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Chloe Sevigny justifies graphic sex scene in ‘art’ film, The Brown Bunny
NEW YORK (AP) — Actress Chloe Sevigny says a notoriously graphic sex scene in The Brown Bunny, which opens Friday in New York and Los Angeles, will make “more sense” after audiences see it for themselves.
“I knew people would not understand it,” Sevigny told The Associated Press. “It’s a shame people write so many things when they haven’t seen it. When you see the film, it makes more sense. It’s an art film. It should be playing in museums. It’s like an Andy Warhol movie.”
The explicit oral-sex scene, which has garnered all sorts of attention since the movie’s premiere, occurs between Sevigny and Vincent Gallo, who also wrote, directed and edited the film. Gallo shot the scene using remote cameras while he and Sevigny were alone in the room.
“This particular scene is the most complex, it’s the most evolved thing that I’ve ever done in my life,” Gallo said at a news conference during the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.
Sevigny, 29, has an eclectic acting resume that includes Kids, Boys Don’t Cry and American Psycho. She can next be seen in the HBO drama series Big Love and Woody Allen’s Melinda and Melinda, scheduled for release next year.
“I’ve always made films that are sort of avant-garde-y or whatever you call it,” she told the AP last week at the opening of the Hard Rock Cafe inside Foxwoods Resort and Casino in Mashantucket, Conn.

― Huck, Monday, 23 August 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

well, it is an art film.

― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

So it should be playing in museums.

― Huck, Monday, 23 August 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"it’s the most evolved thing that I’ve ever done in my life", this really doesn't mean anything does it?

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 23 August 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

It's an avant-garde-y film.

― Bumfluff, Monday, 23 August 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

from New City Chicago:

Vincent Gallo's trekking westward, driving himself and a print of his notorious "The Brown Bunny" to word-of-mouth screenings across the country. When a rough cut debuted at Cannes 2003, the infamy began with a climactic fellatio scene involving Chloe Sevigny, followed by the inaccurate statement that it was "universally derided" and the proclamation that it was "the worst ever in competition" by Roger Ebert (who gave three stars to Gallo's debut, "Buffalo 66").

Gallo, a relentlessly loquacious obsessive who often speaks whatever colorful image comes into his head, rejoined with "an unremovable black magic curse" on Ebert's colon. Gallo called Ebert a "fat pig"; among Ebert's several rejoinders was one adapting a quip by Winston Churchill, "It is true that I am fat, but one day I will be thin, and he will still be the director of 'The Brown Bunny'."

Last Monday, Gallo's final cut was shown to Chicago critics and the duo met immediately afterward in the screening room with cameras rolling. A couple hours later, Gallo would be answering questions at a Landmark Century Q&A. A half-hour grew into an hour and longer as the film's publicist and distributor anxiously listened for any sounds of a scuffle inside. Both emerged with quiet smiles, seeming to have buried the scalpel. What the self-professed "elitist" and conservative Republican shared with the notably left-leaning Ebert stays behind closed doors... at least until the movie opens at the end of the month.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 23 August 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I bet they made out.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Monday, 23 August 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i bet this movie is fucking great

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 23 August 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Both emerged with quiet smiles = "mutual j.o."

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 23 August 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.inmusicwetrust.com/articles/images/38/c02.jpg

― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"brown bunny" = new twee euphemism for poop

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 23 August 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Vincent Gallo does *not* make me glad that I'm a man.

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 23 August 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"brown bunny" = new twee euphemism for poop

It's, like, a little bit of poo. "Drop a big load there, Jed?" "No, just a little brown bunny."

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 23 August 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

the film itself is kind of twee. doesn't it have something to do with a series of girlfriends all of whom have the names of flowers?

― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Great, now I know how it ends.

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 23 August 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Gallo's vocals on his record "When" are quite twee-ish. One song is entitled "Honey Bunny" another is "I Wrote This Song for the Girl Paris Hilton." It's all really good.

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Monday, 23 August 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Amateurist, yes. All the girls have flower names. I hear he's very "sensitive" in it, but in this very self-serving way -- he plays a guy so charming that he only has to say "please," and women he's never met before will agree to drive across the country with him. The wounded-little-boy act. The whimpster, sounds like. It's the feel-emo hit of the summer.

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 23 August 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

b-b-but cahiers du cinema said it offered a new vision of the time-space dialectic in the cinema!!!

― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

(i wish i were making that up btw.)

― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

apparently three minutes of fucking and three hours of driving = art film and three minutes of driving and three hours of fucking = porno

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

What has this got to do with me Harold?

I'm looking forward to this Bunny.

On an ENTIRELY UNRELATED NOTE i wasnt to say that 2046 has been pulled from the Edinburgh film festival because it STILL isn't finished so i won't be seeing it before the rest of you after all.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 23 August 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

go figure (xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 23 August 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i never said it was an earth shattering revelation

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

three hours of driving while fucking is a new fox tv special

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"fuckdriver"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 23 August 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"man vs. beast 3"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"the fucker"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

that's gallo for ya.

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"drive, fucker"

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

"fuckin' around"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

preemptive bad headline: "The Man Has Some Gall(o)"

― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"this week we're 'fuckin' around' austin, texas!"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"What Will Ernest and Julio say?"

― Huck, Monday, 23 August 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost w/myself: the nyt headline would be "In a Emotionally-Starved Desert of the Soul, A Dude Gets a BJ"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

jess you forgot the umlaut in "chloe"

― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

s1ocki so otm

― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Preemptive bad headline pt. II: "A glass of Gallo vintage 2004: pretentious, fruity, with a nutty aftertaste"

― n.a. (Nick A.), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.themonkees.com/monkees_images_pw/Video%20Head%20pw.gif

― Huck, Monday, 23 August 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

did you try google answers yet jess?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoa! Sonny Listion was in Head?

― Huck, Monday, 23 August 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

"i am looking for information on a notorious art-world blowjob"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Chlöë Sëvïgnÿ

― ämätëürïst, Monday, 23 August 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

it's like what motley crue would have named their kid

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

also i can't be the only one to find her really attractive, can i?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

it's that teenage male cokewhore look that gets me every time

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

trife, among others:

American Psycho actually gets better with repeat viewings
So, right, then, who do you fancy?
American Psycho actually gets better with repeat viewings
American Psycho actually gets better with repeat viewings
American Psycho actually gets better with repeat viewings
So, right, then, who do you fancy?

― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.movieguide.co.nz/images/pics/Edward%20Furlong.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

is that james spader?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 13 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

"man that one-eyed hunchback is FOINE."

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

dude I'm halfway through my week off

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps she was misquoted and actually said: "It’s the most evolved thing that I’ve ever seen in my life."

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.djmnet.org/images/djm-color.jpg

oh yeeeeeaaaaah

― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

*sound of slide whistle going down*

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

anthony, jess, i highly recommend that you do a google image search for "foxy"

― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

you should have said that before posting that pic, you monster

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

In all seriousness, I think I rather see Tom Arnold get head.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

where?

― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

All I can say is that I've seen the deleted scenes from Soul Plane Je4nne. That's all I can say.

― Huck, Monday, 23 August 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

haha jeanne i think the subtext here is that we'd like to see chloe sevigny giving US head, not vincent "grizzly adams" gallo

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm, perhaps. But I don't find her that attractive. If we're talking about her fellow oddball-indie-film-star Natasha Lyonne, um, sign me up.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

When did "subtext" come to mean "overt message that might as well be flashing in 30-ft neon letters in an anime-Tokyo style for all of the subtlety it contains"?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

some of us can't be that choosey. even in our fantasies.

xpost: wait DAN PERRY is decrying this?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan Perry is being a semantic bitch as he is wont to do. Also, Dan Perry likes flashing 30-ft neon letters in an anime-Tokyo style.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

dan perry likes flashing anything.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan Perry is not a complex man when it comes to the nudity.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

http://adorocinema.cidadeinternet.com.br/personalidades/atores/chloe-sevigny/chloe-sevigny01.jpg

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

she can do coke off my ass anytime.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Who is that picture of upthread? It looks almost exactly like Yanc3y.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

You see that's just ridiculous.

x-post, probably

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.soundaffects.net/cdreviews/rhettmiller.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

that picture is quite hot, actually.

but as i suggested above, my "foxy" detector is kind of oversensitive of late.

― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's where Yanc3y logs on and thinks NA is referring to the hairy guy in the sweater. Hahahaha.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

er...

― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks to the title "The Brown Bunny" I am convinced that this blow job scene ends in a frenzy of coprophagy.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

dan: i think "brown bunny" refers to his bike, or car, or truck, or van, or something

― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

the lost carcass album

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought I heard there's a ragged stuffed brown bunny that he keeps on the car seat next to him, to symbolize... er... coprophagy.

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I AM talking about the hairy guy in the sweater. He looks like Yanc3y. Who is he?

― n.a. (Nick A.), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

That would appear to be one David MacKenzie.

http://www.djmnet.org/

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Nevermind, he doesn't really look like Yancey.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

they could be related

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

(Apologies to Yancey for inadverantly linking him to coprophagy.)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought you meant Edward Furlong looked liked Yancey!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, me too!!! (As if THAT wasn't painfully fucking obvious.)

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

btw -- that's not a supernumary nipple. it's just a mole. an adorable, adorable mole.

http://www.bashfulmonkey.com/catalog/ChloeSevigny/movies/01.htm

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 23 August 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

She's a right dog, Chloe Sevigny. No charm at all in her looks or her personality. Baffling.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Would you say she's a 'minger', Mark? I'm not so sure...
http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/TV2/archive/00134/epa_chloe_sevigny_134960a.jpg
http://www.3ammagazine.com/magazine/issue_5/images/chloe_sevigny.jpg

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I would, yes. She looks like a supercilious junkie snob.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

from wikipedia
Sevigny currently owns an apartment in East Village, Manhattan, which she bought for $1.2 million in 2006

wow, indie film chix make $$$

― velko, Saturday, 19 July 2008 02:44 (seventeen years ago)

wow, indie film chix make $$$

She worked hard for the money.

― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 19 July 2008 03:18 (seventeen years ago)

she's also a fashionista and, uh, well she shows up a lot of places.

― amateurist, Saturday, 19 July 2008 03:34 (seventeen years ago)

and don't forget she's in a popular cable series

― amateurist, Saturday, 19 July 2008 03:34 (seventeen years ago)

I saw The BB at the TIFF that year. It's better than Buffalo 66.

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 19 July 2008 15:09 (seventeen years ago)

“It’s a shame people write so many things when they haven’t seen it. When you see the film, it makes more sense. It’s an art film. It should be playing in museums. It’s like an Andy Warhol movie.”

the same words were uttered by kevin costner, twice

― latebloomer, Saturday, 19 July 2008 15:14 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.hawaiimagazine.com/images/content/Indiana_Jones_best_movies_filmed_Hawaii/Raiders.jpg
IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM

― and what, Saturday, 19 July 2008 15:14 (seventeen years ago)

SO DO YOU!

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 19 July 2008 17:41 (seventeen years ago)

Chloe Sevigny being teabagged by sherman hemsley

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 19 July 2008 17:41 (seventeen years ago)

movin' on up!

― latebloomer, Saturday, 19 July 2008 21:53 (seventeen years ago)

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