Smith returned to the movie that started his career and marks the first true sequel within the View Askewniverse. After Randal accidentally burns down the Quick Stop store, he and Dante get jobs at a fast-food restaurant where, of course, Jay and Silent Bob begin hanging out. It also seemed to ignite Smith's interest in returning to some of his old characters. Though the movie prominently features the Quick Stop, the fact that it is rebuilt by the end of Clerks II allows this movie to take place afterward.
Also, the fact that Bluntman and Chronic fight supervillains like the Cocknocker firmly places their second animated romp after Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back since these characters only appear in the later parts of the View Askewniverse. While the View Askewniverse may have been a pioneer in terms of building a cinematic universe, it followed the established Hollywood trend of reboots in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot.
The movie followed the same basic premise of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back only with the titular heroes attempting to stop a reboot of Bluntman and Chronic this time around. The movie features plenty of familiar faces from throughout the View Askewniverse while also allowing the central characters to grow more into adults with Jay discovering he has a daughter leading to some of the most heartfelt moments in the View Askewniverse.
The movie will reportedly follow Randal, after having a heart attack, deciding to make a movie based on his time at the Quick Stop. The movie will be an interesting looking at the older lives of these characters and how they have changed over the years.
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Clerks II R 97 min Comedy 7. Originally, Smith wrote the role of Randal Graves for himself, but after realizing he could not write, direct, work in the store, and take a starring role at the same time, he cast himself in the smaller role of Silent Bob and began searching for someone to play Randal. A Quick Stop convenience store located at 58 N. He was only allowed to film in the store at night while it was closed from p.
This is why in the film "someone jammed gum in the locks" and the steel shutters had to remain closed; otherwise, it would seem odd that it was dark outside during all the daytime scenes. Because Smith was working at Quick Stop during the day and shooting the film at night, he slept no more than an hour a day.
By the end of the 21 day shoot, Smith was unable to stay awake while some of the most climactic scenes of the film were shot. Several members of Smith's family played roles in the film due to budget constraints. When Dante is discussing the "Milk Maids", the shopper shown is Smith's mother and the customer whose job it is to "manually masturbate caged animals for artificial insemination" is played by Smith's sister, Virginia.
Several of Smith's childhood friends also play roles in the film. Walt never intended to play this many roles Smith would often, in jest, refer to Flanagan as "the Lon Chaney of the '90s". As one of Smith's friends who was present often during filming as either extra help or just moral support, it fell to Walt to play these characters when the actors Smith originally got to play them just didn't show up. Dante's beard changes throughout the film because Smith asked Brian O'Halloran to shave his goatee before filming started.
After seeing what O'Halloran looked like without it, Smith told him to grow it back. Thus, the scenes earlier in the shoot show a thinner beard, while later ones show Dante with a thicker goatee, as it had longer to grow back. In the scene where Randal lists the names of the porno movies he needs to order, he and the Happy Scrappy Hero Pup lady are not actually in the room at the same time.
Jeff Anderson refused to read the list of porno films in front of her, and particularly in front of the child although the reaction shots of the Happy Scrappy Hero Pup lady were obtained by a crew member reading the same list to her. In fact, Anderson also felt uncomfortable about knowing his mother would watch the film and hear the list and he, embarrassed, gave the list back to Smith to cut it down - mere seconds before shooting, Smith passed the list back to Anderson with a few more added for good measure.
After Randal leaves, Dante proceeds to count out the register and does not notice another person entering the store. Upon informing the latecomer that the store is no longer open, the customer shoots Dante, killing him. Afterwards, he makes off with the money from the cash register. The sequence ends with Dante's dead face looking off past the camera; after the credits roll, a customer played by Smith, with his beard shaved off comes into the store, sees no one around Dante is lying behind the counter and steals some cigarettes.
The depressing ending was criticized by Smith's mentors Bob Hawk and John Pierson after its first screening at the Independent Feature Film Market, and it was under Pierson's advice that Smith cut the ending short, deleting Dante's death and ending the movie with Randal's departure.
Fans have since analyzed the death of Dante as an homage to The Empire Strikes Back , which is discussed earlier in the film as Dante's favorite Star Wars movie because "it ended on such a down note. Smith said it concluded this way because he "didn't know how to end a film. X , the tenth anniversary special edition; the lost ending itself was among the extras on the Laserdisc and the DVD release; in his commentary on the DVD, Smith states that had he kept the original ending, there would have likely been no further View Askewniverse films.
The culprit in question was played by Smith's cousin John Willyung , who would go on to appear in later Smith films most notably as " Cohee Lunden " in Chasing Amy. The MPAA originally gave Clerks an NC rating, based purely on the film's explicit dialogue — it contains no real violence, and no clearly depicted nudity. This was a financial death sentence, as very few cinemas in the United States will screen NC films.
Miramax hired civil liberties lawyer Alan Dershowitz to appeal the decision; the MPAA relented and re-rated the film with the more commercial "R" rating, without altering a single frame or word. This film is also number 33 on Bravo's Funniest Movies.
Often the items that the customers are purchasing are strangely and coincidentally relevant to the topics the characters are discussing. For example, the woman who interrupts Dante and Veronica's conversation about oral sex is purchasing Vaseline and rubber gloves.
The offended customer in the "Jizz Mopper" scene is purchasing Windex and paper towels. The woman who "manually masturbates caged animals for artificial insemination" is purchasing jerky.
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