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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
DAMMIT! That’s a bigger cock tease than that Kim Kardashian sex tape. I can’t drive to Sacramento on the 29th for a MIDNIGHT show. Arghhh…the suspense os killing me!
Somehow I don’t see “TWBB” as a midnight movie. The length alone (160 minutes) sort of prohibits that kind of thing anyway, doesn’t it?
I hope that PV isn’t trying to position it as even more of a niche film than it already is.
I know I’m beating a dead horse here, but how is Daniel Day-Lewis not the frontrunner for Best Actor? He’s virtually sweeping the critics awards, and I can’t remember when someone with that much dominance wasn’t eventually the winner with Oscar. I guess you can look at Julianne Moore, but Far From Heaven didn’t get the overall noms that Blood is likely to, and I think the Academy was much more desperate to crown Nicole Kidman than they are to do the same with Johnny Depp. Kidman’s work was also much more in line with what wins than Depp’s portrayal.
If Clooney wins SAG and/or the Globe, then maybe things are murkier, but I’d say he’s a longshot for Oscar because he just won recently. So it’s still essentially a 2-horse race. But I don’t know if what Depp has done is going to appear all that fearless or accomplished next to DDL. It’s not like Depp was a revelation as a singer or dancer like what we saw with Catherine Zeta-Jones in Chicago, or that he showed a new side of his acting abilities. It’s just an obvious, fitting match between actor and character, director and material.
Damn! Not in Houston!
I’ve watched the movie a few times now and have to say, the promo is a little more Lynchian than the film, of course, but it made me think of the movie in Lynch-terms and wow, maybe “Lynchian” is somewhat of an appropriate way to talk about some of the more surreal moments of the pic.
I loved it, loved it, loved it – but think it’s one of those movies that I’ll see 100 times and come away with a totally different opinion of each time.
Which, of course, is just the best kind of movie.
Well, I just got my invite to a normal hours sneak, so I won’t be doing this now. But, it’s weird that they’re promoting the sneak, but don’t have any way of identifying which theater.
When does this movie come out, anyway? I thought it came out Boxing Day.
“I guess you can look at Julianne Moore, but Far From Heaven didn’t get the overall noms that Blood is likely to,”
Far From Heaven got five nominations, which seems like a likely number for TWBB too unless the Academy loooves it.