Dakota Fanning?
I thought that Dakota Fanning did a good job in this movie. It is almost a coming of age movie where she transitions from kid roles to adult ones :) It was a success for me :D
shareI thought it was a compelling performance as a performance and liked her in the movie.
But having said that, her version of Cherie Currie didn't have the toughness that the real singer projected, not even close. If you compare Fanning's stage presence performing "Cherry Bomb" for a Japanese TV show to video of the real event, there is a marked difference. I liked Fanning's approach to the song, by the way, but there was definitely more vulnerability and less of the real woman's toughness and aloofness.
yeah, Cherie has a ferocity in her stage presence that would be difficult to duplicate... Dakota did a good job with it. She just made it her own.
shareadam_padmon - you have to read the book, Fanning was accurate in the portrayal of Currie, very accurate. Currie's tough image was a complete act. You have to remember she was only a 15 year old girl. This movie wasn't about the in your face image that the band had to the fans and media. It was about the behind the scenes of a bunch of nervous teen girls doing something extraordinary despite their age, talent and the bias against female rockers.
Also if you watch Currie in that teen movie with Jodie Foster (forget the name) but Fanning's resemblance to Currie is amazing. Not only her appearance but the expressions, the smirks and so on. You can tell Fanning study Currie thoroughly for this movie.
The kid just got talent, It's rare when you see an actor bring a character to life like Fanning does. it's usually the other way around a character becomes the actor. Like Kristen Stewart playing Joan Jett. She did a good job but she never had the ability to bring the teenager Joan Jett to life, It was always Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett throughout the whole movie.
That's not the case with Fanning, in fact there is no Dakota Fanning in this movie there's only Cherie Currie.
Perhaps, but the Currie I see in archival footage from the time (both interviews and performances) is very different in mannerisms than Fanning's version.
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