Directed by: David Gordon Green
Starring: Seth Rogen, James Franco
Screenplay by: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg
It’s a stoner comedy. The film has a very simple yet interesting premise. A marijuana dealer and his client sit and smoke a rare strain of weed, Pineapple Express. Later, the client accidentally witnesses a murder and before fleeing the scene, throws his roach down there – which eventually makes the guy trace back to the dealer because he’s the only one who sells Pineapple Express. What follows is the dealer and the client fleeing the gang who committed the murder. It’s a very interesting bromance between the dealer and the client. It starts off with the dealer saying that he doesn’t have friends and people just take weed from him and go away, to which the client says that he thinks that he’s fun. The stoned conversations are written very well – especially the way conversations go from one topic to a completely unrelated topic through a thin tangent.
My favorite sequence in the film was the client’s girlfriend’s episode – the way they go to her house and tell their family that they have to leave the house and run away from there and the fiasco that happens there. The tone of the film is mostly created through the aspect of how things quickly escalate, and that’s where they draw the absurdity from. It could’ve been solved in a very simple manner, but because of the esoteric nature of the characters and their choices – things escalate and there’s a lot of chaos and action that happens. This tone, the setting and the characters – all of them are perfect for an action comedy. I like the homage they gave to Tarantino – with the ear being cut off and the ending scene being staged at a restaurant which looked very similar to the one in Pulp Fiction – I don’t know if this was intentional or if it’s just me.
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