God I love this guy...
Apr. 12th, 2007 10:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
proggrrl...and also, he scares me a bit.
NYPress: What’s your take on the sudden interest in low-budget cinema that’s come with mainstream films?
Lloyd Kaufman (Troma Films): I’m working on a movie called Poultrygeist. It’s about how the masses are being fed the Kool-Aid by the major media and then, like zombies, go out and eat junk food. That’s what the Grindhouse thing is all about. The major media gets word from the giant, devil-worshipping international conglomerates that own it, that say, “Now it’s time to promote Dreamgirls,” and therefore it’s Dreamgirls 24/7. We live in an age of zombies, and it’s particularly appropriate that I’m working on a zombie movie. So, here we’ve got big media saying, “OK, the big conglomerates have produced a movie called Grindhouse for 50 million dollars, so let’s brainwash everybody into going to see Grindhouse.
NYP: Has Troma gotten more mainstream attention since the promotion of Grindhouse?
LK: I’ve had major media calling me up all week, and you’ll see that this stuff is coming out in The New York Times and on television. The major media had no interest in Lloyd Kaufman when Troma had its 30th anniversary, a milestone in the history of cinema. The Times and the NY media have totally ignored the fact that we own a building in NY, that we’ve got a payroll in NY of people who’d be on welfare, for sure, if they weren’t working for Troma. They’ve ignored that we discovered Samuel Jackson, Vincent D’Onofrio, Kevin Costner, Toxic Avenger. The only thing the media might cover is if I blew my brains out in the middle of 9th Avenue. Now, as an excuse to do a piece on Grindhouse, the media comes to contact me, and therefore I will now be part of the Kool-Aid that brings the zombies into the theater.
NYPress: What’s your take on the sudden interest in low-budget cinema that’s come with mainstream films?
Lloyd Kaufman (Troma Films): I’m working on a movie called Poultrygeist. It’s about how the masses are being fed the Kool-Aid by the major media and then, like zombies, go out and eat junk food. That’s what the Grindhouse thing is all about. The major media gets word from the giant, devil-worshipping international conglomerates that own it, that say, “Now it’s time to promote Dreamgirls,” and therefore it’s Dreamgirls 24/7. We live in an age of zombies, and it’s particularly appropriate that I’m working on a zombie movie. So, here we’ve got big media saying, “OK, the big conglomerates have produced a movie called Grindhouse for 50 million dollars, so let’s brainwash everybody into going to see Grindhouse.
NYP: Has Troma gotten more mainstream attention since the promotion of Grindhouse?
LK: I’ve had major media calling me up all week, and you’ll see that this stuff is coming out in The New York Times and on television. The major media had no interest in Lloyd Kaufman when Troma had its 30th anniversary, a milestone in the history of cinema. The Times and the NY media have totally ignored the fact that we own a building in NY, that we’ve got a payroll in NY of people who’d be on welfare, for sure, if they weren’t working for Troma. They’ve ignored that we discovered Samuel Jackson, Vincent D’Onofrio, Kevin Costner, Toxic Avenger. The only thing the media might cover is if I blew my brains out in the middle of 9th Avenue. Now, as an excuse to do a piece on Grindhouse, the media comes to contact me, and therefore I will now be part of the Kool-Aid that brings the zombies into the theater.
