Slacker (1991)
Actors:
Richard Linklater (actor),
Richard Linklater (writer),
Richard Linklater (director),
Richard Linklater (producer),
John Pierson (miscellaneous crew),
Athina Rachel Tsangari (actress),
Tommy Pallotta (actor),
Tommy Pallotta (miscellaneous crew),
Louis Black (actor),
Charles Gunning (actor),
Kerthy Fix (miscellaneous crew),
Bob Boyd (actor),
Jerry Delony (actor),
Scott Rhodes (editor),
Scott Rhodes (actor),
Plot: Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of linear vignettes. These characters, who in some manner just don't fit into the establishment norms, move seamlessly from one scene to the next, randomly coming and going into one another's lives. Highlights include a UFO buff who adamantly insists that the U.S. has been on the moon since the 1950s, a woman who produces a glass slide purportedly of Madonna's pap smear, and an old anarchist who sympathetically shares his philosophy of life with a robber.
Keywords: 1990s, 8mm, accomplice, african-american, altar, amnesia, anarchism, anarchist, anarchy, anti-artist
Genres:
Comedy,
Drama,
Quotes:
Hitchhiker: I may live badly, but at least I don't have to *work* to do it.
Old Man: When young, we mourn for one woman... as we grow old, for women in general. The tragedy of life is that man is never free yet strives for what he can never be. The thing most ferared in secret always happens. My life, my loves, where are they now? But the more the pain grows, the more this instinct for life somehow asserts itself. The necessary beauty in life is in giving yourself to it completely. Only later will it clarify itself and become coherent.
Working on Same Painting: Sorry, I'm late.::Having a Breakthrough Day: That's okay, time doesn't exist.
Traumatized Yacht Owner: You should never traumatize a woman sexually. I should know, I'm a medical doctor. You should never, traumatize, you should never...
Video Interviewer: So, did you vote in the most recent election?::Hitchhiker: Hell, no... I've got less important things to do.
Dostoyevsky Wannabe: Who's ever written a great work about the immense effort required in order not to create?
Has Faith in Groups: You know, that's what I hate: when you start talking like this, like you just pull in these things from the shit you read, and you haven't thought it out for yourself, no bearing on the world around us, and totally unoriginal.::Based on Authoritative Sources: Okay, great. Personal attacks now, is that it? I thought we were beyond that.::Has Faith in Groups: It's like you just pasted together these bits and pieces from your "authoritative sources." I don't know. I'm beginning to suspect there's nothing really in there.::Based on Authoritative Sources: Suspect? You're beginning to suspect? Oh, that's rich, that's really rich. So what? At least what is there, is based on good sources.
Old Anarchist: And remember: the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
Video Backpacker: To me, my thing is, a video image is much more powerful and useful than an actual event. Like back when I used to go out, when I was last out, I was walking down the street and this guy, that came barreling out of a bar, fell right in front of me, and he had a knife right in his back, landed right on the ground and... Well, I have no reference to it now. I can't put it on pause. I can't put it on slow mo and see all the little details. And the blood, it was all wrong. It didn't look like blood. The hue was off. I couldn't adjust the hue. I was seeing it for real, but it just wasn't right. And I didn't even see the knife impact on the body. I missed that part.
Disgruntled Grad Student: Every action is a positive action, even if it has a negative result.