Joe Eszterhas interview (2000)

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[@chapterblaq]

23:35 I'm glad he talked about that scene and said it was a mistake. Cause it was...I was really feeling Showgirls until that scene...and that shit made me never wanna see the movie again.

[@stevesalt2921]

Charlie's questioning is all over the place.

[@PhilAndersonOutside]

The reason may be, at times, because Charlie himself got caught up in “me too” scandals from his own past.

[@curbozerboomer1773]

Charlie himself, had that same "clinton" syndrome that the president had...and he got into troubles over it....this is an ironic interview!

[@charleswinokoor6023]

I've got an ancient copy of Rolling Stone stashed away that featured a short story he wrote that had something to do with dosing families at some sort of campgrounds with LSD. It's been so long that I read it that I'm foggy on details. But I remember that it was both darkly humorous and cruel.

[@steveconn]

Showgirls so bad it makes you doubt the worth of screenwriting, but Eszterhas does have a certain swagger of his own.

[@charleswinokoor6023]

Lots of primates have a tendency to swagger about. I’ve got an ancient copy of Rolling Stone stashed away that featured a short story he wrote that had something to do with dosing families at some sort of campgrounds with LSD. It’s been so long that I read it that I’m foggy on details. But I remember that it was both darkly funny and cruel.

[@cidvasconcelos6919]

Tradução de comentário crítico sobre Eszterhas por David Thomson: magiadoreal.blogspot.com/2020/07/o-dicionario-biografico-de-cinema38-joe.html

[@roberttownsend7397]

Joe became rich by writing a load of thrash which by a freak set of conditions which will never occur again, he was able to sell to the movie studios. He was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for screenplays that were never produced as well as making million from the trashy movies which were actually made. He hated fellow screenwriter Bill Goldman who had written Butch Cassidy, The Longest Day and many other quality movies and although they never met, Joe insulted Goldman at every opportunity. Goldman being above such stuff, naturally never replied.

[@oliverhanks4900]

He does not hate Bill Goldman, and quotes him quite often respectfully in Devil's Guide To Hollywood. The only time he does criticize Bill is for his habit of pandering to stars and doing rewrites of other scripts, both of which Eszterhas says is beneath Bill's level of talent, making it a backhanded compliment. Moreover, for all his so-called 'trashy' scripts (which have been praised by the likes of Jacques Rivette and Jonathan Rosenbaum), Joe has written serious works such as FIST, Telling Lies In America, Music Box and so on.

[@m1lst3r89]

@@oliverhanks4900 still Joe wrote many trashy films. Fist (rewritten by Sly) and Music Box is boring asf.

[@Dane_Youssef]

How does he feel about winning six Golden Raspberries? Considered Hollywood’s biggest name writer as well as its worst? I hope he continues with his novels. They’re all considered classics for a reason… He wrote shoddy screenplays because that’s what Hollywood wanted from him. Yes, he was the highest paid for a while… but his reputation was irreparably damaged when he had made one of those two many and the public just got decided he had no talent. He left Hollywood… but he’s still writing…

[@1997residente]

Joe Eszterhaus is a punk. He has little or no talent. He wrote "Showgirls" which was one of the worst movies in world history. He's a gossip too.

[@roger8654]

1997residente a punk? how many scripts have you sold?

[@nspector]

Well....wouldn't say he's got no talent. Hacks have talent. As he said, describing his own career as a screenwriter -- ”a quarter century of contributing mind-numbing plot twists.” But, yeah, he's a terrible gossip. Not that there's any "good" way to be a gossip.

[@nuffzed2001]

he couldn't care less