Coyote Ugly might have been enjoyable in a tawdry sort of way if we weren't forced to endure too many of these protracted dramatic sequences. And Violet's big, breakthrough song sounds like the kind of recycled dance pop that permeates the airwaves at Top 40 stations. There are some sights you don't want to live long enough to see.
John Goodman dropping trousers while dancing on a bar is one of those. From a creative standpoint, although Coyote Ugly comes dangerously close to the depths of the list currently occupied by Battlefield Earth , it is eminently more watchable.
In the first place, this movie offers a steady diet of visual diversions. Instead of watching John Travolta walk on stilts and sneer through layers of makeup, we are presented with a bunch of good looking girls strutting their stuff. Plus, Coyote Ugly clocks in at twenty merciful minutes shorter, which is definitely a point in its favor. Finally, a case could be made that this movie crosses the line into the "so bad it's fun" arena.
That distinction is a matter of personal taste - I would have to be paid a large sum of money to sit through this a second time. I can't imagine anyone making the same argument for Battlefield Earth.
During a somber and important scene, as I listen to the dialogue, I feel an inappropriate burst of laughter welling up from deep within. I stop trying to stifle it when I realize that about half the people in the audience are chuckling.
When movies are this bad, it's almost hard not to recommend them. By the time I opened Coyote, I was pretty famous as bartenders go and knew the vibe I was aiming for. At one end of the bar there was a jukebox, and on the other end there was a regular we called Redneck Lou.
He was part bear, part motorcycle dude, and such an anomaly in New York City. Lovell: People would buy shots to drink from my shoes or through my socks. She almost had a dominatrix energy to her. Lovell : It was about feeling sexy and powerful. I think that was alluring to people.
By we were kind of famous in New York. Then Liz wrote the GQ piece. In the GQ article I wanted to show male readers how they were seen by their cute bartender at their local bar. I wanted to be like, just so you know, this is how we perceive you. Then Jerry Bruckheimer called. Gilbert: I got paid enough money for the rights that I could put a down payment on a house. A couple years later I lost that house in a divorce, but anyway …. Lovell: They sent the president of Bruckheimer out before we finished the deal.
We met at the bar. It was obvious who he was: He was dressed up nicer than everyone else. When Lil comes, tell me where she is. I guess he imagined an older woman. The most talked-about?
He had projects stacked up along the desk and a rolling chair, and his day was scheduled to move down the table. I remember the director had done the famous Bud commercial with the lobster …. The next day I got a call from Jerry. I sent my reel and left a note that I was going to L. Back then it was the place to be seen on the Sunset Strip.
Every wannabe actor, actress, director, producer around the pool turned around and watched. It was a very Hollywood moment. So for that reason I was one of the worst people to ask to doctor the script.
And he whetted my appetite by dropping in that Carrie Fisher had just done a draft. The bones of the movie were there, but the version was quite raunchy.
I felt my worth was in being risque. It was a very open atmosphere, people go to a bar to get laid and shit, I just leaned into that. Smith: They kept my names and my version of the dad character. Only one line of my dialogue made it into the movie, though.
Being a script doctor is crazy money. The idea was to bring those things together. It was meant to be a female-empowerment movie in a sense, but also a romance too.
Gilbert: I think what they saw was girl power, bonding, dancing, singing. From the beginning, their intention was to target this to preteen girls, like Footloose. And I was like: There are no teenagers who should be anywhere near this place.
McNally: I was never told that. Jerry told me you have to make a movie for everybody. Gilbert: If you look at that movie, I marvel at it. McNally: Lil made it very clear that her whole thing was to have a bar that was owned by women and run by women. Smith: I find that fascinating that it was an article by a woman and [then a script written by Gina Wendkos] and then Carrie Fisher, and then the men took over.
Bruckheimer recruited legendary casting director Bonnie Timmermann to lead the search for the main character Violet, her love interest, Kevin, and the Coyotes. Bonnie Timmermann casting director : I remember we saw about 5, girls for the movie, maybe more.
We gave Christina Aguilera and Jessica Simpson auditions. We saw Vanessa Carlton and some other girls that went on to be big pop stars, who were playing at dive bars in the Village.
Adam Garcia actor, Kevin : I went to a local casting but it was on my birthday and my mum had made my favourite lamb roast, so my mind was on getting back for that. McNally: The main thing was to find the Violet character. At the time we felt she should both be a great actor and musician who could play and sing. We saw so many people. Timmermann: Piper is a natural. Garcia: She had gone through the absolute ringer of auditions, really jumping through hoops, going back and back and back.
We did the same with Dirty Dancing. Bridget Moynahan actor, Rachel : I was stressed about the audition. It was one of my first. I remember a producer in the show gave me a tip. Izabella Miko actor, Cammie : This was pretty much my first audition, and my first movie.
I was born and raised in Poland. I moved to New York at 15 and managed to get a scholarship to the School of American Ballet, so I danced there for two and a half years. I heard you had to go to L. Coyote Ugly opened in at First Ave. But my bourbon years might be over. I switched from bourbon to high-class wine.
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Romance, Comedy. David McNally.
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