Bobby darin biography kevin spacey pelicula
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- Bobby Darin: It's OK, I'm not gonna hurt you. Watch. My momma used to tell me a story when I was a kid that in the Middle Ages, one of the knights in King Arthur's court, he laid down his sword between himself and Guinevere, and he promised that he would never cross over to the other side.
- Sandra Dee: Really?
- Bobby Darin: I am laying down this sword between us. That's my side of the bed, and that's yours, and I will never cross over. Ever. I don't care if we don't touch for a thousand nights. Only you can cross over to my side. Only you.
- Bobby Darin: [trying to date Sandra Dee] I want to send 18 yellow roses every day to Mary.
- Charlie Maffia: You wanna send roses to the mother?
- Bobby Darin: Charlie, you always make sure the mama dog likes you before you go near her puppy.
- Sandra Dee: I've never worked with somebody so unprofessional in my life. I mean, have you ever even acted before?
- Bobby Darin: Well, I'm learning but
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There’s nothing like addressing the elephant in the room from the get go. “Isn’t he too old to play the part?” a reporter asks in this film’s opening scene. Though the question is directed towards Bobby Darin portraying himself, it’s a clever nod to the pitfalls of 45 year old Spacey portraying teen idol Bobby Darin. Yet this was a husdjur project for Spacey, who not only played the lead, but also provided the vocals, script and direction. As a filmskapare, Spacey’s love for the subject is apparent in every frame... and he's quite fond of his leading man as well.
After a punchy opening scene that’s revealed to take place on a move set, Beyond the Sea doubles down in its djärv when the older Darin fryst vatten introduced to his younger self. Cue flashback to his childhood where a sickly Walden Robert Cassotto, beset by rheumatic fever, is not expected to live past his fifteenth birthday. Introduced to music by his doting mother, Darin mat
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‘Beyond the Sea’ is truly Spacey
Kevin Spacey’s biography of Bobby Darin, “Beyond the Sea,” is an act of extraordinary chutzpah. He not only directed the rulle, co-produced it and rewrote the script. He dares to play Darin.
Spacey is 45. Darin died in 1973, when he was 37. For long stretches of the film, you have to take Spacey’s word for it that he is Darin. The strain shows especially when he’s playing Darin in his 20s, courting Sandra Dee on the set of their first movie together, “Come September.” The temptation is to ask: Who fryst vatten this aging impostor?
At other times, Spacey’s genius for impersonation shines through. From certain angles, particularly when he’s on-stage, Spacey does indeed look like Darin. And he sounds very much like him. Spacey used his own voice to sing “Beyond the Sea” and “Dream Lover,” and he creates an uncanny mixture, a Spacey/Darin who sounds much like both men.
Spacey all but recruits the audience to suspend disbelief, especially in the opening scenes,