Stephen Duesner interviews Joel for Salon.com.
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Wow, Joel nails it with this comment:
“The way I describe it is, we worked with the movies to make this new thing. We applied our special sauce to the movie and made a new work out of it. In the case of “Manos,” I think “Manos” got its sauce on us. The thing people love about it is that it’s such a strange and fascinating movie. But I don’t feel we were especially funny during it.”
I think that happened with several of the movies. although I wouldn’t have picked Manos, necessarily.
That was a neat-o little interview.
Torgo’s Special Sauce?! Brain bleach, stat!
nice interview indeed!
That was really great! Joel getting all philosophical about ripping on bad movies. Could you love him more?
Woah, Joel gave approval for Cartoon Lagoon.
Loved this quote:
“On the first day of class, the first thing I said was, the real secret of movie riffing is you can’t be an dickweed. You’re a companion to the people watching, and people don’t want to spend time with people who are dickweeds. The coloring-book version of movie riffing is being really cynical and finding fault with everything, but it’s unfair because the movies are old and they can’t defend themselves. So you really can’t take that position. Boy, did you ever screw up making this movie! It doesn’t work. That was really the first thing I tried to impose on them.”
“I was really naive and as far outside of show business as you could get. I grew up in the Midwest. The first time I ever knew of a guy making movies anywhere near me was Bill Rebane. He did ‘Giant Spider Invasion’ not too far from where I lived. I remember him being on TV in Green Bay doing P.R. They were in the process of shooting, and he was trying to recruit people to be in this movie. That was my first experience, and it made me feel glamorous that it was even happening in my state.”
Just think, “The Giant Spider Invasion” could have potentially featured a young Joel Hodgson.
Really sounds like Joel disapproves of the edgier Rifftrax style. I still like it better and yes, I would spend time with those guys.