On August 2, 1970 Kevin Patrick Smith was born in Red Bank, New Jersey . He grew up with the influence of comic books, superheroes and the art of film. While watching his dad work a job he truly despised as a postal worker, Kevin gained a large amount of motivation to never work a job that he would hate the same way his father did. Smith would grow up as an overweight child, and has attributed this characteristic to his ability to observe life through a comedic looking glass, and would one day take that talent and transfer it into his films .
The day he would turn 21, he visited a local movie theater and viewed Richard Linklater`s comedy film titled Slacker (1991). This film became the main source, and general awakening, that he would one…show more content… The pattern of two best friends follows suit in Smith’s next film, Mallrats, when TS and Brodie both suffer breakups with their girlfriends on the same day, and decide to counter the situation with a day at the mall. Chasing Amy (1997) offers a little more difference in its approach where there are two best friends, Holden and Banky, but the story revolves around Holden trying to win over the female lead, Alyssa, even though she is a lesbian. In Dogma we follow two angels, Bartleby and Loki (played by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon respectively) as they decide to go on a killing spree of the human race after they discover they found a loophole to get back into heaven afterwards. A crazy story, that still revolves around friends that act like a married couple. Finally in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) we follow the only two characters to appear in every Kevin Smith and the biggest thread in the Smith-universe as they try to stop a movie studio from making a movie about Jay and Silent Bob. The story does bring an all-star cast from the previous Kevin Smith films, and it is a 4th wall breaking, meta-cinema experience, but is not critically accepted for its
