{"id":4867,"date":"2012-05-09T20:45:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T00:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=3136"},"modified":"2012-05-09T20:45:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T00:45:22","slug":"fat-kid-rules-the-world-at-tiff-next-wave-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4867","title":{"rendered":"Fat Kid Rules the World at TIFF Next Wave Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MatthewLillard_pix_s.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3142\" title=\"MatthewLillard_pix_s\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MatthewLillard_pix_s.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a>After his physically expressive role in <strong>Scream <\/strong>(1996), Matthew Lillard became typecast as the weird, somewhat emotionally spastic teen \/ youth \/ young man for about 10 years, never really enjoying a leading man status because he played the tall, thin oddballs with loud-mouths so well.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/s\/3977_SLCPunk.htm\">SLC Punk!<\/a><\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4854\">M<\/a>] (1998) showed he could carry a film, but punk rocker \/ anarchist Stevo\u00a0was still a physically broad character, making it easy for other filmmakers to exploit Lillard&#8217;s dynamic performance style in horror and \u00a0suspense films.<\/p>\n<p>The big surprise for his fans was his straight role as a bigamist in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/d\/3978_Descendants2011.htm\">The Descendants<\/a><\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4862\">M<\/a>] (2011) &#8211; essentially an exotic road movie with a tragic element designed to manipulate populist audiences. George Clooney was fine as the emotionally suppressed father, but Lillard stood out for giving a cliched, remorseless jerk a faint sense of\u00a0humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly the desire to direct a film version of K.L. Going&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/f\/3976_FatKidRulesWorld.htm\">Fat Kid Rules the World<\/a><\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4850\">M<\/a>] (2012) had been on the burner for about 9 years, and the finished film gets its Canadian run as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/tiff.net\/nextwave\">TIFF Next Wave Film Festival<\/a> (May 10-12), covering films about\u00a0and made by youths.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto premieres include <strong>17 Girls<\/strong> (2011) and <strong>Themba: A Boy Called Hope <\/strong>(2010); Canadian premieres include <strong>Cupid&#8217;s Balls<\/strong> (2011), <strong>Fat Kid Rules the World<\/strong> (2012),<strong> Mosquita Y Madri<\/strong> (2012), and <strong>Re:Generation Music Project<\/strong> (2012); and the International Premiere of <strong>This Space Available<\/strong> (2011).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com <\/strong>( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/Main_Index_Page.htm\">Main Site<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php\">Mobile Site<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the headliners at the TIFF Next Wave Film Festival (May 10-12) is Matthew Lillard&#8217;s directorial debut, Fat Kid Rules the World (2012), which I&#8217;ve reviewed, along with related reviews of Lillard in his breakthough film SLC Punk! (Sony) and The Descendants (Fox Searchlight).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[1302,1301],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1gv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4870,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions\/4870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}