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The film retains Enid at its center, but large portions of it go by without Rebecca. The addition of Seymour brings a wounded soulfulness to the film, and Buscemi is marvelous, but the focus on Seymour does take away from the story of the girls and their friendship. As it happens, his sad, nostalgic environment is more of a natural match for her than Rebecca’s positive, upwardly mobile path. The two form a bond, and eventually even sleep together. The song leads her back to the sale again, and into Seymour’s world. She buys an old jazz album and becomes entranced by one of the tracks, the Skip James blues classic “Devil Got My Woman”. It’s a shitty thing to do, but Clowes doesn’t judge the girls for it.īut in the film Enid becomes obsessed with Seymour and tracks him to his apartment complex, where he’s selling old records at a yard sale. The girls don’t show any remorse for the incident, and the man is never mentioned again.

As he leaves he whispers something to them that is either “very funny” or “fuck you”. They leave a message for the man telling him to meet at a specific time and place-a throwback 50’s diner that has become their new hangout-and watch him as he waits for a woman who’s never going to show. In the comic, the girls find a pathetic-sounding “missed encounters” personal ad seeking the identity of a “stunning blonde”. The film’s greatest departure from the comic comes in the character of Seymour, played with graceful weariness by Steve Buscemi, in one of his first romantic leading roles. The girls capture the look of Enid and Rebecca perfectly, but don’t capture their wit. In fact, both Birch and Johansson give performances that careen from charismatic to flat, undercutting the snappy dialog.

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Scarlett would go on to be one of the biggest movie stars in the world, but nothing about her performance in Ghost World stands out. The career of her co-star, Scarlett Johansson (only 15 at the time) would take a dramatically different turn. Birch was a big get at the time: she seemed destined for stardom, and was a perfect visual fit for Enid, but she would never again win the lead role in a film. Thora Birch was cast as Enid, fresh from her turn in the Best Picture winning film American Beauty. Clowes would be deeply involved with the production, receiving co-writing credit on the script (and an eventual Oscar nomination). Director Terry Zwigoff, who had previously made the critically acclaimed documentary Crumb, which centered on the bizarre life and fetishes of underground comic legend Robert Crumb, approached Clowes about adapting the comic for the screen. “Ghost World” was collected into a graphic novel, and earned high praise from critics and expanded Clowes’s following. Clowes has stated that he chose two teenage girls as his leads so that he could use them to express his cynicism without readers becoming distracted by an obvious author surrogate (though it’s worth mentioning that “Enid Coleslaw” is an anagram for Daniel Clowes). The story was a departure for Clowes, presenting a coming-of-age tale from a feminine perspective with wicked sarcasm as well as great emotional depth. In issue #11 of Eightball Clowes published the first installment of a story called “Ghost World”, which centered on two teenage girls (Enid Coleslaw and Rebecca Doppelmeyer), their friendship, and their eventual parting. Eightball was an eclectic collection of gag comics, social parody, and longer stories broken up into chapters, all infused with Clowes’s deadpan wit and love of the graphic design of the 1960’s. For much of his career Clowes’s work appeared in Eightball, an independent comic written and drawn by Clowes himself, released by the Fantagraphics label. Once you become familiar with Clowes’s distinctive artistic style it becomes easy to recognize everywhere-from covers of The New Yorker to the logo for Hollywood’s Meltdown Comics. ”ĭaniel Clowes is far from a household name, but in the world of alternative comics he’s a legend. After that I left…I said I was going to call him when I got home but obviously I never did…Once I got outside I started to feel really weird…Everybody was checking me out…I kept imagining Becky’s reaction to everything.

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It didn’t really hurt and I didn’t really bleed or anything…I remember The Jeffersons was on during the whole thing and I almost cracked up a few times…I was totally aware of every little thing in the room like that, which seemed weird…After it was over we watched Star Trek IV on cable without saying a word. He got totally serious like he was trying really hard to please me and I just wanted it to be over.

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'The TV was on, and he knew I was on the pill…I never said anything like, you know, ‘ DO ME!’ or anything.

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