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The success story of a bunch of slackers from Jersey who didn’t know what to do with their lives...so they made a movie about it, with a minimal budget and equally little previous experience. Their raw black-and-white comedy was then seen by one important person at its first public screening, which easily could have been its last, thanks to which important people found out about Clerks, and Kevin Smith and his buddies were soon on their way to Sundance. Despite the occasional repetition of information by different people (sometimes for comedic effect), this is an informationally dense film about a film, familiarising the viewer not with the movie’s production and the reception it received, but also the environment in which Smith grew up and his first attempts at comedy. You will learn why certain scenes that had been filmed couldn’t be used, what the original ending looked like (it was much more tragic in the mould of Do the Right Thing), how Smith supported the actors’ improvisation, and how he associated Harvey Weinstein’s laugh with Robert De Niro in Cape Fear. Unlike other stories of miraculous success, Snowball Effect does not conceal the fact that sometimes coincidence is decisive. Even in the early 1990s, the golden age of American independent film, you needed more than just a camera, a little money and some talent. But at least for Smith’s fans, at whom Snowball Effect is primarily targeted (starting with the opening montage of enthusiastic responses from people for whom Clerks is an affair of the heart), it could be just as inspiring as Smith’s first viewing of Slacker was for him in the 1990s.
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