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Message no. 1
From: Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA>
Subject: [OT] Clerks (Was Re: Simsense, Some Basic Facts [Long])
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 17:51:36 -0600
At 17:07 11/06/98 -0500, you wrote:

>>Clerks. A shorter film, black and white, no special affects. Minimal
>>post-production. Essentially no advertising. I think total budget
>>was
>>less than $50K.

>That was produced local to me, by somebody who lived near where it was
>filmed(remember hearing about it in the paper or somewhere once)..He was
>one of the characters, plus did the writing and directing. I'd say it was
>under $25K, maybe. But anyway....

Kevin Smith (The guy in my .sig). I believe he said it cost 28K total.

Trivia: Why were the shutters on the store windows stuck shut?

Answer: Kevin filmed most of the movie at night after the store closed, so
having the windows always covered hid that fact. He also worked in the
store during the day, and was attending college (The film was a college
project.) He plays "Silent Bob". His new movie Armageddon is being worked
on at the moment, and guess who plays "God" in it? Alanis Morisette.

-Adam J
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http://www.interware.it/users/adamj \ fro@***.ab.ca \ ICQ# 2350330
ShadowRN Assistant Fearless Leader \ FreeRPG Webring \ TSS Productions
The Shadowrun Supplemental \ SR Archive Co-Maintainer \ RPGA Reviwer
"And you know why these (Independant) movies are good? Because they come
from Bumblefuck, America." -- Kevin Smith.
Message no. 2
From: Paul Gettle <pgettle@********.NET>
Subject: Re: [OT] Clerks (Was Re: Simsense, Some Basic Facts [Long])
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 22:09:56 -0400
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At 05:51 PM 6/11/98 -0600, you wrote:
>He also worked in the
>store during the day, and was attending college (The film was a
college
>project.) He plays "Silent Bob". His new movie Armageddon is being
worked
>on at the moment, and guess who plays "God" in it? Alanis Morisette.

Has he changed the name of his film? I was under the impression that
the fourth film was to be called "Dogma". (If it is called Armageddon,
there will be a bit of confusion with it coming out so soon on the
heels of Bruce Willis' asteroid flick this summer, sinc that is also
called Armageddon.)

It has been a month since I've visited www.viewaskew.com, so I suppose
my information is a bit out of date. Other juicy rumors I'd heard
about film four of the now ill-named New Jersey Trilogy include the
fact that Chris Rock will be playing the 13th Apostle, and that Silent
Bob will _sing_ the "Fat Albert" theme song.

ObShadowRN: Do you think Jay and Silent Bob would be chip pushers in
205X? IMHO, as soon as BTL comes out as the new high, I think they'd
be switched over to silicon faster than Walt Flannagan's Dog.
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Message no. 3
From: Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA>
Subject: Re: [OT] Clerks (Was Re: Simsense, Some Basic Facts [Long])
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 20:16:01 -0600
At 22:09 11/06/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Has he changed the name of his film? I was under the impression that
>the fourth film was to be called "Dogma".

My bad. I was thinking of the plot, which I'ev heard to be summed up as an
"Armageddon themed comedy." AFAIK, it's still Dogma.

>ObShadowRN: Do you think Jay and Silent Bob would be chip pushers in
>205X? IMHO, as soon as BTL comes out as the new high, I think they'd
>be switched over to silicon faster than Walt Flannagan's Dog.

Absolutely. Well, Jay would be the pusher, Silent Bob the Silent Pusher. <g>

Well, that was a great attempt to bring it ontopic. Probably best to let
this die now..

-Adam J
Logging off to work on his new *gasp* Non-Shadowrun book.
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http://www.interware.it/users/adamj \ fro@***.ab.ca \ ICQ# 2350330
ShadowRN Assistant Fearless Leader \ FreeRPG Webring \ TSS Productions
The Shadowrun Supplemental \ SR Archive Co-Maintainer \ RPGA Reviwer
"And you know why these (Independant) movies are good? Because they come
from Bumblefuck, America." -- Kevin Smith.
Message no. 4
From: roun <roun@***.NET>
Subject: Re: [OT] Clerks (Was Re: Simsense, Some Basic Facts [Long])
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:28:17 PDT
| Kevin Smith (The guy in my .sig). I believe he said it cost 28K total.
|
| Trivia: Why were the shutters on the store windows stuck shut?
|
| Answer: Kevin filmed most of the movie at night after the store closed, so
| having the windows always covered hid that fact. He also worked in the
| store during the day, and was attending college (The film was a college
| project.) He plays "Silent Bob". His new movie Armageddon is being worked
| on at the moment, and guess who plays "God" in it? Alanis Morisette.
|
| -Adam J

yah, and about half or a little more than half the money came from him
selling his whole comic book collection, thus the thing for comics and stan
lee in mallrats.

roun aka david
roun@***.net
Message no. 5
From: roun <roun@***.NET>
Subject: Re: [OT] Clerks (Was Re: Simsense, Some Basic Facts [Long])
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:31:02 PDT
| -Adam J
| Logging off to work on his new *gasp* Non-Shadowrun book.

and what book would that be adam???
enquiring minds want to know!!!!

roun aka david
roun@***.net

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