Chasing Amy (1997)

For this week's blog I watched the suggested film, Chasing Amy. It was directed by Kevin Smith and made in 1997. This was a strange film to me, but that is usually the case with all of Kevin Smith's films. He has taste for the wacky and raunchy, which are two good words to sum up this film. Seeing this is a comic class I will stick to try and talk about the comic aspects of this film. The opening credits is all in comics which I really liked, also the comics are the comics created by our two main characters. The two main characters are played by Jason Lee and Ben Affleck, they are the artists of "Bluntman and Chronic". These comic heroes are inspired by Kevin Smith's famous character Jay and Silent Bob. The film starts out in a comic convention with two kids heckling Lee's character that he is only a "tracer", which I found really funny. He actually applies the ink to the comic after Affleck's character draws it. I also liked later on in the convention there is a black guy promoting his new comic and saying that African-American characters are never portrayed as heroes in comics. It's a funny skit that goes a little crazy after Affleck remind him about Lando from Star Wars. In the film's climax after the two main characters have a falling out we see that they ended the series with Chronic dying which is cliche, but it's pointed out by another convention attendee for the laughs. All in al it's  definitely a Kevin Smith directed film that has good comic moments reminding us he's a comic fan at heart too.