... August 2, 1970 in New Jersey. For those of you who don't know who Kevin Smith is, he is the writer, director, producer, and mastermind behind movies such as: Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and the ever-popular Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. It seems safe to say that Kevin Smith is a modern comedic and cinematic genius Smith knew that he ... commercial audience began to believe that Smith could only make vulgar, immature, and trivial movies with no real importance, Smith realized that he needed to adjust. In 1997, Smith released Chasing Amy, which gained widespread critical accla...

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... 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 ... ...

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... movies aren't quite a series but instead actors playing multiple characters in multiple movies as well as the occasional mentioning of characters in past movies. Smith's first movies Clerks, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy were "heartfelt comedies mixed in with the occasional all-out raucous affair" (Cnn.com). The characters appeal to the twenty-somethings of today by using a full of language and ... ...

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