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Basquiat is a American biographical drama film directed, written and co-composed by Julian Schnabel in his feature directorial debut. It is the first film about an American painter written and directed by another painter. Jeffrey Wright portrays Basquiat, a Brooklyn -born artist who used his graffiti roots as a foundation to create collage -style paintings on canvas.

David Bowie plays Basquiat's friend and mentor, pop artist Andy Warhol. The film is a lightly fictionalized account of Basquiat 's life. Alongside the development of his artistic career, the film follows Basquiat's tumultuous relationship with Gina, a fellow aspiring artist he meets while she is working as a waitress at the diner he frequents with his friend Benny.

Their romance is affected by Basquiat's affair with "Big Pink", a woman he picks up on the street, [ 4 ] and his heroin addiction. Eventually, Basquiat finds himself isolated by his fame, the death of Warhol, and his drug use. The film ends with an intertitle stating that Basquiat died of a heroin overdose on August 12, , at the age of Julian Schnabel had given seed money to another film that was being developed about Jean-Michel Basquiat, but when he read an early script that he believed misrepresented Andy Warhol, he decided to make the film himself.

They were so attacked. Andy cared about Jean-Michel.

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He was really human. He wasn't a vampire. His death broke Jean-Michel's heart. The film has a screenplay by Schnabel and a story by Lech Majewski. As director, Schnabel inserted himself into the film as the fictional character Albert Milo Gary Oldman , based on himself.