Kevin Smith (Silent Bob, director of Clerks) has NOT seen Firefly!
POSTED BY: Jayhawk35
UPDATED: Monday, October 2, 2006 03:26
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I'm sure you can find it on any of the Askew sites. And he does have a MySpace account, which is his equivalent of crack, so getting in touch with him is pretty easy. And he does tons of signing at the L.A. Secret Stash store, so next time he does one, maybe someone who worships at both the altars of Joss and Kevin could slip him a copy of FIREFLY and SERENITY.
As per his not seeing FIREFLY/SERENITY over fear that he might not understand why people are so into it, I can understand that. I know that after seeing FIREFLY, I was a bit hesitant to watch BUFFY, since so many people consider it to be one of the best shows EVER (which after seeing all 7 seasons of it, I still think is a bit of an overstatement), and I was afraid of not getting it.
And as a film student, there are numerous films by legendary filmmakers that after I've seen some of their work, I'm like "Why do people consider this piece of shit to be great." For example, in one of my film classes, we watched this Ingmar Bergman movie called PERSONA. The film prof had built it up to be this great foreign film and all that, but after seeing it, in my reading response for it, I basically let loose and tore it a new asshole. I hated that movie so much. And I've tried. I've seen other Ingmar Bergman flicks, and with each one I've tried going into them with open minds. But with the exception of THE SEVENTH SEAL, I havn't taken anything away with his work. While to some the idea of a Bergman class or a festival might be cinematic heaven, to me it would be the equivalent of watching WILD WILD WEST on a loop for eternity.
So I can understand his hesitancy towards approaching something that has been built up for so long and afraid that he'll incur the wrath of a even larger fanbase than his for not liking it.
I do hope that even though Kevin doesn't hang out with Joss like he does with Richard Kelly, Quentin Tarantino or Robert Rodriguez, that if the two ever were in the same room together that they could hit it off and be pals, even though I think the only thing they have in common is that they both like VERONICA MARS. After seeing BUFFY, I can see DOGMA as like a pro-God/faith version of Buffy. Where the Angels are real, and not some pretty-boy vampire with a soul.
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