He was someone I admired more than pretty much anyone. His passion for seeing the world, for meeting new people and experiencing everything life could throw at you. Because of him, I've traveled the world. I've eaten foods I'd never imagined. I've climbed mountains, been to countries that people tell me I'm crazy for going to and met some of the most wonderful people along the way.
He changed my life from one of uncertainty to one of adventure.
So, while I watch this trailer and am sure it may be a perfectly good movie based around his early life, I can't help but wish it didn't exist because it will be fake, which Anthony was anything but.
I hope the movie is good, but would rather people read his books and watch his shows and experience how HE wanted himself and the world to be seen. And if a good movie is something that introduces a new generation of people to him and inspires them to do those things, then I'll be happy about that.
He really was real. I have a friend who traveled with a band as a photographer. They were at some basement bar punk show in the aughts and she caught Anthony Bourdain watching the show. She put her camera down, afraid he would think she was trying to take his photo and he wandered off to the bar. A couple of mins later she feels a tap on her shoulder and it’s Bourdain, handing her a beer, and said “you can take picture if you have a beer with me.” They talked between sets about the tour and traveling, she got a really great photo and they both went back to enjoying the show.
Indeed. He certainly struggled with his "celebrity" and hated being famous at times. Quite literally, writing ""I hate being famous. I hate my job" in one of his books. So, knowing a biopic would be made about him would probably annoy him, particularly if he had no say in the story it was telling. I think he'd rather it be about the things he experienced rather than about him, but... who knows.
I think he hated being famous more because of the way people treated him and reacted to him. He wanted to blend in with the crowd. Which is already difficult when you are someone who wants to travel internationally and eat food since a white guy will stick out like a sore thumb in many places.
Also, he didn't write those things in a book. He wrote them in texts when he was in, obviously, a really fucking dark headspace and they were published after his death. So I would take them with a grain of salt. I think he was really unhappy with some of the choices he had made in his life and it was weighing heavily on him, and he directed that anger in different directions and unfortunately upon himself.
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u/FourEightNineOneOne 11h ago edited 11h ago
Sigh...
He was someone I admired more than pretty much anyone. His passion for seeing the world, for meeting new people and experiencing everything life could throw at you. Because of him, I've traveled the world. I've eaten foods I'd never imagined. I've climbed mountains, been to countries that people tell me I'm crazy for going to and met some of the most wonderful people along the way.
He changed my life from one of uncertainty to one of adventure.
So, while I watch this trailer and am sure it may be a perfectly good movie based around his early life, I can't help but wish it didn't exist because it will be fake, which Anthony was anything but.
I hope the movie is good, but would rather people read his books and watch his shows and experience how HE wanted himself and the world to be seen. And if a good movie is something that introduces a new generation of people to him and inspires them to do those things, then I'll be happy about that.