I like to think that each filmmaker loves films, but few filmmakers express their love of films like Kevin Smith. Thanks to the success of the “clerks”, he is undoubtedly responsible for the frequency of the characters discussing, debating or simply referencing pop culture in cinema and television. (One of his jokes in this film even surrounded and inspired the franchise even to which he alluded In the case of “Andor”.) It also appears constantly in documentaries (Not to mention his podcast with Marc Bernardin) to give his opinion on the intersection of art and culture. Smith is without excuse in his recognition of the art that has shaped him, as well as the art he thinks … Well … fears.

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Of course, opinions and taste can change over time, but the blessing and curse of the film is that everything that is recorded and reaches the final cup is permanently frozen in time. During a recent questions and answers during a projection of Chicago to celebrate the 25th anniversary of “Dogma”, the own film Ethan Anderton asked Smith about his public veneration for The late filmmaker John Hughes And how it is see seemingly contradicted in “Dogma” when Serendipity (Salma Hayek) Confess that She’s Responsible for Nine of the Top 10 Highest Gross Movies of All Time … Before Adding that She Had Nothing to do with “Home Alone,” Quipping, “Somebody Sold Their Soul to get The big up on that piece of s— “(A feeling certain / Film staff members agree with).

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It turns out that Smith feels really badly of the idea of ​​including this excavation at the Hughes Christmas classic. “The young Kevin Smith was so obstinate,” he admitted.

Despite his aversion to “the house alone”, Smith demonstrated poetics about his love as Hughes. “John Hughes was an adult who was one of us, guy. He was not too far away,” he told the crowd. “He was at the beginning of the thirties, but he felt like the teenager, and he spoke our F -ing language.” He noted that the films of his youth were “The Breakfast Club”, “Weird Science”, “Pretty in Pink” and “Sixteen Candles” and that it was the films that helped Smith to “understand a world that was perhaps confusing or confusing at this age”. You would find it difficult to find a gen xer that does not share the feeling.

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Hughes did not run “at home alone” (this high residual check belongs to Chris Columbus), but he wrote it, and it was a massive success. He also performed at a time in Hughes’ career where he was moving stories of adulthood and began to create more adult dishes such as “planes, trains and cars”. While “Home Alone” is a story featuring burglars of “Tom & Jerry” style violence, we generally remember a children’s film.

“And how I perceived it at the time, it is because he abandoned adolescents and that I just started writing for children,” said Smith. “Because after that, it was like,” Curly Sue “and F-“ Baby’s Day Out ”. ” He explained that as someone who felt talked about by Hughes’ work, to see him focus on such young protagonists, he “felt abandoned”, and this is where the motivation of the joke entered the game. Whatever the controversial debate surrounding “Home Alone”, I think it is quite universally accepted that the “Baby Day” is HUGHES.

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Of course, the decline is 20/20 and Smith regrets, including the joke, especially now that it is on the other side of the medal. “Me, F-ING saying to my favorite artist how he should behave himself and his career,” he said. “Now, I have paid for that on several occasions, with people who will come to my face and will tell me how I fail them, in my current career, against my older work, and s – like that.” Personally, I always think that Smith has “understood”, but his narration approach is obviously different. Of course, they cannot all be winners of Knock-IT-OF-The-Park, but it is the truth for any filmmaker.

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Everyone makes their “baby day”, but that does not mean as if by magic that the circuits are suddenly erased from the annals of history. Smith was incredibly aware of oneself in his answer to Anderton / Oman’s question, and if something has proven that he was one of the real class filmmakers that we are currently working on today with his comments:

“I paid for the pride of being like,” John Hughes, F-wing, he should not have made a house alone ‘and S—’ ‘, except that I did not have the shattering success of a “ at home’ ‘, even to stay behind. While Hughes could have been like “Yeah, what do you know? So, yes, it shows you both sides of Kevin Smith, the fan of Uber, the fan of Uber and the little fan of B – I could be.”

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Smith’s words really remind me of a Press Review LetterboxD From her age to age the age of age, “The 4:30 Movie”, from the filmmaker Vera Drew (“The People’s Joker”), where she had almost the same achievement as Smith had about Hughes concerning her relationship with Smith’s work and what she published on this subject online. “No matter where you land on his art, you must respect that he makes vulnerable films that he alone could make,” she wrote.

I think Kevin Smith would agree.