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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” ā 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 ā 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 ā he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” ā and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging ā I was with her at that moment ā 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 namedā” “Yeah, sure ā 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 Iām on the phone with you now, after all thatās 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 didnāt seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. Thereās not a case of that. He wasnāt using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had ā if that were what the accusation involved ā 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. Iām not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, āYou know, itās not this, itās thatā? Because ā let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. TimesĀ piece, thatās what it lacked. Thatās 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 want to see this movie now. Not in November. Not next week. I want to see this movie right now. Tonight.
Again: Why is the “D” sticking on my keyboard?
I don’t want to know what sites you’ve been visiting…
Foamy: I think it might have more to do with the Reddi Whip-slatered piece of pumpkin pie I dropped on my keyboard the other evening.
Damn, Joe, the “H” is sticking, too. š
Could be. I think a trip to Wal-Mart for a new keyboard is in my near future.
You can, Joe, sorta. The book slides between being a novel and being a graphic novel that is meant to feel like you are watching a movie (and there’s a reason for that device). It’s fantastic. Read it before you see the movie. (Oh, and to further tantalize: I just interviewed Brian Selznick, who wrote the book. He clearly, genuinely, enthusiastically LOVES the movie.)
Who wants to make a bet this is left in the b.o. dust T-ing weekend by “The Muppets” (and even “Happy Feet 2”)?
I’m smelling another “Fantastic Mr. Fox” here: a movie that critics (and cultists) adore, but the general public runs away from like a case of botulism.
Yet, speaking as a critic–and “Scorsese cultist”–I can’t think of another year-end release I’m more excited about. (And “FMF” was my favorite movie of 2009.)
Setting aside any other merits, the film doesn’t exactly evoke 3rd Republic Paris for me.
I think it looks amazing, and like the only film, other than CORALINE, that fully justifies the stereoscopic format. I’d predict that it’s not going to do HARRY POTTER numbers, but should hit somewhere between 150-225 mil in the US, and will garner Oscar nods by an Academy appreciative that Scorsese is using his talents on a big commercial project. The very fact that he reproduces the Lumiere Brothers’ “ArrivĆ©e d’un train” in 3-D, using the format to evoke the sense of awe and wonder one felt 117 years ago at the first films, suggests what he’s trying to do here: a Cinema of Attractions for the 21st Century. I know that’s what Michael Bay is doing too, but call me a nostalgia junkie, I prefer mine anchored to history–and done really well.
Ditto, Danella. Trailer looks amazing, most importantly, story + characters/emotion not overwhelmed by technology. Only complaint: the INCREDIBLY cheesy “announcer” voice-over. Lose it.
I don’t think so, movieman. “Fox” was a culty book. On the other hand, “Cabret” was huge and the writer is getting tons of pub right now for his almost-as-good follow-up book. There’s a built-in audience for “Hugo” that “Fox” lacked and I strongly doubt the movie will be anywhere near as offbeat as “Fox” was.
I wish I had the same confidence that you and Danella have in “Hugo”‘s b.o. fate, Chris.
But I can’t help thinking it’s gonna get pulverized by more ostensibly kid-friendly fare (like “Muppets” and “HF 2”) T-ing weekend.
Hope that I’m wrong and you’re right, though. I’d hate to see Scorsese’s movie suffer the same ignominious fate as “FMF.”
Question: if the book was indeed as popular as you claim, why did they drop “Cabret” from the title to make it sound less exotic (i.e., “foreign”)? Wouldn’t it’s high-profile kid lit status have made the need for a name change irrelevant?
(Yes, I know WB changed the title of the first “Potter” book to make it sound a tad less British.)
On top of the kiddie movies, it opens five days after BREAKING DAWN.
Good luck with that.
Don’t you mean ‘along with the other kiddie movies?’
BREAKING DAWN is not a kiddie movie, it’s a four-quadrant, Harry Potter level movie for everybody… I don’t know why anyone’s bothering to release ANYTHING in its wake…
In general I hate Thanksgiving time as a moviegoing week… All those families of fat, gravy-stuffed buffaloes who otherwise never go to movies, all lining up and snoring and farting during the movies… The worst is that in LA in limited they ALWAYS try to bow some woefully inappropriate Oscar movie that weekend, something like THE ROAD, and it tanks like a motherfucker, and in the midst of family festivities and Aunt Judy from Pasadena stopping by to glaze my turkey, I gotta somehow make time on Thanksgiving day in a tryptophan coma to go watch Viggo push a shopping cart for three hours, then zoom across town to see The Blind Side sitting elbow to elbow with a kid in a Santa hat.
From about November 20 to December 31, the dumbest people alive descend on movie theaters. Good luck opening HUGO with THAT crowd.
Plus it’s that shit where it gets dark at like 4pm. God I hate winter and I DESPISE the holidays.
I’m not interested. I’m disappointed with Martin Scorsese’s decision to use 3D, as anyone knows how uncomfortable it is to watch a film with those glasses (the eye straining, the migraines) and he was the last director I imagined to join this trend. Either way, the film’s storyline fails to interest me. Another cheesy children’s movie I’ll be happy to avoid. Watch “The Snowman” instead.
“BREAKING DAWN is not a kiddie movie, itās a four-quadrant, Harry Potter level movie…”
Correct…providing the four quadrants are girls 12-17, gay men, guys who get loaded and go MST3K on its ass, and people who enjoy listening to guys get loaded and go MST3K on its ass.
“…as anyone knows how uncomfortable it is to watch a film with those glasses (the eye straining, the migraines)…”
Sarina, surely you know that many (most?) people have no problem with 3D glasses. I’ve certainly never gotten a migraine from them. As for Scorsese being the last director you’d imagine joining the 3D trend, I’m actually thrilled that someone with a true understanding of the history of the process is taking it on. Scorsese will undoubtedly be looking to De Toth and Hitchcock for inspiration, not Michael Bay. And given the film history built into the source material, this could be a really good fit for Scorsese. So I’m much more hopeful than not.
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