...and I don't want to pony up $2 to post to a dang message board at View Askew! This film didn't even ATTEMPT to explain how a 16mm indy film by a relative unknown get clearances for such an itchin' soundtrack! Near as I could tell they didn't even mention the music. We taped it and the tape ran out, but they weren't even getting warm. Anybody know anything substantial on the subject?
shareI'm pretty sure that the soundtrack was added after Clerks was picked up by Miramax, explaining the funding
shareI think they even mention in the film that Miramax added the soundtrack. If you have the Clerks X DVD you can watch the original pre Miramax version of the film. There is no real soundtrack to speak of in that version with the exception of one or two songs.
shareWhen sitting down with Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier to buy Clerks:
"....We're gonna put a *beep* soundtrack on this thing...."
- Harvey Weinstein
Sony offered a soundtrack deal at Cannes, according to the Snowball outtakes. No doubt Miramax picking it Sundance helped.
shareI believe Clerks still holds the mark for being the only movie in history where the cost for purchasing the rights to the soundtrack was more than the actual cost of producing the film.
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Hell, Sony's budget for the Soul Assylum video originally was more then the movie.
"Enough is enough. I've had it with these snakes"
-- Nelville Flynn, Snakes on a Plane
If you watch the first cut (which is on disc two), only "Clerks" by Love Among Freaks and the Looney Tunes sound cue at the end of the hockey scene were there before Mirimax got a hold of it.
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