The Item
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• Dolby
• NTSC
In Theaters : 1999
DVD Release : 20 November, 2001 |
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5 Stars for the Unrated Version
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It might have been the cappuccino or being punch drunk from jet lag but Dan Clark comes across as a hilariously hyper guy. His film, THE ITEM, reflects Clark's personality in its kinetic, balls out, over-the-top mirth and mayhem. Everything in THE ITEM has been kicked up to the nth degree.
THE ITEM is the story of four unlikely gangsters who have taken on the task of babysitting a science experiment gone wrong--an oversized fleshy slug with keen powers of observation. The film has been described as being an effort in "art exploitation." With its mix of stylish filmmaking and copious gore, the label is one that seems destined to stick.
"I had a love-hate relationship with all the RESERVOIR DOGS rip-offs that were coming out and I liked the idea of a claustrophobic little cheap indie film with a bunch of bad guys with guns in the room. I thought it was getting too serious and getting too dull. No one was playing with it enough," says Clark.
"The evolution from Peckinpah to Woo back to America: it starts to feel like a bunch of dogs eating each other's vomit. I thought it'd be fun to fun to take the piss out of that a little bit. In addition to that, I'm a big fan of THE SEVEN FACES OF DR. LAO where there's that scene where the mean businessman goes in and has a conversation with a hand puppet--that rocked."
"I wrote the film in a week. We sunk most of the money we got from the Jim Henson company [for a first look deal on "Brats of the Lost Nebula"] into THE ITEM. And, you know, they weren't pleased. They didn't want us to take that money and make a bloodbath phallus puppet movie."
Shot on digital video, Clark tweaked the color in post-production, enhancing and emphasizing the shades in order to give more of a cartoonish look. "I've always gotten a big kick out of the way Peter Greenaway color codes everything, so I made THE ITEM extremely orange. Most of the characters except for the two female leads have different colored hair and very different colored clothes."
Released in both rated and unrated versions by Artisan Entertainment, the version with extra-gore kicks the violence into the realm of being funny and outrageous while the R-rated cut is more disturbing than humorous. Stick to the unrated version. |
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