Mike Judge tiene dos caras en Hollywood. There's the TV star, who took a ton of heat but came out as one of the most daring and biting voices of satire in the 1990's with Beavis y Butthead Rey de la colina l. Then there's the film director, who was cajoled into the theatrical Beavis y Butthead Do America , pero ha trabajado en acción real desde entonces. Hizo dos películas durante 20th Espacio de oficina y 2006 Idiocracia ahora serán considerados clásicos de culto. Su película más reciente, de 2009. Extracto no prendió fuego al mundo del cine ( Extracto
is now available on DVD and Blu-ray), but it showed a less biting Judge doing what he does best: everyday life comedy. Perhaps that's why it wasn't abandoned, but it's also a film that may find more of an audience on home video. Mi cena con Mike Judge tras el salto.
Ron Livingston habló de que Judge tiene suficiente dinero como para no preocuparse por algunos elementos de esto, pero era difícil saber qué esperar de una cena con Judge. He's a very funny guy, and it's hard to know if he'd be personable or relaxed, or what. When Judge joined myself and a handful of online press, he immediately sneezed. Y luego se dio la mano (pero no la mano que estornudó). Everyone was given champagne, and Judge relaxed, even if he was surrounded by a bunch of questioning journalists. It's hard to know if the wine helped, but we were able to enjoy a rambling discussion over the course of a night of wine and four-course dinner. En un momento le dije: Este tiene que ser uno de sus cinco principales eventos de prensa, y él estuvo de acuerdo cuando ambos estábamos a punto de sumergirnos en nuestro bistec y langosta. So he are some excerpts from our chat.
P: Conté ocho Slave Leias este año.
Juez: Eso es guerra de las galaxias , ¿bien?
P: Sí. ¿Viste a alguien disfrazado de tus cosas?
Beavis y Butthead . MTV hizo que la gente los acompañara a videoconvenciones, y la forma en que están dibujados no se presta a la escultura o al tipo de cosas de H.R. Puffenstuff.
P: Vi a un presidente Camacho (de Idiocracia ) este año.
Judge: Oh yeah, that's really cool, that's awesome. Es la primera vez que oigo hablar de ello.
P: Tienes que darte cuenta de eso Espacio de oficina
Juez: Sí, he oído hablar de eso. Hay un extra en Extracto
Judge: Well, he's got the same hair, people think it's him. I wonder if the guy, if that extra did it on purpose. Aunque no creo que tenga gafas.
P: Vi el Beavis y Butthead promoción corta Extracto ¿Cómo sucedió eso?
Juez: Creo que estábamos simplemente en una reunión y alguien les sugirió que vieran una escena y comentaran sobre ella en el sofá, y no pudimos entenderlo, y yo ya los había animado al estilo Masterpiece Theatre, hablar de ello así sería bueno.
Judge: Not when I did it. Pero a él realmente le gustó. They played a cut down version of it on Letterman, and I think there was stuff Letterman would have liked that was cut out of it. Letterman raved about the movie when Bateman was on there, and after, and before.
Juez: Sí, nunca dijo mucho sobre Rey de la colinal o Espacio de oficina , pero definitivamente Beavis y Butthead , lo cual fue un gran problema en ese momento. And it was a time when everyone was coming down on the show. But he was a big supporter, him, and he would talk about it in interviews, which helped because initially it was 'oh this stupid show!' And he said he was a fan, and then like Stephen King, and Bernardo Bertolucci went on Leno and was just raving about it, so that really helped. It made people go 'Now, wait a second...'
Juez: No, lo desearía. Ha habido muchos fans al azar. Patrick Stewart would bring it up in interviews, and I heard Marlon Brando was really into it. Solía hacer Butthead. I never met him, I just heard Johnny Depp, when they were doing Don Juan DeMarco, Depp would be Beavis.
P: Tuviste que lidiar con muchas reacciones negativas.
Recuerdo que hubo un especial de Connie Chung en el que hablaba sobre el horrible estado de la televisión y la violencia, y apareció un comercial en el que decía: Y MTV incluso ha ido tan lejos como para nombrar uno de sus nuevos programas Beavis... y Butthead. It was just like 'oh my god, it's just rock bottom.' So I think it was a scapegoat served on a silver platter before it even went on air. But that's why it was so nice when someone like Letterman would admit they liked it.
Juez: Sí, en realidad esta vez fue algo divertido. Las cosas vendrán bien, tuve una cosa en la que una rata entró en mi cocina, hizo caca por todas partes, se metió en mi pan, y solo quería matar a esta rata, y compré una de esas viejas trampas para ratas Victory, y comencé a pensar que Beavis y Butthead contra una rata sería realmente bueno. Like they'd set the trap and forget and go 'oh, cheese.'
P: ¿Quizás hacerlo más viral?
Juez: Lo he pensado. Doing that for Extract made me think about doing more, maybe something starting out small. También miré algunas cosas que escribí hace un tiempo. Mientras escribía Idiocracy con Etan Coen, quien solía escribir en el programa, estábamos haciendo riffs de algunas cosas, yo estaba mirando algunas cosas que escribí en mi, hay algunas cosas que no hemos hecho. I would love to have them doing tech support, you call and get them.
P: ¿Se mudarían a Bangladesh?
Juez: There's another separate project where were thinking about Chris Elliot, where he moves to India to do a Bollywood movie, and ends up woking tech suppot. I'm a big Chris Elliot fan. Hollywood tends to think young, but when I was seventeen Rodney Dangerfield was all the rage, and Caddyshack, we couldn't get enough, and I think he was sixty when Back to School came out. And you can't predict a lot of things, it's hard to be an executive, but I think the problem is that Rodney Dangerfield wasn't trying to make romantic comedies, he wasn't with a twenty-five year-old girlfriend, he was just being himself, and he was carrying these movies that were huge. And there's great young actos, but there's also these older guys who are just funny. Chris Elliot could read the phone book and it'd be funny. Dangerfield was just playing his age in an appropriate way, and as a teenager we just loved it. (we quickly descended into a quote fest) I remember seeing that I couldn't wait until he was on screen again.
