Ow, my soul...

[meresy]

The third part of Ash Carter's Bruce McD interview is up.

Bruce, I love you, I really do. But, really.

REALLY?

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[mrs_laugh_track]

See I have a different feeling on all this.

But we want the scripts and the projects to be great, and we’ve spent a lot of time knocking ideas around. So they won’t be Hard Core Logo, but there may be this little tracer of continuity. Just something to sort of amuse ourselves.

That's totally a good thing to me. Because like if it were trying too hard to connect then they would be more of a danger to damaging the original movie. But instead it's just going to be a great movie about a hot awesome girl band with a nod to HCL. Right on I say. Right on. Because really HCL was something special and trying to hard to recapture it would be so difficult but paying tribute to it by letting it touch what is clearly a separate movie is really cool to me.

(Er, of course these thoughts are possibly colored by the fact that in my head the movie is going to be kind of like my HCL cheerleader AU even though it probably wont be at all.)

[brynnmck]

YES. That's how I interpreted that, as well (well, except for the cheerleader AU part ♥). The more they can keep this a passing-reference, inside-joke kinda thing, the better, I think.

Because really HCL was something special and trying to hard to recapture it would be so difficult but paying tribute to it by letting it touch what is clearly a separate movie is really cool to me.

Beautiful. Yes.

[meresy]

The more they can keep this a passing-reference, inside-joke kinda thing, the better, I think.

The better I can ignore it if it becomes as camp as I fear.

Fact about Meres: I hate camp kind of a lot. I like the the orginal HCL far better when I forget it was ever trying to be comedy.

I just don't trust in their subtlety, at the moment. /m\

[brynnmck]

The weird thing to me about all of this is that, after having heard them all talk about it, it's clear to me that they all understand what HCL was about, and what made it so compelling. (I think that's one huge way that shows and franchises go wrong: they don't understand what they've got. I don't think that's the issue here.) And they also understand that it's important to people, and that it's been pretty enduring in a business with a really short memory. So... that gives me a weird sort of hope, I guess. Though I will admit that Hard Core Solo sounds highly, highly dubious. (Sorry, Hugh. I love Joe, but a whole movie about him and Bucky and Bruce? WHAT?) And that, much as I love Bruce, he is generally not so much with the subtle. So... I could see it going either way

[meresy]

Right. I think they do have a good handle on what worked and what didn't -- and it's telling that, say, the cut the whole silly "skinhead" thing from the original. "Seamless!" as Reg, says. On the other hand... here are some guys who actually filmed that at all. /o\ More than a decade down the road, though, who knows?

Just, yeah. Dubious, for now.

[meresy]

Mostly it comes down to writer trust, with me. I trust Daniel MacIvor to be subtle and awesome and bring themey goodness to a two-man show... I don't know what to expect from a Bruce and Hugh co-write on something entitled "Still Hard." It sounds campy. I hate camp more often than not. Like SB has said before... Bruce is occasionally too easily influenced, which on the one hand might be a good thing, but on the other... the man's not a writer, most of the time. *wills them a modicum of subtlety*

If they film HCL cheerleader AU I will be in like Flynn, though. :P

[mrs_laugh_track]

Ah. Ok. See, I love campy things. Kind of a lot. (I'm sure this is SHOCKING to you no?) So that's probably part of it.

[meresy]

Diverging tastes, Sonia? Say it ain't so! :P

Certain kinds of humour gives me the cringies. It's a fine line with me, really, but I vastly prefer sarcasm to hijinks, you know? Anything vaguely sitcom-y makes me hide.

[malnpudl]

Yep. I'm with you. That's how I read it.

Then again, I have a lot of trust in Bruce, based on his past track record.

Even though he's a mindfucker. Or maybe because of it. Hard to say. *g*

[_unhurt_]

hee. you LIKE when he, erm, plays with you, hmmm?

[meresy]

I do trust Bruce, and I suppose Claire taught him not to cave to his collaborators too much, but you never know what new influence my have him turn out.

We'll have to wait and see!

[belmanoir]

yes!! yay girl bands! also i am also kind of imagining it as jo/billie. i hope that isn't ENTIRELY delusional.