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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 haven’t seen CATFISH yet, seeing it this week, so probably shouldn’t opine this in a thread that’ll be spoilers ahoy soon enough, but:
Based on that goddamn trailer, “THE LAST 40 MINUTES ARE SO TERRIFYING YOU WON’T SLEEP FOR MONTHS, YOU WILL NEED PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR A DECADE TO RECOVER FROM THE SHEER BLISTERING SATANIC TERROR OD THE MOST INTENSE ROLLERCOASTER RIDE HITCHCOCK NEVER GOT TO MAKE,” then the last act of this better be some EXTREME-HORROR shit that manages to feature Krug Stillo, Freddy Kruger, the Shining Hallway twins, some Rob Zombie-movie masks and Marilyn Manson imagery as the three dudes are stalked by Michael Myers and stuck in HOSTEL 2 predicaments and fucking Jigsaw devices.
If not, the marketing campaign for this is TOTAL BULLSHIT.
Of course, at the very least I know it’s PG-13 and it’s about three dorks horsing around on the Internet and going to meet someone who isn’t what they claim to be, so if I had to take a WILD STAB, it’s probably either a little kid or an old fat woman, and NOT Jason Vorhees, and this is total bullshit.
The Marketing is total crap according the spoilers that I read and the big reveal of those spoilers seem to be a crap ending. Seriously, if that’s it, then that’s just absolutely ridiculous. Who needs that? It’s also not really current. If this were 1998 and this documentary had something to do with AOL chats or something, then I could buy that ending. Seeing as it does not and we have the background checks and what not that we have these days. This film existing is stupid. SO SO STUPID!
That hate for the effective and smart Catfish campaign is unbelievable.
The trailer is deceptive!
waaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I feel like I was raped!
The film is entertaining and moving and I don’t give a fuck if the whole thing was staged. In fact I hope every second of it was planned out, just so it can spit in the eye of all the whiny fucknuckles who are complaining about whether it’s manipulative or exploitative.
LexG if you honestly think the trailer makes it look like Krug & Co Pt2 then you’re insane. There is a revealing shot in the doc that is as disturbing as any scene in Serbian Film. So smoke on that.
fucknuckles is a funny word.
(i don’t get the “serbian film” reference…i take it there’s some disturbing shit in serbian film. suddenly ‘catfish’ sounds more intriguing)
and ‘the shining hallway twins’ lex? christ on a cracker. they are and will always be ‘the grady twins’. forever…and ever…and ever
the marketing is fine, the ‘spoiler’ is pretty obvious (since you already know there’s a ‘spoiler’)…only the truly moronic will spend any time debating it’s veracity…
I assume those 8 “yes” votes are by the same 8 people who thought Blair Witch Project was real.
Cool stuff, thanks! I learned some new stuff just by reading this.