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|writer = Bryan Johnson |
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|starring = [[Brian O'Halloran]]< |
|starring = [[Brian O'Halloran]]<br />Bryan Johnson<br />Jerry Lewkowitz<br />[[Ethan Suplee]]<br />[[Matthew Maher (actor)|Matthew Maher]] |
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|director = [[Bryan Johnson (comic book writer)|Bryan Johnson]] |
|director = [[Bryan Johnson (comic book writer)|Bryan Johnson]] |
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|producer = [[Monica Hampton]] < |
|producer = [[Monica Hampton]] <br /> [[Scott Mosier]] <br /> [[Kevin Smith]] |
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|studio = [[View Askew Productions]]<br>Chango Productions<br>Shongo Filmworks Ltd. |
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|distributor = [[Lions Gate Entertainment]] |
|distributor = [[Lions Gate Entertainment]] |
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|released = {{Film date|2000|09|13}} |
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|runtime = 91 minutes |
|runtime = 91 minutes |
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|country = United States |
|country = United States |
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|music = [[Ryan Shore]] |
|music = [[Ryan Shore]] |
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|cinematography = [[Dave Klein (cinematographer)|David Klein]] |
|cinematography = [[Dave Klein (cinematographer)|David Klein]] |
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|editing = Bryan Johnson< |
|editing = Bryan Johnson<br />Scott Mosier |
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|budget = $120,000 (estimated) |
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'''''Vulgar''''' is a 2000 American [[black comedy film| |
'''''Vulgar''''' is a 2000 American [[black comedy]] [[crime film|crime]] [[exploitation film]] written and directed by [[Bryan Johnson (comic book writer)|Bryan Johnson]] and produced by [[Monica Hampton]] for [[Kevin Smith]]'s [[View Askew Productions]].<ref>{{cite news|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=FILM IN REVIEW; 'Vulgar'|author-link=Dave Kehr|first=Dave|last=Kehr|date=April 26, 2002|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/26/movies/film-in-review-vulgar.html}}</ref> It features multiple actors from the [[View Askewniverse]]. The film is the tale of the character Vulgar, a clown who appeared in the original View Askew Productions logo. Though not a Kevin Smith film, it stars several actors that were cast in other View Askew Productions, such as [[Brian O'Halloran]] as the lead character, Smith himself as a gay TV executive, [[Ethan Suplee]] as one of the antagonists, [[Jason Mewes]] as a car wash employee and black-arms merchant, [[Scott Mosier]] as a daytime talk show host and writer/director/editor Bryan Johnson in a supporting role as the lead's best friend, Syd. |
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In 2016, Johnson announced plans to create a sequel to ''Vulgar'' despite him saying in an interview that he was not going to make a sequel.<ref name=SM>{{cite web|url=https://substreammagazine.com/2016/08/vulgar-2/|author=Shotwell, James|title=Bryan Johnson announces 'Vulgar 2'|date=August 23, 2016|access-date=April 8, 2018|website=Substreammagazine.com|archive-date=June 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614045633/https://substreammagazine.com/2016/08/vulgar-2/|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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==Plot== |
==Plot== |
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Will Carlson is |
Will Carlson is an around-30 loser who lives in a duplex house apartment in a rundown neighborhood in New Jersey, where he ekes out a living as a birthday party [[clown]] in order to pay the rent for his abusive mother's nursing home and the rent on his rundown house. Despite the difficulties of the job, clowning is Will's one escape from the realities of his miserable existence: Will genuinely likes kids, and takes great joy from making them happy on their birthdays. |
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Struggling to make ends meet, but not wanting to give up his dream job, Will comes up with the idea to be a "bachelor party clown." Will's idea is that men throwing [[bachelor party|bachelor parties]] can hire him |
Struggling to make ends meet, but not wanting to give up his dream job, Will comes up with the idea to be a "bachelor party clown." Will's idea is that men throwing [[bachelor party|bachelor parties]] can hire him as a [[stripper]]; Will enters the room prior to the "real" entertainment, wearing clown makeup and lingerie, tricking the bachelor into thinking that there was a mix-up and a [[gay]] clown stripper has been sent in lieu of a female one. Will invents the persona of Vulgar the Clown (after his friend Syd tells him that the entire idea is "vulgar") and solicits himself in the want-ads. Before long, he is hired to appear at a bachelor party being held at a nearby motel. |
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When Will arrives for the party — wearing stockings, garters, clown makeup, and a trench-coat — he is attacked and brutally beaten by a middle-aged man, Ed, and his sons Gino and Frankie. The three men then proceed to [[gang rape]] Will, taking turns videotaping the attack. The trio hold Will hostage in the motel room for an indeterminate amount of time, during which they subject him to a series of violent and humiliating [[sexual assault]]s. They also break a bottle over his head and drug him. A tearful Will goes home and spends the remainder of the night and part of the next morning crying while he washes himself clean in the bathtub. |
When Will arrives for the party — wearing stockings, garters, clown makeup, and a trench-coat — he is attacked and brutally beaten by a middle-aged man, Ed, and his sons Gino and Frankie. The three men then proceed to [[gang rape]] Will, taking turns videotaping the attack. The trio hold Will hostage in the motel room for an indeterminate amount of time, during which they subject him to a series of violent and humiliating [[sexual assault]]s. They also break a bottle over his head and drug him with hallucinogens. A tearful Will goes home and spends the remainder of the night and part of the next morning crying while he washes himself clean in the bathtub. Syd comes by to see Will. Will tells him of what happened, but swears Syd to secrecy. |
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Will spends a considerable amount of time after the attack in a crippling [[Major depressive disorder|depression]], which nearly costs him his home. Eventually, Will fulfills a promise to appear as a clown at one of his past |
Will spends a considerable amount of time after the attack in a crippling [[Major depressive disorder|depression]], which nearly costs him his home. Eventually, Will fulfills a promise to appear as a clown at one of his past clients' children's party. When he gets to the party, Will discovers a [[hostage crisis]] is occurring; the father of one of the children, in the middle of divorce proceedings, has kidnapped his own daughter and is threatening to kill her. He agrees to exchange his daughter for his wife. In a near-suicidal reaction, Will sneaks past the police barricade, breaks into the house, and subdues the father. News reporters capture some of the events on film, and before long the story makes national headlines. Will becomes known as "the hero clown;" the attention and outpouring of support breaks him out of his depression, and he is eventually given his own syndicated children's television show. |
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The media coverage attracts the attention of Ed and his sons (who are still raping young men). They threaten Will with a copy of the tape of his being raped (edited to look like amateur porn) and begin to [[extortion|extort]] him. When Will tries to pay the men off, they attack him in a bathroom stall. Will finally strikes an agreement with the men wherein he will come to a motel room and "perform" for them, allowing himself to be taken advantage of again, and they will give him all of the copies of the tape; secretly, Will plans to ambush and murder them with the help of Syd. |
The media coverage attracts the attention of Ed and his sons (who are still raping young men). They threaten Will with a copy of the tape of his being raped (edited to look like amateur porn) and begin to [[extortion|extort]] him. When Will tries to pay the men off, they attack him in a bathroom stall. Will finally strikes an agreement with the men wherein he will come to a motel room and "perform" for them, allowing himself to be taken advantage of again, and they will give him all of the copies of the tape; secretly, Will plans to ambush and murder them with the help of Syd. |
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When the time comes, the gun jams and Will finds himself unable to kill his tormentors. Just as Ed and his sons move in to rape and murder Will, Ed's son Frankie accidentally shoots himself in the face. Then, a shootout ensues with a vagrant lowlife at the hotel, who robs Syd and then plots to do the same to the others. Both the man and Ed's other son (Gino) shoot each other to death. Ed panics, and Will chases him through the motel parking lot to a nearby deserted playground. As Will approaches him with gun-in-hand, Ed has a massive [[heart attack]] and dies. Will takes off as he hears police sirens coming. His [[conscience]] clear, Will retrieves the tape and goes on to live happily ever after, hosting his television show. |
When the time comes, the gun jams and Will finds himself unable to kill his tormentors. Just as Ed and his sons move in to rape and murder Will, Ed's son Frankie accidentally shoots himself in the face. Then, a shootout ensues with a vagrant lowlife at the hotel, who robs Syd and then plots to do the same to the others. Both the man and Ed's other son (Gino) shoot each other to death. Ed panics, and Will chases him through the motel parking lot to a nearby deserted playground. As Will approaches him with gun-in-hand, Ed has a massive [[heart attack]] and dies. Will takes off as he hears police sirens coming. His [[conscience]] clear, Will retrieves the tape and goes on to live happily ever after, hosting his television show. |
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==Cast== |
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* [[Brian O'Halloran]] as Will Carlson/Flappy/Vulgar, A 20-something loser and clown. |
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* [[Bryan Johnson (comic book writer)|Bryan Johnson]] as Syd Gilbert, Vulgar's friend. |
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* Jerry Lewkowitz as Ed Fanelli, a very violent and sick man. |
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* [[Ethan Suplee]] as Frankie Fanelli, Ed Fanelli's son, killer and rapist. |
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* [[Matthew Maher (actor)|Matthew Maher]] as Gino Fanelli, Ed Fanelli's son and rapist. |
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* Don Gentile as Sleepy Bum, a neighbor who sleeps. |
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* Thomas W. Leidner as Large Bum, Bum's friend |
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* Michael Tierney as Skinny Bum, Bum's son. |
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* David Gilbert as Delinquent #1, an acquainted leader. |
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* Erik Johnson as Delinquent #2, an acquainted person. |
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* Scott Schiaffo as Travis Lee, an abusive wife-beater. |
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* Darin Johnson as Boy #1 |
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* Brian Hartsgrove as Boy #2 |
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* Aaron Hakeem as Cop #1 |
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* Jamie Schultz as Cop #2 |
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== Extended Cuts == |
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===Extended opening=== |
===Extended opening=== |
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The director's cut [[DVD]] features an extended opening, with Will waking up in his bed late for his gig (it is circled and marked on the calendar). He screams at his malfunctioning alarm clock and quickly throws his clothes and make-up |
The director's cut [[DVD]] features an extended opening, with Will waking up in his bed late for his gig (it is circled and marked on the calendar). He screams at his malfunctioning alarm clock and quickly throws his clothes and make-up on—becoming "Flappy". |
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After the success of such films as ''[[Clerks]]'', ''[[Chasing Amy]]'', and ''[[Dogma (film)|Dogma]]'', [[Kevin Smith]] financed three films (''[[Drawing Flies]]'', ''[[A Better Place]]'', and this one). |
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The film was written and directed by Smith's long-time friend [[Bryan Johnson (filmmaker)|Bryan Johnson]] and produced by [[Monica Hampton]]. |
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The film received largely negative reviews. {{RT prose|score=23|count=26|average=4.0|consensus= ''Vulgar'' more than lives up to its title.|ref=yes|access-date=February 12, 2023}}. {{Metacritic film prose|score=5|count=10|access-date=February 12, 2023}}<ref name=meta>{{Cite Metacritic|id=vulgar|type=movie |title=Vulgar|access-date=February 12, 2023}}</ref> Many remarked Johnson attempted to plagiarize the signature style of Kevin Smith himself. Fan reaction was especially polarized. |
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Syndicated radio host [[Howard Stern]] was sent a pre-release copy of the film. After watching less than half of it, he tossed it in the trash and then spoke poorly of it several times over the span of three weeks. Smith called in on April 26, 2002 and Stern's first question for him was "Why?".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marksfriggin.com/news02/4-22.htm#fri|title=MarksFriggin.com - Stern Show Archives}}</ref> Despite Stern's repeated warning not to see the film, others in his studio revealed that his continued bashing of the film only made them more intrigued, and some went to see it anyway just to satisfy their curiosity. |
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Vulgar the Clown was also the [[View Askew Productions]] logo at one time until Smith changed it to the eventually more iconic [[Jay and Silent Bob]]. |
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The movie was written in 28 days, filmed in 26. |
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The role of Will Carlson was written specifically for Brian O'Halloran. Johnson gave O' Halloran the script when the two worked at the Prairie Mall location of ''Mallrats.'' |
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It is not set in the [[View Askewniverse]] (other films not to be set in the View Askewniverse are ''[[Jersey Girl (2004 film)|Jersey Girl]]'', ''[[Zack and Miri]]'', ''[[Cop Out (2010 film)|Cop Out]]'', ''[[Red State (2011 film)|Red State]],'' ''[[Tusk (2014 film)|Tusk]],'' and ''[[Yoga Hosers]]''). Although the location is said to be anonymous, many have firmly confirmed it all as New Jersey. |
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The lead rapist Ed Fanelli was inspired by the [[Dennis Hopper]] role of Frank Booth in ''[[Blue Velvet (film)|Blue Velvet]]'' and the sons Frankie and Gino were inspired by the inbred backwater rapists in ''Deliverance''. |
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The film was sound edited and mixed at [[Skywalker Sound]]. |
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Johnson cast his mother, father and cousin in brief cameos. His mother walking their late dog, his father as a rape/torture victim trapped in a metal contraption and his cousin as a young delinquent who attacks Flappy. His grandmother is a resident at the Shady Acres Retirement Home. |
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The role of Scotty, the daytime talk-show host who interviews Will on his heroics, was written specifically for [[Ben Affleck]], but after he had become a discovered star, he moved onto other things. Scott Mosier took the role. |
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In a quick phone call scene, Will contacts a "Mrs. Affleck" to inform her he won't be able to attend her son "Benny's" birthday party, but after talking to the child over the phone he changes his mind and restarts his career as a child-entertainer. |
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A scene is filmed at the official Jay & Silent Bob's Secret Stash store in Red Bank, New Jersey. |
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The film was shot on an extremely tight budget. Many of the grips, assistants and film crew took bit parts in the movie to save money. Brian O'Halloran actually had to have a real bottle broken over his head in one scene because View Askew couldn't afford a break-away bottle. |
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O'Halloran really cut his own hand on a piece of broken glass in one scene of the movie. {{Citation needed|date=April 2009}} |
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Kevin Smith personally requested the role of Martan Ingram. |
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The "Vulgar" logo was drawn by Walt Flanagan, meant to be a truck decal. But Smith wanted it for his company. He wanted to make a movie and even discussed the whole back-story behind the character with Bryan Johnson and Flanagan. |
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It was Bryan Johnson who came up with the idea to put a hideously unconvincing toupee on Jerry Lewkowitz for the character. |
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Johnson is quoted as saying he was always fascinated by serial killers and so he came up with the idea of making the Fanellis having an ordinary domestic social life. |
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The film was submitted to multiple film festivals, but was denied entry to every single one--except for the Toronto Film Festival. All the rejection letters were included to read on the Unrated Director's Cut of the DVD. |
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When the film first premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in Sept. 2000, one-fourth of the audience walked out after the infamous rape scene. Many viewers turned off the movie at that point as well. |
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The film received mostly negative reviews. The one major positive review came from [[Lou Lumenick]] of the ''[[New York Post]]''. [[Howard Stern]] got a copy of the film before it was released. His producer, [[Gary Dell'Abate|Gary "Baba Booey" Dell'Abate]] is a big fan of Kevin Smith, so [[Scott Mosier]] sent a copy to him. After Dell'Abate saw some of the film, he gave it to Stern, who was repulsed by it and shared his opinion of it on ''[[The Howard Stern Show]]''.{{citation needed|date=April 2012}} |
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The film premiered at the [[2000 Toronto International Film Festival]] and was theatrically released on April 26, 2002 by [[Lions Gate Films]]. Its first major screening was at The Angelika Theater Center in New York City. |
The film premiered at the [[2000 Toronto International Film Festival]] and was theatrically released on April 26, 2002 by [[Lions Gate Films]]. Its first major screening was at The Angelika Theater Center in New York City. ''Vulgar'' made $13,000 in its first weekend. |
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.jpg) Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Bryan Johnson |
| Written by | Bryan Johnson |
| Produced by | Monica Hampton Scott Mosier Kevin Smith |
| Starring | Brian O'Halloran Bryan Johnson Jerry Lewkowitz Ethan Suplee Matthew Maher |
| Cinematography | David Klein |
| Edited by | Bryan Johnson Scott Mosier |
| Music by | Ryan Shore |
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| Distributed by | Lions Gate Entertainment |
Release date |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $120,000 (estimated) |
Vulgar is a 2000 American black comedy crime exploitation film written and directed by Bryan Johnson and produced by Monica Hampton for Kevin Smith's View Askew Productions.[1] It features multiple actors from the View Askewniverse. The film is the tale of the character Vulgar, a clown who appeared in the original View Askew Productions logo. Though not a Kevin Smith film, it stars several actors that were cast in other View Askew Productions, such as Brian O'Halloran as the lead character, Smith himself as a gay TV executive, Ethan Suplee as one of the antagonists, Jason Mewes as a car wash employee and black-arms merchant, Scott Mosier as a daytime talk show host and writer/director/editor Bryan Johnson in a supporting role as the lead's best friend, Syd.
In 2016, Johnson announced plans to create a sequel to Vulgar despite him saying in an interview that he was not going to make a sequel.[2]
Plot
[edit]Will Carlson is an around-30 loser who lives in a duplex house apartment in a rundown neighborhood in New Jersey, where he ekes out a living as a birthday party clown in order to pay the rent for his abusive mother's nursing home and the rent on his rundown house. Despite the difficulties of the job, clowning is Will's one escape from the realities of his miserable existence: Will genuinely likes kids, and takes great joy from making them happy on their birthdays.
Struggling to make ends meet, but not wanting to give up his dream job, Will comes up with the idea to be a "bachelor party clown." Will's idea is that men throwing bachelor parties can hire him as a stripper; Will enters the room prior to the "real" entertainment, wearing clown makeup and lingerie, tricking the bachelor into thinking that there was a mix-up and a gay clown stripper has been sent in lieu of a female one. Will invents the persona of Vulgar the Clown (after his friend Syd tells him that the entire idea is "vulgar") and solicits himself in the want-ads. Before long, he is hired to appear at a bachelor party being held at a nearby motel.
When Will arrives for the party — wearing stockings, garters, clown makeup, and a trench-coat — he is attacked and brutally beaten by a middle-aged man, Ed, and his sons Gino and Frankie. The three men then proceed to gang rape Will, taking turns videotaping the attack. The trio hold Will hostage in the motel room for an indeterminate amount of time, during which they subject him to a series of violent and humiliating sexual assaults. They also break a bottle over his head and drug him with hallucinogens. A tearful Will goes home and spends the remainder of the night and part of the next morning crying while he washes himself clean in the bathtub. Syd comes by to see Will. Will tells him of what happened, but swears Syd to secrecy.
Will spends a considerable amount of time after the attack in a crippling depression, which nearly costs him his home. Eventually, Will fulfills a promise to appear as a clown at one of his past clients' children's party. When he gets to the party, Will discovers a hostage crisis is occurring; the father of one of the children, in the middle of divorce proceedings, has kidnapped his own daughter and is threatening to kill her. He agrees to exchange his daughter for his wife. In a near-suicidal reaction, Will sneaks past the police barricade, breaks into the house, and subdues the father. News reporters capture some of the events on film, and before long the story makes national headlines. Will becomes known as "the hero clown;" the attention and outpouring of support breaks him out of his depression, and he is eventually given his own syndicated children's television show.
The media coverage attracts the attention of Ed and his sons (who are still raping young men). They threaten Will with a copy of the tape of his being raped (edited to look like amateur porn) and begin to extort him. When Will tries to pay the men off, they attack him in a bathroom stall. Will finally strikes an agreement with the men wherein he will come to a motel room and "perform" for them, allowing himself to be taken advantage of again, and they will give him all of the copies of the tape; secretly, Will plans to ambush and murder them with the help of Syd.
When the time comes, the gun jams and Will finds himself unable to kill his tormentors. Just as Ed and his sons move in to rape and murder Will, Ed's son Frankie accidentally shoots himself in the face. Then, a shootout ensues with a vagrant lowlife at the hotel, who robs Syd and then plots to do the same to the others. Both the man and Ed's other son (Gino) shoot each other to death. Ed panics, and Will chases him through the motel parking lot to a nearby deserted playground. As Will approaches him with gun-in-hand, Ed has a massive heart attack and dies. Will takes off as he hears police sirens coming. His conscience clear, Will retrieves the tape and goes on to live happily ever after, hosting his television show.
Cast
[edit]- Brian O'Halloran as Will Carlson/Flappy/Vulgar, A 20-something loser and clown.
- Bryan Johnson as Syd Gilbert, Vulgar's friend.
- Jerry Lewkowitz as Ed Fanelli, a very violent and sick man.
- Ethan Suplee as Frankie Fanelli, Ed Fanelli's son, killer and rapist.
- Matthew Maher as Gino Fanelli, Ed Fanelli's son and rapist.
- Don Gentile as Sleepy Bum, a neighbor who sleeps.
- Thomas W. Leidner as Large Bum, Bum's friend
- Michael Tierney as Skinny Bum, Bum's son.
- David Gilbert as Delinquent #1, an acquainted leader.
- Erik Johnson as Delinquent #2, an acquainted person.
- Scott Schiaffo as Travis Lee, an abusive wife-beater.
- Darin Johnson as Boy #1
- Brian Hartsgrove as Boy #2
- Aaron Hakeem as Cop #1
- Jamie Schultz as Cop #2
Extended Cuts
[edit]Extended opening
[edit]The director's cut DVD features an extended opening, with Will waking up in his bed late for his gig (it is circled and marked on the calendar). He screams at his malfunctioning alarm clock and quickly throws his clothes and make-up on—becoming "Flappy".
Extended ending
[edit]The director's cut DVD features an extended ending, wherein Will finds a note from Syd along with a portion of the newspaper in his dressing room on the Fanelli's death, Ed's heart failure from panic and overdose of crack cocaine, as well as attributing Ed's sons' (as well as the vagrant lowlife's) deaths to a random incidence of criminal violence and natural circumstance. A stunned Will breathlessly determines that the men's deaths were all karmic retribution.
Music
[edit]The film's original score was composed by Ryan Shore.
Release and reception
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The film received largely negative reviews. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 23% of 26 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.0/10. The website's consensus reads: "Vulgar more than lives up to its title."[3]. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 5 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike".[4] Many remarked Johnson attempted to plagiarize the signature style of Kevin Smith himself. Fan reaction was especially polarized.
Syndicated radio host Howard Stern was sent a pre-release copy of the film. After watching less than half of it, he tossed it in the trash and then spoke poorly of it several times over the span of three weeks. Smith called in on April 26, 2002 and Stern's first question for him was "Why?".[5] Despite Stern's repeated warning not to see the film, others in his studio revealed that his continued bashing of the film only made them more intrigued, and some went to see it anyway just to satisfy their curiosity.
The film premiered at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival and was theatrically released on April 26, 2002 by Lions Gate Films. Its first major screening was at The Angelika Theater Center in New York City. Vulgar made $13,000 in its first weekend.
References
[edit]- ^ Kehr, Dave (April 26, 2002). "FILM IN REVIEW; 'Vulgar'". The New York Times.
- ^ Shotwell, James (August 23, 2016). "Bryan Johnson announces 'Vulgar 2'". Substreammagazine.com. Archived from the original on June 14, 2018. Retrieved April 8, 2018.
- ^ "Vulgar". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved February 12, 2023.
- ^ "Vulgar". Metacritic. Fandom, Inc. Retrieved February 12, 2023.
- ^ "MarksFriggin.com - Stern Show Archives".
External links
[edit]- Vulgar at IMDb
- Vulgar at Rotten Tomatoes
- Vulgar at Metacritic
- Vulgar at Box Office Mojo