Tonight I do my monologue from Eddie and the Cruisers for my Movieoke.
It’s going to be intense if I do say so myself.
Eddie was troubled from the start, he was always different, but knew he had something other’s didn’t have.
Wordman: What are you so worried about? We’ve played colleges before, these people are no better than you…
Eddie: I didn’t say better, I said different
He was a man of few words but his music spoke for itself, until he created his last album, Season in Hell, which was not well received.
Sally: They want on the Darkside, what are we giving em some damn opera? We’re not great, we’re just a few guys from Jersey.
Eddie: Well if we can’t be great, there’s no reason to ever make music again Sal.
He understood the deeper meanings of his songs, wanting them to last, not wanting to be someones laundry “use em, soil ‘em, ship em out to laundry you know?”
Season In Hell was named after a book of poetry of Arthur Rimbaud, who committed suicide “Not of the body, but of the mind and soul”
And after Eddie Wilson’s car went off that fateful bridge, he was never seen or heard from again. Eddie believed you could build a castle out of a bunch of junk and then learned it was a crock and if he couldn't be great, he didn't want to be.
Eddie: You got your Edsels, Norges, Dumonts…and Eddie Wilson, together at last, creating our own incredible monument…to nothing, HERE’S TO NOTHING FELLAS! Here’s to nothing!
At the end of the movie, we see a decidedly older and more haggard Eddie Wilson in the reflection of the tv where he's watching a tv special about himself. Eddie lives.
EDDIE: Words and music Wordman, Words and music, that's the most you'll ever get out of me Wordman...ever
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