If you're into Crumb, you might want to check out the movie "Ghost World" (2000) starring Steve Buscemi, Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson. It's directed by the same guy (Terry Zwigoff) who directed "Crumb", and the story incorporates much of Crumb's life-view.
shareYeah the whole collecting of Old Antique records was based On Robert Crumb. In the credits they thanked Robert Crumb if you look all the way to the special thanks part of it.
shareGhost World is a great movie and Steve Buscemi, the guy who depicts a Crumb-like character in that movie, is awesome. Much more likeable than the real Crumb, though, IMO.
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Yes (Harvey Pekar).
shareI liked Buscemi's charachter, but I thought the overall movie was sort of dumb. The symbolism was overdone and felt really flat. It also felt like a cheap cop-out. Sure, she'd LIKE to get on a bus that goes nowhere, somewhere fanciful to escape the "real world", but come on. The world's hard, and even escapists find their way with dealing with it. I felt like the bus taking her away was a cop-out. It annoyed me that she just wrecklessly went through her post-senior year summer school life not giving a tinker's damn about anybody else, but even though that's extreme, it's realistic.
Then, she gets on a bus that goes to nowhere. BOO!
The movie also tries too hard to force the viewer to sympathize with Thora Birch's charachter. Of course the movie would suck if it would have been portrayed with indifference, or if it went overly moral on her, but sometimes it almost seemed Frank Cappra-ish in sappy indulgence of her egocentric self pity.
I wanted to like this movie, especially since there was so much great hot jazz peppered into it in such a muted way. But meh...it made me feel too much like a pretentious 16 year old.
I've read interviews with Terry Zwigoff and he claims Buscemi's character is based on himself (Terry Zwigoff).
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I remember the ending, Thora Birch's leaving on bus, was developed from the book. Maybe a little sentimental and symbolic, but not really too much.
shareNot necessarily responding to a post 10 years old but to anyone reading that and deciding not to view Ghost World.
Ghost World is based on a comic. In the comic world (art) not all things are real as we know it. Its a lot of symbolism and allegory. But the situations reflect thoughts of every day existentialism, especially thoughts of someone moving from 12 years of controlled environment, school, to being on your own (and maybe with 1 friend) in real world. Knowing it is a comic made into a movie with real people you can appreciate it more, I hope.
Ghost World for me is a masterpiece!
Sophie Crumb actually did all of Enid's drawings. When I saw Dan Clowes in Berkeley, he said he wanted to have a young girl around Enid's age to do the drawings, so he had Sophie do them.
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"Ghost World" was a MUCH MUCH better film that this boring, disgusting piece of crap!
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