Too wild to live, too beautiful to die
It’s early 80’s New York. Studio 54, designer jeans, drugs and disco.
One girl is living life in the fast lane.
She can have any man-woman she wants.
Sex, glamour, fame, it’s all within her reach.
She walks towards you across the dance floor,
struts towards you down the runway,
stares at you from the cover of a magazine.
She's pain,
she's love and she’s you and she’s me, and she’s a star.
Her name is Gia...Gia Carangi.
“Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, there lived a young girl whose hair made of gold. The people in the village saw her, they said “oh how beautiful she is”, and they showed her a beautiful house on a beautiful planet Mars and they said “come and live here forever”, and the young girl said “oh Mars is a planet where life is different, say clean and pretty, but how Which you get there? Where you find a taxi? bus do you take? Right, and how do you know you’re there when you’re there?”
But the people in the village were very poor. And every night they crypt in to the house were the girl slept, and they cut off piece of her golden hair and they sold it for money, “she’ll never notice” they said, and soon all the gold were gone from her head. And the people said “oh she’s not beautiful at all, and they took her from the beautiful house, and they drove her into the street, and she went away and never came back. And some people became hungry again and they went back into the beautiful house looking for gold, but there was no one there”, as if she knew…”
THING OF BEAUTY
“I could learn photography. That could be something I want. I could photograph children, I could have my own children, I would give them yellow roses, and if they got too loud I would just put them in some place quiet, you know, put them in the oven, and I would kiss them every day, and tell them you don’t have to be anybody, because I would know that being somebody doesn’t make you anybody anyway”.
Gia: "i'm 19 years old and i'm makin' myself a hell of a lot of money and what am i getting for it?''
Gia: "i'm such a sucker for a pretty girl that i like."
PROMISES IN THE DARK
“You know what I think? I think there’s a reason for everything, and I think that there’s a plan for everybody, and I think that God has bigger plans for me, just not in this life."
Gia: “…you have to try to discipline yourself, because after a certain age nobody else is going to do it for you”
Gia: "The world seems to be bassed on sex and money...i'm looking for better things than that, like happiness and love and caring."
EDGE OF SEVENTEEN
“Dear book,
This is another day in a life, a life is like a book, a book is like a box, a box has six sides, inside and outside, so how you get to what’s inside, how you get to what’s inside out. Once upon a time there was a very pretty girl who lived in a beautiful box and everybody loved her.”
Gia: "I fell in love with my councelor and i think she just feels sorry for me. i hate anyone to pity me, it is so degrading." Gia: "...I mean i get off on food, you know. i'd rather do food than any kind of drug."
MID-NIGHT POISON
Gia: "you don't have to do this. You don't have to get high, you don't have to run from things because it doesn't get you anywhere. Look at where it got me"
Gia: "i'm sick, i don't feel good, i don't have any where to go...i think i have AIDS''
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