“Love & Mercy” quotes
(2014)
Title Love & Mercy
Year 2014
Director Bill Pohlad
Genre Drama, Music, Biography
Year 2014
Director Bill Pohlad
Genre Drama, Music, Biography
Plot – The movie tells the story of Brian Wilson's life, the Beach Boys famous leader: from the success of the California band – where he was the singer and songwriter - to the devastating nervous breakdown that led him to leave the group and enter the care of the controversial therapist Eugene Landy. Covering more than thirty years of Wilson's life, the movie reveals the darker and more complex side of the story that lies behind the happy appearance of carefree music, including Wilson's battle against mental illness and drug abuse, his years under the influence of the therapist Eugene Landy and his redemptive relationship with Melinda Ledbetter, all framed in the context of his unparalleled life as a musician.
All actors – Paul Dano, John Cusack, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti, Jake Abel, Kenny Wormald, Brett Davern, Graham Rogers, Erin Darke, Bill Camp, Joanna Going, Nick Gehlfuss
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Paul McCartney called "God Only Knows" the greatest song ever written.
I'd like to make a toast. To "Good Vibrations", Brian's pocket symphony to God. And the biggest selling single the Beach Boys ever had. Ever!
“We're not surfers, we never have been, and real surfers don't dig our music anyway!”
- Murry Wilson: Frankly, if you really want to know, I don't care for it. It's too wishy-washy. "If you leave me, why leave me? Life will go on. Why go on living?" It's not like a Beach Boys song. Your brothers are going to hate it.
- Brian: [devastated] It's a love song.
- Murry Wilson: It's a suicide note.“Tony and I think that if you close your eyes you can see a place or something that's happening. It's like being blind but because you're blind you can see more. Don't you think it's a spiritual kind of thing?”
“I want to do a chanting album. Okay? No words. All Hawaiian thing. And we can turn it into a children's show for television - and it'll be completely unstructured - and it'll be about animals and eating right.”
“Sometimes it scares me to think where it's coming from, you know? Like... There's someone else in there, not me. Well... What if I...What if I lose it and never get it back? What would I do then?”
“- Brian: I'm not married anymore.
- Melinda Ledbetter: [Speaking in a near whisper] Okay.”“I'm Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs! Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!”
“- Brian: I'm going to create the greatest album ever, Mar.
- Marilyn Wilson: I know, Bri.”
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