The very same. Only it's joints.
Pardon?
Spike doesn't make movies. He makes 'joints'.
I see. And which particular 'joint' is he making at the moment?
Funny you should ask. The joint Spike's currently hard at work on has a joint that's got him in trouble.
Enough with the joints, let's get to the point.
Was that an attempt at rapping?
Maybe.
Don't ever do that again. Anyway, Spike's in bother because of The Summer of Sam, his new joint concerning serial killer David Berkowitz (aka The Son of Sam) and his brief reign of terror in New York circa 1977.
So it's loaded with blood and gore and guts and...
No, that isn't the problem the joint's not really about Sam. It's got more to do with the effect the murders had on Italian-American teenagers in the Bronx.
And the problem with that is...
Sex. Lots of sex. Drugs. A truckload of drugs, huge great slabs of violence, and foul language, too.
All at the same time?
Afraid so. So it's no surprise that Disney, the film's somewhat unlikely producers, have been seeking to distance their cuddly family-orientated image from it before it's even come out.
How so?
Well, they're releasing it under the banner of subsidiary company Touchstone for a start. In the words of Chairman Joe Roth: '[The movie] is the work of a controversial artist, and not what Walt Disney Co think is a family film. Only when we think a film is a family film do we call it a Walt Disney film.'
Ooer. And is Spike's nose out of joint?
Not at all (he says). According to an unusually magnanimous Lee, he's more than happy with both Roth and fellow Disney CEO Michael Eisner. 'Eisner has supported the film fully,' Spike remarks. 'He even visited our set in the Bronx.'
But did he smoke any joints while he was there?
You haven't been listening at all, have you?
