The need to make those comedies came about for Reitman around age 14 when he had a pure cinematic experience by first watching Kevin Smith’s ”Clerks,” then Richard Linklater’s ”Slacker,” and later Wes Anderson’s ”Bottle Rocket,” three independent comedies that helped usher in the independent cinema renaissance.

”That changed my life,” Reitman said. ”Up till then, I thought what a comedy was was the kind of films my dad made. But when I saw ”Clerks” it was like . . . it was like getting hit by a hammer.

”It was just so different,” he added. ”Here’s this completely independent, different movie by people in Jersey who I had never heard of. . . . My goals in life became really specific at that point. That’s the kind of filmmaker I wanted to be, and it seemed like in doing that I could be a filmmaker on my own terms, and I’d have to deal a little less with all this daddy’s boy [garbage].”

SOUTHLAND TALES BOOK 2: FINGERPRINTS GN
by Richard Kelly & Brett Weldele

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