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56-447: Chasing Amy is a 1997 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Kevin Smith and starring Ben Affleck , Joey Lauren Adams and Jason Lee . The third film in Smith's View Askewniverse series, the film is about a male comic artist (Affleck) who falls in love with a lesbian (Adams), to the displeasure of his best friend (Lee). The film was originally inspired by

112-449: A comic book convention , comic book artists and lifelong best friends Holden McNeil and Banky Edwards meet Alyssa Jones. A struggling writer, Alyssa is friends with Hooper, an African-American writer and activist who masks his flamboyantly gay personality with a militant image to promote his comic White-Hating Coon . Immediately attracted to her, Holden soon learns she is a lesbian. Holden and Alyssa begin spending time with each other, and

168-419: A Documentary , was a student film documentary that fell apart in production. To salvage it, Smith and Mosier interviewed the crew about the demise of the very documentary that they had been attempting to produce. They also added a segment in which the two were shown in silhouette as they described their fictional thoughts. Four months into the eight-month program, Smith decided to drop out, but not before making

224-499: A Geisha , Slumdog Millionaire , Up in the Air , The Artist , Gloria Bell , and Malcolm & Marie . Director Richard Linklater helmed the prominent Before trilogy, consisting of Before Sunrise , Before Sunset , and Before Midnight . Kasautii Zindagii Kay is a popular Indian romantic drama television series of the 2000s. Same-sex romantic dramas that tackle LGBT issues include Brokeback Mountain , Blue

280-535: A Thief , Vertigo , The Crying Game , The Bodyguard , Unfaithful , Wicker Park , The Phantom of the Opera , The Tourist , and The Adjustment Bureau . The screenwriters taxonomy creates additional categories beyond "subgenre" when discussing films, making the argument that all narrative Hollywood films can be delineated into comedies or dramas (identified as a "film type"). The taxonomy also identifies fifty "macro genres", which can be paired with

336-453: A brief scene from an early film by a friend of Smith's. In Guinevere Turner 's Go Fish , one of the lesbian characters imagines her friends passing judgment on her for "selling out" by sleeping with a man. Smith was dating Adams at the time he was writing the script, which was also partly inspired by her. The film received mostly positive reviews which praised the humor, the performances and Kevin Smith's direction. The film won two awards at

392-471: A budget of $ 20 million. The editing was difficult, due to the MPAA threatening to give the film an NC-17 rating. In the film, Mosier played the assistant director on the set of the fictional sequel to Good Will Hunting and reprises his Willam Black character from Clerks . Mosier had a comparatively larger budget to work with on the film Jersey Girl , at $ 35 million. The editing was also difficult due to

448-732: A co-executive producer on Good Will Hunting and Big Helium Dog . He also appeared in cameos in Drawing Flies as the Crying Diaperman, in A Better Place as Larry, and in Vulgar as Scotty. Although he barely recorded any episodes in 2017, Mosier is also a co-host, along with Smith, of the SModcast podcast hosted by the Smith-owned SModcast.com. In 2007, Salim Baba , a short documentary Mosier produced,

504-449: A concerned father who shields his daughter's eyes from the sight of a character sitting on a toilet. In 2008, Mosier worked again with Smith as the producer on Zack and Miri Make a Porno . Mosier served as an executive producer, editor, and actor for Bryan Johnson 's Vulgar , an Askew production. He had also served as a producer (along with Smith) on Drawing Flies , A Better Place , and Clerks: The Animated Series ; he served as

560-680: A convention. It is revealed that Holden and Banky dissolved their partnership, with Banky now owning the publishing and creative rights to Bluntman and Chronic . Banky smiles sadly at Holden, who silently congratulates him for his comic being successful, and gestures over to a booth hosted by Alyssa, encouraging him to speak to her. During their brief emotional conversation, Holden gives her a copy of Chasing Amy , his new comic based on their failed relationship. After he departs, Alyssa's girlfriend arrives and asks about him. Smiling and teary-eyed, Alyssa feigns indifference, moves his comic aside, and dismisses him as some guy she knew. Kevin Smith has said over

616-471: A deal with Mosier: each would start writing a script of his own, and the one who finished last would help the other with his film. On Smith's first feature film, Clerks , Mosier recorded the original sound on set, edited the film (at RST Video), and contributed to the budget. He also contributed by appearing on-screen as multiple characters, including the angry hockey player and Willam Black (Snowball). On 1995 film Mallrats , Mosier worked in organizing

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672-413: A deep friendship soon develops. This upsets the homophobic Banky, who resents Alyssa for intervening in their affairs. The duo's business partnership also suffers, as they had been close to signing a lucrative deal to adapt Bluntman and Chronic into an animated TV series, and Banky feels that Holden no longer cares about their project. Unable to contain his feelings, Holden confesses his love to Alyssa. She

728-520: A film of touching insights. Most romantic comedies place phony obstacles in the way of true love, but Smith knows that at some level there's nothing funny about being in love: It's a dead serious business, in which your entire being is at risk. Ebert believed the film was an improvement over Smith's previous effort Mallrats and he added that Adams was a discovery. Charles Taylor, writing for Salon , quipped " Chasing Amy isn't going to single-handedly save romantic comedy, but Smith ( Clerks ) has made

784-465: A filmmaker's "voice" because the artistic choice to have the characters sing does not affect the story or the characters – it simply alters how the story and characters are conveyed. Therefore, a romance film like Grease would be categorized as a dramatic (type), romance (super genre), high school / coming of age (macro genres), musical (voice) – rather than simply as a "musical romance". Scott Mosier Scott A. Mosier (born March 5, 1971)

840-576: A local diner. He hands them their residual pay for book sales and discusses his troubles. Bob reveals that a couple of years earlier, he had a girlfriend named Amy. Although he loved her, his insecurities about her past promiscuity caused him to break up with her. He regretted it and has spent a long time "chasing Amy." Holden devises a plan to fix both his relationship with Alyssa and his fractured friendship with Banky. He invites them over and tells Alyssa that he would like to get over her past and remain her boyfriend while telling Banky that he realizes that he

896-557: A mixture of sensitivity, raw honesty, and writer-director Kevin Smith's signature raunchy humor." On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 71 out of 100 based on 28 reviews. Audiences polled by Cinemascore gave the film a grade of "A−". Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three-and-a-half out of four stars, saying: While the surface of his film sparkles with sharp, ironic dialogue, deeper issues are forming, and Chasing Amy develops into

952-435: A movie about a guy who falls in love with a lesbian, but the filmmakers felt it was too lean a story, so Smith added his own experiences into the character of Holden. Smith wrote, "The character of Holden is the closest to me I've ever written (casting Ben was aesthetically wishful thinking perhaps)." Smith, who said he "didn't really know that much about gay culture, and specifically lesbian culture", had Turner look at drafts of

1008-438: A novel by Kenichi Eguchi and published by Aoyama Publishing. The unique concept of the book is that it is roughly half-novel, half- manga , with Moyoko Anno providing the art for the comic book pages. In an episode of SModcast , Smith revealed that while he was thrilled to have a manga based on his film, he was shocked when he read the novelization, as the characters' sexual histories, which are just mentioned in conversation in

1064-420: Is "set in motion by the desire of a heterosexual person for a seemingly unattainable gay person." The scene where Alyssa is shamed by her gay friends when they discover she is dating a man also received criticism from the lesbian community. On the film's 20th anniversary, Smith said, "For anyone who watches the movie now and goes, like, 'Ew, these sexual politics are ... not very subtle', you’ve gotta remember: It

1120-691: Is a romantic story with a historical period setting, normally with a turbulent backdrop of war, revolution, or tragedy. This includes films such as Gone with the Wind , Doctor Zhivago , Reds , Titanic , A Very Long Engagement , Atonement , Portrait of a Lady on Fire , and Cold War . Paranormal romance is a popular genre of film which features romantic relationships between humans and supernatural creatures. Popular tropes include vampirism , time travel , ghosts and psychic or telekinetic abilities – i.e. things that cannot be explained by science. The genre originated in literature and moved on to

1176-820: Is a term associated with romance films mostly targeted to a female audience. Although many romance films may be targeted at women, it is not a defining characteristic of a romance film and a ' chick flick ' does not necessarily have a romance as a central theme, revolve around the romantic involvement of characters or even include a romantic relationship. As such, the terms cannot be used interchangeably. Films of this genre include Gilda , The Red Shoes , Sense and Sensibility , Gentlemen Prefer Blondes , Dirty Dancing , The Notebook , Dear John , A Walk to Remember , Thelma & Louise , Fifty Shades of Grey , Sleepless in Seattle , You've Got Mail and Romeo + Juliet . Also known as epic romance, this

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1232-457: Is able to surmount most obstacles. Humour in such films tends to be of a verbal, low-key variety or situational, as opposed to slapstick. Films within this genre include City Lights , A Night at the Opera , It Happened One Night , His Girl Friday , My Wife's Goblin , The Philadelphia Story , Intolerable Cruelty , Roman Holiday , Good Morning, My Dear Wife , The Big Sick , Enough Said , Lost In Translation , To All

1288-759: Is an American film producer, director and editor best known for his work with director Kevin Smith , with whom he occasionally co-hosts the weekly podcast, SModcast . Mosier was born in Vancouver, Washington , and moved around as a child between British Columbia and Washington. He has dual Canadian and American citizenship, as his father John was born in Saskatchewan , Canada. As a teenager he resided in Vancouver , British Columbia . Mosier met Kevin Smith while both were attending Vancouver Film School in Canada. Their first assignment, Mae Day: The Crumbling of

1344-517: Is in love with Holden. He proposes a threesome, which he believes will both end his envy towards Alyssa's broader experiences and resolve Banky's issues with them being a couple. The initially shocked Banky agrees to participate, but is relieved when an appalled Alyssa declines. She reasons that the proposal is offensive and will not save their relationship. Alyssa and Banky both leave. One year later, Banky and Alyssa are busy promoting their own respective comics, Baby Dave and Idiosyncratic Routine , at

1400-497: Is initially angry with him, but they later reconcile, sleep together, and begin a romantic relationship, which worsens things with Banky. An old friend of Banky's, who grew up with Alyssa, tells Holden she participated in a threesome with two boys back in high school. Holden is deeply disturbed by the revelation, having believed that he is the first man Alyssa had ever slept with. Hooper advises Holden to be honest and truthful and ask Alyssa about her past. Hooper also thinks that Banky

1456-497: Is jealous and in love with Holden, disguising his true feelings with macho sexual banter. The following night, Holden clumsily attempts to bait Alyssa into confessing, which she eventually does, and storms out of the arena. In the parking lot, Alyssa angrily admits to the threesome but refuses to apologize for her past sexual experiences, wanting to continue their relationship. Holden leaves feeling unsure. Later, Holden meets Jay and Silent Bob , inspirations for Bluntman and Chronic, at

1512-464: Is often employed to indicate the emotional mood, creating an atmosphere of greater insulation for the couple. The conclusion of a romantic drama typically does not indicate whether a final romantic union between the two main characters will occur. Some examples of romantic drama films and shows before 2000 are Man's Way with Women , Casablanca , María Candelaria , Pride & Prejudice , Appointment with Happiness , Wakeful Eyes , Among

1568-514: Is the Warmest Colour , Carol , Moonlight , and Call Me by Your Name . Romantic fantasies describe fantasy stories using many of the elements and conventions of the romance genre. Some examples include The Lady Eve , Top Hat , The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) , Singin' in the Rain , Groundhog Day , Enchanted , Cinderella , Beauty and

1624-696: The Rodgers and Hammerstein productions. Some examples include South Pacific , West Side Story and its 2021 remake , Grease , High School Musical , Across the Universe , Moulin Rouge! , the Mamma Mia! franchise, Sunshine on Leith , and La La Land . Romantic thriller is a genre of film which has a storyline combining elements of the romance film and the thriller genre . Some examples of romantic thriller films are Desire , To Catch

1680-600: The Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 1997. On a budget of $ 250,000, the film grossed a total of $ 12,021,272 in theaters. Chasing Amy played at three locations and earned $ 52,446 upon its opening weekend in the United States. The following week, the film was expanded to a further 22 theaters where it grossed $ 302,406. During the 18–20 April 1997 weekend, Chasing Amy was screened at a further 494 locations, where it earned $ 1,642,402 and moved into

1736-419: The romance super genre. Using this approach, films like Gone with the Wind (noted above) would be classified as a dramatic (type) historical/family (macro genres) romance (genre) rather than simply a historical romance; while The Notebook would be identified at dramatic (type) disease (macro genre) romance (genre) rather than simply a romantic drama. Similarly, musicals are categorized as one option for

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1792-597: The 1998 Independent Spirit Awards (Best Screenplay for Smith and Best Supporting Actor for Lee). Characters from the film would go on to appear in later Askewniverse films Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) and Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019), direct spin-offs of Chasing Amy , with Affleck, Lee, Adams and Ewell reprising their roles in cameo appearances; Smith described the characters' roles in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot as being an "eight-page sequel" to Chasing Amy . While promoting their comic Bluntman and Chronic at

1848-582: The Beast , Knowing , Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , Midnight in Paris , Her , and The Shape of Water . Romantic musical (alternatively musical romance ) is a genre of film which features romantic relationships and whose story is partially explained through song and/or dance numbers. This genre originated on Broadway and moved to the silver screen thanks in part to the popularity of

1904-460: The Boys I've Loved Before , Four Weddings and a Funeral , Dave , Say Anything... , Moonstruck , In Summer We Must Love , As Good as It Gets , Something's Gotta Give , When Harry Met Sally... , Annie Hall , Manhattan , The Apartment and Pablo and Carolina . Romantic dramas usually revolve around an obstacle that prevents deep and true love between two people. Music

1960-472: The Criterion edition. Chasing Amy was released on Blu-Ray on November 17, 2009. This release includes a new commentary track, a Q&A with the cast recorded at Vulgarthon 2005, a conversation between Kevin Smith and Joey Lauren Adams, and a feature-length documentary titled "Tracing Amy" that details the making of the film and its aftermath. In Japan , the screenplay of Chasing Amy was adapted into

2016-606: The Ruins , The River of Love , Dearer than my Life , Love Story , Paris and Love , Featureless Men , Coming Home , Daughters of the Dust , Like Water for Chocolate , Sommersby , The Bridges of Madison County , The English Patient , Shakespeare in Love , An Officer and a Gentleman , Saptapadi and Cinema Paradiso . 21st century examples include Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna , Sideways , Memoirs of

2072-452: The Top 10. Chasing Amy received positive reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 87% based on reviews from 87 critics, with a rating average of 7.30/10. According to the site's summary of the critical consensus, “Although Chasing Amy ' s depiction of queer sexuality is frustratingly clumsy, it handles an array of thorny themes with

2128-508: The band Soul Asylum are featured in the film: "Lucky One" and "We 3". The band had previously contributed the song Can't Even Tell to the soundtrack of Smith's 1994 debut film Clerks . Frontman Dave Pirner composed the incidental music for the film along with the film's theme song, "Tube of Wonderful," which plays over the opening credits. The song reappears in Smith's 2001 film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back , as well as its 2019 reboot Jay and Silent Bob Reboot , both times introducing

2184-500: The beginning of the film as the comics convention patron who gets into an argument with Banky Edwards ( Jason Lee ) after demeaning his career as a “tracer”. On the 1999 film Dogma , Mosier worked with Greenlee again; the editing of the film lasted nearly a year. He also played the Smooching Seaman who Ben Affleck and Matt Damon meet on the bus. On the 2001 film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back , Mosier worked with

2240-470: The book Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love and Desire , Lisa M. Diamond cites the film as a notable example of female sexual fluidity in popular culture, writing that Chasing Amy "depicts a lesbian becoming involved with a man, contrary to the more widespread depictions of heterosexual women becoming involved in same-sex relationships." Though the film has been praised as ahead of its time by some critics in its representation of sexual fluidity and

2296-477: The book by Dr. Seuss , and co-directed with Yarrow Cheney . It was released on November 9, 2018. Mosier was personally involved with fellow producer Monica Hampton for a while, whom he met while the two were producing Vulgar . He married girlfriend Alex Hilebronner on September 1, 2006. The couple met on the set of Jersey Girl . In the documentary Back to the Well: Clerks II , he states that he

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2352-526: The budget along with line producer Laura Greenlee, while presiding over a much larger crew. In the film, he portrayed Svenning's assistant, Roddy. The character later appeared on a Jay and Silent Bob MTV short. On the 1997 romantic comedy film Chasing Amy , Mosier and Smith agreed with Miramax 's Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein to shrink the initial proposed budget from $ 3 million to $ 250,000. The compromise allowed Mosier and Kevin to cast their friends instead of established stars. Mosier appears in

2408-400: The character Holden McNeil. The music video for the song " Have You Seen Mary ", performed by the band Sponge , features several scenes of the film. In Chasing Amy , the song is played in the scene while Holden and Hooper are at Jack's Music Shoppe. In a scene originally written for Mallrats , several principal characters share memories of sexual escapades gone awry. This scene reveals

2464-720: The character's own emotional "sex scars" and was purposefully created—down to the style of dialogue and set dressing—to mirror a scene from Steven Spielberg 's Jaws in which Quint and Hooper share the physical scars they've both earned from encounters with sharks. However, in this film it's used with Alyssa and Banky. Romance film Romantic films often explore the essential themes of love at first sight , young and mature love, unrequited love, obsession, sentimental love, spiritual love , forbidden love, platonic love, sexual and passionate love, sacrificial love, explosive and destructive love, and tragic love . Romantic films serve as great escapes and fantasies for viewers, especially if

2520-427: The concept of the bromance , it also received criticism, particularly for its implication that a lesbian can go straight, even if just temporarily, as soon as she meets the right guy. The film was criticized by Judith Kegan Gardiner in the book Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory , describing Chasing Amy as representative of a "fairly repulsive genre of films" that feature a "heterosexual conversion narrative" that

2576-544: The documentary Chasing Chasing Amy , which discusses the impact the film had on his life. Chasing Amy was released by the Criterion Collection , first on Laserdisc in 1997, then on DVD in 2000. It includes audio commentary from cast and crew, deleted scenes , outtakes , and a theatrical trailer . The DVD adds an introduction from Kevin Smith, apologizing for saying "fuck DVD" in the commentary. Later reissues by Lionsgate and Paramount are repressings of

2632-642: The film, are depicted in the novel's manga illustrations as sexually graphic flashbacks. Smith had the original screenplay published along with his Clerks script from Miramax Books . The film had no soundtrack album released; however, many songs appear in the movie, including "Alive,"; the song written and performed by Joey Lauren Adams in character as Alyssa, cover of The Cars ' " Let's Go " performed by Ernie Isley , " The Impression That I Get " by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones , " Run's House " by Run-DMC and other songs by artists such as Public Enemy , The Hang Ups , Gwen Guthrie and Liz Phair . Two songs by

2688-649: The only romantic comedy in quite a while that acknowledges, even celebrates, the fact that love and sex are emotional anarchy." Writing in Time Out New York , Andrew Johnston observed: " Chasing Amy, Kevin Smith's third feature, does to romantic comedy what Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's Spider-Man did to superhero comics in the '60s: It makes a tired genre newly relevant by giving its characters motivations and problems that seem real." Quentin Tarantino considered Chasing Amy his favorite movie of 1997. In

2744-589: The screen in the early 2000s, following the success of the Twilight Saga adaptations from Stephenie Meyer 's books. By 2007–08, film studios were producing various paranormal romance films, many adapted from novels. Examples of paranormal romance films include The Exterminating Angel , The Twilight Saga , Warm Bodies , Vampire Academy , I Am Dragon , and The Shape of Water . Romantic comedies are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love

2800-417: The script for her input. Turner helped find the location for the bar scenes, which were shot at the since-closed Meow Mix in downtown Manhattan . Miramax Films initially offered Smith a $ 2 million budget on the condition that he cast David Schwimmer , Drew Barrymore , and Jon Stewart as the leads. Smith rejected this offer in favor of a $ 250,000 budget with a cast of his choosing. The film premiered at

2856-407: The studio's desire to cut a large amount of Jennifer Lopez footage with Ben Affleck following the poor box-office performance of Gigli . Mosier produced Clerks II in 2006. Smith stated he edited the film himself, making Clerks II one of three films Mosier has produced with Smith, but not edited (the others being Mallrats and Zack and Miri Make a Porno ). Mosier makes a brief cameo as

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2912-738: The two leads finally overcome their difficulties, declare their love, and experience their "happily ever after", often implied by a reunion and final kiss. In romantic television series, the development of such romantic relationships may play out over many episodes or different characters may become intertwined in different romantic arcs. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identifies Romance Films as one of eleven super-genres in his screenwriters' taxonomy , claiming that all feature length narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action , crime , fantasy , horror , science fiction , comedy , sports , thriller , war and western . ' Chick flick '

2968-547: The years that Chasing Amy was inspired by his brother being gay, his relationship with Joey Lauren Adams, whom he was dating during the making of the film, and a crush his producing partner Scott Mosier had on lesbian filmmaker Guinevere Turner . Turner met Mosier and Smith at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival where their respective films, Go Fish and Clerks , had premiered. After the festival, Mosier and Turner kept in touch, with Mosier developing unrequited feelings for Turner. Smith told Mosier to channel his heartbreak into

3024-654: Was in the process of trying to sell it. On August 10, 2011, Mosier stated on Twitter that he has written some episodes of the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon on Disney. This was confirmed in a special "SModcast Extra" (attached to SModcast No. 204 and episode 5 of the Comic Book Men podcast "Secret Stash") in which he and Smith interview Joe Casey ; Mosier has written six scripts for the series. Mosier made his directorial debut with Illumination Entertainment 's animated feature The Grinch , based on

3080-439: Was made by a 26-year-old, 27-year-old guy, who really didn’t know anything and was learning in that moment. As much as it’s a movie that’s closely identified with the gay community, by virtue of the fact that the main character was gay, I really never think about it as such ... To me, it was about a boy who grows up to become a man but loses everything in the process — very bittersweet." In 2023, queer filmmaker Sav Rodgers released

3136-403: Was nominated for an Academy Award . Filmmakers Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello received the nomination (Mosier was unable to be nominated due to a limit of two nominees per short film). On SModcast 77, Mosier announced he would not produce Smith's film Cop Out (2010), instead pursuing his directorial debut. He stated on SModcast 90 that he finished writing his first feature screenplay and

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