young Ginsberg, a freshman who had never drank or smoked, on numerous adventures around New York. Once Ginsberg reaches the Big Apple, his life changes dramatically after meeting Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan, “In Treatment”), an engaging upperclassman.
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