apinagez Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 Some movies are awesome because there's a special actor in them, others are incredible because they have been based on an amazing book. Many are good because of their killer visual effects and a handful have special dialogs in them. A few, however, are great because they have been directed by somebody special. A while ago, I watched Dr. Strangelove for the first time. It was my first Kubrick movie. Loved it so much I watched it one more time the same day and I was still asking for more. Last week, after a month of abstinence, I've watched Full Metal Jacket. It got me convinced nothing to ever come out Stanley Kubrick will ever be bad. Kubrick is what got me to write this topic. He has directed movies in several different genres, and, as far as I'm concerned, has made most of those classics. What makes his movies so good? Well, probably all those items I named above. Those and something else. I'm not enough of a movies expert to know the names of other directors who fit in that category off the top of my head, but I'm sure he's not the only one. Post around this subject. Do you think directors really are that important, and can play such role in the movie, or are they just something movie expert-wannabes brag about? What's in your opinion that 'plus' they represent to their movies? Who are those directors? Happy posting! :D ^The most disturbing signature on Tip.it^Last.fm|HELLY KAYLA!|Oh the mehagurtz!|#Siencemakers"they care less about their spelling mistakes then I." - Lionheart"apinagez... let me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpbizkit Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 Hehe, to me if it want for the director every film would suck. Like lord of the rings to the people who liked it was proberly from the way the director displayed it. But personaly my favourite director is Quentin Tarintino. Tif 360 MGC Leaderboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satenza Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 Tarantino is massivley over-rated. And if you wish to see a Kubrick movies that sucks, watch Eyes Wide Shut. My favourite director is Elia Kazan and Orson Welles. With so many trees in the city you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddenly in one morning. Sometimes the heavy cold rains would beat it back so that it would seem that it would never come and that you were losing a season out of your life. But you knew that there would always be the spring as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason. In those days though the spring always came finally but it was frightening that it had nearly failed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanosauromo Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 Steven Speilburg and Peter Jackson are both excellent directors. You only have to type four extra keys for me to not think "ur" an idiot.solardeathray.teensupergenius.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
How2PK Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 Of course directors are important, and of course their influence is the most important, and goes beyong writing, acting, composing and whatever. Without your director you can't have a movie. You can have a movie without actors, you can have a movie without a story, you can have a movie without music. But you can't have a movie without a director. Everything you see on that screen for those two hours or w/e are an extension of the directors view. They make the movie, they are head responsible for what you see on the screen. Next to that there are a whole lot of 'authors' who put their signature on every movie they make because they use a certain style. A handful of importnat ones: Orson Welles D.W. Griffith Ernst Lubitsch Charles Chaplin Buster Keaton David Lean Michael Curtiz Quintin Tarantino Preston Sturges John Ford John Cassavetes Stanley Kubrick Billy Wilder Michael Curtiz Terrence Mallick Jaques Tourneur Ridley Scott David Cronenberg James Cameron John Carpenter [bleep]e Lee Sidney Lumet Woody ALlen Elia Kazan Nichalas Ray Nicholas Roeg Francis Ford Coppola Martin Scorsese George Lucas Carol Reed Frank Capra Steven Spielberg Alfred Hitchcock Jean Renoir Jean Vigo Jean-Luc Godard Jean-PIerre Melville Alain Resnais Jean-Pierre Jeunet Michael Carn̮̩̉̉ Robert Bresson Luchino Visconti Francois truffaut Lous Malle Roberto Rosselini Vitorio deSica Fedrico Fellini Etore Scola Paolo and his otherbotherforgothisname Taviani Michelangelo Antonioni Luis Bunuel Pedro Almodovar Carl Theodor Dreyer Krystof Kiezowski Bella Tarr Ingmar Bergman F.W. Murnau Sergei Eisenstein Andrei Tarkovsky Elem Klimov Aleksander Sokurov Roman Polanski Andrej Wajda Emir Kusturica Fritz Lang Yasujiro Ozu Akira Kurosawa Kenzi Mizoguchi Masaki Kobayashi Hiroshi Teshigahara Kaneto Shindo Ki-duk Kim Wong Kar Wei Sadoa Yamanaka Sam Peckinpah Satayit Ray And how many hundreds am I forgetting (excuse the spelling erros in the names). Signature by Maurice SendakWhen the stars make you drool just like a pasta fazool, that's amore! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twr_phr33k Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 Add Clint Eastwood to the list above. Amazingly, Tommy Lee Jones was a great actor/director in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005). I must say it was one of the best movies I've ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satenza Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 Three Burials bored me to death, i almost felt like being mistakenly shot but then thrown in the trash. With so many trees in the city you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddenly in one morning. Sometimes the heavy cold rains would beat it back so that it would seem that it would never come and that you were losing a season out of your life. But you knew that there would always be the spring as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason. In those days though the spring always came finally but it was frightening that it had nearly failed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LP Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 Martin Scorsese Fritz Lang!! Stanley Kubrick Frank Miller. Tim Burton F.W. Murnau. Robert Wiene Carl Theodor Dreyer to name a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
How2PK Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 and a few favorites from the list: Stanley Kubrick Akira Kurosawa Andrei Tarkovsky Ingmar Bergman Jean Renoir Yasujiro Ozu Martin Scorsese Alfred Hitccock F.W. Murnau Sam Peckinpah Signature by Maurice SendakWhen the stars make you drool just like a pasta fazool, that's amore! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
____ Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Daan covered my list in full :lol: Directors generally make or break production. I've seen short films with first-time directors which leave a lot to be desired. And you notice a change in flow as they get more experience. Some people (generally actors) can slot into the Director seat first time off and go quite well for themself (fair enough given a lot of them have around 2 dozen movies under their belt before hand and have a good grasp of how it all works). Consider them CEO of the movie :P Or the "board of directors" if you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyPurpleCrayon Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 And how many hundreds am I forgetting David Fincher :P Ghost: I am prejudice towards ignorance, so that would explain why I appear to be so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubsa Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 Pretty much ended the thread there Daan :P This is how much you all raised for charity. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanosauromo Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Add Clint Eastwood to the list above. Did you know that "Clint Eastwood" is an anagram of "old west action?" You only have to type four extra keys for me to not think "ur" an idiot.solardeathray.teensupergenius.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzy_Patrick Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Coen brothers and Guy Ritchie are two that haven't been mentioned that i like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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