Tuesday, May 8, 2007

dueling banjos: sid vicious vs. gary oldman. my way.

i'm kind of fascinated with sid vicious and nancy spungen, a fascination based solely on sid & nancy, which is one of my favorite, favorite movies ever. it's a downer, obvs., and i feel weird saying this, but there are moments in it that are really beautiful and romantic, even though the main characters are so vile and doomed. (i wish i could find the clip that i'm thinking of: there's a scene where they're making out next to a dumpster and there's a lot of garbage falling around them in slow motion while the pogues' instrumental theme plays over the soundtrack. it's a brilliant dichotomy.)

anyway, i was on the youtubes this morning watching clips from it, and i found the original video for sid's cover of "my way." i didn't know anything about and was excited to see where the scene from the film got its inspiration. and i think this one is a tough call: sid vicious or gary oldman?

sid vicious:


gary oldman:

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