Posted by phone monkey at jerry1.healthpartners.com on March 14, 2002 at 17:04:18:
In Reply to: The Last Temptation of Kevin P. Smith posted by ham_bone on March 14, 2002 at 16:11:51:
: There was an interview where Mr. Smith refered to his all time top five best movies, and among them was the Last Temptation of Christ. I am a sucker for a fat face, so I rented it and holy jumpin' Jesus Christ on a cross was it good.
: Kevin has referred to his writing as "a gift" from an all to obvious source. God's interest in dick and fart jokes escapes me, but the parralels are as obvious as my terrible spelling ability.
: LToC is, in part, about a man's struggle with using his ability to do good or to be selfish. Kevin has chosen to kill off the Askewniverse and now I see why. I am NOT comparing Smith to Christ (I have more important people to answer to than guys with screen names like Wooky_Man), but his struggles to escape his silent alter ego resemble those detailed in the film.
: Jay and Silent Bob have to die for Kevin to do something else. If he doesn't in five years his adolescent fans will have grown out of their "I'll watch any fucking thing he makes" faze, and Kevin will be left to write comic books in some run down shack in Red Bank.
: As any one who has seen screen shots from Kevin's films will attest, his resting on his laurels has resulted in an everswelling ass, and any reader of the Arena columns will testify the proper medical term has been revealed to be "morbid obesity".
But I don't think he has to die - I think he has to go on with his life.
Who is more silent than Joseph? C'mon, it's not like he wouldn't get into raising the little scion, and a holy child is probably going to present fewer problems than one of his own.