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Lloyd Kaufman, the writer/producer/director of such cult-classic films as The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke Em High, and Tromeo and Juliet, offers a guide to movie-making unlike any other available anywhere. In 25 years, Kaufman, along with partner Michael Herz, has built Troma Studios up from a company struggling to find its voice in a field crowded with competitors to its current--and legendary--status as a lone survivor, a bastion of true cinematic independence, and the worlds greatest collection of camp on film. As entertaining and funny as it is informative and insightful, Make Your Own Damn Movie! places Kaufmans radically low-budget, independent-studio style of filmaking directly in the readers hands. Thus we learn how to: develop and write a knock-out screenplay; raise funding; find locations and cast actors; hire a crew; obtain equipment, permits, and music rights (all for little or no money); make incredible special effects for $0.79 each; charm, schmooze, and network while on the film-festival circuit; and, finally, make a bad actor act so bad its actually good. From scriptwriting and directing to financing and marketing, this book is brimming with utterly off-the-wall, decidedly maverick, yet consistently proven advice on how to fully develop ones idea for an independent film.
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My Own Damn eternal appreciation to Michael and Maris Herz.
My Own Damn gratitude to Elizabeth Beier (my own damn editrix and green-lighting goddess), Jerome Rudes and Fifi Oscard (my own damn wonderful literary agents).
My Own Damn thanks to: Michael Connor (my own damn brilliant editor), Adam Jahnke, Trent Haaga, Gabe Friedman, Megan Powers, Sean McGrath, Doug Sakmann, Brian McNulty, Jamie Greco, Trey Parker, Perry Lerner, Alan Quasha, Jonathan Foster, James Gunn, Fiona Apple, Jean Loscalzo, Eric Raab, Andrew Rye, Frank Reynolds, Sonja Shultz, Julie Strain, Kevin Eastman, Tim Considine, Karen Tepper, John Karle, R. L. Kaufman, Sigrun Kaufman, Susan Kaufman, Charles Kaufman, Lilly Hayes Kaufman, Lisbeth Kaufman, Charlotte Kaufman, and Jay North, as the Beaver.
Special thanks to: James L. Brooks (for calling attention to my work in The New York Times ).
No thanks to: Viacom, New Corp, Vivendi, AOL Time Warner, Sony and other devil-worshipping international media conglomerates.
All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger The Shocking True Story of Troma Studios
The Big Emotional Spielberg Ending
Back in New York, sitting at my desk alone in the Troma Building. Its late on a Friday night and all the Troma employees have either gone home or passed out at their desks. Once again, its been a piss-poor day. Citizen Toxie has become a major success, with theaters calling from across the country to book the movie. Of course, in the world of independent cinema, a major success is relative. Most major successes in the film world are movies that gross over $100 million and play for months theatrically. In Troma, a major success is a movie that plays at more than one theater, usually for about two or three days. And even this paltry release seems to be beyond our capabilities. Because we cant afford to make more than seventeen prints, were double-booking Citizen Toxie left and right, pissing off theaters, media, and promotional partners from sea to shining sea. Only Troma could instantly turn a hit movie into a major scheduling disaster. Were getting some good reviews when we can get it reviewed at all. But for every bit of unexpected praise we get from papers like The New York Times , there are half a dozen major players like the Los Angeles Times that ignore the movie completely.
At the same time, weve been working on getting money for our next movie. We have two projects in development: Saving Private Toxie:The Toxic Avenger V and a Troma zombie movie about fast food tentatively titled Poultry Geist . My preference would be to do the zombie movie, so of course the potential investors have shown considerably more interest in the Toxie sequel. But interest isnt the same as investors, so right now, we have absolutely nothing in the pipeline and even if we did, we dont have anything even remotely close to a filmable script for either project.
In fact, the only thing were working on is the DV Dogpile 95 feature Tales From the Crapper . Weve been working on this fucking thing for what seems like an eternity now. So much for Trents big theory that shooting on video is faster and more efficient. On one of my last visits to Los Angeles, we shot a significant amount of additional footage. The new scenes were funny, controversial, and, according to the editors, completely superfluous. Sean McGrath and Brian McNulty, who are editing the films, were extremely pissed off at me for shooting a bunch of shit with rabbit-fucking and people dancing in Osama bin Laden masks instead of the simple inserts and establishing shots they actually need to finish the goddamn stories.
We also received news from Canada that Rod Gudino, the editorin-chief of Rue Morgue magazine, took it upon himself to phone up the Bravo television network in Canada to encourage them to program some Troma films. He didnt get far, though. The acquisitions person at Bravo told Rod that Bravo wont deal with Troma on principle. So somehow the Troma name has stigmatized over 950 movies, including films starring Sissy Spacek, Robert De Niro, and Dustin Hoffman, andalso films directed by Trey Parker, Brian De Palma, and John G. Avildsen. Just by being associated with me, I have prevented these peoples films from being shown on Canadian television. I cant imagine what principle weve violated to prevent Bravo from showing these movies but it must have been something truly horrendous.
It seems that a lot of people refuse to be associated with Troma on principle. The Tromadu sequence in Citizen Toxie was shot at the Playboy Mansion at a cost of $25,000 for the day. While we were there, we shot a tiny cameo appearance by Hugh Hefner himself. A few months later, we received a letter from Hefs lawyers threatening us with litigation unless we cut Hefner out of the picture. Apparently he was concerned that his squeaky clean image would be compromised by appearing in a Troma film. I guess our money was good, but our movies were not. Not only that, but we offered a role to porn star Jenna Jameson, who, I was informed, flat-out refused to have anything to do with the movie once she read the script. Apparently having a strangers cum dribble out of your engorged asshole is more respectable than appearing for five minutes in a Troma film.
8/11/02
RE: Epilogues
Dear Mr. Kaufman,
Its Andrew, the British bloke, here again from page 213. I write in urgency to denounce the allegation that I went through your bag while you were staying with me in September of 2001! Naturally, I refute your every implication. It was my brother.
So far the book has been an invaluable source of informationon how to make ones own damn movie. I am now reading this last chapter: the epilogue of the book. And suddenly, a thought occured in my brain.
May I suggest that you write a how to write your own damn epligoue for your epilogue? It might be an idea to outline why exactly one writes an epilogue. For example, Tromeo and Juliet has a fantastic epilogue to juxtapose the prologue and round out the story satisfactorily. I live in the UK everyday and have been brought up on all of Shakespeares novels and Dickenss plays and stuff, so I know what Im talking about. Please try to include a brief guide on how to write ones own damn epilogue and also, perhaps, outline why prologues are necessary after that. I feel this would be an invaluable resource for your readers.
Another final thought. Right now the book end on page 322 with the line However, I believe they flipped me off good-naturedly. In my experience in book writing, which is lots, I find it better to end on a witty and amusing sentence such as The End or Fin. A quick, concise and witty conclusion to any text, at least for us Britons, is of paramount impotence.
Yours Severely,
Andrew Mackay
editor and founder of toxie.com
The Official UK Troma Fan Site
Andrew Mackay
editor and founder of toxie.com
The Official UK Troma Fan Site
But the best news of the day came from overseas. The Carlton Hotel in Cannes, Tromas base of operations for as long as weve been attending the festival and the nerve center of the entire Cannes market, informed us today that Troma will not be allowed back this year. The excuse is that the hotel is already booked to capacity. This strikes me as curious, considering its about half a year until the festival and the entire world is currently in the grips of a recession. It seems far more likely that the hotel is still pissed off about the events at last years festival, when Doug Sakmann traipsed through the lobby drenched in fake blood and the big wheels across the hall at Warner Bros. bitched constantly about the noise and activity coming from the Troma office. But according to the Carlton, it has nothing to do with any of that. Its simply that every studio, distributor, and independent filmmaker, including those teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, have already planned ahead and booked costly rooms in an expensive French hotel. For the first time in decades, Troma is homeless in Cannes.
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