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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
I know some mooks on this board will disagree with this analogy, but this is why they are a bunch of mooks. If they were not ready for Speed Racer, what exactly makes you think they are ready for Avatar? Even if it’s COOL looking. Effects and now 3-D do not always bring in the people. So, yeah, FTW if people give a shit about that story. A story that seems as hokey as a trite shit.
I have to believe that Cameron would not have made this movie if he wasn’t completely satisfied with the script. He was gone for ten years… why wouldn’t he wait one more if he wasn’t quite ready to go?
Speed Racer is a different planet, IO. That was a piece for kids, really… and for adults who love those childhood kinds of films. This is a drama with heavy action. And visually, it is not “familiar images writ super large,” it’s a very different planet.
And Eric… what makes you think he wasn’t happy with the script?
Just reacting to your post– from the way you describe it, the Avatar footage could suggest a movie with a lot of compelling images but that might not be greater than the sum of its parts (like What Dreams May Come, which you mentioned and is a perfect example of such a movie).
If it wasn’t clear in what I wrote above, I have quite a bit of faith that Cameron can deliver on a movie like this.
David, did you forget Speed Racer had nothing to do with the cartoon, and created visuals the likes of which we have seldom if ever seen? It seems that you did. Sure it’s another planet, but someone else showed me photoreal planets for the last 10 years. So, really, it may look amazing, but the synopsis of the story going around sucks. It’s just comes across as hokey.
There’s something weird about IOI choosing to not pre-love a geek movie. I seem to recall he doesn’t like Titanic, is that the issue?
Yes, Avatar is hokey, but movies based on toys and sequels to geek movies from ten years ago and more aren’t. Yes. That’s right.
Apparently.
Kiki: Geeks rule the world. The fact that you and monkeybreathe up there do not get this. Well, really, that’s on you chicken nugget. I could give a fuck.
If you are bringing up toys. It really demonstrates how much of a daffy you are. Really, toys? Real clever there Kiki. Go watch some MMA, and BUTCH THE FUCK UP!
The thinly veiled homophobic remarks are not cute, IOI.
That wasn’t thinly veiled.
I love it when Fievel comes back from Comin-Con, because he puffs up like a peacock and brays that the Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth. He’s been rubbing elbows with shut-ins and ubernerds for four days, and he’s getting all cocky.
I’m sure when his comic books and action figures were torn up by school bullies (the type-A punks who actually Rule the World) he cried and moaned that someday he’d get his revenge. He’d grow some kinda superpower and zap those bullies (now the CEOs, lawyers and politicians that run society) into oblivion and he’d remain. Triumpant. Vindicated. Alive.
Comic-Con does that to the nerds. It empowers them. Briefly. But then they go back to their jobs as insurance adjusters and data entry assistants, eagerly checking the mail for their commemorative issue of Deadpool #238 to arrive. Cursing the boss and ogling the secretary three cubes over. Waiting for the day they’ll rule the earth. The day that never comes.
IO throwing out homophobic (jeff is right, not thinly veiled at all) comments is not surprising since he has done them before and yet he’s allowed to just go on giving his hate speeches. But if babies don’t get any negative conditioning they never learn.