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Clowes' second screenplay, after the Oscar-nominated adaptation of his graphic novel Ghost World (1997), features a larger but equally eccentric cast of misfits. Its ripe-for-skewering setting is filled with naive, young would-be artists and jaded professors. The focal character is Jerome, a freshman equally obsessed with becoming the greatest artist of the twenty-first century and with getting somewhere with gorgeous model Audrey. The early scenes establishing the milieu and introducing the characters, many only by type (e.g., Beat Girl, Suburban Girl, Kiss-Ass), are the most entertaining. When the plot about a serial killer stalking the campus takes over, the story settles into something less compelling and more conventional (it doesn't help that the murderer's identity is pretty obvious). Fans of Clowes' comics may picture the characters in his distinctive visual style and wish he weren't trying to fit his peculiar sensibility into such worn frameworks as the coming-of-age story, the love story, and the murder mystery. What director Terry Zwigoff did with Clowes' script will be seen when the movie opens in April. Gordon Flagg
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Book Description
Like the 2002 Ghost World: a Screenplay, Art School Confidential will serve as a companion to the MGM motion picture due to be released in September 2005. The film is directed by Terri Zwigofff (Ghost World, Bad Santa), is based on the Eightball comic strip and written by Daniel Clowes. It stars Max Minghella, John Malkovich and Angelica Huston. This book collects the complete screenplay with several scenes edited out of the film, behind-the-scenes photos, two 8-page colour sections, tons of production ephemera, annotations by Clowes and many more surprises.
