The Lloyd Kaufman Interview




Proudly Resents: The cult movie podcast show

Summary: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/k6f5aso"></a><a href="http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/proudlyresents/p/proudlyresents.com/media/prp147.mp3">Interview</a> with Troma honcho <a href="http://www.lloydkaufman.com/">Lloyd Kaufman</a>. He’s directed and produced some classic cult films like <a href="http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/proudlyresents/p/proudlyresents.com/media/prp137.mp3">“Toxic Avenger”</a> and “Terror Firmir.” Lloyd discusses the state of independent films today and 40 years of survival despite a “media blackout.”   Also– How to crush a head on film. Hint: Don’t use a watermelon. Never a watermelon.<br> Listen <a href="http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/proudlyresents/p/proudlyresents.com/media/prp147.mp3">HERE</a> or on <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id373063266">Itunes</a> on<a href="http://stitcher.com/listen.php?fid=17501"> Stitcher</a> or<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ProudlyResentsPodcastFeed"> RSS.</a><br> If you like the show, share it on Facebook, Digg, Reddit, Twitter etc.<br> Sign up for our mailing list (Look to the right).<br> Tell us what you think on our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/proudlyresents/">Facebook page. </a><br> Related episodes:<br> <a href="https://proudlyresents.com/tromalive/">Stars of “Return to Nuke’em High”  Live!   </a><br> <a href="https://proudlyresents.com/toxic/">“Toxic Avenger”</a> and <a href="http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/proudlyresents/p/proudlyresents.com/media/prp137.mp3">“Class of Nuke’em High”</a> star<br> <a href="http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/proudlyresents/p/proudlyresents.com/media/prp047.mp3">“Blair Witch Project’s” Michael C. Williams</a><br>  <br> <br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0442207/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm">from IMDB:</a><br> Stanley Lloyd Kaufman never really wanted to make movies, but wanted to work in Broadway musicals. During his years in Yale, though, he got introduced to “B” pictures and the works of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000339/?ref_=nmbio_mbio">Roger Corman</a>. Lloyd later got the opportunity to execu<br> <br> tive-produce a short movie made by a fellow student. The film, called “Rappacini”, got him even more interested in movies. He bought his own camera and took it with him to Chad, Africa, were he spent his summer. There, he shot a 15-minute film of a pig being slaughtered. That was his first movie, and was the birth of what was later to become known as Troma Films. He showed the footage of the squealing pig being killed to his family, and their shocked reaction to it made him wonder if making movies that shocked audiences would keep them in their seats to see what would happen next.<br> He wanted to be a director right then and there, so he got a couple of friends at Yale and made his second movie, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400464/?ref_=nmbio_mbio">The Girl Who Returned</a> (1969). People loved it, and he went straight to work on other films, helping out on projects like <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065916/?ref_=nmbio_mbio">Joe</a> (1970), <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075148/?ref_=nmbio_mbio">Rocky</a> (1976) and<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076666/?ref_=nmbio_mbio">Saturday Night Fever</a> (1977).<br> Lloyd put in a lot of long, hard hours in the film business, just to be in the credits and to get money for his next project, a full-length feature. It was a tribute to <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000122/?ref_=nmbio_mbio">Charles Chaplin</a>,<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516001/?ref_=nmbio_mbio">Harold Lloyd</a> and the classic era of silent-film comedy. Even though Lloyd hated the movie when it was finally completed,