+Alicia, I love what the director said his wife said. "There is only one man you have to worry about me being in a darkened room with...Steve Buscemi!" Mm m mmmm!
Thora Birch is always in really strange films with unusual characters that somehow everyone can relate to part of. Ghost World and American Beauty were both really amazing films that pulled people in in the most creative way.
I found the Seymour character heartbreaking. His obsessions and his collections and his intelligence alienate him from so many people that he says, "Please. Kill me." Yet ultimately he's so much happier than Enid, who is trying on new identities at every turn and has yet to learn a damn thing about herself, including her refusal to acknowledge her power...and willingness...to destroy people.
I think you also have to take into account the hopelessness in his life. He's middle aged and has most chances behind him, and any chances in front of him are blatantly squandered by his and Enid's relationship. He's stuck in his skin for (what seems like) good. Enid, on the other hand, has her odd and depressing life to her own and can do as she pleases. She's got everything in front of her. I think that's another reason why Seymour stuck to her.
Well said and well put ! Though I love this movie, it breaks my heart to see what poor Enid and Seymour have to go thru. The story is so bittersweet. But the acting, art direction, script, music, etc all blow me away each time I watch this flick....
@@ginkgothestink-o6949 Seymour is not middle-aged, Buscemi was only 41-42 years old when the movie was shot, and his character could be supposed to be 40 or even late 30s.
A surreal movie if there ever was one! The first time I saw it I thought: how strange! But it grows on you as you begin to understand the cinematic language.
I have a notion to second that emotion ! I too was quite baffled the first time I saw it when it first was released but the more I watch it the more I enjoy it !!
I totally had that relationship with my best friend (at the time) and then all of sudden we were no longer best friends because we slowly grew apart from each other and wanted different things out of life... it completely sucks!
I believe the music in it (the main tune they play when something is kinda weird I guess) is part of what makes this movie so good. You know like when she got on the bus..the song that was playing? Also Dana reminded me of me when "Solid as a Rock" came on..and how I never dated anyone that would listen to that but I LOVE that song and I make a big deal about it whenever I hear it.
idk I like the whole theory of Enid and Rebecca being dead. it's like they're stuck in a limbo and that guy who sits on the bench is actually waiting for the bus that takes him to the next life. When a spirit is actually at rest.
it IS teen movie jesus christ... there are teens who need movies like this in their life - such a shame there arent many! but they are still teens and this movies still speaks about everything they feel... so hell yeah its a teen movie...
In saying that her character was the one going in the "right direction", it occurs to me that Scarlett Johansson perhaps didn't quite get all of the messages of the movie. I've always believed that Enid, the one staying true to herself and rejecting the character-crushing formalities you have to endure down the middle of the road was the one truly going in the right direction.
Perhaps she should have said that Rebecca is going in A direction (which seems like the right direction to Rebecca). Enid, isn’t really going in any direction, because she hasn’t (until the very end of the film) decided on any direction to go. Rebecca is actually, I think, really staying fairly true to herself too, just as Enid is. She’s friends with Enid, and they are equally bored, and at this in-between moment in their lives, searching for entertainment in their ghost world of a town. They share the same type of humor and disdain for pretty much everyone, but Rebecca isn’t nearly as artistic or eccentric or as deeply interested in people as Enid is. They’re totally different. I think this is mostly shown through their completely different looks - Rebecca’s very mainstream look, and Enid’s very counterculture look. They bond through their angst and sarcastic views of everything, but that’s starting to change - at least for Rebecca, and she’s starting to realize (or at least she’s starting to decide) that she’s really much more in line with the norm of society than Enid, or at least at this point in her life, she wants to be. That’s why getting a typical job and an apartment in their ghost world of a hometown, doesn’t seem totally insane to Rebecca like it definitely does to Enid. Enid, while she is still aimless for the majority of the film, has made one decision; that a typical life here in this typical place, is not for her. Rebecca has decided that, at least for now, a typical life in this typical place is Ok, and this is where their compatibility at this crossroads point in their lives, starts to diverge.
Steve Buscemi is just so fucking cool! And I mean cool! Not nice, not awsome, but COOOOOL! Really, one of the best actors ever to walk the earth! I'm going to see this movie simply because he's in it and if he's in it, it can't be bad.
The first time I saw this movie...I was thinking about it...esp the title 'Ghost World' and I thought that they were all actually dead (Enid, Rebecca etc..) ..that maybe they'd died in the car accident that the girl in thew wheel chair (at the beginning) survived...so they walk through the entire movie (maybe like 6th sense with Bruce Willis kind of thing)....plus the old guy on the bench (also dead) that they chat to sometimes......thoughts???
I'm wondering just how many people you think died cause what was she driving? A Bus? I mean...wouldn't Seymour have to be dead too? Wouldn't all the people they talk to have to be dead too? Are they all dead and communicating in another realm?
i love when he says "i cant relate to 99% of humanity" i love the bit about them being outsiders. im one myself sometimes i do dress like enid and diffentally want to dye my hair a crazy color like she did when im older.
the first time i watched this film i hated it, it was nothing like the reviews said or the cover i was expecting something very different ,but now having watched it again and yet again i love it!it says alot about feeling alienated and the angst of growing up,for some of us this feeling never seems to go away
It's kind of weird how it's portrayed as a weird but funny movie here, but in reality, it's really very sad. But it's still one of my favorite movies, and definitely my favorite Steve Buscemi movie (Reservoir Dogs was pretty good but not as great as Ghost World).
best Clowes quote about working with "Hollywood" to make Ghost-World": “The things that happened [in Hollywood] were all the things you would think of. You think the fiction of Hollywood has to be exaggerated, and it’s just not. I was shocked. I always thought there were really smart people working in Hollywood who were just really cynical, and they knew that the movies they were making were not that good, and they were doing it because they tested well. But mostly it’s a very middlebrow to lowbrow kind of town. And they’re making films that they approve of. "
i never seen the film insofar. I've read the comic though. I liked that. Do you know if they put that one line in the movie "Fuck you bitch this is my happening and it freaks me out?" I remember that from the book.....gawd, enid -freakin-coleslaw...what a funny dude
Steve Buscemi is ridiculously attractive.
He is!
+Alicia, I love what the director said his wife said. "There is only one man you have to worry about me being in a darkened room with...Steve Buscemi!" Mm m mmmm!
+Lynne Perkins I loved that too! Mostly because I kind of feel the same way she does. There's just something about Steve Buscemi. ❤
One of my all time favorite actors !! What a talent !!
Explain this. I watched this movie when it first came out and I had a small thing for him. Why? I don't understand it!
I thought it was called Ghost World because Enid and Seymour are the ghosts... the world passes around them, and they can't connect with it.
I think Steve Buscemi said it best. But this is like a great work of art. It could be interpreted in many ways.
R.I.P. Brad Renfro
I can't leave this movie alone, I have it on my laptop, my iPod, on DVD and I have the comic too... it's just... well good.
I know the feeling ! I have watched it many many times and each time I see it I notice something new to enjoy !
I have the DVD, the CD soundtrack, the comic book and the script book.
Thora Birch is always in really strange films with unusual characters that somehow everyone can relate to part of. Ghost World and American Beauty were both really amazing films that pulled people in in the most creative way.
I found the Seymour character heartbreaking. His obsessions and his collections and his intelligence alienate him from so many people that he says, "Please. Kill me." Yet ultimately he's so much happier than Enid, who is trying on new identities at every turn and has yet to learn a damn thing about herself, including her refusal to acknowledge her power...and willingness...to destroy people.
Seymour is Enid's foil. Without him around, you don't learn quite as much about her.
I think you also have to take into account the hopelessness in his life. He's middle aged and has most chances behind him, and any chances in front of him are blatantly squandered by his and Enid's relationship. He's stuck in his skin for (what seems like) good. Enid, on the other hand, has her odd and depressing life to her own and can do as she pleases. She's got everything in front of her. I think that's another reason why Seymour stuck to her.
Well said and well put ! Though I love this movie, it breaks my heart to see what poor Enid and Seymour have to go thru. The story is so bittersweet. But the acting, art direction, script, music, etc all blow me away each time I watch this flick....
@@ginkgothestink-o6949 Seymour is not middle-aged, Buscemi was only 41-42 years old when the movie was shot, and his character could be supposed to be 40 or even late 30s.
@@gonzalopriale3293 America’s life expectancy is 78 years, so being in your early 40s is by definition middle aged.
''every woman i've ever talked to has a thing for steve buscemi'' lmao, true
This movie reminds me of early 90 and all the teen hardcore/punk scene that died out in the 2000's....
Enid and Seymour's relationship is so beautiful and real
"I can't relate 99 % of humanity"
''every woman i've ever talked to has a thing for steve buscemie'' LOL OH MY FUCKING GOD THIS IS SO TRUE!!!!!! HOW CAN U NOT LIKE HIM!!!!!!!!
I dont know if this is even more depressing, but I didnt even had that very special friend relationship
A surreal movie if there ever was one! The first time I saw it I thought: how strange! But it grows on you as you begin to understand the cinematic language.
I have a notion to second that emotion ! I too was quite baffled the first time I saw it when it first was released but the more I watch it the more I enjoy it !!
I totally had that relationship with my best friend (at the time) and then all of sudden we were no longer best friends because we slowly grew apart from each other and wanted different things out of life... it completely sucks!
I believe the music in it (the main tune they play when something is kinda weird I guess) is part of what makes this movie so good. You know like when she got on the bus..the song that was playing? Also Dana reminded me of me when "Solid as a Rock" came on..and how I never dated anyone that would listen to that but I LOVE that song and I make a big deal about it whenever I hear it.
Ghost World and Crumb may be my two favorite American films.
rip josh :(
This is the best movie ever. I can relate to it on so many levels.
This is the best movie ever!
idk I like the whole theory of Enid and Rebecca being dead. it's like they're stuck in a limbo and that guy who sits on the bench is actually waiting for the bus that takes him to the next life. When a spirit is actually at rest.
True. She committs suicide, thats what the bus is about. But the real ghost world is where the majority idiots "live".
Enid was so nice to that guy and he was..well bitchy.
A brilliant and INCREDIBLY smart dark comedy with a sense of drama.
I'm here for Brad. I wish he had more scenes in the movie :/
Josh was normal. Not sure why they call him a young Seymour. I found him to just be very normal.
Whenever I come across this movie I stop to watch it. Love this movie.
it IS teen movie jesus christ... there are teens who need movies like this in their life - such a shame there arent many! but they are still teens and this movies still speaks about everything they feel... so hell yeah its a teen movie...
didnt know that he was the kid from The Client with sarandon and tommy lee..great movie r.i.p.
"A town thats a ghost of what it used to be"....How depressing😣
"That guy is many things, but he is not cool"
"Yeah, well, thanks for cheering me up" lol
Where do you think you are? Club Med? 😆
I love this movie so much.
In saying that her character was the one going in the "right direction", it occurs to me that Scarlett Johansson perhaps didn't quite get all of the messages of the movie. I've always believed that Enid, the one staying true to herself and rejecting the character-crushing formalities you have to endure down the middle of the road was the one truly going in the right direction.
Perhaps she should have said that Rebecca is going in A direction (which seems like the right direction to Rebecca). Enid, isn’t really going in any direction, because she hasn’t (until the very end of the film) decided on any direction to go. Rebecca is actually, I think, really staying fairly true to herself too, just as Enid is. She’s friends with Enid, and they are equally bored, and at this in-between moment in their lives, searching for entertainment in their ghost world of a town. They share the same type of humor and disdain for pretty much everyone, but Rebecca isn’t nearly as artistic or eccentric or as deeply interested in people as Enid is. They’re totally different. I think this is mostly shown through their completely different looks - Rebecca’s very mainstream look, and Enid’s very counterculture look. They bond through their angst and sarcastic views of everything, but that’s starting to change - at least for Rebecca, and she’s starting to realize (or at least she’s starting to decide) that she’s really much more in line with the norm of society than Enid, or at least at this point in her life, she wants to be. That’s why getting a typical job and an apartment in their ghost world of a hometown, doesn’t seem totally insane to Rebecca like it definitely does to Enid. Enid, while she is still aimless for the majority of the film, has made one decision; that a typical life here in this typical place, is not for her. Rebecca has decided that, at least for now, a typical life in this typical place is Ok, and this is where their compatibility at this crossroads point in their lives, starts to diverge.
Steve Buscemi is just so fucking cool! And I mean cool! Not nice, not awsome, but COOOOOL! Really, one of the best actors ever to walk the earth! I'm going to see this movie simply because he's in it and if he's in it, it can't be bad.
The first time I saw this movie...I was thinking about it...esp the title 'Ghost World' and I thought that they were all actually dead (Enid, Rebecca etc..) ..that maybe they'd died in the car accident that the girl in thew wheel chair (at the beginning) survived...so they walk through the entire movie (maybe like 6th sense with Bruce Willis kind of thing)....plus the old guy on the bench (also dead) that they chat to sometimes......thoughts???
I'm wondering just how many people you think died cause what was she driving? A Bus? I mean...wouldn't Seymour have to be dead too? Wouldn't all the people they talk to have to be dead too? Are they all dead and communicating in another realm?
i love when he says "i cant relate to 99% of humanity" i love the bit about them being outsiders. im one myself sometimes i do dress like enid and diffentally want to dye my hair a crazy color like she did when im older.
@Jationator That's right and it's really a shame that Thora hasn't played any remarkable roles after those two movies.
@NYLKEN oh my god your parents got together like this????? that is the most awesome thing ive heard!!!!!!!
Sad the director cut several scenes of Brad Renfro
Great movie!
the first time i watched this film i hated it, it was nothing like the reviews said or the cover i was expecting something very different ,but now having watched it again and yet again i love it!it says alot about feeling alienated and the angst of growing up,for some of us this feeling never seems to go away
God I love this movie
Me too ! It sort of grows on a person....
@DrCanyonero absolutely, even his cameos are cool.
Ghost World also provides a scathing critique of the dysfunctional people and snobbery pervasive in the "underground".
Best movie... EVER!!!!
you're awesome.
It's kind of weird how it's portrayed as a weird but funny movie here, but in reality, it's really very sad. But it's still one of my favorite movies, and definitely my favorite Steve Buscemi movie (Reservoir Dogs was pretty good but not as great as Ghost World).
Brad Renfro
Her laugh at :25-:28 seems like it wasn't in the script.
best Clowes quote about working with "Hollywood" to make Ghost-World":
“The things that happened [in Hollywood] were all the things you would think of. You think the fiction of Hollywood has to be exaggerated, and it’s just not. I was shocked. I always thought there were really smart people working in Hollywood who were just really cynical, and they knew that the movies they were making were not that good, and they were doing it because they tested well. But mostly it’s a very middlebrow to lowbrow kind of town. And they’re making films that they approve of. "
We're lucky it turned out as good as it did.
i take it you liked it.
+michaelangelo8008 The movie? Yeah.
i never seen the film insofar. I've read the comic though. I liked that. Do you know if they put that one line in the movie "Fuck you bitch this is my happening and it freaks me out?" I remember that from the book.....gawd, enid -freakin-coleslaw...what a funny dude
michaelangelo8008 "This is my happening and it freaks me out!" was Enid quoting Z-Man from the awesome film "Beyond The Valley of The Dolls."
what year that movie was made?
I cannot find this movie to watch it. I went on youtube and found like part 1,4 and 8 but that's it. Did you rent the movie and watch it or go online?
aubrey archambault did you ever find it? 😂
aubrey archambault I watched it in a goddamned movie theater, whippersnapper! (Then bought a dvd.)
***** did you watch it yet? I've never seen it, but this "MakingOf" makes me want to see it
He's not saying steve name write
Steve pronounces his own name that way, though it is correctly pronounced "Bu-SHEH-mi", like most people say it.
@girl123interrupted Buy it from Amazon or HMV, thats where I got it. :)
Ras is going wyy w
2001
4:30 - Joe Biden's first and only film role
I never did understand why some stores require shirts...for men, of course. Can anyone explain this policy?
This is the best movie ever. I can relate to it on so many levels.