Richard Linklater's Slacker (1991) and Bernie (2011)
Posted 12-27-2014 at 08:29 AM by oeccscclhjhn
Updated 01-09-2015 at 07:35 AM by oeccscclhjhn (title change :))
Updated 01-09-2015 at 07:35 AM by oeccscclhjhn (title change :))
Richard Linklater sure has an interesting filmography. Slacker is his second film, and his first, It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988) is one of the supplements in the Criterion Collection dvd (or Blu-ray). In his commentary he mentions all of the actors are musicians unless otherwise noted. He plays the first character and mentions the first scene is actually a continuation of his first film. I also found these 2 articles about one of his Jack Black films, Bernie (2011):
Murderer Who Inspired Bernie Is Free, Crashing With Director of Bernie
Bernie Tiede freed, will live with Austin filmmaker Richard Linklater
Next up: Boyhood (2014), January 2015 Netflix dvd release.
One of the slackers:
Bernie:
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Murderer Who Inspired Bernie Is Free, Crashing With Director of Bernie
Bernie Tiede freed, will live with Austin filmmaker Richard Linklater
Next up: Boyhood (2014), January 2015 Netflix dvd release.
One of the slackers:
Bernie:
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Linklater's films are truly unique, but beyond that it is unprecedented he moved in with this guy Tiede who was an ex-convict. It sounds like there was a very good reason for the lighter sentence. I wish we all knew more of the story behind all this. If words can't describe it that well, the Linklater musician cast group would be the best thing I can think of.
I liked reading the first link and how they said even Tiede's own inmates looked up to him. It was clearly not a lame excuse he was a sexually abused victim himself. Stories like this also disprove any steteotype of Texas being a capital punishment state. People are people and there's true redemption.Posted 12-27-2014 at 01:47 PM by Ericthebean
