Gia is a 1998 biographical HBO Original film about the life of model Gia Marie Carangi starring Angelina Jolie, Faye Dunaway, Mercedes Ruehl, and Elizabeth Mitchell. It was directed by Michael Cristofer and written by Cristofer and Jay McInerney. The original music score was composed by Terence Blanchard.
Gia Carangi (Angelina Jolie) is a Philadelphia native who moves to New York City to become a fashion model and immediately catches the attention of powerful agent Wilhelmina Cooper (Faye Dunaway). Gia's attitude and beauty help her rise quickly to the forefront of the modeling industry, but her persistent loneliness after the death of Wilhelmina drives her to experiment with mood-altering drugs like cocaine. She becomes entangled in a passionate affair with Linda (Elizabeth Mitchell), a make-up artist. Their love affair first starts when both pose nude and make love to each other after a photo shoot. However, after a while Linda begins to worry about Gia's drug use and gives her an ultimatum: Gia chooses the drugs. Failed attempts at reconciliation with Linda and with her mother, Kathleen (Mercedes Ruehl), drive Gia to begin abusing heroin. Although she is eventually able to break her drug habit after much effort, she has already contracted HIV from a needle containing infected blood and dies from complications from AIDS in 1986 at the age of 26.
Plot
When Gia Carangi first arrives in New York City, she's a beautiful drop-out from Philadelphia brashly bursting through the closed doors of top modeling agent Wilhelmina Cooper. Gia's electrifying personality and potent sexuality soon find their way onto the covers of America's top-selling magazines. But being loved by the world isn't the same as being love by one - an unfulfilled desire that can take Gia dangerous places. And for a beautiful woman, one slip could lead to a terrifying fall.
Keywords: 1970s, 1980s, aids, bare-breasts, bisexual, blood, borderline-personality-disorder, boxer-shorts, brief-male-full-frontal-nudity, briefs
This is life... not heaven... you don't have to be perfect.
Too beautiful to die. Too wild to live.
Based on the tragic life and times of America's first supermodel.
Everyone saw the beauty, no one saw the pain.
Why me?
Maurice: She hated to be photographed. You had to run after her and tie her down. And you had to get past all the junk in her hair. But she was special.
Gia Carangi: Look, this was a free trip to New York. If I had known you were looking for Marcia fucking Brady, I woulda stayed home.
Gia Carangi: Well somebody has to take care of me! I'm just a kid!::T.J.: Bullshit.
T.J.: Have you ever had sex with a man before?::Gia Carangi: Yeah, once.::T.J.: And?::Gia Carangi: And... I could have done that with a German Shepard.
Gia Carangi: Life and death, energy and peace. If I stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I've walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, in it, and above.
Francesco: This is life, not heaven. You don't have to be perfect...
Gia Carangi: I'm in charge, and I'm leavin'!
Gia Carangi: Are you nervous?::T.J.: Yeah.::Gia Carangi: Am I making you nervous?::T.J.: Yeah.::Gia Carangi: Well, good, that's the idea. You scare the shit out of people so they can't see how scared you are.
Gia Carangi: You look so pretty.::Stephanie: Thank you.::Gia Carangi: I love you.::Stephanie: I know, you love everyone.
Gia Carangi: I do be da pittiest, pittiest girl. I do be dat.
Poso se thelo
Poso mou leipies
Girise se piso
Giati sou leo
Den boro (xoris esena)
Ke den zo (girna se mena)
Tha xatho ( tha sou pethano)
An den se do
*repeat*
kiss me she said
you're so dangerous
don't pull away
don't pull away
kiss me she said that girl again
you're dangerous so hazardous to me
yeah! the drama queen
the cat walk
you're so obscene you're fabulous
it's your life don't shoot it up
i am the drug that you need
shot me up shoot me up
i am all that you need
you pull away you pull away
disaster
gia tell me why you're punk rock
with a knife a masochist with attitude
go to another shoot the rash blinds
you cant talk your fallin down
this cant walk your outta time
you're outta luck what a face
i am the drug that you need
shoot me up shoot me up
i am all that you need
you pull away you pull away