Rain Phoenix shares moving tribute to brother River Phoenix to mark his 54th birthday

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Rain Phoenix is remembering her late brother, River Phoenix, on what would have been his 54th birthday

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[arilicious]

He was so beautiful. I wonder what career he'd have today, he was so talented.

[januarysix]

he'd have Leo's career

[elevatorshaker]

I don't think so because they were at way different places in their careers. There would have been some crossovers with stuff like The Beach or The Aviator, but River wouldn't have done Romeo* or Jack Dawson. To be honest, I think Leo is miscast in most of his movies, though.

* Unless he was Juliet opposite Keanu's Romeo. Somewhere across Spatium et Tempus, this exists.

[aliceofclubs]

a lot of ppl said that he'd been Cameron's original choice for Jack, in the early days of the project

[angriest_girl]

What a loss. Should have been Depp dying on that footpath.

[josiefier]

I love that I wasn't the first to say it this time

[caramelaffair]

Considering what a piece of shit Depp has always been, I have to agree.

[jennabee123]

What a world of good it would have done too! Someone call Bill & Ted to make this reality.

His death is so sad and was preventable like so many drug related ones :/

[josiefier]

Every year it gets more surreal that he's been gone longer than he got to live

[caramelaffair]

He was born a week before my mom was. It's crazy to think how he would be my mom's age now if he were still here. I remember reading a book about him forever ago and feeling horrible after reading it. Like this wave of heaviness that was overwhelming. His parents were awful people for doing what they did to all of their children. They should be in hell.

[fart]

you’re right and I love your icon

[deja_vu822]

i somehow only just learned today that a good bit of people think he was intentionally murdered.

[caramelaffair]

It's been a popular theory for awhile. I personally don't know a lot of details about it all to really form my own opinion about that. Just the circumstances of that night and who was there, mainly.

Since River was an addict and enjoyed trying things and binging, it wouldn't at all be surprising if he just got unlucky, unfortunately. He was already sick for awhile before that fateful night and was already on over the counter medicines to treat his cold/flu, from what I remember.

[rainbows_are_ok]

Yeah, someone on Reddit said the other day that River was straight edge and I was stunned that anyone actually believes that.

[belle_chouette]

I feel like people think it’s way easier to murder someone than it actually is.