![]() Neil might be gay - his writing certainly suggests he's about to discover this, and he finds himself drawn to a couple different men in his orbit. (The lasers largely disappear once the shirts come off.) We see some of his visions shot with low-rent costumes and kitschy laser effects that will be familiar to anyone who remembers the deliberate cheese of 2009's Gentlemen Broncos. He's riffing off a franchise called "Vanguard," which looks to be one of those Asimov-lite bound paperback series with the spaceship covers. Here is the world of Neil (Michael Johnston, MTV's Teen Wolf), a shy, terribly repressed 15-year-old who only feels at home when he's slashing up some male-on-male sci-fi tales on his computer. As we're told repeatedly, the Bronte sisters themselves wrote their own form of fan fiction. "It's like they're begging us to fix them," says one of the heroes in the new coming-of-age comedy Slash, a line which amounts to the film's most succinct explanation for why these writers do what they do. And what of the original creators whose works form the basis for this remixed lit-smut? Well, to be fair, they did conjure fantasy worlds with virtually limitless possibilities. Slash plays with the relationship between creator and audience, injecting adult themes into decidedly non-adult content to see what happens, and commenting on an overall lack of queer characters in fiction. Write slash fiction on your own and you may be thought a pervert post it online and you gain initiation into a thriving community of like-minded (typically female) geeks and weirdos who've defiantly charted their own course through the pop-culture solar system. The culture has been around for decades and is the subject of much queer-studies scholarship, but until the Internet such activity remained largely cloaked in shadow. Slash fiction, for the unbent, is generally defined as fan fiction that pairs two characters or real people of the same sex in an intimate or erotic way: you've got your Kirk/Spock, your Sherlock/Watson, your Axl/Slash (sorry). If I didn’t live in the U.S., I’d live in Spain.Neil (Michael Johnston) and Julie (Hannah Marks) in Slash, a film by writer and director Clay Liford.Įllie Ann Fenton/Courtesy of The Film Collaborative One of my favorite tracks on my album Slash is a song I did with Adam Levine called “Gotten.”Ģ5. I’m a proud dual citizen (American and British).Ģ3. I’m not Jewish! I’m 1/2 black, 1/2 British. But I love cooking shows and documentaries.Ģ2. I get freaked out watching surgery shows.Ģ0. I was nicknamed Slash because I was always running around (slashing).ġ9. When I was 7, I changed my name from Saul to Mark but I changed it back to Saul.ġ8. I refused to use a computer until around eight years ago.ġ7. I’ve started my own horror film production company called Slasher Films.ġ6. ![]() Don’t do drugs and alcohol - I’m living proof!ġ5. I have an internal defibrillator in my heart. But I’m addicted to coffee (the stronger the better - Cuban is my favorite).ġ1. I’ve flat-lined three times (that I know of).ĩ. I have candy and chocolate stashed in the house that I secretly get into.Ĩ. VIDEO: Fergie runs a knife down Slash’s chestĦ. I’m an avid dinosaur and pinball machine collector. I was the little drummer boy in a school production of 12 days of Christmas in Stoke-on-Trent, England, when I was five years old.Ĥ. The first instrument I ever played was the drums. Slash, 45 - who’s currently on tour and just announced his own Slasher Film company at the Sundance Film Festival - gets personal with .ġ. ![]()
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