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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
What a hold for DEADPOOL. Increasingly looks like it’ll top GUARDIANS domestically as the #2 non-sequel superhero (Avengers certainly doesn’t count) behind Spider-Man. If you’d predicted this movie would top GUARDIANS a month ago as a box office analyst, you’d probably have been fired on the spot.
Also worth noting it’s going to go down as Fox’s 4th biggest movie of all-time….which is….bizarre.
Nice hold for THE WITCH!
I know it’s everybody’s current favorite whipping boy, but I prefer the innocent schlock of “Gods of Egypt” to decadent Marvel schlock.
“Gods” is closer to vintage Harryhausen and ’80s Cannon (hey there, “Masters of the Universe”) than to the airbrushed vapidity of most 21st century super hero movies.
Not saying “Gods” is “good” by any means–it’s actually pretty terrible–but its most egregious sin is overstaying its welcome by a good 20-30 minutes. I would have probably loved it when I was six years old.
Also have to give props to any movie that costs so much and looks so chintzy, lol.
The fact that “Gods of Egypt” still beat “Triple 9” is hugely depressing. It might not be a masterpiece, but Hillcoat and the cast still did a great job for the genre.
I saw The Witch for a second time today. I have not been so instantly in love with a film in a long time. It’s not for everyone, but I will be watching this film as much as possible for the rest of my life. It’s one of those works that reminds me why I’ve dedicated so much of my life to movie-going. Once in a while you find The Witch, and it’s all worth while.
Movie, you’d rather see a whitewashed telling of Egyptian mythology, than a Marvel movie. What… the… fuck. Yeah. That’s pretty fucked up dude.
The whitewashing is the least of its problems. GODS OF EGYPT is the worst mega budget tentpole ever released by a “studio.”
Short memory there, Nux.
There’s “Battlefield Earth” for starters.
And how about Shyamalan’s “The Last Airbender”?
Or the same director’s “After Earth”?
As I stated above, “Egypt” is a terrible movie, but at least it’s innocent schlock.
Dargis’ bemused NYT review on Friday pretty much sums up my feelings about it.
All of those movies are better than GODS OF EGYPT. A SOUND OF THUNDER is better than GODS OF EGYPT. D-WAR is better than GODS OF EGYPT.
The trailers for Gods of Egypt remind us of past Februarys before The Lego Movie and Deadpool showed us it’s possible for movies to suck less.
I haven’t seen God of Egypt, but I walked out of the theater stupider than when I went in after seeing D-War. I told my wife I that the film definitely killed off some brain cells it was sooooo bad.
Finally got around to seeing Deadpool. It was a fun quirky movie. Surprised it is doing as much business as it is though. Seems more like a fanboy film than a mainstream success.