Why Can't He Just Be Some Idiot?
I've got more time to Rant than usual, due to the fact that I couldn't sleep this morning, so, let's roll.
The Fangoria Blood Drive DVDs are these fun little comp DVDs. Essentially, a bunch of amatuer filmmakers make their own short, low budget horror films, and then send them in to Fangoria magazine. The best X number of flicks get thrown onto the DVD. Being a fan of low budget flicks, I generally get a kick out of most of the stuff on the Discs. In addition, Fangoria actually tosses out some cash to get someone to host the thing. The first DVD is hosted by Rob Zombie, the second by that Julia chick from Uranium (my fellow metalheads should recognize the name...). In further addition, there's also some kickin' extras on the DVD. The first one featured a tour of Clive Barker's art studio (very, very cool) and a little mini-doc on that guy who did the effects for the Terminator. I wanna say Stan Winston, but it's 5am and my brain no work so good. The second discs features a mini-doc on the effects crew over at KNB (represent! chuckle, chuckle), and (this is the actual point of this Rant) an interview with the Man, the Myth, the Legend Bruce Campbell.
Besides some fun little tidbits, the interview featured Bruce talking in length about his most famous character, Ash from the Evil Dead films. If you've ever listened to Mr. Campbell talk about Ash on, say, a commentary track before, you know that Bruce sees Ash as something of a useless moron, whose only actual skill is that he's really, really good at fighting Deadites. Anyway, he sorta reiterates this idea in the interview, but then he takes it one step further by talking about all of the heroes in film nowadays and about how everybody's always some bad ass, ex-CIA, ex-FBI, ex-hitman type of guy. Campbell asks the age old question, "Why can't the Hero just be some kind of idiot?"
Which got me to thinking. And I came to the relization that, quite frankly, most of my own characters are raging morons. I mean, Broken Tea Cup, the Cosmic Fool, and BoJangles are all bumbling idiots who just stumble thoughtlessly through life. But the real winner of the bunch is my main character, Cactus Joe the Clown. Frankly, the dude has no actual worthwhile skils (which I think I amply demonstrated in Very Odd Jobs...), and he's not all that bright. I mean, Batman he's not. The only thing he's really got going on is that he's an idiot savante at killing.
Where the hell was I going with this? Ah hell, who knows?
Free Sketch promotion still going on, check out details on the main site, www.torcpress.com.
The Fangoria Blood Drive DVDs are these fun little comp DVDs. Essentially, a bunch of amatuer filmmakers make their own short, low budget horror films, and then send them in to Fangoria magazine. The best X number of flicks get thrown onto the DVD. Being a fan of low budget flicks, I generally get a kick out of most of the stuff on the Discs. In addition, Fangoria actually tosses out some cash to get someone to host the thing. The first DVD is hosted by Rob Zombie, the second by that Julia chick from Uranium (my fellow metalheads should recognize the name...). In further addition, there's also some kickin' extras on the DVD. The first one featured a tour of Clive Barker's art studio (very, very cool) and a little mini-doc on that guy who did the effects for the Terminator. I wanna say Stan Winston, but it's 5am and my brain no work so good. The second discs features a mini-doc on the effects crew over at KNB (represent! chuckle, chuckle), and (this is the actual point of this Rant) an interview with the Man, the Myth, the Legend Bruce Campbell.
Besides some fun little tidbits, the interview featured Bruce talking in length about his most famous character, Ash from the Evil Dead films. If you've ever listened to Mr. Campbell talk about Ash on, say, a commentary track before, you know that Bruce sees Ash as something of a useless moron, whose only actual skill is that he's really, really good at fighting Deadites. Anyway, he sorta reiterates this idea in the interview, but then he takes it one step further by talking about all of the heroes in film nowadays and about how everybody's always some bad ass, ex-CIA, ex-FBI, ex-hitman type of guy. Campbell asks the age old question, "Why can't the Hero just be some kind of idiot?"
Which got me to thinking. And I came to the relization that, quite frankly, most of my own characters are raging morons. I mean, Broken Tea Cup, the Cosmic Fool, and BoJangles are all bumbling idiots who just stumble thoughtlessly through life. But the real winner of the bunch is my main character, Cactus Joe the Clown. Frankly, the dude has no actual worthwhile skils (which I think I amply demonstrated in Very Odd Jobs...), and he's not all that bright. I mean, Batman he's not. The only thing he's really got going on is that he's an idiot savante at killing.
Where the hell was I going with this? Ah hell, who knows?
Free Sketch promotion still going on, check out details on the main site, www.torcpress.com.
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