American Boy: A Profile of: Steven Prince

Highly entertaining but your level of enjoyment will depend on how much you like Scorsese and Prince. I think they are both great so this was a fun watch for me. You should also see it if you enjoyed Pulp Fiction cause Tarantino does a nice job stealing from this movie, but hey they don't call him the greatest collage artist of all time for nothing.

An hour of home movies, with better-than-average camerawork and more interesting people than one usually sees in home movies. And then Steve Prince starts telling stories and you could listen to him for hours. Highly entertaining.

If I gave a shit about Steven Prince this might've been more interesting.

Viewed September 24, 2018.

Scoring it this high cuz Steven Prince is nuts

Steven Prince, and how the stories he tells may or may not inform the person he apparently is when Scorsese and his crew show up at his place to film him. The reason I watched all 55 minutes is not because I wasn't able to justify turning off a film directed by one of American cinema's greatest living assets, but because these anecdotes are very engrossing. That, and that alone, is the appeal of this piece. You want to hear a guy tell a story? Look here.

A small documentary that's just a bunch of lively people sitting/wrestling around and listening to this rather interesting guy tell some rather interesting stories.

Never knew an hour passes that quickly.. Such a shame, I wish it was 2 hours longer

Stoned.

Wherein Martin Scorsese's buddy discusses reviving an overdose victim with an adrenaline syringe, blasting a knife-wielding maniac in the chest with a .44 magnum in the desert, hanging out with silverback gorillas, touring with Neil Diamond, and generally sharing the details of his bizarre and fascinating experiences as an actor in 1970s Los Angeles. You could make a series out of this guy, or at least a hell of a biopic. I could listen to Prince tell stories for hours.

I've always been a big fan of the Easy Andy character in Scorsese's Taxi Driver, so it was nice to finally hear his story. And what a story it is! Somebody needs to direct a biopic about this guy. From stabbing a syringe of adrenaline into the heart of a girl who OD'ed on heroin (sound familiar?), to blowing a speed addict to pieces with a .44 Magnum in the middle of the desert, this dude has been through some truly fucked up shit. Fascinating picture about a fascinating life.