Posted by locoarts at ip80.akron4.oh.pub-ip.psi.net on September 30, 2000 at 19:46:08:
Kevin .. please do us all a favor and don't touch or wrap up the 2 character's from Chasing Amy.. Holden and Alyssa!!
Chasing Amy is a Perfect Movie!! and it is the movie everyone will remember you from!! Just like when you think of a Director or Star: Stallone you think of Rocky(1).. Quentin you think of Pulp Fiction..Orson Wells you think of Citizen Kane.. and you Kevin Smith we think of Chasing Amy!( of course.. I love all your work .. but you know how the media is.. That film will be your Brand/Tattoo, you know how people are?.. just being honest here)
The great thing about the ending of "Amy".. is it's NOT wrapped up in a little bow!!.. I love the wonder of both characters..!!! putting them in your last New Jersey #5 film.. would kill the heart of "Amy"..! now IF they must be in #5.. then PLEASE PLEASE don't have them ever MEET or TALK to each other through the whole film.. I actually feel NO characters from "AMY" should be in #5.. but maybe Hooper..and Banky
Kevin you can make a BIG mistake if you ruin the love and joy you brought to the audience in this great film of Chasing Amy!!!!...( I know it is a part of the series ..but keep this one special).. What Stallone did in Rocky(1) was as special.. it gave us the viewer that sense wonder that I am talking about with "AMY"... BUT what he( Stallone) did in the sequel was SICK .. Rocky 2.. was basically EVERYTHING .. you didn't WANT Rocky 1 to be!!!!.. he got rich.. and married.. and won the belt (the end)!??.. So please DON'T wrap up the Holden & Alyssa characters!!!..Don't even have them talk in any way, please!..
* Now I am hearing that in Halloween H20.. that wasn't Micheal Myers.. that Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Cutis)..KILLED??.. it was a fake Micheal..So they can make yet another sequel?
COME ON.. This Hollywood Bullshit!!..
Don't do this to your cahracters and fall into that "Hollywood Web"
(just giving you advice and I think you are the only person(director) to actually listen to a true fan.. ie: " someone did told you NOT to keep that Shooting of Dante in CLERKS..that was wise!! If you didn't change it, CLERKS would have looked like a "1st year film student- message" bullshit.. to that whole movie!!...it would have ruined the film.. (my 2 cents)
Kevin you artfully directed and wrote Chasing Amy.. and the way you ended that film was PERFECT!!!.. don't think you have to give us more.
Thank You!