You're never going to get a good screenplay that way, though the chances are akin to winning the lottery. Zwigoff: I'd been pigeonholed as the "weirdo" director, so any kind of screenplay that was about a dysfunctional family or some weirdo, I would get. In 1994, Crumb had just come out and I was getting a lot of screenplays sent to me -ĪC: I'm curious what sort of scripts "the director of Crumb " would be sent? Terry Zwigoff: I hooked up with him in 1994, but I had started reading his work some time before that, probably in the late Eighties. I spoke with the unprepossessing Zwigoff via telephone and discussed his association with Clowes, the hellish world of the studio pitch meeting, and other outsider filmmaker horror stories.Īustin Chronicle:How was it that you first hooked up with Daniel Clowes? Had you been familiar with his work in Eightball prior to beginning work on Ghost World ? Who wants to see teens act the way teens really act, anyway?Īpparently, the critics, who have sanctified Zwigoff's dark gem with a four-star geek-chic seal of approval since its New York/Los Angeles opening a month ago, not to mention the audience members who have - to the shock of MGM - created some serious (for an "art" film, anyway) box-office numbers. Fans of the American Pie school of horndog yuks will likely find Zwigoff's precise and economic direction downright confusing, while Birch's turn as the gloomy/artistic retropunk Enid may repel some by hitting too close to home. To call Ghost World a teen comedy - as distributor MGM would like to do - is to miss the point.
Along with best friend Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), Enid wanders through a summer of post-high school malaise, marking time by hanging out in greasy spoons and stalking complete strangers, among then Steve Buscemi's misanthropic Seymour, a 34-year-old obsessive collector of vintage 78rpm jazz records. Comic artist Daniel Clowes' Rebecca (left) and Enid are brought to life by Scarlett Johansson and Thora Birch in Terry Zwigoff's dark gem of a movie.īased on the cult comic book series by Daniel Clowes and directed by Terry Zwigoff of Crumb infamy, Ghost World is an often poignant, frequently hilarious, and occasionally disturbing immersion into the world of 18-year-old Enid ( American Beauty's Thora Birch), a teenage outsider who faces the daily tsunami of cultural mediocrity and an uncertain future armed with only her withering cynicism and sullen panache.
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