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Silent Bob in the Breakfast Club

this was posted on www.popculturenetwork.com forums June 1 2010

Many of you here on the PCN forums know me as Rob Base, but what a lot of you may not know is that I have been active in the indie film scene now for the better part of ten years. I am currently working on my second feature film.  What does that have to do with Silent Bob?

Maybe almost nothing, but Kevin Smith has been a huge influence on me as a writer/director.

Watching someone like Kevin make a film about losers and stoners at a convenience store makes me realize that there is an audience looking for more than gun shots and cheap humor.

All this time Kevin talks about how much John Hughes affected him as a filmmaker. I never saw it before until I re-watched the Breakfast Club with my wife this past Memorial Day.

I see all the archetype standards usually seen in a Hughes film. None more so than Allison (Ally Sheedy) as the basket case. The non-verbal-hiding-her-body outcast who follows the others just because she has nothing better to do on her Saturday.

But how is this like Silent Bob? Simple, the first time I notice the similarities was in the running around trying to get to Judd Nelson’s locker before the principal sees them. All of them doing this Scooby Doo inspired dash around the halls. If you have ever seen Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back, it’s in there as well as in Mallrats.

There is one scene in particular where they are running back and forth and Allison is just leaning against the lockers. If you put a hat on her it’s Silent Bob all the way

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As for the wisdom that Silent Bob inflicts every once in a while …i.e. Clerks and Chasing Amy, one has to simply look to the scene where the Club wants Claire (Molly Ringwald) to open up and she won’t or can’t. Then Allison tells her tales of sex and what can only be called abuse by a therapist until Claire confesses.

Granted, the basket case then tells everyone that she was a compulsive liar. But who’s to say Bob isn’t lying. His hetero life mate, Jay, never once seen anything that Bob claims to have done.

But looking back on a simple film like the Breakfast Club and what it represents as a movie and a culture, it is nothing short of amazing and if it’s good enough to inspire Kevin Smith, it’s good enough to be seen by anyone at any time.

On March 10, 2010, Corey Haim was taken to Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California and pronounced dead at 2:15 a.m. Los Angeles police said that Haim’s death appeared to be accidental and may have been due to an overdose, but that no illicit drugs were found at the scene.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000433/

Saw the newest Kevin Smith film on friday October 31 2008.

Kevin Smith has completely come into his own as a filmmaker. First let’s talk about the movie: if you don’t know already, here it is. Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought.

With every movie Kevin makes you see his progression in his art. From lighting to camera shots, you see his fully realized film capability. There are so many well thought out shots and masterfully edited scenes in this movie you would never believe that Kevin basically wrote, shot, and cut the film on his own.

A lot of reviewers pan this film mostly because they either do not like Kevin Smith films or they have a fear of human anatomy. it maybe the heavy use of Adult language or they could just be middle age old recluses who refuse to change with the time. Potty mouth Language is always in full force, The dirty talk only helps assert the already well understanding fact that these people are normal average Americans who use the 4 letter and sometimes larger words to help show and explain their feelings in a simple and to the point way. That’s how we talk, The only thing I do miss is Kevin’s monologues. this film seems to be more mainstream than all his other films but it is always and without a doubt is his work.

this is one of the funniest and well thought out comedy films this year!

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Rudy Ray Moore, a raunchy 1970s comedian who played the title role of a flashy pimp in the movie Dolemite and influenced a generation of rappers, has died. He was 81.

Moore said he developed the style, later a feature of rap music, by listening to men sitting outside joints “drinking beer and lying and talking (expletive).”

Moore played the fast-talking pimp and title character in the 1975 film Dolemite. In later years Moore collaborated with 2 Live Crew, Big Daddy Kane and Snoop Dogg.

Moore’s other acting credits during the Blaxploitation era of black action films included The Human Tornado in 1976 and Disco Godfather in 1979.

Rudy Ray Moore reprised his role as Dolemite in Insane Clown Posse’s film Big Money Hustlas a 2000 comedy which had other pop icons like John G. Brennan (jerky boys and family guy) wrestler author Mick Foley and Fred Berry (rerun from what’s happening).

Blade Runner is a 1982 American cyberpunk science fiction film,

directed by Ridley Scott.

The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples,was based on the novel

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.

The film stars

Harrison Ford

and features

Rutger Hauer

Sean Young

Edward James Olmos

M. Emmet Walsh

Daryl Hannah

The film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019 in which genetically manufactured beings called replicants

visually indistinguishable from adult humans – are used for dangerous and degrading work in Earth’s “off-world colonies”. Following a small replicant uprising, replicants become illegal on Earth; and specialist police called “blade runners” are trained to hunt down and “retire” (kill) escaped replicants on Earth.

The plot focuses on a brutal and cunning group of replicants hiding in Los Angeles and a semi-retired blade runner, Rick Deckard (Ford), who reluctantly agrees to take on one more assignment.

Ridley Scott  credits the Painting Nighthawks and the Graphic Novel the long tomorrow

as the inspiration  for the movies look.

Comic Books have played some importance on the blade runner film

Seven versions of the film have been created, for various markets, and as a result of controversial changes made by film executives. A rushed Director’s Cut was released in 1992 after a strong response to workprint screenings. This, in conjunction with its popularity as a video rental, made it one of the first films to see a DVD release, resulting in a basic disc with mediocre video and audio quality. In late 2007 Warner Bros. released in theater and DVD, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray the 25th anniversary long-awaited digitally remastered definitive Final Cut by Scott.

Also just because its so cool, here are some images of blade runners gun

Plager Katsumate Series-D blaster or the m2019 whatever you wanna call it.

So if you have never seen Blade Runner get the final cut dvd and if you have go and buy the 5 disk version