Boondock Saints 2.0 Triumph Part 7: Who Hasn’t Wanted to Be a Boondock Saint – Even for a Moment?

Posted on | December 3, 2009 | No Comments

Over the last couple weeks, Corporate Whoredom has gone into great detail to discuss how the Boondock Saints franchise didn’t focus on art so much as it focused on community.

Troy Duffy wasn’t trying to accomplish critical acclaim with his movies. No teary-eyed award receptions and trophy-clinching thank-you speeches. No “good job” thumbs-up from Jack Nicholson.

Like Billy Shakespeare, Troy was probably motivated by money because paying rent is such a selfish motivator. But Troy got to put what he love together into a vision. He forgo a template that would have allowed him to walk the primrose path of domesticated, “visionary”, filmmaking and instead went ahead and put moments on film that he felt would have made him jump out of his seat, time and time again, screaming, “F*ck Yeah.”

As Troy Duffy said in an interview on cinematical.com:

“the fans found this thing and made it. It was beyond criticism at the time because there was no big f*cking red carpet and advertising campaign…They made it their own thing, and they didn’t really give a sh*t what critics said. And they started protecting the film on the Internet.”

And because of that, people who shared his interests found this movie as well. Lucky for him, there’s a target market in family, larger than life characters, violence, and fraternity.

You can make a movie to achieve artistic feets. You can make a movie to tell people a story. Or in Troy Duffy’s case, you can make a film to relate to people. If you can create characters people wish they could be, even just for a moment, then you have something.

All that matters is that in the end, Troy knew that his fans get the feeling to be Saints, to be motivated to clean up the evil around them, and could put themselves in the Saints shoes. In the end, Troy knew the answer to the following question:

Civility aside, have you ever wanted to be a Boondock Saint – even for a moment?

F*ckin’-a right you did.

(photo credit: 1) Eli Rutten via Flickr 2) Shasta Fox via Flickr)

C-Ho Corporate Mesothelioma Rating: 0 out of Ten

Because what Troy Duffy did was technically whoredom, and because he was shamlessly aware of it, Corporate Whoredom levies no punishment as it stands alongside the millions of fans who have embraced the MacMannus brothers…

And shepherds we shall be,
For Thee, my Lord, for Thee.

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