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” ā 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 ā 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 ā he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” ā and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging ā I was with her at that moment ā 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 namedā” “Yeah, sure ā 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 Iām on the phone with you now, after all thatās 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 didnāt seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. Thereās not a case of that. He wasnāt using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had ā if that were what the accusation involved ā 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. Iām not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, āYou know, itās not this, itās thatā? Because ā let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. TimesĀ piece, thatās what it lacked. Thatās 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
Apple has the best quality because it uses Quicktime. But you don’t embed Quicktimes. You can create a plug-in player, like I do, and you do with the DP/30s.
DP please post the AVATAR/DOWNFALL mashup. Without a doubt the funniest spin on that popular viral and even better it nails the cameron cool aid cult to a tee.
Every lame whine about the material, JBD. Pass.
Can somebody translate DP’s above post into a complete sentence?
This seems like an identical cut (with the change of release date only). I find it odd that they are even bothering with this much at this point. It’s half a year away – give it a rest for a little while.
It’s basically the same thing. Maybe there’s a little less fire. I saw this one before The Goods and G.I. Joe this week, and sensed it was a little different from the first trailer that debuted, except I think it still said October on it. Either way, Par is trying a little too hard. This could be a Sixth Sense type hit with word of mouth. They don’t need to force it so hard. People will come to Leo. Don’t give ’em a reason not to.
The trailer gives away waaay too much.
i love loony bin movies almost as much as werewolf flicks
“Can somebody translate DP’s above post into a complete sentence?”
Really?
Sometimes you fully earn IO’s nickname for you.
J-Mac, here’s your translation:
lame = Jeff Welles
whine = already posted
material = the clip
pass = and I don’t read him.
Does it still give away the twist?
Does mentioning there’s a twist give away the twist? Yes.
(And I think the only people watching the trailer who will realize it gives away too much are folks who’ve read the book, which I’d recommend, by the way.)
I have not read the book, and yet I too feel that the trailer gives away too much information. Doesn’t help that I’ve seen the thing in front of almost every single movie this summer. I get it. Leo’s like a rat in a maze. I get it.
@leah re: looney bin pics. Then being a kiwi you would have liked to have seen Alison Maclean follow through with her remake BEDLAM for Scorsese.
DP thats never stopped you from posting ancient embeds before. I guess Crows right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAPyipuT-Jg
He may have spent too much time underwater.
I don’t know chris…if the twist is that it’s all in his head and he’s not really a detective or something, that seems really obvious from the trailers. And the fact that every other thriller since Sixth Sense has ended in some variation of that.
More like Shitter Island from the looks of it!
Sorry, Storymark. I don’t remember IOI’s nickname for me (the last one I can remember is ‘that guy who is a douche’) but I guess I like people to express themselves in sentences that have both a subject AND a predicate.
(Correction: that should have read ‘That guy. Who is a douche’.)
Jeff, I had no idea what the motherfucker tried to imply with that sentence either. So I got your back on this one. Also, really David, that’s the worst Chucky impersonation ever.
JBD: totally, that would’ve killed. what ever happened to it, anyway? i thought it was ‘thunderbirds are go!’ and then, pfft
Both guesses about the twist (BigPerm, Leo) are incorrect. But my point is that the marketing isn’t pushing the twist because the marketers, for once, realize it’s more fun for audiences not to know there’s one coming so they spend the whole movie wondering what it is. I have no idea if the movie will be good (or even faithful to the book), but I’d bet money it’ll be more fun if people don’t obsess about the twist. Or know about it.
@Leah. From look of the H2 twitter buzz, it sounds like Rob Zombie’s reign of King was a very short one! LOL
Maclean had quite a few feature projects on the boil at one stage. I think she ended up becoming jaded in development hell. Something must have happened after Jesus Son where she decided to shift into the security of free and cable tv. She pops up in those Projections books a lot. She was well connected.
BEDLAM was on the Val Lewton laserdisc box set and I remember thinking that the conceit is so simple yet ingenious it’d be perfect for an update. Then I saw GOTHICA..?!!?
Apple has the best quality because it uses Quicktime.
Quicktime is just a container format, it has no real bearing on quality — Apple’s stuff looks good because it’s hi-res H.264. Youtube supports H.264 too but it tops out at 720p š
I’m not sure what your point is, JBD.
Yeah… I do my best to create workarounds. But there is no upside to anyone in that being done. Studios can still give exclusives, if they think there is a real benefit, but embeds that showcase their material in the best way should be the first issue.
With this one, there is both a Paramount branding and a link to the website… neither of one is on other kinds of embeds.
The lines being drawn around content control is the next big issue on the web.
DP : a miscommunication. We were talking about two different things. I was talking about the Hitler/Avatar trailer and you were talking about Shutter Island.
Ah…
I was on the same page as JBD (if it matters).