Ok, hold the phone/posts/jobs/reports/essays and all that stuff: Kevin Smith is making/has made Clerks 2!
Since most of the people I know have been, at one time or another, forced to see Clerks (OK, that was also me. Sorry Mo: I know you’re my boss and everything…) I can asume you all know the film (or flic in Kevin-speak). And Kevin Smith has made/is making a sequel to it: Clerks 2! And I even used a second exclamation wich I know is a sign for really too much excitement!
For those of you who haven’t seen this film (I want names and home-locations) this is KS’s best film out of a three part New Jersey-setting (although KS will probably not see it that way). It’s a story about a guy who’s at that point in life where you’re either content with what you’ve got or still want to have more (career-, social-, relationship-, money-wise). He’s in a relationship with a girl but in love with another and meanwhile has a job in a Quick-Stop convenience store but thinks about going back to college. This long sentence might give you the impression that it’s full of plot turns, development and excitement. But as true Jedis know: these are not the things to crave for. It’s more the laid-back observation of life and your own desires in it that make the film work.
After I saw it in a small theatre in Amsterdam it began to grow on me and have been it’s propper (getting people into the theatre) ever since. Some friends saw a new lease on life and why they should follow the path they’re on (and have since stopped being friends, sorry Kim) and others have found new insights into the sexual activities of their girlfriends (sorry Paul). Although the dutch DVD was somewhat lacking in features (and that subtitling could have been left out altogether), I’m still a fan and hold the film on par with Cinema Paradiso (it’s a development-thing).
So, back to the sequel: am I going to like it? Am I going to turn into one of those fundamentalists always neeping about that this was never the True Intention Of The Story? Seeing the decline in how much I’m attached to KS’s later work (although J&SBSB has earned a special spot), I must say I’m a bit sceptical. This however has nothing to do with the quality of KS’s work but more with my understanding of where I am (in a ViewAskew-universe).
Will post more when more comes through, bbl.
