"LEAVING LAS VEGAS" Behind The Scenes
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- čas přidán 19. 10. 2021
- Director: Mike Figgis (1995) MGM
Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands
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One of my favorite movies since I first saw it in 2022. Elisabeth Shue became a revelation - I immediately fell in love with her. I started Shue's month - I watched about 80% of her movies. She is my number one actress and Lady in Hollywood from that moment.
Such a disappointment that she didn't become an international superstar as she deserved and still does.
It became one of my favourite movies!
Gorgeous acting and 🎦. One of my favs, they were brilliant. Yes star 🌟 crossed lovers, wrong place and time😔💔
I didn't start drinking until I was 30. I wasn't a fan of beer, or wine, though I did have some, now and again. At age 30, I worked in an Art Gallery, that had it's own bar, of sorts. We basically sold tickets for donations, the donations meant you were entitled to receive one alcoholic drink. Having a full bar, at your place of employment, meant we could (snitch) some booze when ever we wanted. Maybe some Bailey's Irish cream in our work coffees,....a mixed drink with lunch or at the end of the day.
I love the music when Ben is shopping for booze,.....he's such a happy lush. I live in a state that had "state run" liquor stores,...where the clerks watch you, and you feel like a criminal. That was true from the 1950s to the end of the 1980s. Then one day, grocery stores had liquor departments, and it became fun to shop for booze. Taxes are still added to each sale, but the atmosphere became laid back.
Thanks for sharing, that was an amazing movie.
I've always had a major / massive crush on Elizabeth Shue since the karate kid she's beautiful and very attractive.
I'm an on again, off again, alcoholic. Stating that because the rest of my comment makes more sense this way...
One of my favourite films, but the book is a FAR more devastating look at pure alcoholism than the movie could capture. If you've never read the book, it's probably really hard to be told, "the movie romanticises alcoholism a lot", because the book goes far deeper into the psychological aspects of it.
In the book you get to constantly hear Ben's inner monologue and how he goes crazy out of his way to make sure he stays very very close to liquor at all times. For the seasoned alcoholic, the threat of withdrawal is ever present and MY GOD does it take a lot of stamina to stay fucked up all the time.
Not terribly long ago I actually did try to end my life through alcoholic suicide. I basically went into a bender with no hope of coming out. I remember extremely little about it, but basically I was drunk for about six weeks straight...I had no idea of what day or time it was.. I just remember getting booze delivered to me (to avoid driving and possibly getting arrested yet again) and basically taking shot after shot after shot after shot of gin to pure blackout, wake up again, shot shot shot shot shot shot shot, throw up, oh shit I lost it, order more, shot shot shot shot shot, blackout, wake up, shot shot shot...
It finally ended when apparently I called my mother telling her to take me to the hospital to which they detoxed me for three days. Afterwards extreme meds were given to me to help me come down... Astonishingly I actually KEPT my job through all of this. I work for an extremely large company that is very very forgiving to hard workers and basically after my supervisor found out what was going on, he urged me to take a medical leave of absence and it would be covered.... ANY other job would've just fired me, I seriously cannot believe how lucky I was.
However, the absolute HELL that your body goes through after all the alcoholic plague you just destroyed it with literally cannot be put into words. It is physically and mentally beyond crippling how much withdrawal hell you go through. I believe I was spared the worst during my suicide attempt because I was in hospital and doped up on meds, but if I would have had to do that cold turkey, I more than likely would have died.
The craziest thing? I still drink to this day. Granted it's much more controlled and I still do get drunk, but I've never crossed that line into alcoholic suicide again (yet).... However I'm not stupid, I know alcohol WILL kill me. I'm 37 as I type this which means I've been an alcoholic for almost 20 years now. I've chosen this path and one day my path will end, like all of ours does.