Sorry about the lack of updates. Honestly, I feel like most of the e-journalism world is circling the same stories and repeating the same secrets and lies a lot this month. We don’t even have a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue to obsess on like the sportswriters.
It will pick up. THB is going on hiatus for the next couple of weeks, so it should get more interesting here. Of course, I’ll be in Bermuda, so maybe it will be sonombulistic.
Churning…
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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
So much for that 2046 review.
It’s only the upcoming release from arguably the world’s most talented filmmaker.
And no Star Wars trailer comments? As someone who likes the prequels I’m sure you’re curious…
If that trailer didn’t get you excited then you don’t love movies.
I love movies. Love is an understatement. That trailer did nothing for me. Nothing whatsoever.
That trailer was phenomenal. There always has to be one Star Wars basher on any board where said subject is concerned.
the trailer was bad to the bone. showed a lot of the emperor
I’m not bashing Star Wars because I think it’s fun or because I want to be different. I just don’t think it looks that great, and the last two are horrifically awful movies.
I found the new Star Wars trailer to be terrific and pretty thrilling, with a grandiose understanding of everything the film needs to accomplish. My only concern is that the same could have been said for the pre-release trailers of the last two installments, and those films ultimately stunk up the joint. Maybe Lucas’s trailer people should have been allowed to direct the films…
Chester, seriously, who uses the word “grandiose”. It is a blog here. You’re not writing a term paper in English 101.
Actuallt haven’t done 2046 because I want to watch it at least once more before writing on it and haven’t had a clear 2 hours… will try to do it here over the weekend on the plane next week.
Anybody else have a problem with the commonly used word “grandiose”? I’d really like to know if this blog’s entries now need to be written at the 3rd Grade reading/spelling/grammar level insisted upon by Mark and his militia buddies.
Keep writing the way that best communicates your thoughts, Chester. Most of us have no trouble with words like “gradiose.” Dumb people will always charge others with being “pretentious” for just speaking and thinking at a higher level than they’re able to.
A guy who can actually buy hook, line, and sinker the right’s lies about Social Security can’t be expected to have much of a vocabulary. Rush Limbaugh doesn’t use words with more than two syllables in them so righties can’t figure out why anybody else should.
Thanks for the update, David…I’m wondering if all the disappointed reviewers that saw it at Cannes gave it that breathing room before they did their write ups…
And I’m pretty sure “grandiose” is something you learn BEFORE college, but to each his own. Sounds more like 6th grade than 101.