Donato Totaro has been the editor of the online film journal Offscreen since its inception in 1997. BG: Yeah, sure but I did a short before that it was similar to….. BG: Oh, I did a short called The Making of Bikini School 3 [laughter] which is a mockumentary; so that’s over twenty years ago that I did on a press junket for Police Academy I'm aware that when I'm making characters in movies, the further down and the longer I make the audience wait or the worse their life gets then the release will be much greater. He'll be at Relapse Theatre in Atlanta August 15 with his friend and fellow comic Dana Gould. Can I have these elements in the movie and connect with an audience despite the subject matter being unpleasant? Volume 18, Issue 5 / May 2014 BG: That was actually an organic thing she did; she picked up this stick, and I was looking at it last night and there’s, like, a clump of moss on it and its aged and it looks like a “prop”. I knew that we would get all those things and that was another reason why it was kind of key to go up there to film it. But there is actual danger in a city; in a city people feel comfortable which is really insane. “I was big in the 1980s,” he told the audience at the top of the show. Bobcat Goldthwait Interview. You could make this whole movie within 35 minutes of LA but it wouldn't ring true I don't think.

BG: Right, and then in World’s Greatest Dad, it’s the flip of that where honesty does set him [the Robin Williams character] free. I’m just curious about your thought process when you set out to do a comedy; I know last night when you talked before Willow Creek you said you don’t really care about the laughs so maybe…. People often think, “Oh that must be a lot of fun…comedians.” No, that bar frequented by comedians, it’s the most depressing place…don’t go in that bar. Gould and Goldthwait  shot their TV shows in Atlanta at the same time a couple of years ago. We both are writers and storytellers.”, During the show, he added, “We keep it topical. Rather than come clean with the phony suicide note, Lance ghost writes his son’s journals, which become a best seller. “We’d be texting each other all the time,” he said. I didn't know if it worked for anyone or for an audience, I mean that 19 minute long take is kind of exhausting and I wasn't sure of what the audience was going to do and what they thought.

BG: Yeah, and the weird thing is that none of us were aware of it and none of us were terrified of it. Share Tweet Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email + Bobcat Goldthwait is a comedian, actor, producer, writer, director; pretty much a one man film industry. In fact I thought I would make another kind of movie altogether, but then the more I was there I knew it lent itself to found footage. It's dubbed "The Show With Two Heads Live." BG: There was something about that shot too to me that felt cooked. I am fascinated by the question: “is there an actual right and wrong in the world” or do we come up with our own truth so we feel comfortable. BG: But apparently it’s not out of mine, because when I was doing Willow Creek, I walked around the camp fire freely; there’s a great photo of Bryce and Alexie, and Alexie has two coats on by the fire and then I’m just nude from the waist up. BG: Yeah I think it might have been Sasquatch…. I don’t know if it’s in this movie, Willow Creek. Whether they wanted to watch it at all even. The beauty of Willow Creek is in its authenticity both in terms of the location and the character dynamics. Offscreen: Lake Pohénégamook, in Quebec; the thing that I like about this whole mythology is that it really relies on this lost tradition of oral culture; these days people don’t even talk to each other anymore…being able to speak or articulate things, telling stories through voice is a lost art. Is Bigfoot or woodland monsters simply a thing we tell ourselves and our kids so they don’t go wander off into the woods and get lost and get eaten by a bear? Offscreen: Mean Streets is way before but…, BG: No, Mean Streets is very similar, it’s funny you mention that; yes they are very similar…Palooka-ville isn’t too far from that bar. In genre pictures there's a weird pattern that started in the seventies and eighties where everybody who gets killed in a movie kind of deserves their comeuppance. They throw up the good stuff from that movie. I think a lot of the things I do in movies is just asking a general question, like of “Hey…you guys this seems weird right?” So it’s me shooting a flare up and looking for other people with similar mindsets. He’s also in the animated TV show, Adventure Time, he’s the Ice King. SAN DIEGO, CA - JULY 19: Bobcat Goldthwait speaks onstage at Bobcat Goldthwait's "Misfits and Monsters" panel during Comic-Con International 2018 at San …

(Tickets available here.) Well that’s satire, because satire tries to ruffle feathers but you really tend to go for those raw emotions and nerves. For instance, in 2015, he chose to do a documentary about Barry Crimmins, a satirist and author,  called "Call Me Lucky" and plans to turn his life story into a narrative film. We weave in and out of old material. It was. In WGD Robin Williams plays a sad sack high school teacher Lance, who dreams about writing the next great American novel; when his unsympathetic teenage son dies accidently by Erotic asphyxiation, he feigns a suicide note which inadvertently turns his son into an overnight cult hero in death. BG: Yeah, that’s funny you say that…that’s great because Scorsese is a fan of Shakes the Clown, and he had defended it; someone said “You think you should preserve every movie…you’d preserve Shakes the Clown?” He goes “I love that movie…it’s a great movie.” So then I worked with Elianna Douglas who was going out with Scorsese at the time and she goes “You know Marty used to watch Shakes the Clown all the time in the editing room.” They just had it playing, a VHS of it…..[at this point I find it an opportune time to take out MY VHS copy of Shakes the Clown, to get Bobcat to sign!]. We had some of the same camera operators.”. Offscreen: Shakes the Clown, it must have been a bigger crew than that? Offscreen: Getting back to Willow Creek, is the lady that we see outisde the tent, is she the missing woman? Hence, angels are basically our better selves with wings; extraterrestrials are humanoids from futuristic worlds; and Bigfoot and his ilk seem linked to our evolutionary past.” So it’s almost as if Bigfoot is the past, these gangly aliens are the future, and angels are somehow the present trying to make shape of the past? Willow Creek is in UK cinemas from 2nd May and available on DVD from 26th May. basically, that it made fun of. Other people I didn't, I just think it would be very confusing for them. BG: For sure that would be fantastic! Goldthwait said he may have come across as a man on the edge on stage, but in reality, he became a dad in his early 20s and had to learn to be responsible.

Coming from the worlds of stand-up comedy, television, and feature film comedy, Bobcat Goldthwait does not seem like a fit to Fantasia. Offscreen: Another theme that seems to be very important in your work is the complexity of honesty; how a lot of people think that honesty is always the best policy; but in Sleeping Dogs Lie, the character ends up realizing that it’s not always the case. The party clowns or the rodeo clowns? Interviews   It helps that they’ve been friends since Gould was 18 or 19. BG: Oh definitely! What would happen to the guy afterwards, his family…you know, so I tend to take these off-putting topics and treat the repercussions of them very seriously. “My daughter would tell you, ‘Dad, remember the time you lit a half a stick fo dynamite in the backyard?’ That’s the very reason why I connect with a Southern audience!”. “Different technical things. He’s been famous since he was 18 and he just doesn’t buy into the bulls***. An interview with comedian and director Bobcat Goldthwait about working with Robin Williams, making incendiary art, and the ongoing debates about political correctness in comedy. BG: Well…it would be funny but kind of hostile. Offscreen: Just physically, the way the three of you looked and the way the Binky character looks, kind of angular. I’m always fascinated by what these represent, these archetypal characters that show up in all these other cultures and for thousands of years? Do we come up with our own versions of what is good, what is evil? I hope I get to. Goldthwait’s debut holds a special place in my heart, and remains his purest cult film, but he has moved on with other feature films that have seen him improve as a filmmaker: Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006), a rom com that takes to task the adage that “honesty is the best policy” when an act of college sexual experimentation (the young woman fellates a dog) comes back to haunt a woman engaged to be married; and two top notch black comedies, World’s Greatest Dad (2009, arguably his best film thus far) and God Bless America (2011). BG: No. It's like if you're swimming and you take a ball down with you in the water. BG: Blake Clarke….yeah it is pretty funny, I’ve a good run with talent. See below as we discussed the genesis of Willow Creek, the pitfalls of the found footage medium, inevitable comparisons to The Blair Witch Project and the art of crafting tension fuelled, character driven horror. I’m a vegetarian so I stay away from Bigfoot meat. I recently wrote a screenplay that is similar in tone to that movie that I hope to make. Someone playing a prank? Is it Big Foot? I don’t know who else has done horror that came from comedy, but they are very similar. He was clearly not mainstream but his fans embraced his off-kilter approach to comedy. BG: Some people I would be very square with and very honest. A lot of them I knew and I thought if we interviewed enough people then we would get what we needed. We would get people who would be re-affirming to them that it's real or saying don't go out in the woods it's terrifying or there would be people saying they don't believe. Offscreen: Wow, because Adam Sandler was in Shakes the Clown. Yeah that is true. I just finished another screenplay that is again about whether to tell the truth or not because that does interest me. BG: Yeah, Dead Alive or Braindead is one of my favorite movies actually; just so funny, so over the top. BG: No it’s not. Offscreen: That would be nice. Goldthwait’s horror debut is marked by the same brave attitude as his comedies, concluding with a remarkable and terrifying set-piece: a 19 minute static long take two shot of Jim and Alexie in their tent, slowly growing in fear over the realization that SOMETHING is just outside their tent. A native New Yorker, he has covered education at The Virginian-Pilot, small business for The Wall Street Journal and a host of beats at the AJC over 20-plus years. Offscreen: When I talk about comedy to my students, I say there are basically three comic modes, slapstick, parody and satire; I think you use a bit of each, but I’d say satire and black comedy which is part of satire is the one that you’re drawn to the most? You mention The Blair Witch Project and on the surface it seems that’s what the structure is like, but then you turn it on its head by having this nineteen minute static long take which is just incredible; you use this hand held stuff and then you kind of turn that on its head and have this; is that something you had planned from the beginning? Offscreen: What kind of meat was that any way? Offscreen: Interesting because sometimes people will say “I didn’t like this movie because I couldn’t relate to the characters; they weren’t sympathetic characters.” In your films, most of the characters are pretty unsympathetic but …. BG: Well Tommy is kind of angular anyways, but that was intentional with his makeup like he was supposed to be sharp and pointy and when we were looking at clowns that we didn’t like, we realized they didn’t have flowing lines. God Bless America switches the tone to a broader social commentary about the death of social taste and decorum in the US. I’m just in a pair of shorts and I have a big stick and I’m walking around. It was his take on "The Twilight Zone.".

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