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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
Where are the sunglasses?…
I speak on behalf of the minority when I say I feel your pain about having to endure that very last number scene.
Anyone care to make a list of all the movies in the clip?
The Gen X geeks on imdb already did, I think this is correct (I’ve seen all but 1 movie on the list
SPOILER************************
LIST 100************************
**SPOILER**
100-Night of the Living Dead
99 – Laura
98-Dead Poet Society
97-Blade Runner
96-The Lost Weekend
95-Oceans 11
94-Star Wars
93-Midnight Run
92-It Came From Outer Space
91-The Right Stuff
90 – The Fugitive
89–The French Connection
88 – Back To The Future
87-Cast Away
86 – Quiz Show
85-Silence of the Lambs
84-Titanic
83-The Magnificent Seven
82 – Rain Man
81–Galaxy Quest
80-Harold and Maude
79-Rosencrantz and Gildestern are dead!
78 – The Day The Earth Stood Still
77-The Apartment
76-The Great Escape
75 – The Hustler
74 – Ed Wood
73- The Jerk
72-Raiders of the Lost Ark
71 – When Harry Met Sally
70–Star Trek, the Wrath of Khan
69
i have to go through it again and check it if I have time, but since I ma one of the Gen X geeks, I think it is correct.
sorry 53 &54 are switched
This was on IMDb’s news roll (the one at the bottom of the page) a few weeks back. It was fun, but much like everyone else I presume, there were so many quotes I would have loved to see in there. Alas…
“These go to 11” will never stop being funny.
So, I’m the only one who got the Alonzo Mosely reference?…
Mutinyco,
Let me tell you something, asshole. I’ve been working on this Jimmy Serrano thing for about six years; Mardukas is my shot. I’m gonna bring him into federal court, and I don’t want any third-rate rent-a-thug who couldn’t cut it as a cop in Chicago bringing him to LA on some bullshit local charge. Do I make myself understood?
[so If you mean Midnight Run, okay. Otherwise I apologize for calling you an asshole.]
Camel…I never noticed it on the newsroll, but saw it on the board.
My favorite is 11, but the Galaxy Quest “I died in episode 81” was hilarious. and of course 43, Monty Python.
What’d you just do, go cut and paste from the IMDb?…
Now here come two words for you: Shut the fuck up
Is it just me or did they miss what would have been a great “69”? Of course, I speak of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
Of course I cut and paste from the IMDB…I’m not an actor and can’t remember long tracts of dialog…except one long segment from A Tale of Two Cities.
Palm
I think, judging from the selection, that the person/persons who did the splicing were raised on Han Solo and John Hughes and Ghosbusters, so Bill & Ted(which is late 80s-89?) might not be foremost in the memory recall.
Plus there are so many old cult-type movies and landmark movies as well (what kind of freak would remember the number 10 is in Citizen Kane) that we are not talking about a “normal” movie goer.