Clerks (1994) Uncut Reaction!
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Nathanial, I will see if I can find that. It sounds really interesting.
Yours truly, Johnny Dollar
2023-05-08 21:30:02 +0000 UTCAs others have mentioned, it was super-low-budget and the shutter situation was a way to get around shooting at night.... ...because it was the convenience store Kevin Smith worked at and his boss gave him permission to shoot the film during closed hours. So, for about a month - after selling most of his possessions and maxing out his credit cards to finance it - he would go to work in the store during the day, shoot at night, repeat. In between they would do the editing in the back of the video store. It's also a case that some friends (to include his buddy who got credited as producer as they did a lot of the coordination and editing together) played multiple roles. It originally had a different ending but didn't play well with audiences so was chucked, so the cards between scenes never come to the conclusion point they were leading to. Such as "Harbinger" in the old man coming in who would die later and a comment about dying Randal made when they were chatting during the section... the original ending has Dante, as he's finishing up for the night, killed by a robber enters through the still-unlocked doors. Me, I grew up in a village of 900 people in a rural area. But customer service jobs are customer service jobs. And I was a senior in high school when this came out and so had done a few. Between being that age grouping of the characters and just the similarities that stretch across job/cultural roles it was very relatable lol.
Rumpus Parable
2023-05-08 20:47:35 +0000 UTCNathanael Hammett, mate that's rough - wearing that kind of disrespect when you're just trying to do your job! Here's saluting all the clerks in the world - taking literal and figurative bullets for the rest of us.
Tetley
2023-05-07 00:55:08 +0000 UTCJust watched the trailer and that's going on the watchlist. Looks great
Ken
2023-05-06 22:09:03 +0000 UTCKenneth, check out "Bait"(2019). Filmed using a vintage hand-cranked Bolex camera, with 16mm monochrome film that the director hand-processed. Really striking stylistic choice (and definitely suits the movie): https://youtu.be/rWPi3CZLnfU
Tetley
2023-05-06 20:48:45 +0000 UTCDogma is lame, it's for the edgy gen x crowd that are still bitter at their boomer parents
Ken Veader
2023-05-06 18:40:02 +0000 UTCone of Smith's biggest influences for making the film was one of Richard Linklater's first films Slacker which just followed various people around Austin Texas. no plot, the camera would stick with one group of characters for a few minutes and they would run into someone then we'd follow them. seeing what could be done with such bare bones budget and all in one location, making a movie seemed more accessible
Russian Paul
2023-05-06 11:26:58 +0000 UTCJohnny, did you ever happen to watch the featurette on the Once Upon a Time in Mexico DVD about Robert Rodriguez’s filmmaking style? I think it was called Fast, Cheap, and In Control or something like that . Kinda neat, and worth looking up on YouTube
Nathanael Hammett
2023-05-06 06:12:37 +0000 UTCHe managed for The Fall! (Also no way are The Weinsteins letting go of Dogma unless a miracle happens so I say it’s fair game.)
Kaitlin
2023-05-06 03:04:45 +0000 UTCI’ve had loose change pelted at me, I’ve been spit at, cussed out, verbally and non verbally threatened… Customer service is great lol But yeah, love the way Clerks is shot and they nailed the feel of it all so well
Nathanael Hammett
2023-05-06 02:47:55 +0000 UTCI love grainy black and white photography. They shot this on 16mm, even. Wish more movies would go for that look, even if today it's a purely stylistic choice and not about budget One of the wildest, most fun...but also kinda worst customer service jobs I had was as a teller at a horse track. "This job would be great if not for the customers" applied there. Never had an angry mob throw cigarettes at me but one guy wadded up his losing ticket and threw it at me
Ken
2023-05-06 02:05:27 +0000 UTCwooo ready for ep13 &14 of BB
Jon Exler
2023-05-06 00:59:19 +0000 UTCFilmed in Leonardo, NJ just for reference. I thought it was Red Bank but not quite.
Brian Sittler
2023-05-06 00:56:37 +0000 UTCClerks was the second example of what low budget cinema could produce in the early 90's. Two years earlier Robert Rodriguez made El Mariachi, a legitimately entertaining action film that would be followed up by Desperado with a seven thousand dollar budget, though it took a while for it to get recognition.
Yours truly, Johnny Dollar
2023-05-06 00:47:22 +0000 UTCIf you can't legally stream, James will wait until it is an option. Young Frankenstein was shelved for a few months because of that.
Yours truly, Johnny Dollar
2023-05-06 00:39:02 +0000 UTCStranger Than Paradise is another great low budget film.
Linda
2023-05-06 00:10:31 +0000 UTCThe reason I made that comment about Clerks being essential for anyone wanting to make their own movie on a budget is because you are probably not Quentin Tarantino and not going to get Harvey Keitel to read your script and act in your debut movie. Reservoir Dogs, which came two years prior, was a famously low-budget movie, of course, but it still cost more than $1,000,000. Clerks' budget, on the other hand, was $27,000; it actually looks like something you could make yourself if you had something to say. Kevin Smith hired his friends and family members and filmed in an actual store from night till morning, while it was closed (hence the shutters being closed in the movie). The black and white color was actually a necessity, not a stylistic choice. And Clerks really did have something to say. I watched this movie for the first time at age 19, living my whole life in a Russian Siberian town. So, there is no cultural connection to NJ, but it still felt like the guy behind the camera understood what I was going through a little too well. I flunked from university and ended up in dead-end jobs like the ones from the movie. I was really content with my place in life, though, but still constantly being reminded about unfulfilled potential by my friends and my girlfriend at the time. I even had a Randal-like friend to my Dante, who worked with me for many years. So yeah, this movie is incredibly authentic and very close to my heart and many others. A true cult classic.
Artem Sheverenov
2023-05-05 23:24:03 +0000 UTCEasy to bootleg tho
Kaitlin
2023-05-05 23:20:39 +0000 UTCDogma is impossible to find anymore.
Linda
2023-05-05 22:26:42 +0000 UTCI assure you, that was awesome!
Linda
2023-05-05 22:25:34 +0000 UTCClerks 2 is my favorite out of all the clerks!
Shaun
2023-05-05 22:01:02 +0000 UTCIndie movie icon! Let’s do Dogma next!
Kaitlin
2023-05-05 21:00:59 +0000 UTC
