Scott Mosier
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Scott A. Mosier (born 5 March 1971 in Washington) is an American film producer, editor, and cameo actor who has done work in Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse films. He has also been a close friend to Kevin Smith since they met back in 1992.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Meeting Kevin Smith
Mosier met Smith at the Vancouver Film School in Canada. Their first assignment, Mae Day, was a student film documentary that fell apart in production. To salvage it, Smith and Mosier interviewed the crew about the demise of the very documentary that they had been attempting to produce. They also added a segment in which the two were shown in silhouette as they described their fictional thoughts.
Four months into the eight month program, Kevin Smith decided to drop out, but not before making a deal with Mosier: each would start writing a script of their own, and the one who finished last would help the other with his movie.
[edit] Working with View Askew
In the film Clerks., Mosier recorded the original sound on the set, edited the movie (at RST Video), and contributed to the budget. He also contributed by appearing on-screen as two characters: the angry hockey player and Willam Black (a.k.a Snowball), a role later played by Ethan Suplee in Mallrats. Additionally, his hockey player role on the ladder talking to Willam on the ground, as Kevin Smith describes it, is "the only special effect in Clerks".
In Mallrats, Mosier worked in organizing the budget along with line producer Laura Greenlee, while presiding over a much larger crew. In the movie, he portrayed Svenning's assistant, Roddy. The character later appeared on a Jay and Silent Bob MTV short.
In Chasing Amy, Scott went from a possible $3,000,000 under Miramax's budget to $250,000 that was given to Kevin by Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein. He appears in the beginning of the film as the "Tracer Collector" who gets into an argument with Banky Edwards (Jason Lee).
While making Dogma, Mosier worked with Laura Greenlee again; the editing of the film lasted nearly a year. He also played the Smooching Seaman that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon meet on the bus.
During Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Mosier worked with a budget of $20 million. The editing was difficult due to the MPAA threatening to give the film a NC-17 rating. In the film, Mosier played the Assistant Director on the set of the fictional sequel to Good Will Hunting and reprises his Willam Black character from Clerks. (he also reprised the Tracer Collector from Chasing Amy, which was later cut).
For Jersey Girl, Scott had a very large budget of $35 million. The editing was also difficult due to the studio's desire to cut down the large amount of Jennifer Lopez/Ben Affleck footage following the poor box-office performance of Gigli.
Scott has recently produced Clerks II. According to a statement from Kevin Smith, he edited the film himself, thus making Clerks II the only film Moiser has produced with Smith, but not edited. He makes a brief cameo as a concerned father who shields his daughter's eyes from the sight of Dante sitting on a toilet.
[edit] Other work
Scott also served as an editor for Bryan Johnson's Vulgar, an Askew production. He had also served as a producer (along with Kevin Smith) on Drawing Flies, A Better Place and Clerks: The Animated Series; he served as a co-executive producer on Good Will Hunting and Big Helium Dog. He also appeared in cameos in Drawing Flies as the Crying Diaperman, in A Better Place as Larry and in Vulgar as Scotty.
[edit] External links
- Scott Mosier at the Internet Movie Database
- Mae Day Scott Mosiers first film, a documentary shot while in film school
