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Jun. 22nd, 2005 12:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taerowynBruce Campbell touched me! OK, so he was leaning on my shoulder for the picture, but still...!!!
I figure I'll break down the night in order of spoileriness, the most spoilery first
It's kind of like All of Me meets Frankenstein. You've got the "evil" doctor playing with dead (or nearly dead) bodies and the whole two people in one body thing. Definitely a touch of the Bruce Campbell quarky campiness, of course. Ted Raimi is in it (yeah!) and absolutely proves what Bruce said before the movie, i.e. he loves having Ted in movies cause he makes Bruce look subtle. I liked it. It's definitely high on the cheese factor, but it's intentional and thus acceptable.
He did a Q&A before the book signings and then a quick one before the movie. Let's see what I can remember. Met Sam Raimi in a drama class in high school where they each did a really shitty pantomime:
"Hey Sam, that was a shitty pantomime."
"Yeah, I know. Almost as shitty as yours."
And were friends ever since.
Anything that actually hits Ash as he's dragged into the castle in Army of Darkness was thrown by Sam cause that's the kind of friend Sam is.
MGM is interested in Bubba Nosferatu (scary thought), but since they're being bought out by Sony "the next year or so is going to be spent figuring out whose desk goes where."
He's incredibly anti-remakes and such...Dukes of Hazzard, Charlie's Angels, "I hated it in the 70s, why am I gonna like it now" Lots of negative things to say about Batman Begins (Again). Then members of the audience called him on Sam and Spiderman ("He's my best friend since high school") and the talk of the Evil Dead remakes ("Hey, I have a son in high school"), but he's still adamantly against remakes and such in general.
Talked about the very first screening of Evil Dead in Detroit and how after the movie he and Sam were told that there was a woman who wanted to talk to them. There in the lobby was this little, old, 80-year-old lady. THey were thinking "Uh-oh. HEre comes the lecture." So they go up to her and she says "I was having a miserable day today and after seeing that I just feel so much better. Keep it coming." To which Bruce says "OK lady, all the more vine rapes for you."
His fav movie is The Bridge on the River Kwai, starring his favorite, William Holden "Who could totally kick Ben Affleck's ass."
Apparently up in Canada there's a musical version of Evil Dead, which, although he hasn't seen, he knows has to be doing something right since one of the songs is titled "What the fuck was that." He said, who knows, maybe it will be the latest Little Shop of Horrors and hit Broadway "starring Ashton Kutcher!"
He said he has a revers arrogance about being in B movies instead of A because, while B movies can do what A movies can, A movies can't do what B movies can.
So the first question was:
"Did you get the note from my friend Sam?"
"You mean this note?" *holds up note* " 'Dear Bruce, I love you, Love Sam?' Yeah, I got it...what's with your friend?"
One kid in the back, in this very nerdy voice says "There was a line in Army of Darkness *says line*, what movie was that originally from."
Bruce was totally nonplussed...had no idea and said "Are you asking cause you want to know or do you already know?" (A legitimate question as the kid sounded less like somebody wondering and more like somebody asking a trivia question) "Well, I mean why don't we ask the writer,"
Then several people in the audience shouted Shakespeare and Bruce said, "It's from Shakespeare, everybody knows that. I knew that."
Throughout he kept bashing Crimewave and Alien Apoalypse til somebody said he should stop bashing Crimewave cause the line from it "Wanna come up for a scotch and sofa," had worked for him three times. Bruce asked "You got laid three times with that line?!?! .... Never worked for me."
There was a woman in the back that he pointed near her for one question (near as in same side of the theater but clearly up front while she was in the back) and she started yelling...the only thing that really came across was she was from Latvia. It became a running joke, mainly cause the woman would just start randomly (and unintelligibly) yelling every once in awhile between questions. Later when somebody asked something about how he goes to all these places and has all these fans, but was there ever a place where people didn't like him. "Latvia!"
So after the movie I got to buy my book and get it signed and have a picture taken. I told him my full name so he could have fun with it...he signed with a joke that's been used on me before, but this time it came from Bruce Campbell so...
I figure I'll break down the night in order of spoileriness, the most spoilery first
It's kind of like All of Me meets Frankenstein. You've got the "evil" doctor playing with dead (or nearly dead) bodies and the whole two people in one body thing. Definitely a touch of the Bruce Campbell quarky campiness, of course. Ted Raimi is in it (yeah!) and absolutely proves what Bruce said before the movie, i.e. he loves having Ted in movies cause he makes Bruce look subtle. I liked it. It's definitely high on the cheese factor, but it's intentional and thus acceptable.
He did a Q&A before the book signings and then a quick one before the movie. Let's see what I can remember. Met Sam Raimi in a drama class in high school where they each did a really shitty pantomime:
"Hey Sam, that was a shitty pantomime."
"Yeah, I know. Almost as shitty as yours."
And were friends ever since.
Anything that actually hits Ash as he's dragged into the castle in Army of Darkness was thrown by Sam cause that's the kind of friend Sam is.
MGM is interested in Bubba Nosferatu (scary thought), but since they're being bought out by Sony "the next year or so is going to be spent figuring out whose desk goes where."
He's incredibly anti-remakes and such...Dukes of Hazzard, Charlie's Angels, "I hated it in the 70s, why am I gonna like it now" Lots of negative things to say about Batman Begins (Again). Then members of the audience called him on Sam and Spiderman ("He's my best friend since high school") and the talk of the Evil Dead remakes ("Hey, I have a son in high school"), but he's still adamantly against remakes and such in general.
Talked about the very first screening of Evil Dead in Detroit and how after the movie he and Sam were told that there was a woman who wanted to talk to them. There in the lobby was this little, old, 80-year-old lady. THey were thinking "Uh-oh. HEre comes the lecture." So they go up to her and she says "I was having a miserable day today and after seeing that I just feel so much better. Keep it coming." To which Bruce says "OK lady, all the more vine rapes for you."
His fav movie is The Bridge on the River Kwai, starring his favorite, William Holden "Who could totally kick Ben Affleck's ass."
Apparently up in Canada there's a musical version of Evil Dead, which, although he hasn't seen, he knows has to be doing something right since one of the songs is titled "What the fuck was that." He said, who knows, maybe it will be the latest Little Shop of Horrors and hit Broadway "starring Ashton Kutcher!"
He said he has a revers arrogance about being in B movies instead of A because, while B movies can do what A movies can, A movies can't do what B movies can.
So the first question was:
"Did you get the note from my friend Sam?"
"You mean this note?" *holds up note* " 'Dear Bruce, I love you, Love Sam?' Yeah, I got it...what's with your friend?"
One kid in the back, in this very nerdy voice says "There was a line in Army of Darkness *says line*, what movie was that originally from."
Bruce was totally nonplussed...had no idea and said "Are you asking cause you want to know or do you already know?" (A legitimate question as the kid sounded less like somebody wondering and more like somebody asking a trivia question) "Well, I mean why don't we ask the writer,"
Then several people in the audience shouted Shakespeare and Bruce said, "It's from Shakespeare, everybody knows that. I knew that."
Throughout he kept bashing Crimewave and Alien Apoalypse til somebody said he should stop bashing Crimewave cause the line from it "Wanna come up for a scotch and sofa," had worked for him three times. Bruce asked "You got laid three times with that line?!?! .... Never worked for me."
There was a woman in the back that he pointed near her for one question (near as in same side of the theater but clearly up front while she was in the back) and she started yelling...the only thing that really came across was she was from Latvia. It became a running joke, mainly cause the woman would just start randomly (and unintelligibly) yelling every once in awhile between questions. Later when somebody asked something about how he goes to all these places and has all these fans, but was there ever a place where people didn't like him. "Latvia!"
So after the movie I got to buy my book and get it signed and have a picture taken. I told him my full name so he could have fun with it...he signed with a joke that's been used on me before, but this time it came from Bruce Campbell so...