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Kevin Smith: Iconoclast to the X-Slackers

Posted by Bambi B (A) on April 14, 2006 at 09:52:39

In Reply to: Anyone caught the discussions with Kevin Smith on cable? posted by Victor Khomenko on April 13, 2006 at 06:18:37:

Victor,

I saw some of the Kevin Smith college talks on the television machine. I can see the attraction Smith has for a certain group of people- he's a lapsed Catholic who has a quiet but determined personality to dissect and shrivel by the blinding light of his insights the powers that be.

He is also very confident, and I think a smart guy. I have to say I enjoyed a lot of his talk as his dry humour anecdotes about getting miveies made- the stupid excutives, idiotic producers, financing, cast, problems, etc. are fun "inside" stuff to me. He seems to automatically oppose arrogance, greed, and power grabbing- did you hear his description of making signs and going to protest his own movie "Dogma" with a band of marching religious zealots? And since Smith appears to have no inner monologue socially- an amoral person, he will say anything on any subject including deprecating himself. Plus the young, angry aimless crowd he attracts love hearing people talk about drug use, spitting in the eye of powerful people and religion, and graphic sexual openness with simultaneous sexual insecurity in that dry humour. There was another film maker who uses a lot of the same techniques (less farts and feces)- ol' W. Allen.

Smith became famous for the $30,000 "Clerks" which struck all the chords I mention and he apparently has a kind of cult following among people whose salinet feature is that they just don't care. I saw "Clerks" and "Dogma" and these were extremely interesting movies for about 20 minutes and then I suddenly snapped out of the hypnotic stasis of these films and to remove the spell go listen to come Bach.

Victor, we're just way out of the Smith demographic- we have businesses, sense of public responsibility, steady relationships, and goals. Plus extra years make different cultural experiences. Kevin Smith grew up with an entirely different set of prime time sit-coms than you or I. I watched "Super 5 lossen Dijk, kaas, en Windmolenproblemen op" on Channel B1 every Thursdays and I believe you once mentioned as a tot liking "трактор продукция эро ур" .

Youth today- the young don't deserve it! Now, I only trust people between the ages of 42 and 46- experienced enough to understand but not too experienced as to be tired.

Cheers,

Bam

PS: Say, Victor are you coming to the high end show in Los Angeles in June? I'd like to demonstrate my new invention "Tube Steaks"- an entirely new beef composite material damping device.

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