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
There’s also that lesbian werewolf movie with Ellen Page. I never would have thought the movie “Underworld” or the TV on the Radio Song “Wolf Like Me” would have been such an inspiration.
Also there’s a whole section about a young vampire in The Informers.
I’m looking forward to that HBO vampire series with Anna Paquin.
The Lost Boys gay bait? That was back before everybody knew Schumacher was gay, and there are sure a lot more girls than gays no matter how you slice it.
The Lost Boys was teen bait in general.
KRISTEN STEWART OWNS EVERYTHING EVER.
She and EVAN RACHEL WOOD should make a movie where they go on a ROAD TRIP with an AWESOME 34-YEAR-OLD DRUNK and go see SLAYER. Then get into ADVENTURES with METAL BLARING while they wear CUTOFF SHORTS and HIGH HEELS with lots of IDOLIZING SHOTS OF MY DASHING MUG in GOLDEN TONES wearing SUNGLASSES while I KICK ASS and OWN SHIT.
There can be vampires too if necessary.
Man, I should start my own blog for all these great ideas.
^ Yes, that sounds like a winning proposition for everybody.
And hopefully stop posting here! Yes, I fully support this plan entirely.
“And Buffy, The Vampire Slayer, whether on film or on TV, was never really much about vampires so much as menstruation.”
You really do come up with some needlessly graphically dumb things sometimes, Dave. What’s “menstruation” meant to be an alagory for, anyway? Girls growing up and becoming women? Rite of passage and all that? Cause if that’s your train of thought then maybe you could just say that in the future.
First off; Twilight has a HUGE FREAKIN FOLLOWING. I am talking about girls — out the back and around the corner — who love these books. They love these books to such an extent, that they do not SHUT UP ABOUT them. Nor do they cease the endless discussions about how much they would want an EDWARD in their lives. This movie — if it’s BARELY GOOD — can easily be a franchise for some folks. Do not under sell the Twilight. You would be foolish to do so Heat.
Oh, hold on, YOU ARE A FOOLISH MOTHERFUCKER. “And Buffy, The Vampire Slayer, whether on film or on TV, was never really much about vampires so much as menstruation.” Dude… that’s some of the goofiest and foolish shit you have ever freakin posted. It’s just fucking funny. I am not even going to bust on you about it, because it’s so blasted silly.
Now go get your gold chain and unbotton your collar. You silly motherfucker :D.
Actually, Kami, the subtext of Buffy: The VAMPIRE Slayer and Ginger Snaps and others is very much about menstruation. Blood. Cycles of the moon. PMS. The nature of sexual deliniation.
Sorry if nature offends you. But women having periods is nature, not an uncomfortable abstraction meant as a clever quip on a blog. But then again, I grew up with 3 sisters and am not squeamish about the mechanics.
Maybe Buffy the movie, not so much Buffy the TV series.
Dude, I know women have periods, but that doesn’t mean you need to bring them up in conversation. It was like anytime you spoke about Rinki Kikuchi you’d mention her vagina.
I was totally with you about Buffy if your menstruation mention was a riff on “girls growing into women”, because that’s ACTUALLY(!!!!) what it’s about. It’s more of a coming-of-age series about teenagers, which just happens to involve vampires. Sure, the PMS angle is there, but that’s just one small part of the whole package.
Breaking news. This just in:
K-STEW OWNS ALL YOUR WEAK ASSES.