Swimming with Sharks
If you’re lucky you might have heard of this comedy called Swimming with Sharks. It’s a bit udnerrated and it seems like quite a lot of people haven’t even heard of it. I know, I know. “You shouldn’t hold this against them.” Well, I do. It is their fault. Really. They don’t have to be that ignorant. Fifty five billion people run out to see three slow-paced and boring movies about a whining maggot of a haiy-feeted dwarf who with his boring cardboard friends cross the continent to pay visit to a volcano, but they can’t find a wonderfully acted black comedy about a man who has this really horrible boss? (Ok, so I like shitty movies too, but at least I’m aware of the fact that they’re shit.)
“Decaf!? People, what’s the fucking point!?”
(—- Rex in a deleted scene )
Quite a lot in the movie is based on real life from when the director/writer George Huang worked as an assistant in Hollywood, not just from his own experience but it also uses storie he heard from other assistants. It has few characters, only three that really matter. It has a wonderful dialogue and it’s well-acted all the way—with actors like Kevin Spacey, Frank Whaley, Michelle Forbes and Benicio Del Toro you can’t really go wrong. Of course it never really had a chance at the box office as it was only shown on two or so screens across the entire USA.
—You wanna talk big directors? Think Attenborough, think Spielberg, think Lean.
—Lean’s dead.
—No he’s not, don’t you ever say that. He’s just unavailable.
(—-Buddy and Guy have a conversation )
Now it’s out on a shiny new special edition—the previous edition was a bargin-bin thing with only an excellent commentary track as extras and that’s only because George fought to include it in the first place. The new edition has the same commentary track and two more, deleted scenes and some feutrettes. It too is dirt cheap, so you would be a fool and a moron not to buy it.
