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Shane Black wrote & directed Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang and he loves BUFFY!
[They] "...cared as if they're doing Shakespeare, but they're working within a genre that's not particularly respected." |
10 Questions: Shane Black
Writer/Director of Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.
by Steve Head
 3. What is your favorite TV program, past or current?
The most influential TV program to me, although when I look back it was probably not the best, was I Spy. It established a kind of banter, a kind of camaraderie – even, you might say, in a kind of flippant way – between a black and white duo that became sort of a staple. It influenced Lethal Weapon and Last Boy Scout. Just [Bill] Cosby and [Robert] Culp, together, was unlike anything else I'd seen, or that was being done on TV. It wasn't Iornside. It wasn't Mannix. It was so much more about a sense of genuine friendship between these two guys. It's at once stoic, but also heartfelt. They're funny together, and there's this real deadpan quality to the humor, where their jokes are all throwaways. They don't stop for the punch line, they just keep moving on. And that's exactly the kind of dialogue that I love so much.
More recently, the show that's got to be my favorite is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (He laughs) Silly as it sounds. It's just so well-crafted, and they care so much about it. It's an example of a genre piece that takes itself seriously – the same thing the old Star Trek did – with feeling that the people in the driver's seat really cared as if they're doing Shakespeare, but they're working within a genre that's not particularly respected.
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