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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.
Director's Trademark - Puts Left Leg on Things.
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!
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.
Somewhere in a parallel universe, a crafty paparazzi sneak a camera onto Trey's "paid for by Transformers beach."
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).
Agrees about John Woo. I hated what he did on MI II and Windtalkers would could been an awesome film without Woo.
I'm surprised David Cronenberg wasn't brought up.
Burton sort of tried to evolve, do something different, with Mars Attacks. It was awesome. But nobody liked it. Then he made Sleepy Hollow. It was rubbish, but it was a gothic film and it starred Johnny Depp, so everyone loved it. And Burton has repeated himself ever since...
Tarantino tried as well with Jackie Brown, which was his first, real, proper film with a straightforward narrative, and believable characters. But it flopped. No one wanted him to grow up.
Oh, and Tim Burton a medicore director? Shame on you Brian.
Burton sort of tried to evolve, do something different, with Mars Attacks. It was awesome. But nobody liked it. Then he made Sleepy Hollow. It was rubbish, but it was a gothic film and it starred Johnny Depp, so everyone loved it. And Burton has repeated himself ever since...
Well you're skipping over that between Sleepy Hollow and Charlie, he made Planet of the Apes and Big Fish, both of which are kind of good and don't star Johnny Depp at all.
I always think it's weird when a director takes a liking to an actor and just can't seem to make a movie without them, although I don't think the 2000s would have been as good without Scorsese/DiCaprio films coming out every year or so, and no one's gotten a better performance out of Brad Pitt since Kalifornia than Fincher.
Teague is a Nerdfighter?
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.
I keep hearing that what the Coen's are making are actually comedies; dark, straight comedies, but comedies nonetheless. I'm not sure I buy it, but I recently re-watched Fargo with that mindset, and it sort or works, I guess.
I'm not sure how related it is, but I recall the trailer for Burn after reading made it look like a fairly straight-up comedy, and I did not get that impression at all when watching it. To be fair, I think I dozed off half-way through and never actually finished it, so maybe the funny bits were at the end.
The Coen bros. really vex me, because I can see the talent and the craftsmanship, but there's something there that I just don't...get. Maybe it's that unsettling feeling I get after watching Fargo, or No country for old men. I know how I'm probably going to come out of a theater feeling after a comedy, or a romance, or a film which depicts life-like combat footage, but I come away from Coen bros. films just feeling...uneasy. I'm not sure if that has to do with something I'm missing as a viewer, or if it's by design, but it bugs the hell out of me.
It's all on purpose. The Coens direct with a strong bent towards the literary. No Country is the bookiest movie I've ever seen. If you think of their movies as an experience of reading a novel rather than watching a film it may help illuminate some.
Great episode. I like seeing the same visual and storytelling style in a director's work, as long as it doesn't go too far. Tim Burton is a good example of a director who goes too far sometimes, especially with the horizontal stripes and stuff.
Grand Theft Auto is the Ron Howard film Trey was thinking of.
This space left empty for Elijah.
Peter Bogdanovich said that auteur theory is probably a big part of why French directors complain that have a hard time finding good scripts. Who wants to write a script when all the credit goes to the director? (I don't love Bogdanovich as a film maker, but he's a good journalist.)
Regarding Tony Scott, I highly recommend The Hunger. Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie are vampires. and Catherine Deneuve seduces Susan Sarandon.
Screw Steven Soderbergh. I liked Ocean's 11 and Out of Sight, and that's it.
Screw Woody Allen. I can hardly stand anything he's made since Zelig, and even his early stuff was better when Sid Caesar was doing it.
I so want to love Martin Scorsese, but he's really hit and miss for me.
If Charlie Kaufman was anymore Charlie Kaufman, he wouldn't be David Lynch, he'd be Rain Man.
"If you peel back all the layers of Fincher movie, instead of a mushy beating heart, you find a perfectly round, steel ball bearing that's always somehow two degrees below room temperature." LMFAO. That needs to be on a T-shirt.
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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.
Grand Theft Auto is the Ron Howard film Trey was thinking of.
Yep. I confused that one with the original Gone in 60 Seconds - another '70's car chase B-movie that came out a few years before GTA.
Tarantino wrote the screenplay for True Romance 
(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.
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 now he's doing his Suspiria.
Am stoked.
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