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Dope the movie-Sharon at Granny Takes a Trip
SD: At one point, a voice on the commentary talks of people "becoming more aware of what life really means." Would this represent the feelings of the group? Or were they more caught up with the nature of drugs and their effects, and their lives as users (waiting for the next fix) than being philosophical about the possibilities of a new society?
FS: Because our characters who were friends from different periods of our lives all came from very different sorts of milieux, and although we were all living together because Sheldon had arranged the flat, a spectrum of ideas is represented. Chris and Sharon (the tall thin American couple with the baby), for instance, were from San Francisco. They were friends of friends of ours in NY who'd all had some connection I think with the San Francisco Art Institute. Chris and Sharon had a house in Formentera (Balearic Islands) where I'd stayed. Sharon especially liked to take acid and dance to Pink Floyd and their friends were into that sort of thing: tie-dye silks and macrobiotic food. There is a scene in Dope at the macrobiotic restaurant owned by someone named Greg Sams. Caroline is sitting there with Casey and Diane and we see her visibly uncomfortable whilst her voice on the soundtrack craving sugar, saying that she knows it's not macrobiotic (and she stumbles over the pronounciation of the word “macrobiotic”) so this is obviously not her scene. But Chris and Sharon are probably far more in tune with the philosophical underpinnings of the feelings that this is the new society.
-excerpt from interview with Flame Schon
by Ian O'Sullivan, Shindig!Magazine, Jan'09
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FS: Because our characters who were friends from different periods of our lives all came from very different sorts of milieux, and although we were all living together because Sheldon had arranged the flat, a spectrum of ideas is represented. Chris and Sharon (the tall thin American couple with the baby), for instance, were from San Francisco. They were friends of friends of ours in NY who'd all had some connection I think with the San Francisco Art Institute. Chris and Sharon had a house in Formentera (Balearic Islands) where I'd stayed. Sharon especially liked to take acid and dance to Pink Floyd and their friends were into that sort of thing: tie-dye silks and macrobiotic food. There is a scene in Dope at the macrobiotic restaurant owned by someone named Greg Sams. Caroline is sitting there with Casey and Diane and we see her visibly uncomfortable whilst her voice on the soundtrack craving sugar, saying that she knows it's not macrobiotic (and she stumbles over the pronounciation of the word “macrobiotic”) so this is obviously not her scene. But Chris and Sharon are probably far more in tune with the philosophical underpinnings of the feelings that this is the new society.
-excerpt from interview with Flame Schon
by Ian O'Sullivan, Shindig!Magazine, Jan'09
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