History Film / Barfly

Anyway, the main character, Henry Chinaski (Rourke), is an AuthorAvatar for Creator/CharlesBukowski, who also wrote the film's screenplay. His life consists of drinking and bar-brawling, apparently for no other reason than that the sole existence of his archnemesis, Eddie (Frank Stallone), infuriates him (the feeling is mutual, so he has many occasions to fight). Once more beaten by Eddie, he returns to the bar and meets Wanda Wilcox (Dunaway), a classy but crazy heavy drinker, with whom he fells in love at first sight. They get to live together, drink together, and sleep together. He is even planning to get a job. Little does he know that Tully Sorenson (Creator/AliceKrige), a young female intellectual and the owner of a literary magazine, got fascinated by his short stories and hired a private detective (Jack Nance) to find him so that she could convince him to change his life, move to the upper class and become a full-time writer. With their meeting comes the understanding that he is just unable to be anyone else than himself.

A 1987 film directed by Barbet Schroeder, starring Creator/MickeyRourke and Creator/FayeDunaway.

Anyway, the main character, Henry Chinaski (Rourke), is an AuthorAvatar for Creator/CharlesBukowski, who also wrote the film's screenplay. His life consists of drinking and bar-brawling, apparently for no other reason than that the sole existence of his archnemesis, Eddie (Frank Stallone), infuriates him (the feeling is mutual, so he has many occasions to fight). Once more beaten by Eddie, he returns to the bar and meets Wanda Wilcox (Dunaway), a classy but crazy heavy drinker, with whom he fells in love at first sight. They get to live together, drink together, and sleep together. He is even planning to get a job. Little does he know that Tully Sorenson (Alice Krige), a young female intellectual and the owner of a literary magazine, got fascinated by his short stories and hired a private detective (Jack Nance) to find him so that she could convince him to change his life, move to the upper class and become a full-time writer. With their meeting comes the understanding that he is just unable to be anyone else than himself.

* UnwantedRescue: Henry does it to the neighbour whose husband is a DomesticAbuser. Leads to an AbuseMistake with tragic results.

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* {{Existentialism}}: Of a DIY sort.

A 1987 film directed by Barbet Schroeder, starring Creator/MickeyRourke and Faye Dunaway.

%%* TheAlcoholic: too many to count, but in the first place Henry and Wanda.
%%* AngerBornOfWorry: Wanda seems prone to that.
%%* BarBrawl: at least three of them.

%%* CatFight: the final scene.

* DoYouWantToHaggle: a hooker in the pub and her client, about a blowjob, no less.

%%* {{Existentialism}}: of a DIY sort.
%%* GreenEyedMonster: between Wanda and Tully.
%%* GrievousBottleyHarm: employed by Wanda.

%%* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Every hooker in the bar.

* LadyDrunk: most notably, Lily - but Wanda seems to be very close to it at the time of her first meeting with Henry.
%%* LibertyOverProsperity: seems to be Henry's view.

%%* LonelyAtTheTop: Tully seems to have this problem.
%%* LoveMakesYouEvil: happens to Wanda.

%%* LowerClassLout: pretty much everyone with the exception of Tully.
%%* PermaStubble: Henry has it.
%%* RichBoredom: Tully displays some signs of it.
%%* SelfMadeWoman: Tully, apparently.

%%* WishfulProjection: Tully suffers from this quite a bit.

A 1987 film directed by Barbet Schroeder, starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway.

->''Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live.''

But maybe it is about three people, a man and two women, who constitute a LoveTriangle in which one woman makes a myth out of the sad reality and the other strives for making reality out of a myth, and man stands between them and waits for the ending of the conflict.

Or maybe it is simply about one man with the life of a drunkard and the mind of a poet, who tries to find out what should be his final attitude towards illusions.

Anyway, the main character, Henry Chinaski, is an AuthorAvatar for Creator/CharlesBukowski, who also wrote the film's screenplay. His life consists of drinking and bar-brawling, apparently for no other reason than that the sole existence of his archnemesis, Eddie, infuriates him (the feeling is mutual, so he has many occasions to fight). Once more beaten by Eddie, he returns to the bar and meets Wanda Wilcox, a classy but crazy heavy drinker, with whom he fells in love at first sight. They get to live together, drink together, and sleep together. He is even planning to get a job. Little does he know that Tully Sorenson, a young female intellectual and the owner of a literary magazine, got fascinated by his short stories and hired a private detective to find him so that she could convince him to change his life, move to the upper class and become a full-time writer. With their meeting comes the understanding that he is just unable to be anyone else than himself.

* TheAlcoholic: too many to count, but in the first place Henry and Wanda.
* AngerBornOfWorry: Wanda seems prone to that.
* BarBrawl: at least three of them.

* CatFight: the final scene.
* TheDeterminator: Tully.

* {{Existentialism}}: of a DIY sort.
* GreenEyedMonster: between Wanda and Tully.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: employed by Wanda.

* HairTriggerTemper: Wanda.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Every hooker in the bar.
* HopelessSuitor: [[spoiler:Tully]].
* IAmWhatIAm: Henry.

* LibertyOverProsperity: seems to be Henry's view.
* LocalHangout: Eddie's bar.
* LonelyAtTheTop: Tully seems to have this problem.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: happens to Wanda.
* LovingAShadow: Tully.
* LowerClassLout: pretty much everyone with the exception of Tully.
* PermaStubble: Henry has it.
* RichBoredom: Tully displays some signs of it.
* [[SelfMadeMan Self-Made Woman]]: Tully, apparently.

* WifeBasherBasher: Henry.
* WishfulProjection: Tully suffers from this quite a bit.

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Anyway, the main character, Henry Chinaski, is an AuthorAvatar for Creator/CharlesBukowski, who wrote the autobiographical novel on which the movie was based and, later, the screenplay for the movie itself. His life consists of drinking and bar-brawling, apparently for no other reason than that the sole existence of his archnemesis, Eddie, infuriates him (the feeling is mutual, so he has many occasions to fight). Once more beaten by Eddie, he returns to the bar and meets Wanda Wilcox, a classy but crazy heavy drinker, with whom he fells in love at first sight. They get to live together, drink together, and sleep together. He is even planning to get a job. Little does he know that Tully Sorenson, a young female intellectual and the owner of a literary magazine, got fascinated by his short stories and hired a private detective to find him so that she could convince him to change his life, move to the upper class and become a full-time writer. With their meeting comes the understanding that he is just unable to be anyone else than himself.

Anyway, the main character, Henry Chinaski, is an AuthorAvatar for CharlesBukowski, who wrote the autobiographical novel on which the movie was based and, later, the screenplay for the movie itself. His life consists of drinking and bar-brawling, apparently for no other reason than that the sole existence of his archnemesis, Eddie, infuriates him (the feeling is mutual, so he has many occasions to fight). Once more beaten by Eddie, he returns to the bar and meets Wanda Wilcox, a classy but crazy heavy drinker, with whom he fells in love at first sight. They get to live together, drink together, and sleep together. He is even planning to get a job. Little does he know that Tully Sorenson, a young female intellectual and the owner of a literary magazine, got fascinated by his short stories and hired a private detective to find him so that she could convince him to change his life, move to the upper class and become a full-time writer. With their meeting comes the understanding that he is just unable to be anyone else than himself.

* WishfulProjection: Tully suffers from this quite a bit.

* BottleFairy: every hooker in the bar.

But maybe it is about three people, a man and two women, who constitute a LoveTriangle in which one woman makes a myth out of the sad reality and the other strives for making reality out of a myth, and man stands between them and philosophizes.