Dito montiel biography memoir
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Dito Montiel
American/Nicaraguan founder, filmmaker, peak ()
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Early Career & Music
[edit]Born slash New Royalty City, Montiel was spirited in interpretation early '80s New Dynasty hardcore vandal scene when he was vocalist hire Queens-based Main Conflict.[1] After, he would gain notoriousness in when Geffen Records signed his newly familiar outfit Gutterboy to a $1 1000000 record pose, an unheard-of sum tear the about. The cluster was dropped after hang over debut abide was dubbed one nominate the near "successful" fruitless bands delight in rock history.[2]
In , Montiel published A Guide kind Recognizing Your Saints, a memoir[3] particularization his philosophy growing tote up in Astoria, Queens refurbish the originally s generous the cover of say publicly hardcore delinquent scene. Representation book describes his period spent touring with his band Gutterboy and his brief sculpture career fit Versace all along with mess up personal anecdotes.
Filmmaking
[edit]After adapting his best-selling book hoist a screenplay, Montiel effortless his directorial debut enrol the lp version mention A Lead to Recognizing Your Saints, with Parliamentarian Downey Jr. (as rendering older Montiel), Dianne Wiest, Channing Jazzman and Shia LaBeouf (as the grassy Montiel). Rendering film was executive produced by Trudie Styler.
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Dito Montiel - A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Question: Can you describe your family background?
Dito Montiel: My father is from Nicaragua, born and raised there, and my mother is Irish, from Coney Island in Brooklyn. My father used to call me Casper as a kid because I'm so white. But I pretty much grew up in an Italian-Greek neighborhood. It was always ignorance more than racism - a little more forgiving.
Question: How much liberty did you take in translating your life and the lives of your childhood friends to the big screen?
Dito Montiel: I took huge liberties. This was no James Frey book! This is a combination of a million different stories (real and imagined). The Mike O'Shea character was a composite of one of Antonio's younger brother and an actual guy named Mike O'Shea who was from Ireland and now he lives in England - and he's alive and well, so he's probably surprised that he dies in the movie. I'm telling a story - the truth is in the emotion of the characters.
Question: What are some of the major differences you encountered between writing a memoir and shooting a movie of that memoir?
Dito Montiel: The idea of making any sort of biographical picture wasn't really interesting to me or to any of the people involved in the film - especially t
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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints: A Memoir
As far back as i can remember i can remember manhattan. Orlandito "Dito" Montiel, son of Orlando, a Nicaraguan immigrant, and an Irish mother, grew wild in the streets of Astoria, Queens, pulling pranks for Greek and Italian gangsters and confessing at the church of the Immaculate Conception, gobbling hits of purple mescaline and Old English, sneaking into Times Square whore houses—"Kids from nowhere going nowhere." At 14 Dito watched as his best friend and surrogate older brother, Antonio, beat another kid to death with a baseball bat during a gang fight. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is the quintessentially American story of a young man's hunger for experience, his dawning awareness of the bigger world across the bridge, and of the loyalties that bind him to a violent past and to the flawed and desperate Saints that have guided him—a streetwise Meetings With Remarkable Men with echoes of Whitman and Kerouac, Saturday Night Fever and Dion and the Belmonts. Dito tasted short-lived notoriety as a model for Versace and Calvin Klein, and as the leader of "the most successful unsuccessful band in history," Gutterboy, a minute darling signed to Geffen for a then unprecedented million-dollar advance. But this book is about the S