Sam Taylor-Johnson<\/a>‘s “dreadful” new movie, insisting it resembled a “fantasy” and his friend “deserved a lot better” because the biopic didn’t show the Amy he knew and loved.<\/p>\nHe told The Sun on Sunday newspaper: \u201cI wish Amy could have seen it. She\u2019d be fuming. Amy deserved a lot \u00adbetter. She was a superstar.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was not expecting it to be realistic or completely accurate. But it was worse than I thought it would be. It was dreadful and does not do her justice.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey sugar coated, glossed over her amazing life and missed out huge chunks. It is not telling her story. So much more could have been told in this film that would have built up a better and fuller picture of who Amy was.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cShe was the most amazing, beautiful person that I have ever met in my life. She was hilariously funny, intelligent and smart. That didn\u2019t come across.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTyler – who met Amy when they were just 12 years old and lived with her from the age of 18 until she died in 2011 – cried when he saw the movie because it felt “surreal” but he insisted it wasn’t because it cut close to home.<\/p>\n
\nHe said: \u201cI cried because there had been so much anticipation about what it would be like. It felt so surreal, so strange.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cBut I wasn\u2019t upset because I was watching her life story, because the film was so far removed from my life with Amy and the reality, there were so many odd inaccuracies.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIt showed her taking class A drugs before she even met Blake, which is completely wrong. It is an absolute liberty to do that.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIn parts it was as though Amy was the only addict, the only one with a problem. It shows them having coherent conversations and him being completely straight-talking…<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe movie is generalised, it is vague, it didn\u2019t really have a point to it. The thing I didn\u2019t like is they often got her character wrong. It showed her being over-the-top and confident on stage in the early days. That was not at all what Amy was like then. She wasn\u2019t cocky.”<\/p>\n
\nHowever, he did praise Marisa Abela for her performance as the late ‘Rehab’ singer, though he thinks Amy’s singing voice and not hers should have been used in the film.<\/p>\n
\nHe said: \u201cThey should have used Amy\u2019s voice. I think the actors were great, I\u2019m not knocking them.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe actress who played Amy did brilliantly, and there were points when she spoke when it could really have been Amy speaking. But if you are going to tell Amy\u2019s story, it should have been her, her voice singing.”<\/p>\n
\nAnd Tyler is pleased with how Amy’s love story with Blake Fielder-Civil, who is played by Jack O’Connell, was depicted.<\/p>\n
\nHe said: “She did love Blake, she really did. And he loved her. I liked Blake and I am pleased he wasn\u2019t made out to be an absolute villain, because he wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cOften there has been no sympathy for him, as though he was responsible for everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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