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...hard to describe because it's all over the place. There's an eight-minute scene of two guys sitting in the living room, talking and smoking weed and watching TV and then there's a guy getting his foot shot off. We didn't exactly have a specific role-model film. We were just looking at great reference points all over the place - from something deeply embedded in my tastes, like Thunderbolt and Lightfoot to the more tongue-in-cheek, trashy '80s action movies that I enjoy for their camp value...
...approached this with as many crazy concepts as I have in the past. Then I put that all aside and worked on the relationships. If this isn't a relationship movie, it doesn't work. You can make weed jokes all day - and we've all seen those movies that fail - but if you have something more than that, then it works...
...That's kind of the joke of it. Who are the last guys in the world that would function well in an action-movie-type situation? The answer is potheads. I've definitely spent large periods of my life where I've done absolutely nothing but smoke weed, so it was during those periods where we thought, If someone was trying to murder us, that would be pretty entertaining--until they killed...
...being the wise older beau to high-school senior Angie (Amber Heard). But his vocation is dope-smoking, which makes his dealer, Saul (James Franco), if not Dale's best friend then surely his most trusted business acquaintance. It's after a visit to Saul for some amazing weed known as Pineapple Express that Dale parks outside the home of his next subpoena victim, Ted Jones (Gary Cole). BLAM! go some guns, SPLAT! goes the body of an Asian man against the second-floor window, and CRUNCH! ZOOM! goes Dale's car in escape mode. (CRUNCH! because he's smashed...
...Shutting laggard stores is hardly an unprecedented strategy. When McDonald's was struggling in late 2002 and early 2003, it announced the closure of nearly 700 stores in order to weed out less-profitable operations and focus on improving returns at existing stores. To drive traffic to those stores, the hamburger heavyweight then buckled down on product development, rolling out new offerings like salads. Starbucks is also kicking up its R&D machine, debuting, among other things, smoothie-style drinks later this month...