The Runaways - Cherry Bomb

Floria Sigismondi, writer and director of "The Runaways".

"Just in time for The Runaways' debut at the Sundance Film Festival, a new poster for the film has just made its way to the internet via an exclusive at MTV.The poster shows a "Cherry Bomb", in artful form, as indicative of one of the real band's most famous songs. It also notes the film's leading stars, Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning". Source: www.examiner.com


The Runaways - Cherry Bomb Live in Japan 1977.

"The girl becoming a woman is Cherie Currie (Fanning), a paternal twin that patterns her renegade attitude and platinum blonde hairstyle after rock icon David Bowie. A humiliating talent show performance set to Bowie’s “Wild is the Wind” collapses until she’s giving her classmates double middle fingers and starting a brawl in the auditorium. Parental problems at home make her even more feisty.Joan Jett (Stewart) is her own ball of teen angst. In her introduction Joan shoplifts a pair of black leather pants, which she celebrates by huffing glue and kissing her friend Tammy. She walks out of a guitar lesson (squaresville, maaan) and teaches herself to play instead.Potentially a scene stealing role (on paper any way) is Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon), the record producer that smashes the various talents into a group and manages their rise to stardom. It’s an exaggerated character of unbridled intensity, thrusting his hips as an example and screaming barbaric profanities. He forces them to use their sexuality as a weapon and shouts comments like “this isn’t women’s lib… it’s women’s libido!” Though there’s something off-putting about Fowley pointing to 15-year-old Curie’s crotch and saying, “Men want this! Filthy pussy.”
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