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 am confused why The King’s Speech occupies two separate spaces, and its SAG and GG noms are listed in separately?
Hey gang,
First off, we’re the Detroit Film Critics Society, not Association
Second, here are our picks
Best film — Social Network
Best director — Danny Boyle, 127 Hours
Best actor — Colin Firth, King’s Speech
Best actress — Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone
Best supporting actress — Amy Adams, Fighter
Best supporting actor — Christian Bale, Fighter
Best ensemble — Winter’s Bone
Breakthrough performance — Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s bone
Looking forward to inclusion of New York Film Critics Online awards! http://NYFCO.org
PICTURE
The Social Network
DIRECTOR
David Fincher – The Social Network
ACTOR
James Franco – 127 Hours
ACTRESS
Natalie Portman – Black Swan
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christian Bale – The Fighter
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Melissa Leo – The Fighter
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Matthew Libatique – Black Swan
SCREENPLAY
Aaron Sorkin – The Social Network
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
I Am Love
DOCUMENTARY
Exit through the Gift Shop
ANIMATED FEATURE
Toy Story 3
FILM MUSIC OR SCORE
Clint Mansell – Black Swan
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER
Noomi Rapace – The Millennium Trilogy
DEBUT DIRECTOR
John Wells – The Company Men
ENSEMBLE CAST
The Kids Are All Right