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
4th Kind looks kind of interesting, but one thing that REALLY bugs me is when Hollywood tries to do “amateur camcorder” and fails so utterly by actually professionally lighting it, you know having perfect exposure, focus, having the talent framed “just right”, it all just feels so fake. They throw the little time-stamp on top thinking that will make it look more authentic, but it doesn’t really help. Paranormal Activity got that “feel” right, but at least from the trailer, 4th Kind looks like weak tea.
I’ll give another example. The in memorium trailer feels very generic and the scare is obvious, but they do a decent setup, and the look is authentic. In particular, the sound of the girl screaming at the end “feels” real because it was not recorded in a typical sterile sound-booth Hollywood manner. It feels like something you’d hear quality-wise on a home video or tv news story. It’s somewhat subconscious, but that reality adds something to the audience’s reaction, which is why something like PA is doing well and a pro Hollywood remake with all the latest technical tools may very well have not worked that well.
Okay, time for me to be a spelling nazi again, but if her movie is titled ‘In Memorium’ it doesn’t bode well.
Pedantic.
According to Webster’s, both are accepted spellings.
JOVOVICH POWER.
1000% PURE HOTNESS, and one of the best reasons ever to see any movie. When they do those “do movie stars matter?” or “Can women really open a movie?” bullshit articles, they should mention Milla. Not saying she has a HUGE following necessarily, but I think she’s one of the few actresses who can open a certain type of movie every time, because WOMEN AND MEN both like her.
She’s like the FEMALE JASON STATHAM of B-horror, and certainly a more recognizable brand than some of the “stars” who seem more “forced upon us from above” (McAvoy, Cooper) than born of any genuine audience enthusiasm.
I guess I could’ve just skipped all these words and narrowed it down to one:
BONER.
I agree with martin. One of the things that bugs me to this day about “Cloverfield” is the scene where they are crossing from one bldg rooftop to another. If it’s me, I’m putting the damn camera down and focusing on not falling.
MILLA BONERVICH.
HAHAHAHAHA.
I WANT TO DO HER.
martin, your Webster’s doesn’t agree with my Webster’s (maybe it’s the ‘Merriam’ [Merrium]).
dude you wasted my time with that useless post, so I wasted your time in checking out webster’s.
If we could bill other posters for wasted time, McDouche would owe me about a zillion fucking dollars for the last 3.5 years.
lg—-and, do you really (i mean reallllllllly) want to get into talking about billing people for wasted posting time?…really?….
martin – fair enough, we’re even.
Lex – Your comment makes zero sense since, in the last 3.5 years, my posts have been innocuous and your posts have been “I WILL KILL MYSELF UNLESS SOMEONE GETS ME A SAG CARD” pretty much on constant replay.
I mean, I’ve said this before, but it never seems to penetrate – Lex, do you not get that your posts are irritating and horrible to a wide range of the population? I don’t think you get that.
I’d like to give Milla Jovovich The THIRD Kind, if you know what I mean.
Think about it. It’s kind of subtle but it’s a GOOD JOKE.
You want to eat mashed potato out of her ass? Not that subtle.
You’d think in 10 MILLION years of NOTHING SUPERNATURAL EVER HAPPENING, EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVER, people would cease to be scared of movies about aliens and ghosts.
FUN FACT: There are no aliens.
FUN FACT: No ghosts either.
There, you can all stop seeing movies that are supernatural in nature, because it’s all as dumb as the fucking TOOTH FAIRY.
SAW POWER.