Chiaki has such a unique beauty to her and in general, I don't think people know how to deal with someone who doesn't fit the typical mold. She was 17 when filming Kill Bill and 19 when it came out in 2003, so it is strange to think of the film being 6 years old (and because I was a teen in the late '90s, 1998 doesn't feel like it's 11 years ago).
She really is quite talented, but has been cast far too often as a tragic character; at this rate, I'd love to see Chiaki in a romantice comedy. She and Diane should team up together and QT should write something awesome for them.

We should! I'd talk his ear off, even though according to Daniel, you just can't win in a film discussion with QT. However, I'd love to have QT and my dad talk about spaghetti westerns and other film oddities from the late '60s - early '70s. My dad has seen many films from that period when stationed in Okinawa, but has forgotten titles; many film nerds have been stumped by him.

HOW AWESOME IS PRIVILEGE? Oh, Steven ♥

I cannot get over Privilege, seriously. It was EXCELLENT - the way it was filmed gets me all picspammy and excited. I think I capped about three hundred caps while watching it - like a twitch!

It's almost spooky how relevant it is, considering the Disney kids. And the music! *downloadz*

(I just checked your profile [~stalker~] because you said you were a teenager in the 1990's, and we're the same age. The More You Know!)

Nearly every frame of the film is worthy of being framed. And Paul Jones was so heart-breaking (some critics actually thought he couldn't act).
I had quite a few bootleg dvd sites bookmarked a few years ago and I loved going through them and seeing what would catch my eye; it was this still of Steven Shorter, followed by the film's description that intrigued me:

After getting a copy from videobeat, I watched it twice in one day and I could not and still cannot believe that there isn't a wider audience and more acclaim for Privilege. Whenever I talk with other filmbuffs who adore the obscure, this one still stumps them; Privilege is still too obscure (and there's only one surviving film print, which can be rented for showings, so that means that not even QT has a copy).

Audiences back then were horrified by and I looked up the ridiculous review for it in Time, as they found the premise absurd. Seventeen magazine hated it because their demographic was ridiculed in the film. Privilege came out right on the verge of Beatlemania and if it had perhaps come out in the early '70s it may have done better (though people found Brian DePalma's Phantom of the Paradise ridiculous in 1973, too). For years Privilege was classified as science-fiction because the notion of celebrity-worship was considered ludicrous.

What really inspired Watkins to make the film was the short documentary Lonely Boy with Paul Anka and something his friend and actor Terrence Stamp said, "All celebrities think they're God."

As for music from the film: http://www.box.net/shared/7lz5qgnnf7

Also, note to self: Must make double-feature out of Privilege and Phantom of the Paradise.

One last note; my dad recommended the film A Face in the Crowd starring Andy Griffith, similar to Privilege but the character becomes the opposite of Steven: he instead becomes drunk on the fame and power.

OH OH

AND

THE MIX IS AMAZING AND YOU HAVE TO EMAIL ME SO I CAN EMAIL BACK AND BE EXCITED ABOUT THIS MIX BECAUSE IT'S LIKE A CRAZY ALTERNATE ANACHRONISTIC AWESOME AU MIX THAT'S JUST PERFECT.

PERFECT!

I AM TYPING RIGHT NOW ♥