Hi everyone, Bryan here….
Here’s a new addition to the Boomstick Comics lineup – Favorite Movie Scene of the Day! If you’ve seen any of my interviews with filmmakers or actors, one questions I never forget to ask is What is your favorite scene in a movie that has always stuck with you? Everyone gives different answers and they are always caught off guard and have some fun answering this particular question. Just look how much fun Keanu Reeves had answering the question. It’s different than answering “What is your favorite movie?”, because it allows you to think to a specific moment in a film that really connected with you that you never seem to forget, quote, cry over, or laugh at. So I hope to bring some excellent scenes from movies that you’ve forgotten or haven’t seen in a long while in hopes of rekindling a relationship of passion with your favorite movies and characters. This is #1
We’ve all interviewed for a job before. It’s the worst thing imaginable. Perhaps even worse than watching any David Schwimmer movie known to the world. I joke, of course. Nothing is worse than that. Job interviews are huge stress inducers, awkward, unpleasant, and full of weird and asinine questions that usually have some bullshit answer that you fudge your way through for 3 minutes too long. It’s just how it works. Not all job interviews are like this, but most are. Some uptight people in suits sitting in front of you without a shred of humor, asking you why you think you should be paid for a job you are over qualified for.
Enter Spud.
Danny Boyle crafted the perfect interview scene in his 1996 opus – Trainspotting.
In the scene, Spud is discussing his interview with Renton on how nervous he is about doing it. He even shows his hands are shaking. Renton supplies him with some cocaine with a quick cut to the actual job interview where Boyle quick cuts as if the camera itself is high on cocaine and can’t focus on one sentence, let alone try and understand why Spud is saying in his drug fueled interview.
In fact, Spud is the best case scenario in an interview and does exactly what most of us dream of doing.
“He fucked up good and proper.”
Below is the official screenplay of the scene for your reference.
INT. OFFICE - DAY
The same office. The same team are interviewing Spud.
SPUD
No, actually I went to Craignewton
but I was worried that you wouldn't
have heard of it so I put the Royal
Edinburgh College instead, because
they're both schools, right, and
we're all in this together, and I
wanted to put across the general
idea rather than the details, yeah?
People get all hung up on details,
but what's the point? Like which
school? Does it matter? Why? When?
Where? Or how many O grades did I
get? Could be six, could be one,
but that's not important. What's
important is that I am, right?
That I am.
MAN 1
Mr. Murphy, do you mean that you
lied on your application?
SPUD
Only to get my foot in the door.
Showing initiative, right?
MAN 1
You were referred here by the
Department of Employment. There's
no need for you to get you "foot
in the door", as you put it.
SPUD
Hey. Right. No problem. Whatever
you say, man. You're the man, the
governor, the dude in the chair,
like. I'm merely here. But obviously
I am. Here, that is. I hope I'm
not talking too much. I don't
usually. I think it's all important
though, isn't it?
MAN 2
Mr. Murphy, what attracts you to
the leisure industry?
SPUD
In a word, pleasure. My pleasure
in other people's leisure.
WOMAN
What do you see as your main
strengths?
SPUD
I love people. All people. Even
people that no one else loves, I
think they're OK, you know. Like
Beggars.
WOMAN
Homeless people?
SPUD
No, not homeless people. Beggars,
Francis Begbie -- one of my mates.
I wouldn't say my best mate, I
mean, sometimes the boy goes over
the score, like one time when we --
me and him -- were having a laugh
and all of a sudden he's fucking
gubbed me in the face, right --
WOMAN
Mr. Murphy, {leaving your friend
aside,} do you see yourself as
having any weaknesses?
SPUD
No. Well, yes. I have to admit it:
I'm a perfectionist. For me, it's
the best or nothing at all. If
things go badly, I can't be
bothered, but I have a good feeling
about this interview. Seems to me
like it's gone pretty well. We've
touched on a lot of subjects, a
lot of things to think about, for
all of us.
MAN 1
Thank you, Mr. Murphy. We'll let
you know.
SPUD
The pleasure was mine. Best
interview I've ever been to. Thanks.
Spud crosses the room to shake everyone by the hand and
kiss them.
RENTON (V.O.)
Spud had done well. I was proud of
him. He fucked up good and proper.