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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
WOW.
no words.
just questions:
what’s the song in the second part?
did PTA cut this trailer himself as well?
From past practice, how could Anderson NOT have cut this trailer?
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
I’m kind of taken aback at how condescending you are when you answer questions. A simple ‘probably’ would have sufficed.
I didn’t mean to to be condescending, Spassky. Apologies if I wrote it that way. It’s great PTA cuts his own trailers, and I can’t imagine him stepping away from that pleasure.
Looks amazing.
Sorry if I was sensitive, Ray. Only respect.
He must love cutting trailers if they are this immaculate. Chills with every piece of footage in this cycle of trailers. He puts in the work and it shows.
I remember the AMPAS noir series 1-2 years ago. I attended probably half of them, but one thing stood out: the screenwriter would do their little speech, then leave 20-30 minutes into a film. PTA was literally the ONLY one I saw who watched the entire film (running out with an assistant just before lights came up). Of course, he had ‘White Heat’ which is always pretty easy to get in to, but it really struck out to me.
Dead already?
New link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1vN1s-pA8k
I forget that being terse leaves you more, not less, open to misinterpretation. Thanks for reminding me!
I think the song is No Other Love by Jo Stafford.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjDqMftHbKI
The most important thing is how I feel about one teaser poster out of a possible dozen. Only then can I truly judge this film.
Thanks palmtree!
…and yet not one word about L. Ron Hubbard. Hmm….
Watch Craig Baldwin’s brilliant MOCK-UP ON MU for the real word on L. Ron and his powerful empire. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbscpyrWgg
anybody from this film getting a dp/30 ? Amy Adams seems easy to get.
“And this is where we’re at.” That line — or something very near it — is also in “Magnolia,” no?
65mm looks incredible.
Looks fantastic.
Who will be the first critic to use the blurb, “Masterful!” when this comes out…
– Masterful
– The Master is a Masterpiece!
– Modern cinema has a new master…
– A masterstroke!
– A Phoenix Will Rise