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Interview with Matt Wallace from Variant Frequencies, author of The Failed Cities Monologues**, and The Next Fix. Matt’s Livejournal, Apex Digest, PDF link to The End of Flesh, Murky Depths, Stranger Things. We talk nipples, Cougars and pimpmobiles, so this one might not be safe around the kids.
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Just a word about A Fish Called Wanda:
Many people dislike little yappy dogs. So squishing them is allowable. Encouraged, even.
I’ll try to give you an update on Spot soon. Sshh. I’m planning for the first Episode to be in Issue #4 of Murky Depths.
Fun interview – re Cute.. For me, and a lot of others I know, the dog being ultimately crushed in A Fish Called Wanda ruined an otherwise brilliant movie and I/they cannot watch it properly again. It seems there is a rule that anyone who kicks a dog in a movie cannot be completely redeemed and get the audience’s true sympathy. Check out the extras on the DVD Sideways – one of the MCs kicks a dog off a bridge. There’s no way you would have given that guy an inch if that had been in the final movie. If you want to give your otherwise heroic MC a seedy-not-to-be-completely-trusted side have him kick/hurt a dog. And Breakfast at Tiffany’s (a movie that I already had some trouble with) I hated Holly at the end for throwing that cat out of the car!
On a slight tangent but still relevant to knowing what to keep in and what not to – Sideways is a great example of a movie saved by the editor – if the director had kept all those scenes he’d wanted in it would have been awful!
PS unfair teasing about your new genre by the way! Way to keep us tuned though.
InkGypsy- Interesting you bring up sideways. i don’t remember the bit about the kicking a dog, but I do remember hating it simply because the main character is clearly an alcoholic who does nothing to address his problem. I don’t see it as celebrating wine, I see it as a downward spiral. I don’t get the attraction of the movie, seriously.
Be careful dating older women dude. Didn’t you ever see In The Bedroom?
Oh thank goodness! I was beginning to think it was just me that didn’t like Sideways. If you hated it before you’ll loathe it after seeing the deleted scenes and have serious doubts abut the director’s ability to tell a story. And it won’t be just because of the dog…
THE MC in sideways just falls into a perfect relationship. yuck.
Kicking/Throwing/stepping on cats or yappy dogs has always been acceptable, neigh, laudable. ‘The Next Fix’s’ Matt Wallace was dead on with his example of Steve Martin juggling kittens in ‘The Jerk’. What ‘The Next Fix’s’ Matt Wallace forgot to point out, was that he also named his yappy little dog ‘Shithead’. Yes. Very humerous. The only example that bucks the trend of harm to yappy dogs is ‘The Anchorman’, in which Jack Black’s character, upon loosing all he held dear, punted Baxter off a bridge, sinking his soul to depths of wretched from whence it could not possibly EVER return. The humor in the fact that he did full on PUNT the small dog, only minimally offset the loss of ‘The little gentleman’, who was to be taken to foggy London town.
The cow is also an acceptable and hilarious target of feux violence, ala, via catapults in Holy Grail and Northern exposure; or entirely spent 9mm clips into the head, ala, ‘me, myslef and irene’. Priceless.
In conclusion, I’d like to state that not enough cats and small yappy dogs are hurt in fiction and that I’d like to see other animals added to that list.
1. Cows
2. Most birds (minus ones that can say ‘I love you’)
3. Ferrets (and I like ferrets, but they’re too comical not to hurt)
4. Squirrels that cannot waterski
5. Shetland, or otherwise, miniature ponies. (The cutest animal that is screaming to be violated on film or in print the most. I know ‘Bachelor Party’ nearly did this, but how much funnier would the scene have been with a miniature pony. TONS, that’s how much)
That is all.
Love,
Shadiggatron9000
Go Mur! I listened to Citytalkers on Escapepod just before christmas and it’s been under my skin ever since. What a great story. I love these cities that are people and have feelings. That want to get rid of their people and lash out at them. And the citytalkers… where did you come up with that idea!? Your imagery is fantastic.
For the first time in my life I feel inspired to write a city story myself! Great stuff.
You guys are hilarious together. I’ll have to check out Variant Frequencies.
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