Last night we watched Zack and Miri Make a Porno, which was
pretty good. Really raunchy, but sweet and funny. It stars Seth Rogan
and Elizabeth Banks, and I think that it just might be my favorite
Kevin Smith film to date.
Up until now, Seth Rogan has rarely crossed my mind. We refer to him around the house as "the guy who talks like Cookie Monster." I sometimes get him confused with this guy:
This guy is, in fact, Jonah Hill - and I think he's funnier and less vocally absurd than Seth Rogan, who is this guy:
Like Paul Giamatti in Sideways, Seth Rogan is also one of my pet peeves for movies that cast really hot chicks dating fat hairy guys. Zack and Miri is an example of such casting (although the backstory does a decent job of making it plausible). Knocked Up is another example, more egregious.
Anyway, after the movie ended, we wanted MORE!!!! And the only other movie we had lying around from
Netflix was The Deerhunter. So...instead we watched the extras of Zack and Miri,
which included a "making of" video. And here's where it gets weird.
The point of that video, as far as
we could tell, is that Seth Rogan actually controls Hollywood. Some of the evidence:
- He ad-libbed significant aspects of the dialogue, originally written by his director/screenwriter Kevin Smith. And Kevin Smith appeared to believe that Seth Rogan's improv-ing was an improv-ment over the original dialogue.
- Kevin Smith and his producer "consulted" with Seth as to how to cast the other roles in the movie. Seth's buddies got hired. They all speak as if they were in Seth Rogan's movie, not Kevin Smith's movie.
- Seth Rogan also "consulted" on who the star of Knocked Up would be (ultimately, Katharine Blechhh Hiegl). He is the kingmaker over the careers of young starlets, apparently.
And so on. Who is this Seth Rogan? And how did he get so important? And why, why, why, does he talk like Cookie Monster?
The mind reels.
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