Cadillac dealership where Cusack’s Brian settles into a car alongside a puzzled but game salesperson named Melinda Ledbetter (Elizabeth Banks). The vibe is heavy from the first scene, set in an L.A. See Paul Dano in an Exclusive Love & Mercy Clip It has the two things a Brian Wilson story needs above all: a sense of mystery and the right vibrations - good, bad, weird. (Wilson’s combination of aching music and grim personal history seems to stir everyone’s savior instincts.) After powering through three books, many articles, and a documentary, I can now say that Love and Mercy has whopping gaps but that few of them matter. I wanted to fact-check it, to do my part to protect Wilson’s legacy, even - maybe especially - from people (the filmmakers, Wilson’s second wife) claiming to have his best interests in mind. I’d lost my heart to the movie but still didn’t trust it. That’s what I did last week after seeing the Brian Wilson saga Love and Mercy, which weaves together scenes from two stages of the Beach Boy’s tumultuous life and features two different Brians, Paul Dano (’60s) and John Cusack (’80s). Even the best biopics leave so much out - they telescope, elide, spin, and downright lie - that some of us go straight from the theater to the library or bookstore, eager to correct the fallacies before they set.
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