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- Tommy Lee’s First Encounter With Nikki Sixx Is a Bit Off. The movie shows a teenage Tommy Lee going to see Sixx play a show with his band London at a Sunset Strip club and then bumping into him afterwards at a Denny’s.
- It Erases Their Original Lead Singer From History. When Mötley Crüe first went into the studio to record their earliest demos, Vince Neil wasn’t yet their singer.
- They Didn’t Meet Vince Neil at a Backyard Party. When Neil first comes onscreen in The Dirt, he’s singing Billy Squier’s “My Kind of Lover” at a backyard party while the women up front go insane for him.
- Tom Zutaut Didn’t Sign Them That Easily. In the movie version of the Mötley Crüe story, a young A&R rep from Elektra signs the band after talking to them for about 30 seconds at a bar.
Mar 23, 2019 · Their epic story of success, addiction and friendship is chronicled in the new Netflix biopic “The Dirt,” based on the best-selling book of the same name by author Neil Strauss.
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Aug 13, 2023 · The true tales of Nikki Sixx. Netflix. It's pretty impressive how much "The Dirt" gets right when it comes to Nikki Sixx, who doubles as the narrator in the film. Sixx did call the police on...
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- Nikki Sixx's Rock Origin Story Is Changed in The Dirt
- Sunset Strip Rock Mythology in The Dirt
- The Dirt Ignores Mötley Crüe’S Early Years
- The Dirt Alters Vince Neil's Story
The Dirt highlights the difficult childhood of Frank Feranna aka Nikki Sixx. In the Netflix film, an adolescent version of Sixx quarrels with his mother and describes a “revolving door of step-fathers." The narrative then jumps ahead several years to 1978 Los Angeles, where Frank reinvents himself as Nikki Sixx. In reality, however, a teenaged Fran...
In the ’60s and ‘70s, the Whisky a Go Go on Sunset Boulevard was a famous rock music venue, and Mötley Crüe famously lived right around the corner during the early ‘80s. As seen in The Dirt’spost-film credits sequence and all throughout the movie itself, director Tremaine effectively dramatizes many popular Mötley Crüe moments there and beyond. For...
The Dirt skips 1982 entirely in order to introduce Mötley Crüe’s second manger, McGhee. For dramatic purposes, the film uses a party sequence to directly explain the revised history to the audience. It’s an understandable decision, as McGhee not only managed Mötley Crüe during the ‘80s, but also Bon Jovi and later Kiss. In The Dirt, Costabile’s cha...
For the most part, The Dirt’s casting choices are believable, especially with Game of Thrones' Ramsay Boltonas the “alien” Mick Mars. However, Australian actor Daniel Webber doesn’t look anything like Vince Neil, even though he effectively mimics the stage presence of Mötley Crüe’s lead singer. In addition, The Dirtrushes through the final act, mas...
March 26, 2019. Calling all rock fans — The Dirt is on Netflix and this is not a drill. One of the biggest bands to ever exist in the '80s hair band era — Mötley Crüe — is about to show ...
Mar 23, 2019 · Netflix's Mötley Crüe biopic The Dirt is based on a book by the same name by the band with ghostwriter Neil Strauss, who later wrote the pick-up artist memoir The Game.
Mar 5, 2019 · The Dirt, which premieres on Netflix on March 22nd, is based on the 2001 memoir of the same name, which they coauthored with Rolling Stone contributing editor Neil Strauss.
