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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
the cool thing about that PG13 rating (and what it will likely be rated here, either PG13 or M)? i’ll be able to take the boy to a COEN’S flick at the ci-ne-ma! yippee ki yay mutherfuckers. so stoked.
If the academy’s in the mood for a revenge fantasy… and if this is pretty good… 10 noms, 4 wins including BP.
Kewwwl.
I’m definitely a Cohen disciple now after their last two films.
Public service announcement:
There is no h in Coen.
There is no h in Nicolas Cage.
There is only one c in Martin Scorsese.
That is all.
I’m beginning to think that the gunshots in the first teaser are meant to parrallel the “thumps” in the trailer for the ‘Serious Man’.
Anyone else notice Speilberg’s name as exec in the credits? Thats the first I’ve heard of any involvement on his part.
And whereever Chucky might be those commercials are going to make him bleed from his ears.
Spielberg’s involvement was announced (and celebrated) from the moment this project itself was announced. Back then though he was incorrectly announced as a producer.
Yeah the TRON LEGACY spots would impress me more :D!
PG-13, really???
Man, I’ll still going to see this, but how they are going to pull that off? I was hoping for a hard story with hard violence – it’s been years since I have seen the original, so maybe I’m just getting fooled by the advertising.
The Coens have always taken full advantage of the R rating without appearing gratuitous, just a bit disappointing.
No country, burn after reading, serious man, can they actually make four masterpieces in four years?? Just the three has to be a first in the history of the world.
Coens are freaking awesome
It was an honest mistake Tim.
All in jest, Nick.
Considering the Coens’ R rated films to date, Miller’s Crossing and No Country For Old Men are really the only two in which the “hard” violence amounts to more than one or two scenes. They’re skilled at implicit violence too. Buscemi getting the axe in Fargo wasn’t actually seen, but it was still effective.
I’m dying DYING to see this.
BURN and A SERIOUS MAN are highly debatable “masterpieces” – I actively despised ASM. I’m all over this however.
Samuel, I think The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and The Conversation, all directed by Coppola within a 3-year span, is a far more impressive feat. But yes, the Coens are awesome and have only made one or two misfires in their long (and yet, in some ways, short) career. I look forward to at least a few more decades of phenomenal movies from them.