WHAT DO ALL THESE FACES IN COMMON? -Pass the cursor over the picture and see the name
-Click on the picture and you can read his filmography this: Indeed, this guy is brilliant mind that has brought together so many famous faces (ok, some more than others), and has made many viewers know the faces of friends from childhood.
Born in New Jersey (how novel!), Professes an admiration for his city like Manhattan by Woody Allen (just see his films). While working as a clerk in a grocery store (which also all know it is the Clerks), decided to focus its future movies, enrolling at the Vancouver Film School
. Start typing
Clerks. Meet Scott Mosier
. Meet David Klein
. The three decide to be rolled
Clerks , but how? no money ... Well then, Kevin returned to the grocery store, sold his prized collection of comic books and looking for money where there is none. And roll Clerks. In 21 days. In 16 mm. In black and white. $ 27,000. Mosier
produce, assemble and mix. Klein is concerned with photography and Kevin takes the script, direction, production and assembly. And by the way, everyone acts performing at 8 different characters to pure Monty Python. Was a success at the Sundance Film Festival.
Miramax was interested and asked, "
Kevin, what you gonna do now? " And Kevin thought that if he said this was the first film of a trilogy, it's likely to let him record two more. The producer believed it .. and thus was born
The New Jersey Trilogy. Recovered their previous economic position and his collection of comic books, Kevin began in 1995 (after a year the release of Clerks), the second film in his makeshift trilogy. Preferring the funny side of his scripts, with a budget of eight million dollars and with his former team (Scott and David), Kevin
Mallrats wheel, which is a box office bomb, (which personally I do not understand because I loved it). But at least Smith had the good taste to make a tribute to one of his greatest passions: comic books. Still, this movie was a great opportunity to meet a large cast of actors and closer to the big companies.
And on to the last part of the trilogy
Chasing Amy. To compensate for the funny side of Mallrats, and I imagine that because of the limited success of this, Kevin decides to exploit the dramatic perspective of their stories, trying to link the three movies not so much the plot but the family connections of the characters, and small hints that can easily pass unnoticed.
The three parties have something in common, which is what characterizes the films of Kevin Smith: witty dialogue, clever, funny and politically incorrect. Well, Jay and Silent Bob, of course.
time she finished with the trilogy, had its name and prestige and the film was recognized. Had forged a friendship with Ben Affleck
during the two films that had worked together, and he decided to include scrubbing
Matt Damon in his new movie: Dogma
. Although
Damon is not the only familiar face. In this fourth part of the 'trilogy', forgive the inconsistency (I remind you that at first it was just an excuse), involving such familiar names Alan Rickman as
(
Harry Potter, Perfume
), Salma Hayek
(
Dusk Till Dawn, Frida
,
Traffic), Linda Fiorentino
(MIB
, Jo
what night),
Chris Rock (Lethal Weapon 4
,
The Longest Yard ), who had participated in
Chasing Amy, playing a black gay man who pretends to be hyper-hetero racist. Dogma
was seen by the public that was unaware of the previous films. So many people stayed away from Recurrent jokes and old friends Jay and Bob, who starred at last, that would be his last film (but then not, patience, so we will have):
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back .
Jay and Silent Bob strike back clearly is a title referring to the
Wars: Empire Strikes . If one does not fall in with the title, makes seeing the logo.
Moreover, the division has
Smith Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), making supervillain, and
Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia), playing a nun's patience limited. The director also takes this issue to close the relationships between characters in previous films: From
Clerks Randal appears again, the manager of the video store, Dante, the protagonist under the Quick Stop, Mallrats
appears Tricia Jones, the teenager who wrote the bestselling pornographic. In Chasing Amy
make cameo Holden (Ben Affleck
), the protagonist who falls for a lesbian, also Banky (Jason Lee
) and Alyssa Jones, lesbian.
Some have more than one role: Ben Affleck
of himself, Matt Damon
also of himself and Will Hunting, Shannen Doherty
makes itself, but also appears as René
film Mallrats . They also make themselves
Wes Craven,
Jason Biggs, James Van Der Beek
, and many others.
And when it seemed that at last the series had ended, Smith promised that if his friend Jason Mewes
(Jay) stopped the drug, would a sequel to Clerks
. Fortunately for Jason and for the fans, left, and Smith kept his word. In September 2006 Clerks II opened
, with a cast that included old friends director, ie, the original cast of Clerks, and some other surprises, such as Kevin Smith's wife and mother of his children, Jennifer Schwalbach
as
Ethan Suplee (Mallrats
, which sought sailboat in 3D), Ben Affleck
that can not miss any movie of Smith and Jason Lee
, another classic of these films. Kevin Smith directed
Jersey Girl, which starred, of course!,
Ben Affleck, and with the participation, in addition to the above, new faces as Will Smith
, the lovely Liv Tyler
and
sultry Jennifer Lopez . The director, actor, comic writer and producer is, for many geeks like me, the best proof that with perseverance, a little luck and a generous dose of talent can achieve the highest sueñor (at least Hollywood) .