1994 Directed by Kevin Smith
Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives.
Clerks 1, Jay and Silent Bob 1 - Clerks, Podvodníci z New Jersey, Shop Stop, Clerks.
Shot on a shoestring budget yet lacking neither creativity nor quality, Kevin Smith's feature film debut is an expertly crafted, smartly scripted, brilliantly directed, cleverly humoured & finely performed indie that's filled with genuinely funny moments, idiosyncratic characters & many wonderful homages to succeed as one of the finest comedies of the 1990s.
The story of Clerks is set at a convenience store in Leonardo, New Jersey and covers a day in the lives of two store clerks. First is Dante; a retail clerk who is called into work despite his day off. Second is Randal; a video store clerk who hates his job just as much as Dante. The plot follows the two & their acquaintances as they discuss movies, play hockey…
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”I'm stuck in this pit, working for less than slave wages. Working on my day off, the goddamn steel shutters are closed, I deal with every backward ass fuck on the planet. I smell like shoe polish. My ex-girlfriend is catatonic after fucking a dead guy. And my present girlfriend has sucked 36 dicks.”
It’s entirely in black & white, it is made with a budget of less than 30,000$, there are no superstars or even professional actors in the film, it is the debut film of its director, it happens in a convenience store and it doesn't even have a typical story. It can’t get simpler than this. Clerks is the ultimate mixture of creativity…
It really is a shame that Kevin Smith has become such an insufferable git in the last few years or so because I think he has dragged Clerks down with him in the eyes of many.
Being as this was the first time I've watched Clerks for several years, I did wonder if I would have soured to it having tired of Smith in general in the last few years or so, but I really haven't. It's not as fresh or as funny as it was when I saw it for the first time back in 1996 or 1997 and I can't see that it is one of those films that necessarily rewards extensive rewatching. It has still remained very…
its nice to watch a comedy for once that actually has me continuously cry-laughing instead of just blowing air out my nose and chuckling. how kevin smith managed to juggle a shoestring budget, with one of the sharpest scripts ever, on top of shooting with a keen eye for space and interior while creating such a tangible sense of solidarity for retail workers and the hells that come with it...stupid customers work hard but kevin smith works harder
An unpolished ode to post-High School, early adulthood struggles, Kevin Smith's "Clerks" is a rough but impressive filmmaking debut. Even with its nonexistent budget, lack of directorial experience, and inorganic dialogue, Smith is able to make the film stick with its abundance of heart, laughs, and well-timed raunch.
Taking place somewhere in the suburban wilds of New Jersey, "Clerks" follows two semi-slackers going about their day, wrestling dead-end jobs and romantic entanglements. Smith's story peoples the film with a series of ex-girlfriends, friends, and acquaintances who interact with the two protagonists. Between shirking their professional duties and waxing about love, life, and "Return of the Jedi," Dante and Randall, the titular clerks, cut pleasantly recognizable characters with even-more recognizable twentysomething…
As a bookseller, the day to day interactions with customers in both the video store and the convenience store, are so painfully relatable some scenes had me laughing so hard I wasn’t sure if the tears leaking from my eyes were caused by extreme empathy or my own ennui over having to deal with the same kinds of people.
after watching this again the other day i think i now know i definitely want to become a filmmaker
the insane effort that went into this movies production is enough to inspire anyone in my opinion
“You know, there’s a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don’t all bring you lasagna at work. Most of ’em just cheat on you.” – Silent Bob
Kevin Smith's directorial debut was shot in black-and-white for $27,575 in the convenience and video stores where Smith worked in real life. It is filled with countless quotable dialogue, and memorable slacker and nerd characters, who will also appear in future Smith flicks.
I watched the longer, original cut of the movie (including VHS quality and in 4:3 format) for the first time, which has a surprisingly grim ending.
I first watched this movie about a year ago, a few months before I started working as a clerk at a grocery store. I loved it back them, and I love it even more now
"I mean, that's what life is: a series of down endings."
- Dante Hicks
I recently got to read the script of Clerks and was surprised at how ingrained the entire film is inside my brain. I was able to hear all the dialogue in their respective actor's voices and visualize the scene direction perfectly. Just reading Randal's lines and being able to remember the inflection in Jeff Anderson's delivery was enough to make me laugh multiple times while reading it. So naturally I had to revisit the film.
Watching it on the same Miramax Classics DVD copy I stole from my Dad was like seeing an old friend after a long absence from my life. From the ages of…
I.
Fucking.
Love.
This.
Movie.
My second film instructor during my time in high school was not the best he could have been. Most teachers aren't, but then again, they're only human and that's totally understandable. What he did do, though, was introduce me to one of my favorite movies of all time. We had to recreate Randal's introduction to prove that we could handle a boom mic. I didn't do a particularly great job of it, but the snappy dialog we had to work with interested me enough to the point of shelling for a digital copy of this on Amazon. Plus, my best friend who I've known for about ten years at this point was insisting I see…
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