Shot in the Heart is a 1994 memoir written by Mikal Gilmore, then a senior contributing editor at Rolling Stone, about his tumultuous childhood in a dysfunctional family, and his brother Gary Gilmore's eventual execution by firing squad in 1977 for a murder he committed at a motel in Provo, Utah.[1]
In 2001, Shot in the Heart became an HBO film directed by Agnieszka Holland, starring Giovanni Ribisi as Mikal, Elias Koteas as Gary, Sam Shepard as the brothers' looming father, Amy Madigan as their mother, and Lee Tergesen as Frank Gilmore, Jr.
The 1977 punk rock single "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" by the band The Adverts was used in the soundtrack of the movie.[2] The song is written from "the point of view of a hospital patient who has received the eyes of Gary Gilmore in a transplant."[3]
References
edit- ^ Morrison, Blake (1994-07-17). "A bad case of blood-poisoning: 'Shot in the Heart'". independent.co.uk. The Independent. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ^ Gilbert, Matthew (12 October 2001). "A SEARING TALE OF TWO BROTHERS". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on November 6, 2012. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
The soundtrack rises from abstract notes of angst and irresolution into the anthemic punk of the Adverts' "Gary Gilmore's Eyes," a pounding symbol of the ...
- ^ Sullivan, Jim (2 November 2003). "Box full of punk-rock aggression". Boston Globe. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
... to the Adverts taking the point of view of a hospital patient who has received the eyes of Gary Gilmore in a transplant; Gilmore, the infamous killer executed by a Utah firing squad, had said he'd donate his eyes to science as they'd probably be the only body part usable.
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