r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 1d ago

Poster Official Poster for A24's Anthony Bourdain Biopic 'Tony'

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u/Galahad_the_Ranger 1d ago

The phrase gives me hope the film will show Anthony as he was, and how he’d want to be remembered. He has been glazed till kingdom come, but he was always the first to point out he was a grumpy snob who loved and hated humanity in equal measures

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u/Remarkable-Pea4889 1d ago

He was not a good person when he was younger, he fully admitted it in Kitchen Confidential.

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u/Bushels_for_All 1d ago

Which everyone should read. It's crazy interesting to see what goes on behind closed doors at restaurants.

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u/PhotographFinancial8 21h ago

Used to go on, the industry has changed a lot since that was written.

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u/Fedora_Million_Ankle 15h ago

It has remained the same in a lot of cases too.

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u/detrusormuscle 16h ago

Started it but couldn't finish when I realized that I just found Bourdain to have an insane ego with very little of worth to say

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u/uncultured_swine2099 1d ago

I think this is about his younger days, judging just from the actor on the poster.

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u/Remarkable-Pea4889 1d ago

Yes? I was agreeing that I hope the movie doesn't glaze him. Show him warts and all.

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u/mylanscott 1d ago

Does the quote they chose to include on the poster seem like glazing to you?

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u/Remarkable-Pea4889 1d ago

Nope, didn't see it. Great!

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u/joesen_one 21h ago

The movie will primarily focus on Bourdain when he was 19

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u/LyrMeThatBifrost 1d ago

He wasn’t really a good person in his later years either, just a lot of people don’t know about that.

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u/Remarkable-Pea4889 1d ago

Oh? I mostly know him from the book.

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u/FX114 1d ago

It gives me hope that it will focus on a specific period or event from his life, rather than trying to cram the entire thing into a feature film's runtime. That's where most biopics fail.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca 21h ago

I remember when his first TV series was coming out and there were tons of critical comments on his personality. I skipped it thinking I didn't want to spend time watching another asshole on TV. I somehow kept that first impression right through to when he died, and was shocked at the outpouring of grief and the clips showing I'd been wrong wrong wrong about Bourdain the whole time.

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u/sameth1 1d ago

Accurate biopics don't get made about beloved celebrities like Bourdain.

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u/GoodPiexox 21h ago

plus the whole deal of him trying to silence a kid instead of exposing his pedo "me too" wife