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kleinbl00  ·  3717 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Movie Club - Voting Thread #6

It's screamingly inside baseball. A lot of the shit they talk about is still entirely spot on.

I also recommend Swimming with Sharks. George Huang, having met Robert Rodriguez on his way up, quit his job as an assistant and put it together. There's a great scene in which Frank Whaley is talking to a bunch of other assistants about meeting with Shelley Winters and asking her to screentest at which point she whips out an Oscar. Then he continues and she whips out another Oscar. One of the assistants says "Who's Shelly Winter?"

I know a young producer who was sitting down at a meeting with a bunch of other young producers and one of them was bitching about old, has-been screenwriters that have no place taking meetings, and that he had to meet with this "milly guy" that day. "Milly guy?" "Yeah, jim... joe... milly something."

"John Milius?"

"Yeah, him."