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In fact, Hooper gets to be the leading light in one of Kevin Smith’s funniest scenes, period (the infamous “37 dicks” conversation in Clerksis pretty close), where he goes on a rant about how the Star Wars trilogy is Nazi propaganda, then ends up pulling a gun and yelling “Black rage!” as the audience (Sans Holden, Banky, and Alyssa, who are in on the joke) flees the Minority in Comics Panel.
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Especially in comedies, I think an LGBTQ character is well-represented when they are making the jokes and not just the butt of jokes.
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Also, neither Alyssa nor Hooper die or suffer any great tragedy. One thing that was pretty revolutionary for this 1997 film was its inclusion of well-crafted lesbian and gay characters in Alyssa and the African-American cartoonist Hooper X (Dwight Ewell), who is the creator of White Hating Coon (and definitely thinks Archie and Jughead were gay lovers). There are other parallels, like Holden lamenting the fact that he wants to do more meaningful comics work than weed-themed superheroes, just like Kevin Smith wasn’t feeling so hot after he made the studio film Mallrats, which was critically-panned and barely made back one-third of its budget. So, the scene where Smith gives his longest ever Silent Bob monologue is basically him lecturing a past version of himself that happens to be played by a teary-eyed Ben Affleck. However, things don’t end up going well when Holden can’t come to terms with Alyssa’s sexual past.Ĭhasing Amy is easily writer/director Kevin Smith’s most personal film, and its central romance plot was based on his previous romantic relationship with Adams, as well as his inability to come to terms with her past. Holden ends up falling for a lesbian comics creator named Alyssa Jones (Adams), and against all odds, they have a romantic relationship. Not bad for a film about a cartoonist named Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck),who has found commercial success as co-creator of the popular dick and fart joke filled Bluntman and Chronic superhero comic with his homophobic, irascible best friend Banky Edwards (Jason Lee). It ended up grossing 48 times that, won two Independent Spirit Awards, and garnered a nomination for a Best Actress Golden Globe for Joey Lauren Adams. Featuring a lead actor who would win an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting the next year, and then go on to play both Daredevil and Batman, Chasing Amy was only made for $250,000.
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In April 1997, a little indie movie that opened with comic book art (a full three years before X-Men) was released in three theatres.