Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel Page #5

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as disreputable as possible

so that the parents

wouldn't want them to see it

and that they feel

that when they go there,

they're doing

something transgressive,

and you've got an audience.

You're making

outlaw movies, basically.

And Roger has always

been an outlaw.

Let go of me, you big ape!

Now beat it, smart boy,

and don't come back

or I'll break your head.

Break whose head,

you phony frenchman?

You ain't so tough.

Took this moosehead to throw me out.

Corman:
I've always been

anti-establishment.

I spent two years in the Navy.

Those were the worst

two years of my life.

I came very close to setting the record

for the most demerits,

because I felt

if they set up a rule,

I really must break that rule.

Ron Howard:

Roger understood

the need for audiences

to identify with rebellion.

Beating the system--

that's cathartic,

you know, defining yourself

on your own terms.

These things are elemental.

They're all what we go through

during those rites of passage.

I think that he understood

that when he was dealing

with those basic experiences

and feelings

that he was talking

to a young audience.

We know he always had

something up his sleeve.

He was more irreverent.

He was more hip--

very hip, very cool.

"A bucket of blood" is a really good

example of parody

of the hip scene,

the beat scene in la.

Walter, you've done

something to me,

something deep down

inside of my prana.

I have?

Oh, Walter,

i want to be with you.

You're creative.

Almost all of Roger's pictures

has a little edge to them.

They were--

they just bordered on

something sacrosanct,

that you shouldn't touch this,

and he did it anyway.

And that's usually

what pulled the picture through.

Feed me.

I'm sorry, pal.

I'm fresh out of blood.

Talk to somebody else.

I'm hungry.

I don't care what you are.

Can't you see I'm knocked out?

I just killed a man.

I'm a murderer.

He was always pushing.

Roger's idea at the time

was to cut down

the time of shooting.

So now his ambition

was to make a film in two days.

Now no novocain.

It dulls the senses.

Haze:
It was work. I mean, we would

get there early in the morning

and we'd just start

grinding out these scenes.

One day was half the movie.

Oh, my god,

don't stop now.

Roger had borrowed

all the dental equipment

from his personal dentist

and they hadn't bolted it

down to the floor.

We banged into this big dental sh*t

and it started to fall over.

And Roger cut the camera

and ran out

and saved the dental equipment.

To hell with the scene.

I can truly say I've never

enjoyed myself so much.

Nicholson:
I'd have terrible experiences

going into the theater

with movies that I had made

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