Slacker



Slacker is an experimental film by Richard Linklater in which the camera gravitates to a different group of people in every scene. Highly influential in the independent scene, it inspired Kevin Smith to make Clerks.

Differs from The Slacker.


 * Cool Old Guy: The  Spanish Civil War veteran anarchist.
 * Creator Cameo: The first character is played by Richard Linklater.
 * Decoy Protagonist: It starts with a bus passenger and doesn't stop.
 * Defiled Forever: While the implications of what led to the Madness Mantra entry are tragic, they're offset by the comic appropriateness of the last sentence coming from a Looney Tunes short where a dissociative Elmer Fudd repeats the line.
 * Developing Doomed Characters: The entire film.
 * Follow the Leader: Inspired by My Dinner with Andre.
 * Hyperlink Story: Each scene passes off to the next one via a shared shot between the characters of each.
 * Loads and Loads of Characters: Over a hundred unnamed characters.
 * Madness Mantra: "You should quit, you should quit, you should quit, you should quit..."
 * The Oner
 * Slice of Life
 * Trust Me, I'm A Doctor: "You should quit traumatizing women with sexual intercourse. I should know. I'm a medical doctor. I own a mansion and a yacht."