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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
So apparently Hunger Games is going to be a force this weekend – just under $20M in midnight showings. Again, anything over $100M would be huge and (I think) a surprise.
I am not familiar with the source material, but I would have thought this and Carter would be about the same: successful movies that are fun with some flaws. Who would have thought Hunger games would surpass Carter within 2 days?
Almost everyone?
Not a huge Miami Heat fan and still want them to lose, but this earned a new level of admiration from me. Pretty badass:
http://campl.us/il4E
free online film
Girl Walk – All day …
3 dancers in New York City – 12 parts – 6 minutes each
its like the artist in that there’s
no real talking just random dancing everywhere
http://girlwalkallday.com/watch-the-film
the real star is Anne Marsen – she is fun and tries to get people
to dance and risks it in the 10th part ..
on her blog she’s trying to get to dance
with Ellen on her tv show ..
Anyone else think that given current events Fox’s Neighborhood Watch will be postponed to spring or at least renamed?
what real life event would delay that movie ?
@sanj
You’re kidding, right?
nope – i don’t have my tv on cnn 24 hours a day … okay i found out about this incident on google news .
the movie plot and the real life incident could be totally different things ..
It doesn’t matter. At the moment the words “neighborhood watch” are not very popular. And a studio isn’t going to take a chance on alienating one ticket buyer. I’d be very surprised if the title doesn’t get changed.
Well, if they do change the title, it would at least be appropriate or reasonable given the circumstances (and Neighborhood Watch isn’t exactly a mind blowingly great title anyway). But I’m kinda sick of all these dumbed down title changes – John Carter of Mars to John Carter, Bop Decameron to Nero FIddled to… what, To Rome With Love? The Wettest Country becomes Lawless, Cogan’s Trade maybe becomes “Killing Them Softly.” Like, is it really to the point where anything interesting or mysterious or evocative of anything beyond some immediately graspable predigested concept is just a *complete* nonstarter?
In this context it’s a bloody miracle that Focus didn’t force Wes Anderson to rename Moonrise Kingdom “Kids in Love” or “Summer Camp!” or something.
discussion on if netflix offered new streaming movies in theatres for $5.99
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/r9yil/would_you_be_willing_to_pay_599_if_netflix/
Well Moonrise Kindgom coming from Focus probably means they have more faith in the intended audience. And isn’t Moonrise Kingdom Anderson’s most accessible title anyway?
And I cannot wait for that movie, of course the kid falls in love with that girl, any offspring from the coupling of Bill Murray and Frances McDormand would have such an innate coolness she would be irrisistable to anyone.
And Sanj, I always assumed you lived in some sort of Bunker with nothing but E news piped in for company, missing this large of a news story sort of varifies that.
yeah hcat – e! news is the best news – why ? Ryan Seacrest.
that guy knows about all them reality tv celebrites.
Ryan is too famous for a dp/30.
there’s probably 100 big news stories worldwide everyday
super easy to miss.
“there’s probably 100 big news stories worldwide everyday
super easy to miss.”
If you’re paying attention to Ryan Seacrest news, sure.
“Anyone else think that given current events Fox’s Neighborhood Watch will be postponed to spring or at least renamed?”
Well, considering that it was opening up only one weekend after The Dark Knight Rises…
http://youtu.be/mAUY1J8KizU
Hcat: Actually, I was thinking of the ad tagline for Green Street Hooligans: “Stand your ground.”
Not a bad Friday. It’s not often I display my inner geek in public, (yeah it sounds dirty), but I actually sat on the Game of Thrones throne today. And had a Daenerys lookalike sit on my lap. Plus Vancouver was absolutely gorgeous today. Not a bad Friday at all.
Yeah, I was just thinking, if Gotham had a stand your ground law, vigilantes would have the legal protection they need to defend the city. No more of this lurking shamefully in the shadows. No more perps getting away or getting off on a technicality. No more he said she said. It’s he said your dead. Plus, if there’s one thing that watching old westerns have taught me, it’s that frontier justice was really the best.
But then frontier justice usually led to blood feuds that didn’t end until one of the families involved was wiped out, which was kinda why folks decided that handing justice off to a more impartial third party, like the state, might stanch the bloodshed.
Frontier Justice works fine if you’re the strong jawed cowboy, not so much if you’re the mild rancher being avenged.
That said I think its a testament to civility that no one has taken a shot at Zimmerman yet.
Seems like torpid bunny never heard of the world-famous “subway vigilante” Bernhard Goetz.
heard a review – this seems pretty good…
Bernie movie trailer with Jack Black
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7VSAFvPq7c
Liberty Valance is a hell of a movie. Watch it. But let’s get back to the urban ghetto-matrix and leave behind parched landscapes of ranching myth. What we want, what we need, is to be able to strap on weaponry and go out and pacify the urban night. Deliver some whoop ass.
To do that we need to recognize that the most important thing in justice is the extreme prejudicial righteousness of it. They deserved it. They had it coming (watch Touch of Evil. Watch it. Learn it.)
But now it’s even become You don’t know all the facts. Or worse, Why is the media insisting on showing a smiling 14 year old when he was a strapping 17 year old as 6’3″ black youth with a questionable scholastic record? Maybe such individuals shouldn’t attack an officer of the peace and make him feel all put upon when said community marshall stalks him in a car or waves a gun around. Hey, maybe that public servant even got a few stitches in said encounter.
(Ride on you mighty Klansman, ride on in the Jim Crow night forever!)
But honestly, frontier justice might even be better than what we have here, at least in movies you could believe in some wise badass like John Wayne giving pathetic losers like Zimmerman a satisfying beat down.
it’s been awhile since the huge Kony 2012 video – so why
haven’t they found him yet ?
figured one of the bigger news tv channels would put a dozen reporters on this and catch this bad guy ..
weeks go by and people start to forget .
any documentary film director going to catch Kony ?
Michael Moore ?
i like this music video – the song was used for a beer tv ad..
people singing in space – some nice visuals ..
the golden age – 4 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5h-LAvQDCQ
Goetz’s wiki page is a fun read–I’d assumed he’d still be in prison but was surprised to see he served less than a year.
I already knew that he was the originator of some of the best lines used in first-person shooters to this day, but my favorite quote on the page might be “It may simply indicate that there are no more liberals on the crime and law-and-order issue in New York, because they’ve all been mugged.”
P.S. It appears that severing someone’s spinal cord is a great way to end their criminal career; the three who weren’t paralyzed during the attack went on to re-offend many times.
Loooooook at her!
Joshua/CaptainZahn: Was it opposite day at the casting office? Who’s playing the younger version of Mr. Big — D.J. Qualls?
And here I thought that an actress who looks like the love child of William Katt and Sissy Spacek would be in a prequel series about the Steven King/DePalma character.
Damn. Now I don’t care at all.
Torpid, I’ve seen Liberty Valance and I think its message is a little more nuanced than how you read it. Stewart thought the law would keep people in line and Wayne stated that the law will get you so far but was nothing without the gun. Not the the Law is the gun which is how I am reading your post.
As the the real world, there might be more things still to come out, but from what we have now, this guy was not an officer of the peace. It doesn’t seem that he was elected, appointed, hired, or even recognized as the neighborhood watch, did not identify himself as such or have anything as much as a blazer or barret to signify it. If the boy fought him, he was not fighting an authority figure, he was fighting some who was slowly following in his car at night and who then chased him down when he ran.
As for his school record, I don’t recall any law passing where only A students were allowed to walk the streets at night.
So was anyone else depraved enough to follow the link in Joshua’s post to the article next to it stating that the Hunger Games shoot was one big-ass orgy? Abortion, underage drinking, statutory rape–a completely anonymous and therefore completely trustworthy source says it all happened.