By Matt Singer and Alison Willmore
This week, indie director David Gordon Green tests out the mainstream waters with stoner comedy "Pineapple Express." It's not uncommon to see filmmakers getting their start in the independent world before moving on to studio fare, it's rare that we get to see the opposite scenario. This week on the IFC News podcast, we look at those instances where a successful studio director takes a pay and budget cut in order to make, if not necessarily an indie flick, certainly a smaller scale passion project.
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[Photo: "Pineapple Express," Columbia Pictures, 2008]
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What about Jerry Lewis' infamous passion project "The Day the Clown Cried" where he plays a clown at a conentration camp who leads children into a gas chamber. He had to use his own money to complete the project and purportedly owns the only copy (which he keeps hidden). Only a handful of people have ever seen it.
You two talk and talk and talk before you get close to the point. Are you trying to be funny or what? This might be an interesting topic, but those of us who are not usual listeners lose interest because we want to hear about the movies and not your mindless chatter. And once you arrive at the point, your superficial, chatty approach comes off condescending and really kind of snotty. Who cares what you have to say? I love movies and applaud film artist who think outside what's conventional to create films that are disarming. Like I said, this is a great topic. Too bad it's over your pod heads.
I have to agree with vidfaust1. I've tried several times to listen to these two on the podcasts, and I end up giving up between the 5 and 10-minute mark because they're just insufferable and I can't even glean the information they're trying to dispense. Hate to be a rain cloud, but I had to concur with vidfaust1.
Aww! No mention of Friedkin's "Wages of Fear" remake "Sorcerer", a passion project that is painfully underseen. Great topic though!