The_Film_That_Changed_My_Life

240 Kevin Smith
What was your reaction to Waking Life, Slacker’s unofficial sequel and
sister movie?
Smith: This is horrible: I’ve never seen it. And part of the reason I’ve never
seen it was, someone was like, “Hey man, it’s the perfect companion piece
to Slacker.” And to me there will never be a perfect companion piece to
Slacker. So I almost didn’t want to taint the Slacker experience on some
level. On the other level, I just found that kind of animation grating and
hard to take. Because I watched a five-minute sequence of that stuff, not
necessarily from that movie but of that type of animation, and I just found
it a little hard to take.
You should give it chance.
Smith: I will totally give it a chance. I also bought Tape; I really wanted to
watch Tape and I’ve never gotten around to watching it. I loved School of
Rock, though.
I saw that at a midnight screening, and it was one of the few movies
I’ve seen where people spontaneously applaud. That’s when you have
something.
Smith: Something special. What was really weird was watching the effect
that that film had on the next generation of Smiths. I took my kid to see that
movie three times in the theater, and each time the movie got her off her ass,
into the aisles of the theater, dancing and pretending to be onstage, pretending
to be in the kids’ group.
A Linklater movie got her off her ass and really kind of inspired her to
do something.
It was weird. I was always kind of charmed by that, ’cause I was like,
“Man, like father, like daughter.”