Lloyd Kaufman

He calls Kaufman the missing link between Roger Corman and John Waters, with a deliberate trash element rather than just a budgetary one. He thinks of Troma as a sort of extreme Roger Corman, and says Kaufman, like Corman, launched other people's careers and cameos in a lot of films. Adam says he is the director who is as much a star as his movies, and that his interviews are always worth reading and watching because he is naturally such an entertaining person. Adam adds that Kaufman kept directing while his partner Michael Hertz concentrated on the business side.

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• Adam Because Lloyd Kaufman is likes the sort of missing link between Roger Corman and John Waters. Of like this a a like powerhouse of low-budget independent filmmaking, but with a deliberate trash element rather than just, you know, a budgetary trash element as it were.

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• Adam and definitely because I I think of like Troma and Lloyd Kaufman Kaufman I tend to think of them like a sort of extreme Roger Corman. In that sort of Roger Corman made the sort of a lot of exploitation films, but he also did like Vincent Price, Edgar Allen Poe films and stuff like that.

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• Adam And also he acted as a kind of launch pad for a lot of people's careers and Lloyd Kaufman's done the same really. He's and also very much like Roger Corman, he ends up being cameo-ing in a lot of stuff. He's very much the public face of Troma. And he's he's that sort of William Castle, John Waters-y sort of direct where the director is as much as star and a recognizable figure as their movies.

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• Adam Like I I don't think it doesn't have any sort of meaning or anything. I don't think, you know, because it it sounds a bit like trauma other than that, it doesn't. But yeah, they were just trying to come up with like a basically I think what was it again, there's Lloyd Kaufman is always worth reading interviews and watching interviews with him because he's just naturally such an entertaining person. but yeah, he was like, oh no, the trouble is is when you look in when you check it with companies house, there's already like, there's already five companies called, I'll shit on your corpse and fuck you up your ass productions or whatever like that. So it was almost like a matter of, well, we've got to come up with something because every time they were trying to put a name, it got rejected because someone already had it.

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• Adam but I think he's just but then weirdly enough because it's like a two basically it's a Troma's two a two-man company. And the other guy Michael Hertz, who they both directed, but I think Lloyd Kaufman continues to direct and he the Michael Hertz concentrated more on the business end of the business, if you see what I mean.

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