No.1088
I'm interested in discussing directors and how their lives have influenced their movies. I don't think this is brought up enough in regards to film, or at the very least auteur appreciation.
Take Quentin Tarantino for instance. I get this feeling that Kill Bill is really about the abandonment Quentin feels over not having a father figure in his life. Maybe the strong female characters in Tarantino's movies, especially The Bride, comes from the fact QT wishes his mother had been a stronger woman herself.
(also testing if QT hate is going to infect 8chan too)
No.1089
QT's films are influenced first and foremost by the ridiculous amount of b-movies he's seen and decided to copy paste from with better lighting and actors.
No.1090
Haneke must have had some very traumatic childhood experiences.
No.1092
How many films do you think the average director has seen? 500? 1000? 5000? 10000?
Yeah, I know "average director" is pretty ambiguous but I can't really think of any specific director
No.1096
>>1092I'm wondering about how many films they see in one day too.
No.1101
>>1092I'd say it oscillates around 2000. Tarantino is actually a huge film buff in that regard and legend says he watched the most films from all Hollywood films, and he says that his list of watched films has more than 11k hits.
No.1102
>>1092I'm at a couple film festivals a year and based on my impressions of the Q&As they don't vary that much from an "average person interested in cinema", there frame of reference they use are usually the big name filmmakers. Sometimes you get wowed by a film scholar level of knowledge, but comparably most cases will be "so yeah, I put that abstract stuff here at the end because I really liked 2001" or people who are artists from other mediums with no particular film knowledge.
It's also fairly common for filmmakers to stop watching things altogether after they start making their own movies.
No.1131
>>1092i'd bet most directors aren't film buffs at all. people of the artistic temperament often don't particularly care what others in their field are up to.
but some get really obsessive. it's been said that Godard saw over 1000 films a year during the '50s. to me, that's too much. everything would start to bleed together. art should be cherished, not devoured all piglike.
No.1136
>>1131Godard liked the sound of his own opinion, being able to namedrop Artists, especially writers, is and was his career. Even when he was a critic he always compared directors to writers. Being able to do this requires a lot of viewing of art, so he's sort of a special case, but he's not entirely alone in doing this.
>art should be cherished, not devoured all piglike.I agree, but 1000 films a year doesn't have to bleed together. If you watch them with fine attention then it's okay. Same way if you were to read 1000 books without reading the words and sort of skimming it would be worthless. I'm sure he skipped over many films that could've been great if he watched another time. He probably went off first opinion of a film and remembered the ones he liked at the time of viewing. Oh, well, he probably only remembers a handful of the thousands of films he's seen in his life anyway.
No.1225
Please
This is a film board
Cuckoldino barely classifies for /flick/
No.1228
>>1090He said he was traumatised as a child with the beheading of a chicken. Thats why we see it in
Cache No.1293
>>1225>CuckoldinoPlease leave your middle-schooler nicknames at /tv/
No.1300
>>1136i've devoured / binged on various artforms including cinema, but especially music during a semi-hikki phase. i was paying attention, not trolling the chan while listening in the background. still, it starts to bleed together when it's too much too soon – there's a lot of stuff you don't quite absorb. it's why i'm skeptical of, for example, the so-called "avant-teens" on rym who have apparently consumed (i'm using the word "consumed" for a reason) about two billion obscure albums and films when they're only like 19. i don't trust their ratings (and few of them write reviews). and anyway it's just weird – it comes off like they're trying to eat up as much media as possible because they think the world ends next year.
No.1308
>>1300Agreed. I don't trust those kind of people either. At that point you're just scanning the screen and not thinking about anything besides what you watched before and what you're watching next. You might catch some of the obvious and important things in the film, but it's really a slap to the artist's face.
No.1352
>>1293>americuck defending cuckoldingColor me surprised
No.1353
>>1352I don't think you know what that word means.
No.1423
>>1353And I don't think you realize that QT is shit and not film.
No.1425
>>1300>>1308How many films do you watch in a week?
I think I'm guilty of, as you put it, binging on film because I'm currently watch 1 film per day from my backlog(500gb)
I think the main reason I do this is because I see people discussing films that are in my backlog and I feel annoyed that I haven't seen them
No.1434
>>1423Your harassment is shit. Get the fuck out.
No.1442
>>1423I never said whatever I think of Tarantino, it's about developing your arguments beyond epin middle school nicknames. I'm going to just assume you found a way to change your flag, I refuse to believe there are two people on here with such bad reading comprehension.
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No.1576
>>1425Same here.
Although I try to mix it up. Something challenging one day, pure entertainment the next (I watch movies in the evening and even if I'm motivated, I'm often already too tired and can't focus enough).
No.1596
>>1576>Something challenging one day, pure entertainment the nextThat's an interesting method actually. I'm going to give that a try because it gives you time to digest the challenging film, while making progress through your backlog.
No.1620
>>1088>testing if QT hate is going to infect 8chan tooHe's good. Zero art though
No.1625
Ishiro Honda was drafted into the Japanese military during WWII, and I'd say it shaped his output pretty strongly from then on.
Notably for Godzilla, of course. As far as I can tell he was able to see Tokyo being firebombed, and visited Hiroshima a few months after the fact (he was actually a POW in China during the actual bombing). He was a man who saw very clearly how much destruction human hubris could cause, which was a big part of the inspiration for the Godzilla character. The whole thing traumatized him really badly, and he tended to stress cooperation and peace pretty strongly in flicks like Gorath and Destroy all Monsters.
There are also some smaller things. He likes putting in massive, frightened crowds. He uses colored smoke (notably in Destroy all Monsters again, but it's in almost every movie he's done) in an extremely similar way to what he would've seen in with smoke grenades in China. He also seems to have a bit of an aversion to firearms, and tended to use more sci-fi things like lasers in later Godzilla movies.
Some directors who went through WWII came out ok, some were really traumatized.
No.1671
Well I don't know much about directors, but the first thing that comes to my mind is the influence of Bergman's religious upbringing and his questioning of it in his films.
No.1672
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