Topic: Intermission 023 - The Burton Thing

I never know what to write in these episode threads.

One time, when I was thirteen, I broke my leg in two places ...and dislocated my ankle, and tore the ligament, and strained the tendon. I was then in a wheelchair for two months, and since then, I've subconsciously put my left leg up on tables and high sofa arms.

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Director's Trademark - Puts Left Leg on Things.

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Excellent episode! It's definitely one of my favourite Intermissions. One little thing though, I'm pretty sure Ben Burtt didn't do Jurassic Park - but apart from that little niggle, great job!

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One director I thought of that doesn't necessarily have A thing but more like two extraordinarily different things, is David Gordon Green.  To wit:

George Washington
All the Real Girls
Snow Angels
Pineapple Express
Your Highness
The Sitter

...and oh by the way, he's the Executive Producer of Eastbound and Down.

And OMIGOD James Mangold directed Heavy?  Check it out if you've ever seen it.  It is a bizarre, sad, little film.

Eddie Doty

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John Woo is another director who has a distinct style, or used to have. You can definitely see a common style between Hard Target, Face Off and Mission Impossible 2, though these are admittedly an over-emphasized version of the style in his early Hong Kong films (e.g. The Killer, Hard Boiled).

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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Agrees about John Woo. I hated what he did on MI II and Windtalkers would could been an awesome film without Woo.

"Life is about movies; anything else is a bonus!"- Me   cool

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Teague is a Nerdfighter?

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You know I always felt that the Coen Bros' thing was: We live in an absurd world. I mean just look at how they portray violence.

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16 (edited by Zarban 2012-02-23 19:33:03)

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Vampire David Bowie? VAMPIRE DAVID BOWIE?

-regains composure-

I've been thinking if there's anything in the distinction between what makes someone a good director vs. a good filmmaker. A good director can make an excellent movie, but the result will never be better than the script. Whereas, a good filmmaker bends all of the disciplines that go into making a movie towards something, uh, want to say, "greater than the sum of its parts", but that would put this bullshit thought way over the edge. Oof, sorry to get so Bresson-y.

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Tarantino wrote the screenplay for True Romance smile (good film btw, check it out Trey, especially if you like Walken, and Patricia Arquette, so hot)

I was saying Cronenberg the entire pod, and he stepped out of his "thing" with Straight Story.

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Lynch! Yes

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Am stoked.

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