COUNTDOWN TO BOOGIE NIGHTS
DAY 3
Boogie fever is catching on other film sets. At least according to Netizens.
While the mainstream media may sit back and wait for a final print of
John McNaughton's new movie, Wild Things, the twin terrors
of the URLs, Matt Drudge and Harry Knowles are already
all over it. The news? Kevin Bacon shows his penis! Drudge ran
a story, giving his column inches exclusively to Bacon's column inches,
quoting a Variety source making the industry connection to Boogie
Nights and saying "Does (Bacon) really want to draw comparisons
between his and Dirk Diggler's ? ..."
Knowles and one of his test screening sneakers offer a fuller view of
Wild Things, which got a thumbs down. "First off, let me put
to rest the question which most of you male types will be dying to know:
NEVE IS NOT NAKED IN THIS FILM." Pretty much my priority in every film.
My new book, "Who's NOT Naked!" will soon be available in bookstores
everywhere. Knowles' mole continues, "Words fail me for what we see
next. Through the steam, we see a naked body from behind. Yes folks,
that's right, it's Bacon doing his token, Hollywood, 'bare-ass' shot.
But does it end there? No, I'm sorry to say, not when you are Kevin
Bacon, executive producer of Wild Things. Kevin has seen
Boogie Nights and he knows how to create a 'buzz' about his film.
He turns toward the camera a la Dirk Diggler revealing, to a shocked
audience, his manhood. Unlike Dirk, this shot was all Kevin. The horror,
the horror..."
This is not why the studios test screen movies. But according to Boogie
Nights director, Paul Thomas Anderson, they shouldn't be
testing at all. "Test screenings are the most asinine, ridiculous thing
that ever happened to movies. That's a grand, sweeping comment, but
it's true. It's fucking ridiculous. On Boogie Nights, I went,
but I didn't get anything out of it. Test screenings are a fucking waste
of time and massive amounts of money. They cost a lot of money. And
it's not a test because it doesn't hold up to any scientific standards.
People don't get to see movies for free. They pay $7.50 to see a movie.
People know what they are going to see when they go see a movie, so
the process of recruiting is totally biased from the get go. People
will easily walk out if they don't pay $7.50 for something. If people
think they are coming to see a sort of raucous exposé of the
porn industry, they are probably gong to be disappointed. If they don't
know that it's two hours and 37 minutes long, they are going to fucking
be bored. They are going to say, 'I have dinner plans.'"
Tommorrow, Is It Real? Or Is It Boogie Nights?
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