THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS: Free advice for filmmakers

Sep 30, 2012

Free advice for filmmakers

WES ANDERSON: make a movie with only 3 characters in it
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON: allow your characters the possibility of change.
MARTIN SCORSESE: make a (fictional) movie about your parents
STEVEN SPIELBERG: make more star vehicles
ANG LEE: keep doing what you're doing
DAVID O. RUSSELL: ditto
BEN AFFLECK: stop acting in your movies
DAVID FINCHER: act in someone else's movie
SOFIA COPPOLA: adapt a fifties spy novel, nouvelle vague style
DARREN ARONOFSKY: make a big flop, work on your compassion
QUENTIN TARANTINO: write something that comes in under 100 minutes
JAMES CAMERON: leave Avatars 2 and 3 to someone else
MICHAEL MANN: make a war movie (maybe Napoleonic) involving lots of tactics
STEPHEN FREARS: make another movie set in America
TIM BURTON: ... something for Pixar?
TERRENCE MALICK: collaborate with an Oscar-nominated screenwriter
DAVID LYNCH: just make another goddam movie

7 comments:

MartinSeptember 30, 2012 at 10:14 AM
This is brilliant, and I just came back from The Master, and I think PTA is the only guy here you've misdiagnosed. You're not wrong about the possibility of change, I agree with your critique on that, but the proper advice for PT Anderson is pretty clearly: Stop working with Jonny Greenwood. Which would be a way of saying: find structure.
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Tom ShoneSeptember 30, 2012 at 4:55 PM
That's great advice too. The Master has been absurdly over-praised. For a film that's about as enjoyable as a hang-nail to be getting the best reviews of the year is irresponsible. No wonder people don't read critics any more
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JeremySeptember 30, 2012 at 8:14 PM
Mind if I chime in for actors?

TOM HANKS: You're too good to be doing serious drama roles forever, get back to the goofball comedies!

ROBERT DENIRO: Vice versa

LEONARDO DICAPRIO: Stop trying so hard

TOM CRUISE: Just keep smiling, it reminds people why they like you

DANIEL-DAY LEWIS: You don't have to devour ALL the scenary to be great

JOHNNY DEPP: Stay the HELL away from Tim Burton

BRAD PITT: Keep doing what you're doing

ADAM SANDLER: Go away
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AnonymousOctober 1, 2012 at 2:59 PM
Frears just made two movies in a row set in America. With such brazen ignorance, "no wonder people don't read critics any more".
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Tom ShoneOctober 2, 2012 at 4:26 AM
Frears' last two were Cheri (France) and Tamara Drewe (England)
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AnonymousOctober 3, 2012 at 10:33 PM
Rubbish: they were Lay the Favorite (Las Vegas, USA) and Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (Washington DC, USA). The level of ignorance of this site is only matched by its arrogance. Don't you even have the courtesy to your readers to consult imdb?
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Ryan DJune 29, 2024 at 7:30 AM
Interestiing read
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