More on the brilliance of KS.
Aug. 24th, 2001 02:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
butterflySomething he said in an interview:
But the thing is what I've found is fun to do with that audience, the built-in audience -- predominantly young white men, right, from the burbs all across the country -- it's nice to throw them a curve ball to kind of maybe enlighten them just a bit. Broaden their horizons, for example. I've gotten at least three, four, may five people posting on our web site in the last month alone, asking, "Hey, why did you make Jay gay all of a sudden?" Because in "Dogma," Rufus, the Chris Rock character, supposedly sees things, knows a lot of things. Because he's been dead, he gets to watch the living. And Jay is like "Tell me something about me." And Rufus goes, "You masturbate more than anybody on the planet." Jay goes, "Oh, everybody knows that. Tell me something nobody knows." Rufus goes, "When you do it, you think about guys." There were some people who are fans of ours, young white guys, who identify with that character, who were just like "Well, what the hell does that mean? Why is he all of a sudden gay? And what does that say about me?"
Which is something we heard on "Chasing Amy". Like the Banky character that Jason Lee played. I remember we had a test screening of "Chasing Amy," and there was a cat in the audience in the focus group afterwards who said, "Hey, I watched all Kevin Smith movies and like I loved 'Mallrats,' and I identify with Banky' the Jason Lee character 'cause I am that guy. I read comics, I go to the mall and I wouldn't fuck Shannen Doherty either. "Which I thought was a real funny line. The guy identified with Jason Lee's character in this movie but all of a sudden at the end he turns out to be gay. "What does that say about me?" And we're sitting in the back like "Well, it says you're fucking gay. What do you mean, what does it say about you?"
But it's great to throw them a curve ball once in awhile because you don't want to become the filmmaker that people know exactly what to expect from. You don't want to keep saying the same thing over and over. It's nice if you have people who are tuning in, who are going to be listening to what you have to say. To broaden their horizons a bit, man. Well, say, look with a character like Jay, whom you consider to be a real guy's guy and say this dude thinks about guys when he jerks off, obviously it's okay, isn't it? Doesn't it make it okay for you as well? Some people become a little more tolerant. You know you're in a position to do some good while you're entertaining.
What a guy. Love him.
But the thing is what I've found is fun to do with that audience, the built-in audience -- predominantly young white men, right, from the burbs all across the country -- it's nice to throw them a curve ball to kind of maybe enlighten them just a bit. Broaden their horizons, for example. I've gotten at least three, four, may five people posting on our web site in the last month alone, asking, "Hey, why did you make Jay gay all of a sudden?" Because in "Dogma," Rufus, the Chris Rock character, supposedly sees things, knows a lot of things. Because he's been dead, he gets to watch the living. And Jay is like "Tell me something about me." And Rufus goes, "You masturbate more than anybody on the planet." Jay goes, "Oh, everybody knows that. Tell me something nobody knows." Rufus goes, "When you do it, you think about guys." There were some people who are fans of ours, young white guys, who identify with that character, who were just like "Well, what the hell does that mean? Why is he all of a sudden gay? And what does that say about me?"
Which is something we heard on "Chasing Amy". Like the Banky character that Jason Lee played. I remember we had a test screening of "Chasing Amy," and there was a cat in the audience in the focus group afterwards who said, "Hey, I watched all Kevin Smith movies and like I loved 'Mallrats,' and I identify with Banky' the Jason Lee character 'cause I am that guy. I read comics, I go to the mall and I wouldn't fuck Shannen Doherty either. "Which I thought was a real funny line. The guy identified with Jason Lee's character in this movie but all of a sudden at the end he turns out to be gay. "What does that say about me?" And we're sitting in the back like "Well, it says you're fucking gay. What do you mean, what does it say about you?"
But it's great to throw them a curve ball once in awhile because you don't want to become the filmmaker that people know exactly what to expect from. You don't want to keep saying the same thing over and over. It's nice if you have people who are tuning in, who are going to be listening to what you have to say. To broaden their horizons a bit, man. Well, say, look with a character like Jay, whom you consider to be a real guy's guy and say this dude thinks about guys when he jerks off, obviously it's okay, isn't it? Doesn't it make it okay for you as well? Some people become a little more tolerant. You know you're in a position to do some good while you're entertaining.
What a guy. Love him.
