MCN Blogs
David Poland

By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com

DP/30 Sneak Peek – An Education's Alfred Molina & Dominic Cooper

Be Sociable, Share!

3 Responses to “DP/30 Sneak Peek – An Education's Alfred Molina & Dominic Cooper”

  1. LexG says:

    “ANYBODY WANNA PLAY BASEBALL????”
    “IT’S COMIN’ DOWN FOR PUPPIES!”
    “THAT’S COSMO…. HE’S CHINESE.”
    BOOGIE NIGHTS = BEST MOVIE EEEEEEEVER MADE except MAYBE Fight Club or Scarface.
    I don’t care what Molina ever does before or since, this is RAHAD MOTHERFUCKING JACKSON, one of the MOST AWESOME CHARACTERS EVER PUT TO FILM.
    One year (1999) I watched the Molina/Todd Parker/robbery part of Boogie Nights EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, at least once, for SIX MONTHS straight.
    This dude is GOD.

  2. LexG says:

    Poland they should’ve had TODD PARKER bust up this interview and try to rob everyone.
    HOLY SHIT, let me tell you, that NOTHING, NOTHING, NOOOOOTHING in ANY MOVIE EVER, EVER, EVER, rules as hard as that segment of BOOGIE NIGHTS.
    I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve seen it; Maybe into the THOUSANDS, I know EVERY BEAT of it and wish it was MY LIFE…. like words cannot even convey the level of GENIUS.
    How did Molina, Wahlberg and Tom Jane not win every award EVER INVENTED for that shit???? Most indelible segment of ANY MOVIE EVER.
    MOLINA POWER. The only proper reaction is to BOW.
    BOOGIE NIGHTS = GOD COME TO EARTH.

  3. LexG says:

    WE WANT WHAT’S IN THE GODDAMN FUCKIN’ FLOOR SAFE HOLY SHIT FUCKING THOMAS JANE IS GOD.

The Hot Blog

Quote Unquotesee all »

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