LinkTGF said:
There are some deleted / extended scenes, but nothing that I think would alter it too much.
If you're trying to emulate the original Clerks, then definitely take into consideration cutting it how Kevin would have in 1994 and budget constraints, like the opening scene with the fire, definitely not in the original film's 27,000 dollar budget. Maybe you can have it start with them working at mooby's and use the drive by of the quick stop to on the drive to mooby's to explain that, or rather let the dialogue do the work for you. Back then Kevin relied HEAVILY on dialogue to move the story and it's the same here but he does provide the visuals most times in this one... so cutting out that kinda stuff would help.
Unfortunately, if doing it in that line of thinking, you might even have to cut out alot of wide exterior shots, the donkey show and such...
Also, if wanting to add something in to make it like Clerks, why not add in the Flying Car short film somewhere in there? maybe on the way to work? idk. maybe it's not even possible (diff model car, clothes, etc)
Just some ideas.
Yeah, there's gonna have to be some compromises in the sense that there are just way too many latter-day-Kevin shots in the film to really make it look like the first one. In the first one, there was no angling, everything was a straight-ahead shot at the subject, it was all very basic. The most complex camera work in the whole flick was the Big Choice Video scene, unless I'm forgetting something. So that's a compromise that has to happen. The "We totally do" bit, for example, one of the funniest Jay and Bob moments ever, doesn't look like a Clerks I shot.
I'm gonna go scene by scene and see what can stay and what absolutely must go. I think you're right about the fire scene, but I don't know how to replace it. I was thinking about that drive to Mooby's, but that's one of the things I want to cut. I don't like it. It's very un-Clerks. I wish Kevin would have filmed the Where's The Beef? stuff instead of making it a comic book. That drive in the car would have helped tremendously with cutting the fire scene. Still, the fire scene really does need to go, at least the part with the fire trucks.
I don't think the donkey show has to go. For one thing, I don't think it CAN go. Without that scene, the movie has no resolution. That's where Dante's relationship with Emma ends, his relationship with Becky begins, and everybody ends up in jail. The entire ending of the film is set up right there. But I don't think it's too much of a problem. It is a pretty glitzy shot, but hopefully it'll be the glitziest one in the entire re-cut.
I like your idea about adding in The Flying Car. I might even look at the Jay & Bob MTV shorts.
I'm gonna watch the film again and notate what I want to cut and change. I'll post that here, and then I'll start asking for suggestions. In the meantime, feel free to suggest away.