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‘King of the Beats’ is halfway in between being a documentary and a movie. It contains footage of Kerouac and interviews with Ginsberg, Burroughs, Ferlinghetti, Huncke, etc. But the majority of the footage is of actors portraying the events of kerouac’s life, with a voiceover guiding the fable. It’s incredibly wearisome and pointless, and the draw the narrative is presented is terrible, also. Several critical elements of Kerouac’s life are merely skimmed over. The whole thing has the feel of a cheap 1980′s ‘made for tv’ movie-documentary. On the definite side, many of the interviews are quite captivating, but sadly we only bag fragments. The interview with Huncke is quite amusing. The footage of Jack on the Steve Allen reveal and 10 years later on Firing Line is exciting.
If you want to learn about Kerouac or you are an admirer who wants to learn more and to survey footage of him, purchase “What happened to Kerouac” instead, a mid 70′s documentary that was made. It’s available on DVD and is far suited to this, including several inviting interviews not only with the people mentioned above, but others such as Gary Snyder. It also contains the two TV appearances mentioned above.
Yeah, this one is neither fish nor fowl. It includes some suitable footage and interviews with members of the beat generation, but its attempt to dramatize Kerouac’s life are unfulfilling. The acting is sixth rate, and the actors themselves don’t recognize noteworthy at all like Jack or Neal Cassady. I believe it was a big notion to have an actor read passages from Kerouac’s work, but even this manages to grate as the sentences are read melodramatically and dismal by too noteworthy emotion. Kerouac didn’t sound like that, nor, from what I have read, did he contemplate like that. This documentary was quite a disappointment and two other films are available on the tragic man which are far gracious in quality.