So it seems Bobcat Bob Goldwaithe has gotten into the movie making business and this flick looks decent as hell think Blair Witch Project meets Bigfoot Bobcat Goldthwait’s upcoming movie is about Bigfoot, and it sounds pretty good. It’s called Willow Creek, and it mixes regular narrative moviemaking with documentary elements. It sounds like he investigated the places in northern California where all the Bigfoot enthusiasts hang out—what you might call Bigfoot Country—and then made a regular fictional movie in that setting. He interviewed a bunch of the Bigfoot experts, but didn’t tell them that he wasn’t filming a documentary, rather a fictional feature, which is either an ethical nightmare or smart filmmaking or both. In case you haven’t been paying attention, Bobcat’s become one of the better directors we have working right now. He may not be the most subtle moviemaker out there, but he’s honest and interested in taboo subjects, and his directness of address ensures a distinctive movie experience. Bobcat’s endlessly quotable, and his scripts all have that Bobcat feel of coming from a smart source and coming from someone who’s tired of bullshit. It takes someone who was in three Police Academy movies, as Bobcat was, to be as tired of bullshit as Bobcat probably is. You can pinpoint the nationwide origin of interest in Bigfoot almost as precisely as you can with the JFK assassination. Basically all contemporary interest in Bigfoot, Sasquatch, the Yeti and so on begins with the Patterson-Gimlin film, the Bigfoot movement’s Zapruder film. The picture above of poor Mrs. Bigfoot (apparently it is a female) looking back at the camera is from the Patterson-Gimlin film, the footage was shot by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin in northern California on October 20, 1967, and when you look at the picture it’s easy to see why it captured people’s attention. The Patterson-Gimlin footage kicked the movement off, as sure as that bullet in Dallas set the JFK conspiracy guys in motion. Bobcat recently appeared on The Dana Gould Hour (he comes in at 4:48), and he explained a little about the new movie. He said that “really what it was was, the 9-year-old me wanted to go to where the footage was shot all those years ago.” He met a guy who wrote a Bigfoot-related coming-of-age book (think Twilight) called Yeti Or Not and he met another guy he called “the Bob Dylan of the Bigfoot community.” Some people have surmised that John Landis, who would later become a famous movie director with Animal House, The Blues Brothers and Michael Jackson’s longform Thriller video, is the one in the Bigfoot suit in the Patterson-Gimlin film. Landis denies it.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 20:42:54 +0000
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