Where else should love blossom in the trailer park than between a trailer park supervisor and his assistant? Maybe only between a supervisor and his liquor…Or between an assistant and his cheeseburgers. The award for the third-best romance of Sunnyvale Trailer Park, however, definitely belongs to Jim Lahey and Randy, the shit-lovers of all time from Trailer Park Boys.
Boys, pull up a lawn chair, or a bucket, or a refurbished broken shopping cart and listen to the greatest love story every told. An ex-cop attempts to rekindle his legacy and life by serving the small community of good, simple folk. Lahey’s downfall was tragic, but his rise back to the top on the shit-wings of his boy-friday, Randy, is the stuff romance movies are made of.
Kidding. These two are a glorious catastrophe and their love is a sticky mess. They drink, they smoke, and they have weird sex in their trailer while pretending to rehearse for a play at the local rec center. Well, that is when Randy isn’t whoring himself out for cheeseburgers or Jim isn’t hitting on sexy, sexy Julian. Sometimes they are in a polyamorous relationship with Jim’s ex-wife and sometimes Randy impregnates Lucy, but the strange love between a trailer park supervisor and his assistant is really none of your business, is it? After all, a shit leopard can’t change his spots.
So here’s to liquor, and tight white pants and no-shirt full-service.
Happy #lovewins everyone. (by the way, same-sex marriage has been legal in Canada for over a decade)
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It’s not always obvious, but one of Mr. Lahey’s biggest faults is that he cares too much. This is a story about Mr. Lahey letting go.
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Looming just around the corner is another convention for Texans to attend! Located at the Irving Convention Center, Dallas Comic Con’s Fan Days presented by FAN EXPO is an all fandom inclusive comic, sci-fi, horror, anime, and gaming event featuring exciting family-friendly activities.
This year’s celebrity guests include Elijah Wood and Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings), Adam West and Burt Ward (Batman), Alex Kingston and Paul McGann (Doctor Who), James and Oliver Phelps (Harry Potter), and more!
Among the celebrity guests is renowned actor Clive Revill, known to Comic-Con attendees as Emperor Palpatine from The Empire Strikes Back. Our editor, Kimmie Britt, had a chance to chat with Clive, who is every bit as charming as his iconic character was not and thrilled to be attending his first convention as a guest.
Kimmie Britt: When did you know that you wanted to get into acting as a career?
Clive Revill: I was born in New Zealand in 1930. You are sitting down, aren’t you?
KB: *laughs* Yes sir, I am!
CR: I’m now 84, but at that time I was in New Zealand. It was only four years after the second world war, and I had become fascinated with the theater. I did amateur dramatics in high school, and they loved it. Then, I auditioned for The Old Vic Theater School in London, and I was accepted on scholarship when I was twenty years old. So I went to London, and studied at The Old Vic, which was probably the best classic, and totally unique drama school that has ever been. Stayed there for two years, and went out to my first job, which was on Broadway, curiously enough. In 1952, I made my debut on Broadway in a Charles Dickens play as Mr. Pickwick. After that, I went back to England and went into repertory in Ipswich, and I was there for two and a half years working on a different play every two weeks, which is where you really find yourself. How did I start? How does anyone start? It’s like anything else, really. And when I saw the possibilities open up, I took them. And that’s what happened.
KB: Were you a fan of Star Wars before being cast as one of it’s most iconic characters?
CR: Well, the director was an old friend of mine. He called me up one day and said, “Hey look, I want you to come down and do something.” And I said, “What is it?” And he said, “I’ve got this thing I’ve been working on. Can you come and help me out?” So I agreed and went out to this recording studio and I looked around and I said, “Is this it?” And he says yes, yes, yes. When I told him I knew nothing about it, he gave me a run down about the character and the situation, because these were still early days for Star Wars. And I asked him how he wanted me to do it and he just said to try it out. So I get in close and try a few different things and he whispers, “That’s it. That’s what I want! Do it again.” And that’s the story of how I came to be the Emperor in The Empire Strikes Back. It’s a very small role, only about four or five lines, but because he is the fulcrum of the whole plot, the master, he ties it together.
KB: Did you have any idea that the Star Wars franchise would become as large as it did?
CR: Oh, no! No! I’m not exactly sure that anybody did! It took hold of the audience’s imagination. Imagination is in everyone and the moment you don’t see something, that’s when your imagination goes wild with possibility. That’s what made Star Wars one of the most, maybe even THE most, opulent and successful franchises in the history of motion pictures.
KB: Of all the characters you have portrayed, which has been your favorite?
CR: As a matter of fact, because I had a classic training, you always went to the truth of the situation and the character. But favorite? I was in “Irma La Douce” in Las Vegas at one point, or when I was being stabbed to death by Glenda Jackson in “The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade” with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Or standing on the stage with the Sadler’s Wells Opera House doing CoCo. I don’t think anyone else has ever done that! I’ve had a wide, wide career but I never went out and rattled the bushes. I was well represented but I saw that the whole industry had changed and did not seem to include me and what I was doing. It had changed. And I look at television these days and very little is left to the imagination.
K: Do you have any interesting fan experiences from the conventions that you have attended previously?
CR: I’ve never done anything like the convention in Dallas! I’m sort of tickled pink.
K: Are you excited to experience your first fan convention?
CR: I wouldn’t say I’m excited, I’ve been around too long, nothing much excites me anymore! *laughs* I’m moreso intrigued by it. I feel as if I’m being given a treat. I’ve never experienced this kind of event, but I get mail all the time from people who live for these kinds of moments and I respect that. They live for the “Once upon a time…” and the fairy tales, and Star Wars is a fairy tale as well. ‘There is a great disturbance in the Force.’
K: I’m sure you’re going to be saying that quote all weekend!
CR: No, I’m not! *laughs* We’ll see.
With so many different franchises to choose from, attendees are guaranteed to find something that tickles their specific fandom fancy. Dallas Comic-Con Fan Days is a three-day pop culture extravaganza October 17-19, 2014 at the Irving Convention Center, Irving, Texas, USA, where Clive Revill, and many other celebrity guests from all your favorite franchises, will be signing autographs! Tickets are available in one day and three day and can be purchased on the Dallas Comic-Con website at http://dallascomiccon.com/tickets. Be sure to check back here at Sub Cultured and on our Facebook page for all your fandom needs!
I just got around to watching Argo. Although terribly inaccurate Argo is a tense, oh-my-god-I-feel-nervous thriller. Ben Affleck is well on his way to becoming a great director (so far). He is similar to Clint Eastwood, although Eastwood is a good actor and a good director, Affleck is a meh actor and a great director. I suppose it all balances out.
Argo is about Tony Mendez, the CIA operative who led six United States diplomats out of Iran during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. Not having been born in 1979, Argo helped fill in some gaps and also helped clarify a great deal of Iran and Americas strained relationship. The problem being that Argo definitely paints America as the hero, Iran as the villain, and Canada as some strange bystander. In reality Canada was the hero, Iran was the semi-villain, and America kinda came in near the end and helped a bit. Aside from this, the story very closely follows the timeline and actual events of the situation even though several nail-biting sequences are thrown in to help up the tension for the audience. I guess the movie does say “Based on a true story” and not “100% the factual truth”. Whatevs.
The thing that really sells the concept is that Americas involvement at all was classified information until 1997, when former President Clinton declassified the information. Until then the sole credit of the operation went to Canada to prevent further complications to the hostage situation. The CIA basically helped get the hostages out by sending in Tony Mendez to play a fake film director of a fake sci-fi movie called Argo to rescue the six diplomats by teaching them to play fake writers, fake camera men, and fake directors. They also had a fake press conference to make Hollywood believe the movie was real along with fake posters, a fake script, and fake producers. Then they were simply to stroll they the heavily guarded airport with fake credentials, fake tickets, and fake identities. So up until 1997 people never knew this movie was a fake and that it simply had been stopped mid-production like so many other films. This makes for a unique thriller with an extra edge of mystery to it.
I definitely think you should watch this movie, with the only fault I have being that the movie is non-stop build up and the ending is just the inevitable sweet release. It doesn’t quite satisfy the story other than simply letting it up and then quickly ending it. Also Alan Arkin’s performance was garnering a lot of high praise and I didn’t find it anything above the norm. John Goodman is in the movie a little too if that’s your thing?
Here is to hoping that Ben continues to direct excellent movies. Since this movie has been out quite some time I am not going to assign a number score, but I definitely recommend it.
The Asian Film Festival of Dallas is very easy to summarize.
Get together in West Village at the Magnolia theater and watch a ton of movies that you would never get to see otherwise with a bunch of like-minded folk. Answer trivia and win free DVD’s, go to the bar and bring in a bottle of wine to your movie, talk with some of the film makers themselves, and afterwards all of West Village is available to you after you leave.
Featuring films from Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Korea, the Philipines, and even USA the AFFD was a blast and I will surely be going next year.
I will now quickly give my thoughts on every film I saw this year, in order that I saw them.
ACE ATTORNEY (JAPAN)
A good movie if you haven’t played the games and great movie if you have played the games.
LOVE FICTION (SOUTH KOREA)
A great romantic comedy with a sense of realism to it.
OVERHEARD 2 (HONG KONG)
Exciting and there is an exceptional motorcycle chase, but if you don’t understand the politics of the stock market, much of the movie can leave you lost.
DRAGON (HONG KONG)
My new favorite Donnie Yen film!
NIGHTFALL (HONG KONG)
This takes the cop vs serial killer formula and twists it to something fresh.
GYO (JAPAN)
What starts off with some potential turns into a wtf-fest.
THE GREAT MAGICIAN (HONG KONG)
A lot of fun, although it gets a little zany towards the end.
HEADSHOT (THAILAND)
A movie that could be really good, but they choose to jump back and forth in time without any reason far too often. There are some truly incredible scenes though, although I still felt the pacing of the movie was too strange.
DARK SHORTS (CANADA, SINGAPORE, SOUTH KOREA, USA)
This collection ranged from quirky, to terrifying, and even had a strong message with “Her Story”
GUNS N’ ROSES (CHINA)
The story goes in directions you wouldn’t guess and the final product is a bit of a mash-up, although I’d be lying if I said I didn’t like it.
SAYA-ZAMURAI (JAPAN)
Quite wonderful!! I’ve been humming “Megumiiiiiii” for days now.
YES OR NO (THAILAND)
Very girly (get it?)
I AM A GHOST (USA)
It starts a bit repetitive (on purpose) but this quickly becomes the films greatest strength and leads to some bone-chilling scares.
DEATH OF A CEMETERY (PHILLIPINES)
Extremely interesting, but not terribly exciting. You should still watch it!
TOO MANY VILLAINS (SOUTH KOREA)
A competent noir film with a dark flair
KURONEKO (JAPAN)
A good ghost story although the middle act is drawn out too long
AMOK (PHILLIPINES)
What starts off as an unconnected series of small dramas in a similar area, ties together for a pay off that is worth the wait.
CHINA HEAVYWEIGHT (CANADA, CHINA)
A great film, but I felt the final message was rather depressing.
HARA KIRI (JAPAN)
Incredible
10+10 (TAIWAN)
There are some great shorts in this and then a few that left me baffled.
DOOMSDAY BOOK (SOUTH KOREA)
A really great collection that gets better with every entry. The final one is a laugh riot.
As decided by a special jury, here are the official winners of this years AFFD…
Best Documentary Feature: CHINA HEAVYWEIGHT
Best Narrative Feature: LOVABLE
Special Jury Prize for Cinematography: PEARLS OF THE FAR EAST
Special Jury Prize for Acting: Yoo Hae-Jung, LOVABLE
Special Jury Prize for Advocacy Filmmaking: GIVE UP TOMORROW
Special Jury Mention: GOLDEN SLUMBERS
Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Performance: DAYLIGHT SAVINGS
AFFD is proud to announce the short film award winners:
Best Narrative Short: MODERN FAMILY
Special Jury Prize: LOVE LIKE ALIENS
Special Jury Award for Acting: GUEST