Kevin Smith Breaks Down Jay and Silent Bob Fan Theories from Reddit | Vanity Fair

hey man I'm Kevin Smith and I'm here to look at some fan theories some spooky fella why exactly Silent Bob mostly silent throughout his appearances in the view askew naver's franchise my theory is that since we see the backstory of the hetero life mates as babies in front of the quick stop and we see Jay spit out his first that he's been non-stop profanity and hilarious quips since Jay was the first to speak and has never stopped speaking bob adapted to this dynamic and proceeded to live mostly in silence breaking it only when he has something important to say we had a deal with you on the comics remember for likeness rights I like spooky fellas theory and it's actually it's supported by real life I wrote Jason Mewes into clerks cuz I thought he's one of the most interesting people I ever met new Chi booty new G's for most of my life before I knew I wanted to be a filmmaker he'd say funny and I'd always be like somebody should put you in a movie one day man I want to see if like anybody outside of like New Jersey thinks you're fine I think you're funny but like would anyone else think you're funny if they don't know what we're talking about and stuff like that and then years later I discovered that I want to make a movie and I was like I'm putting this kid in the movies man like I'm putting him in my movie because I want to see if anyone else thinks he's funny so I wanted to have him and he's a force of nature non-stop monologuist and whatnot but I didn't want somebody to have conversation with him so I was like he needs somebody just to stand next to him and like his muscle if he's dealing weed he's got guys stand next to him looking out for his back and stuff and since this cats always talking this cat don't have to say anything we'll call him silent Bob and stuff and I was not gonna play the role I was gonna play the role Randall which is why Randall has all the best jokes and clerks but the closer we got to production I was like I'm not an actor I can't memorize that who wrote all this so I backed out picked Jeff Anderson say you play Randall instead then I was like if this is the only movie I'm gonna make I at least want to be in it so that when I look back at this years from now I could be like yeah that's what I look like when I made the worst mistake of my life so I put myself in the movie I said who could I be I don't have to memorize dialogue Oh Silent Bob I was gonna give it to a friend of mine Mike bellicose and I called him up I was like Mike you ain't Silent Bob anymore I gave him another role my girlfriend sucked 37 dicks in a row so I took his role at the last minute and then I stood there and said nothing and it was helpful because J had never acted before so I was like working him like a human puppet while I was standing next to me stuff the really weird thing is as you could see based on the amount that I talked nobody ever really thought that Silent Bob was much of a performance they're like you're not acting you're not even talking but knowing how much I talk seeing how vocal and verbal I am the fact that I played a character who didn't speak for 6 or 7 movies give me a Oscar in retrospect that you know Meryl Streep whatever it's hard for me not to talk just thrown it out there from Nick Twix 95 in Jay and Silent Bob reboot Justin long reprises his role a Brandon state Randy from Zack and Miri Make a Porno this is true this means that the latter movie is now canon and Kevin Smith's ask universe that's all the movies I made that we're interconnected in the beginning such as clerks and Dogma he is absolutely right that is me trying to back door which sounds sexier than I meant to retcon zack and miri into the view askew numbers so I could be like all those kids they knew these kids as well like so that would mean that Dante and Randal might have watched a porno that Zack and Miri made like in the end credits remember they had a business at that point where they were just shooting people having sex so they could be familiar with their work Justin long playing the same character but we never took the time to say that when we made the movie so when we were shooting the scene we were never like hey he used to be a gay porn star but now he's a lawyer my name is Brandon state Randy and I love Bobby long so instead we just had a scene where like every gay reference that he made stuck out like a sore thumb in a court of law because we were like what does this have to do with the story because technically I don't own Zack & Miri so I was trying to do this on the down low I can't just take a character from movie I don't own and stick it into the movie that I also don't own so we tried to do it without naming him brandon saying randy but you could hear it in his voice to answer your question it does bring those two universes together the askew naver's and the one movie universe of zack and miri the porno verse if you will this one is from chronic knee oh he says Silent Bob is gay that's his thesis right up top you have my attention chronic neo is never with a woman he acts like he likes women but we never actually see this in fact in Jay and Silent Bob strike back Jay says to him you know dude you suck my dick to which Bob replies listen here chronic Bo I'll say this Bob is fluid very curious very fluid man he doesn't necessarily identify as gay but he ain't against it and you know his mouth is used for more than not talking that's all I'll say but in in you know what Jay and Silent Bob reboot we have a line that flat-out tells you exactly spoilers he is here's one from hobo Messiah what a great name Amy is in yoga hosers in yoga hosers I noticed Colleen M's mother is only ever referred to as MS Mackenzie and there's no mention whatsoever of Colleen M's father Colleen M was played by Harley my daughter and her mother in the movie was played by Jennifer who I am her husband and we had that kid together and so were her parents in chasing amy when Salma Bob is telling his Amy story on through something like what you're talking about a couple years ago this chick named Amy J interjects with she's live in Canada or something while I remember this wow this is good the theory hope of Messiah is putting out there Miz Mackenzie is actually Miz amy Mackenzie and Colleen M is Amy and Silent Bob's bastard child I like that very much because me and Colleen M's mother did in real life and that's how she even exists so I kind of like that because it puts me my wife and kid together in a family even in the movies but it's not the case what a great theory though hobo Messiah but in Jay and Silent Bob reboot we actually we we show you who amy is we reveal that after all this time and stuff like that so there's is actually in the movie man and so weird that you mentioned miss McKenzie because she's also in J and SAAM reboot she was in Jay and Silent Bob strike back is one of the girl gang Missy but in Jay and Silent Bob reboot she returns as Ms Mackenzie her character from yoga hosers go figure I'm trying to cross over all my worlds man now I bring my Canada bursts into the view askew naver's and the porno verse worlds collide from kraji Munna Ezreal won in the end after all this is presumably about my film Dogma and not the cat that belonged to Gargamel in the Smurfs my theory is that Azrael set all the events of dogma in motion knowing full well that he could not stand up against God and all of her might with something as big as ending all of existence that was just a red herring his true plan was to get the Metatron to call upon Bethany and gather the prophets into a force strong enough to take him down Silent Bob's slaying him with a blessed driver was as riyals plan coming to fulfillment his existence is ended and he will never return to hell that is an awesome theory Crotched mana like my god you've given Dogma a lot of thought the only problem is a dog was predicated on a Catholic dogma so if Azrael who was clearly a bad dude and did bad things were to be killed he would return to hell here you say he'll never return to hell but that's where he goes Azrael don't get to go back to heaven after all that like no way so he goes back to hell worse as a demon expelled or murdered even by a prophet Silent Bob so Bob's an instrument of God no but the driver is because collects the kind of a so who would bless his own clubs for a better golf game I like the theory but that won't end his existence he'll still go to hell in our Catholic dogma he didn't know that but me as the writer I knew that that count from I hate easy with a passion the d c-- e u-- and the MCU take place in the same universe this this person theory Ben Affleck appears in Batman V Superman and Dogma movie I made which take place in the same universe as Mallrats which has a Stan Lee cameo is absolutely true Stan Lee was in Mallrats you know what else Stan Lee has a cameo in that's right the entire Marvel Universe so this person's theory then athletic appears in Batman V Superman and Dogma which take place in the same universe as mall rest why does Batman V Superman take place in the same universe as dog and why is this person know that why do they think that just because Ben well then place two different characters in those movies your theory falls apart in the first sentence it sounded so metal but now when I went back and looked at it I'm like oh I can get us into the MC universe in a much easier way but the Ben Affleck I don't think that's the door to connect the two look I'll cosign it DC EU and the MCU can exist in the same universe but I haven't seen you prove it in your work come back with a new equation ash Crossan says Degrassi is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and then just leaves it at that he's like Hugh Smith prove it like it's my job and it is I know this for a fact because Kevin Smith too exists in the Degrassi universe he went to the grassy junior high and shot a movie called Jay and Silent Bob go Canadian Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith exists in the grassy universe Kevin Smith exists in the Marvel Cinematic Universe because Stan Lee was reading a copy of the Mallrats script on this train in Captain Marvel Crosson is absolutely right man Kevin Smith exists in Degrassi universe he exists in the Marvel Cinematic Universe hence Degrassi must exist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe so when Thanos snapped that spike gone like just gone snake god I'm doing old-school Degrassi s probably do new-school Manny Santos gone and then there's some kids like Manny Santos that's old Degrassi like what the alright the Netflix kids from Degrassi from the seasons that nobody watch gone half of them just snapped away thank God they all came back though because we'd never find out what people were getting bracelets for otherwise this is from Rp dr nick we got a running joke in our movies and it even pops up in James Bob reboot where our characters always confuse Anne Frank with Helen Keller you're talking about Helen Keller no not I'm talking about Anne Frank she was deaf dumb and blind no she wasn't Helen Keller was deaf dumb him blind because where we were school there was a kid who always confused Anne Frank and Helen Keller and who the same Frank it always be like when Helen Keller fought the Nazis and you're like well none of that happened like Anne Frank didn't even fight the Nazis but like this cat was way confused so we throw it in the movies all the time this cat said I finally discovered the real reason Randall confused and Frank with Helen Keller in clerks - it turns out he's just a big Melissa Gilbert fan apparently Melissa Gilbert half pint from Little House on the Prairie played both Helen Keller I knew that she was in a TV remake of The Miracle Worker but she also played and Frank man go figure that's two of the biggest roles that a young actress complied mystery solved alright kids that was fun my lord what a lot of great fan theories are out there man thank you for being a fan thank you for liking this stuff at all thank you for letting it capture your imagination and take you into places that I never intended thank you for letting me do this man

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Length: 12min 11sec (731 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 15 2019