# Controversial Hendrix pic - 2013's All is By My Side with Andre 3000 (spoilers)

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**Created:** [June 3, 2017, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-hendrix-pic-2013s-all-is-by-my-side-with-andre-3000-spoilers/788004 "2017-06-03T14:29:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-hendrix-pic-2013s-all-is-by-my-side-with-andre-3000-spoilers/788004/1 "2017-06-03T14:29:12Z")

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Anyone see this? I stumbled upon it on cable right when it was starting, so went with it.

I remember reading how it was by big-deal, now-Oscar-winner John Ridley, but that the Hendrix family didn’t support it, and no Hendrix music could be used. Since the Hendrix family had gone through a bunch of legal stuff, I assumed this was part of that, and pretty much any rock bio pick would likely suck huge donkey balls, especially if it can’t use the music, I am sure I shut my brain off at that point.

It was powerful, but left me troubled about it.

I thought it was an interesting story, well told. Andre 3000 totally embodied Hendrix - his voice, mannerisms, general space-cadet-like-a-fox persona. Wonderful. And the pre-Experience music was good, especially when Hendrix wiped the floor with Clapton on Killing Floor. the feel of the story, where ex-Animals bassist Chas Chandler is both desperate and focused, and Hendrix is finding his way, is great.

But. Spoilers.

I had no idea that in this movie, Andre 3000’s Hendrix is shown beating his English girlfriend played by Hayley Atwell of Agent Carter. In one scene, he brutally clubs her - number of times with a phone receiver.

There is no way to interpret an action like that other than Jimi Hendrix is a bad person. Yet, in Googling after seeing it, _the girlfriend herself_ who was played by Atwell says it did not happen and that Hendrix wasn’t violent at all. That’s a hell of an element to include in a person’s character if it isn’t true.

James Brown was a difficult man. Chuck Berry was a difficult man. Sly Stone is a troubled and sometimes difficult man. But I have never thought of Jimi Hendrix that way, and from what I have seen Googling afterwards doesn’t turn up anything obvious.

So - it drew me in and impressed me until it left me troubled.

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-hendrix-pic-2013s-all-is-by-my-side-with-andre-3000-spoilers/788004/2 "2017-06-03T14:45:59Z")

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I have not seen it but I remember hearing about it and about the controversies.

Thanks for the heads-up and the review; I’ve added this to my list!