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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 it’s As Good As It Gets: The Retirement Years.
Just a random question, does anyone know why the Taj Mahal is only ever seen from that one perspective?
Considering this film had a budget that helped them shoot in Agra and at the Great Wall of China, you’d think they’d come up with better last-wish gimmicks than “Old people skydiving!” This trailer definitely doesn’t convince me that this will be Oscar-worthy.
Somehow I’m not surprised that Morgan Freeman is narrating and Jack is over the top…
Jeff… technically… this is why: http://z.about.com/d/goindia/1/0/u/0/-/-/TajBack.jpg . I would use an IMG tag, but this place does not explain their tags. So… that’s why. Remember though; all of that land you see in that pic was supposed to be for the BLACK Taj Mahal. Which they unfortunately never built.
Is this the movie version of the short-lived NBC series 20 Good Years, starring John Lithgow and Jeffrey Tambor? Was’nt given enough of a chance IMO, and there was a episode where they were dating the same girl and she wanted a 3some. Hilarious.
Anyway, I’m a sucker for anything with Morgan and Jack, and them together in one movie is too much for me to resist. Hope the underwhelming trailer means that the movie has some weight, plus it may get Oscar notices because its fits the demographic of the average Academy Member and their current predisposition. Could be this years As Good as it gets.
Hey DP, maybe you should also put up some matching pics of Morgan Freeman too. Lets see what the years have done to him.
Morgan Freeman narrates AGAIN?
Is it possible to even take him seriously anymore?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Gj57b-87Q
Looks like Jack has had his eyes done.
The Bucket List image of Jack is really disconcerting. Really it is… really.
I love Jack in About Schmidt. That was an awesome movie about growing old and more worthy of Jack than this…thing.
I think this movie will rest on how weighty their bucket list is.
If the list is of things that are weighty and significant and complex it will be something I look forward to. If it just reads like a laundry list of aging baby boomer desires…meh.
That shot of them getting ready to jump off the plane does not inspire.
In other words…I hope it has more weight than Venus, which gave new meaning to the words; vapid, sleazy and shallow.
Neither Jack nor Morgan are baby boomers, although Rob Reiner is.
Yeah, I know. That doesn’t mean that they won’t be playing them in the movie or that the movie won’t appeal to those values.
I’m just sayin’.
Dear Ndugu…
Jack being jack…yawn.