Posted by Darth Mabel at 207.103.180.10 on October 14, 1999 at 14:09:12:
In Reply to: DOGMA, Kevin, Affleck, et al in this week's Voice posted by Super/\/\eg on October 13, 1999 at 17:26:18:
Here's the text:
"Tempers flared when a well-organized batch of protesters picketed the film festival screening of Dogma, though I was mainly enraged bythe fact that their posters were littered with misspellings. If they'd only checked out the movie—which is either the best or the worst of the year; I can't decide—they'd have realized that, all of its profanities and unevenness aside, Dogma's such an affirmation of the longing for faith that it practically ends up being a product-placement commercial for Catholicism. (And the protesters should have only known about the movie that opened the festival—All About My Mother, which has a nun with AIDS who's preggers via a transsexual!) At the Dogma afterparty, I asked writer - director Kevin Smith if the "shit demon" from his movie—a long story — has anything to do with that elephant dung in Brooklyn. "I guess we're both in the same toilet," he said, laughing. "We're both taking so much heat. And the artist, I understand, is a man of faith!" Smith hopes that the Catholic League, which started all the anti-Dogma do,will wake up when they read some of the explanatory press about the movie. "But am I asking too much?" he wondered, not sure that these folks are what you'd call big readers.
More pressingly, was I reading too much into Ben Affleck's lines about his relationship with fellow fallen angel Matt Damon? In the flick, Ben's character insists, "We're not lovers.... Do I come off as gay?"—which I assumed was an in-joke that sprung out of all those very-good-will-hunting rumors. Actually, said Smith, "the script was written back in '94. But Ben does handle all those questions really well, saying, 'If I was gay, you'd know about it because I'd be chugging cock!' " "Chugging cock? Oh, yes, that's what we gays do," I said, drolly. "Yes, I know," deadpanned Smith, adding, "I'm speaking empirically, of course." He must not have been to Singapore."
Darth Mabel