As a young teen growing up in Redbank, New Jersey, Kevin Smith worshipped such movies as Porkys’s, The Last American Virgin, as well as, John Landis and John Hughes films. These movies are the basis of his films that he has made as a director/writer. His directorial debut in 1994 was a low budget film, Clerks. This film collected the Filmmakers Trophy Award at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival and the International Critics Week Award at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival that same year. Working with friend Scott Mosier and their production company, named View Askew, Smith wrote and directed the independent films Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma.

Through his writing and directing Smith is known for his auteurism, or the Auteur Theory which is the philosophy that the director is the central intelligence behind a film and deserves authorial status and possessory credit, putting his or her personal imprint on the film. At times, the director may put his or her sense of camera work or themes and ideologies into the film. This is what Kevin Smith is known for respectively (http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/biography.asp?ctr=650148).

In all of Kevin Smith’s movies, he uses

In Smith’s film Dogma, two mischievous angels who were laid off by God and are given the boot. Finding themselves banned to Wisconsin, they set out for New Jersey where they find a loophole that will allow them to re-enter heaven. The only problem is it will destroy humanity. An abortion clinic worker who is a descendant of Christ, a wisecracking 13th apostle, a stripper/muse, and mischievous mallrats Jay and Silent Bob band together to stop them (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120655).

certain motifs, but one in particular is through continuity. Continuity in this sense is meant to be through the characters. As presented after, the characters of Jay and Silent Bob have a continuity from them going from each film playing the same role.

Like Clerks Jay and Silent Bob are back in Mallrats, the second film done by Smith. They are introduced in the movie, in front of a Pet Store hanging out and trying to pick up women, with Jay again being very vulgar and by dancing sexually towards women as they are walking by. Being very similar to Clerks their character is the same, same attitudes and beliefs as in all of Smiths films. This is the first time they are introduced in this film and just by the first scene of these men, they tell who they are and what role they will play throughout the movie without coming out and saying it. The audience can tell by their actions that they are there to cause trouble and to have things not run so smoothly.

To summarize Smiths first film, Clerks is about a clerk named Dante who has had a crummy job at a small convenience store since graduating from high school three years ago. While still in love with of his high school sweetheart Caitlin, he now has a serious relationship with long-suffering Veronica, who wants

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