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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
Is there an SEO joke I’m missing here?
My first thought was “Wow They got that Anchorman sequel out QUICK!”
These two don’t seem to be straying too far from their comfort zones on this one. In a summer of sequels prequels and reboots this looks the most familiar.
But then again all the initial trailers for this years releases have left me cold, perhaps like Dictator and Snow White as we get closer they will start showing some stuff that draws my attention (though I did laugh at the punch).
Yes, Kris. Except you didn’t miss it.
I agree that it doesn’t appear to stray from either leads comfort zone, but I’m ready for a political comedy just like this. I live in Wisconsin and as much as I love politics, I’m sort of exhausted at the moment (like most of the rest of the state).
I’m distracted by the fact that with this haircut and facial hair, Galifinakis looks like Ron Swanson…and then I realize he is not Ron Swanson š
I just wasn’t connecting that to this trailer at all. If there is a connection. Anyway…
Yeah, I get that it’s an SEO joke, but don’t get the connection to the film.
Nick Offerson’s Ron Swanson character still has a talked about but still unseen brother character that has been rumored to be played by Galifianakis sometime in the future. Would make for a fun tie-in with this movie.
Funny, Lisa… thought the same thing.
There is none…which is part of the joke
Has there been decent studio comedy involving politics since Dave? Personally I loved Bulworth but I realize I might be in the minority. But after My Fellow Americans, the bottom of barrel Man of the Year, and the great idea- poorly executed-unfourtunatly named Welcome to Mooseport, this doesn’t fill me with much hope.
hcat: Can we count ELECTION (1999), even though it was high school?
I liked BULWORTH a lot, too. I suppose PRIMARY COLORS (1998) might qualify as “decent.”
SWING VOTE had potential, but didn’t quite come off. It did give a shout-out to my small Kentucky hometown at the end though, in a letter Costner reads, so I liked that part.
I like Bulworth, though I haven’t seen it in quite some time and have no idea how it plays today. Wag the Dog is a good one.
The only nagging problem with Wag the Dog is that it was essentially an attack on Clinton for trying to distract us from Real News (intern sex) with all that “terrorist camps in Afghanistan” nonsense.
If I recall correctly all the distraction bombing in the Clinton years was in Iraq and Bosnia.
And thanks for the reminders, jeesh, how did I forget Primary Colors, or Charlie Wilson’s War which I enjoyed even more.
Not sure if Election is about politics, at least the non-sexual kind, but it is the best movie of any of the titles mentioned in the thread.
That last line’s a good one. This has a Talladega Nights of politics feel to it.