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Clerks sequel!!!
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Alzrius
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I haven't seen Jersey Girl, but since I was a big fan of the Askew-niverse, I don't feel like I missed out on that much, especially with the not-so-hot reviews.
That said, I don't see why people keep pointing specifically to Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back as what his next "Clerks" movie will be like. Kevin Smith is the last person who'd fall into a rut of doing the same thing over and over again - if one watches the Askew-niverse movies in order, that should be blatantly obvious; they may all be in the Askew-niverse, but the tone of each one is different (which is all the more amazing since he's coming at them from the same artistic stand-point, discussed below).
One of the things that Kevin Smith has always done very well is portray post-modernism in his movies. Since he had planned that Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was going to be the last film, he decided to make it a post-modern take on his previous films...in essence, the film wasn't meant to be anything but a spoof of movies; namely, his own previous movies. It's him poking fun at himself after poking fun at work, hobbies, relationships, and religion in, respectively Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and Dogma.
Given the high-level of acumen he displays in showing the humorous oddities of various facets of life by mildly over-exaggerating their faults, I'm looking forward to Passion of the Clerks.
That said, I don't see why people keep pointing specifically to Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back as what his next "Clerks" movie will be like. Kevin Smith is the last person who'd fall into a rut of doing the same thing over and over again - if one watches the Askew-niverse movies in order, that should be blatantly obvious; they may all be in the Askew-niverse, but the tone of each one is different (which is all the more amazing since he's coming at them from the same artistic stand-point, discussed below).
One of the things that Kevin Smith has always done very well is portray post-modernism in his movies. Since he had planned that Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was going to be the last film, he decided to make it a post-modern take on his previous films...in essence, the film wasn't meant to be anything but a spoof of movies; namely, his own previous movies. It's him poking fun at himself after poking fun at work, hobbies, relationships, and religion in, respectively Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and Dogma.
Given the high-level of acumen he displays in showing the humorous oddities of various facets of life by mildly over-exaggerating their faults, I'm looking forward to Passion of the Clerks.
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Tarrasque Wrangler
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I'd agree with 75% of that - I'm not certain I'd say he was "poking fun" at relationships in Chasing Amy. It may have been an absurd situation (lesbians only go straight in the most feverish of Penthouse Forum letters), but it was handled seriously and maturely.Alzrius said:
I look at this film as kind of a "what-if" for KS. What if he'd never left the Quik Stop? What if he hadn't had the ambition to make art out of his crappy lifestyle? As Dante was something of a mirror for KS in the first Clerks, PotC (I'm inaugurating that abbreviation right now) might show what his life very well could have been.
So yeah, I think he's joshing us when he talks about returning to the "
and fart joke crowd". I think this has the capability for the same kind of wit and insight that the first movie had.
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Dark Jezter said:
What is the beef with "Jersey Girl," I mean Smith said from the get-go it was going to be a different kind of movie to his previous films.
Further, my understanding is Clerks II is for Jason, who Smith promised another Jay and Silent Bob movie to if he stayed clean and sober. Jason had problems with drugs but has been sober for over a year now so Smith is offering another round of Jay and his hetro-life-mate Silent Bob.
Edit: The inimitable Mr. Smith discusses the movie here;
http://viewaskew.com/theboard/viewtopic.php?t=14125
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