That’s probably the biggest sin of keeping the myth of Auteur Theory alive too long: we’ve developed a cinephile culture that dramatically overvalues “visionaries” whose recurring, immediately-recognizable visual and thematic fixations effectively drown-out the discussion of what are at their core spotty, unwieldly filmographies at best
this is the good bit of the article should have had tarantino on this list tho ttttbbhhhhh
That’s probably the biggest sin of keeping the myth of Auteur Theory alive too long: we’ve developed a cinephile culture that dramatically overvalues “visionaries” whose recurring, immediately-recognizable visual and thematic fixations effectively drown-out the discussion of what are at their core spotty, unwieldly filmographies at best
this is the good bit of the article should have had tarantino on this list tho ttttbbhhhhh
I actually like that paragraph in general.
It easily could've held up as a thesis for a better article.
The Lumiere Brothers are slated to direct a Shatterstar movie as soon as Disney feels like it.
isn't he part of the X-Men franchise and thus locked up with 20th Century Fox?
Marvel parceling out the film rights to their characters - who were designed almost from the outset to be part of one big universe - was so dumb
Sony/Columbia holding onto Spidey is understandable when you consider that, like, they barely OWN any IP themselves (Ghostbusters, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, and a bunch of old Norman Lear shows are their biggies), but Fox has like Planet of the Apes and Alien and is way more functional than Sony
The Lumiere Brothers are slated to direct a Shatterstar movie as soon as Disney feels like it.
isn't he part of the X-Men franchise and thus locked up with 20th Century Fox?
Marvel parceling out the film rights to their characters - who were designed almost from the outset to be part of one big universe - was so dumb
Sony/Columbia holding onto Spidey is understandable when you consider that, like, they barely OWN any IP themselves (Ghostbusters, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, and a bunch of old Norman Lear shows are their biggies), but Fox has like Planet of the Apes and Alien and is way more functional than Sony
Yes, this is the only reason the Lumiere Brothers will not be directing a Shatterstar movie.
The cigar-chomping boogeyman of the old time Studio Mogul is long extinct, with even notorious figures like Harvey Weinstein looking like pussycats compared to their “Golden Age” predecessors.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
That’s probably the biggest sin of keeping the myth of Auteur Theory alive too long: we’ve developed a cinephile culture that dramatically overvalues “visionaries” whose recurring, immediately-recognizable visual and thematic fixations effectively drown-out the discussion of what are at their core spotty, unwieldly filmographies at best
this is the good bit of the article should have had tarantino on this list tho ttttbbhhhhh
I actually like that paragraph in general.
It easily could've held up as a thesis for a better article.
And it's not like Hollywood has a dearth of auteurs that that are held up as "visionaries" but had maybe one or two truly great films before succumbing to their own egos. That article would have been amazing.
The cigar-chomping boogeyman of the old time Studio Mogul is long extinct, with even notorious figures like Harvey Weinstein looking like pussycats compared to their “Golden Age” predecessors.
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this is the good bit of the article should have had tarantino on this list tho ttttbbhhhhh
Reservoir Dogs maybe?
Also they made 2/3 of the above mentioned movies