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Kevin Smith. Kevin Smith Kevin Smith is a prime example of the kind of person in
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Mr. KEVIN SMITH Watching a Kevin Smith film is like jumping into a puddle of pop
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... She is guided and aided by two off-beat prophets, Jay and Silent Bob (Jason Mewes
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... Writer/director Kevin Smith accomplishes this by doing away with all the religious
jargon and approaches it in a whole new way in his latest comedy Dogma. ...
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Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith is a prime example of the kind of person in my industry that I aspire to be like. His humor is intelligent, but he walks the fine line between funny and outright offensive. I admire him for his ability to tell a story using people, instead of effects and a huge budget.
Kevin's first movie, Clerks, had a budget of around $27,000 (Kevin Smith). The entire film was black and white, and the only effect that had on the movie was to further highlight how obscenely drab these QuikStop clerks' daily lives were. Despite the tiny budget, Kevin showed off his sense of humor and told an involving story using barely anything but the characters. This movie was the birthplace of Jay and his hetero-life-mate Silent Bob, who are now well known after their appearances in several of Kevin's other movies. This film ended up getting into the Sundance Film Festival, and tickets for it sold out before the festival started. There were people outside scalping tickets. This was the cast and crew's first inkling that the movie might just make it. (Brian O'Holloran) The film was bought by Gramercy after the festival.
Mallrats was Smith's second film, they went back to Gramercy for this one, and were offered a budget of 6 million dollars. Kevin actually fought against this size budget because he saw no need for that much, "Why? It's just a little picture about kids running around the mall. Let's not spend that much money on it in case it doesn't really pan out" (Kevin Smith) Luckily for them it did pan out and Kevin put out his second semi-successful movie. One reason this movie did as well as it did is perhaps, Smith said, because they actually tried to reach a larger variety of people with Mallrats. Even though they had a hard R rating and could have cursed up a proverbial storm, Kevin cut down on much of the unnecessary vulgar language.(Kevin Smith) By doing this he made the film more acceptable to...
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