Who is Kevin Smith?
Kevin Smith is a much adored, or much despised, Independent director, producer, writer, and actor, whose films usually spark a great deal of controversy. He is known for being open to the point of vulgarity and profanity in his expressed viewpoints, and yet some of his work is quite significant in its rather skewed version of modern America, what he refers to as his “View Askewniverse,” the fictional place many of his characters inhabit. Kevin Smith is probably best known for his films Clerks, the Jay and Silent Bob series, Chasing Amy, and for the praised and censured film Dogma, which seems to be played about once a week on the American television station, Comedy Network. The film is significantly changed in television airings since it lacks the extreme profanity of the uncut version. Kevin Smith is also a quite young director, born in 1970 in New Jersey. Virtually all of his films take place in New Jersey. His first film Clerks, was produced in 1994, and was shot in the convenience
” Or if you think you might know who he is but aren’t really sure… in either of those cases, you might as well save a little time and stop reading right now. Silent Bob Speaks is many things and will certainly be so to many people. It is sometimes brilliant, occasionally thought-provoking and quite often gut-wrenchingly funny but it is clearly — and I mean clearly — only for hardcore fans. If you’re not sure who Kevin Smith is, if you think you can place him but have to think for a bit, just give it up and go read about a different book: one that you might have a hope of liking, because you probably will not like this one. All of that said — and despite some very real flaws — I enjoyed Silent Bob Speaks a great deal. But then, I know who Kevin Smith is and am even something of a fan. And, for one reason or another, I get his sometimes weird humor — even the stuff involving fecal matter — and I admire where he’s coming from. OK: not necessarily the physical location he actually
