there isn't a crew working today that would even know how. Practical effects are a lost art. It's only a matter of time before 35mm becomes a lost art too >a film camera? what's that?
Leave this thread and watch it. The less you know the better.
https://i.imgur.com/hmiZU93.jpg
Is there any director alive insane enough to make something like this anymore ?
This is THE most reddit thread I've ever seen. Every letter of every comment
there isn't a crew working today that would even know how. Practical effects are a lost art. It's only a matter of time before 35mm becomes a lost art too >a film camera? what's that?
Genuinely no. Friedkin was a fricking psycho and would not allowed to even set foot on a film set if he was trying to start out a career today. It’s a tired phrase but it was truly a different time. He fractured a 13 year old Linda Blair’s spine while filming The Exorcist and secretly brought guns onto the set so he could suddenly fire them and make the actors jump in fear for real in scenes. He slapped a priest in the face to make him be able to cry on camera as well. They just don’t have crazy bastards like him in Hollywood anymore.
The best comparison would be Chazelle with Babylon, Aster w Beau is Afraid or Eggers w the Northman, meaning: directors who made use of their clout because their previous movies had been commercially successful and made ambitious personal projects.
I assume you probably mean filming on location with ambitious stunts, so ultimately the best comparison would be Nolan with Tenet.
Rango was ambitious but also successful (box office, Oscar). The better comparison perhaps would be A Cure for Wellness, a very good, ambitious current-day gothic mystery (filmed on location) that flopped and Verbinski hasn't released anything in the past 7 years even though he directed the wildly popular PotC trilogy
>Chazelle with Babylon, Aster w Beau is Afraid or Eggers w the Northman
Chazelle ripping of Boogie Nights should not be compared to the other actual kino films
i refuse to believe aster is capable of creating kino, but i will refrain from committing fully to this stance until i watch beau
i will completely cross out aster from my watchlist if that one isn't at least good
>Chazelle ripping of Boogie Nights
That's an autistic misinterpretation as Chazelle was obviously, directly referencing Boogie Nights among many other movies.
If you think he just went "well, I'm gonna lowkey plagiarize a recent, acclaimed PTA movie and nobody will notice hehe" you're a moronic simpleton.
>Boogie Nights follows a burgeoning star entering into the "golden age" of a media form in transition in which all the previous stars of said medium find themselves cast out or otherwise spurned in favor of the new direction
>Babylon follows a burgeoning star entering into the "golden age" of a media form in transition in which all the previous stars of said medium find themselves cast out or otherwise spurned in favor of the new direction >somehow not directly ripping of Boogie Nights
That's without looking at all the scenes directly lifted from PTA's earlier and far better film. Chazelle is a hack who can only steal from better films (stealing from the Right Stuff for first man, Umbrellas Over Cherbourgh for La La Land, etc)
Cope and seethe more
9 months ago
Anonymous
Again, your autizmo stops you from realizing the cringe absurdity of your idea that Chazelle simply lifted scenes from PTA instead of quoting/referencing them in a contextually appropriate movie.
Move on, dummy, you have no idea what you're talking about because you don't understand Babylon and don't understand the ridiculousness of your blatant misreading of the direct, obvious inspirations for the movie.
9 months ago
Anonymous
The scene with Toby is lifted >Move on, dummy
lol concession accepted, keep coping and seething. Chazelle is a hack
9 months ago
Anonymous
Again: if you can't see how ridiculous you sound, just move on and accept the fact that you can't grasp the otherwise obvious.
>idea that Chazelle simply lifted scenes from PTA instead of quoting/referencing them in a contextually appropriate movie
NTA but this is painfully off-base. PTA quoted/referenced La Haine with his firecracker scene. Chazelle ripped off Boogie Nights with this spitting scene.
That's equally pathetic because you're simply attempt to characterize differently scenes that had used the same mechanism (reference) for different narrative purposes. Babylon is quintessentially a meta commentary on cinema, and again: it takes a lot of low IQ autism not to get the movie's intentions when quoting others or, even worse, assuming Chazelle was just pilfering scenes on the hopes nobody would notice. Consider for a moment how truly cretinous that assumption would be
9 months ago
Anonymous
You use a lot of words to say absolutely nothing. Babylon's "meta commentary on cinema" includes an absolutely cringe-inducing final segment where he directly uses various scenes from various movies to attempt to drive home said commentary, it isn't beyond the mark to think he'd rip off scenes from another movie he copied thematically while hoping morons like you would do the heavy lifting of defending his plagarism
9 months ago
Anonymous
Your premise that Damien Chazelle, an Oscar-winning director, released a mainstream movie during Oscar season whose scenes quoting PTA's Boogie Nights were plagiarism instead of otherwise obvious references is beyond stupid.
The fact you can't realize how unlikely and ludicrous that assumption is simply makes it obvious that you're grappling with your own limits.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>only retort is to appeal to the authority of the fricking Oscars
wew lad, would've been better if you just left it alone.
9 months ago
Anonymous
The difference between quoting and plagarizing is adding something new to the scene given the context of the work and the overall medium. Interstellar references 2001 when they dock to the rapidly spinning out of control station, showing the finely tuned mechanical perfection of human advancement is still subject to out of control hubris and folly. The scene with Toby and the spitting goon adds nothing to the Boogie Nights scene, lifting both the gimmick and the thematic heft of the scene (a former up and comer in the industry forced to subject himself to the dangers of a seedy underworld when his friends place in the industry and life itself is put in peril due to declining intentions.) To make it even worse they then travel to an underworld club with the same name as the club in Irreversible.
Not an ounce of original thought was put into the film
9 months ago
Anonymous
>idea that Chazelle simply lifted scenes from PTA instead of quoting/referencing them in a contextually appropriate movie
NTA but this is painfully off-base. PTA quoted/referenced La Haine with his firecracker scene. Chazelle ripped off Boogie Nights with this spitting scene.
That's why I highlighted what the comparison in these cases meant (clout to shoot ambitious projects). Projects shot on harsh locations haven't happened in a while though they were more or less frequent in the past (Desert of the Tartars, Cannibal Holocaust, Fitzcarraldo/Aguirre, Lawrence of Arabia etc)
I haven't seen it, but I have pirated it. I guess I'll have to watch it tonight since Friedkin just left us.
Leave this thread and watch it. The less you know the better.
spoiler: there's no sorcerers. most misleading title since kangaroo jack
It's the name of the truck
This is THE most reddit thread I've ever seen. Every letter of every comment
there isn't a crew working today that would even know how. Practical effects are a lost art. It's only a matter of time before 35mm becomes a lost art too
>a film camera? what's that?
It and Wages of Fear are both masterpieces
Genuinely no. Friedkin was a fricking psycho and would not allowed to even set foot on a film set if he was trying to start out a career today. It’s a tired phrase but it was truly a different time. He fractured a 13 year old Linda Blair’s spine while filming The Exorcist and secretly brought guns onto the set so he could suddenly fire them and make the actors jump in fear for real in scenes. He slapped a priest in the face to make him be able to cry on camera as well. They just don’t have crazy bastards like him in Hollywood anymore.
>Is there any director alive insane enough to make something like this anymore ?
A boring movie? Yeah, happens all the time.
Sorcerorsisters… how do we respond?
we just rape the shit out of him
It's good but Wages of Fear was better
Sure. But it'll be 100% CGI by studio order. And all the leads will be vaguely ethnic women.
Werner Herzog back in the day.
The best comparison would be Chazelle with Babylon, Aster w Beau is Afraid or Eggers w the Northman, meaning: directors who made use of their clout because their previous movies had been commercially successful and made ambitious personal projects.
I assume you probably mean filming on location with ambitious stunts, so ultimately the best comparison would be Nolan with Tenet.
my favorite of these is Rango with Gore Verbinski
Rango was ambitious but also successful (box office, Oscar). The better comparison perhaps would be A Cure for Wellness, a very good, ambitious current-day gothic mystery (filmed on location) that flopped and Verbinski hasn't released anything in the past 7 years even though he directed the wildly popular PotC trilogy
I loved that one too, and yeah it’s shameful how they treated him
>Chazelle with Babylon, Aster w Beau is Afraid or Eggers w the Northman
Chazelle ripping of Boogie Nights should not be compared to the other actual kino films
i refuse to believe aster is capable of creating kino, but i will refrain from committing fully to this stance until i watch beau
i will completely cross out aster from my watchlist if that one isn't at least good
You'll undoubtedly get filtered so just stick to watching capeshit
>astercuck talking about capeshit
kek
>no u!!!
Concession accepted
>Chazelle ripping of Boogie Nights
That's an autistic misinterpretation as Chazelle was obviously, directly referencing Boogie Nights among many other movies.
If you think he just went "well, I'm gonna lowkey plagiarize a recent, acclaimed PTA movie and nobody will notice hehe" you're a moronic simpleton.
>same themes
>directly rips off multiple scenes
>It's not ripping off Boogie Nights because......it's just not ok!
As I said, you're autistically tone-deaf and clueless as to Chazelle's otherwise obvious, explicitly stated intentions
>Boogie Nights follows a burgeoning star entering into the "golden age" of a media form in transition in which all the previous stars of said medium find themselves cast out or otherwise spurned in favor of the new direction
>Babylon follows a burgeoning star entering into the "golden age" of a media form in transition in which all the previous stars of said medium find themselves cast out or otherwise spurned in favor of the new direction
>somehow not directly ripping of Boogie Nights
That's without looking at all the scenes directly lifted from PTA's earlier and far better film. Chazelle is a hack who can only steal from better films (stealing from the Right Stuff for first man, Umbrellas Over Cherbourgh for La La Land, etc)
Cope and seethe more
Again, your autizmo stops you from realizing the cringe absurdity of your idea that Chazelle simply lifted scenes from PTA instead of quoting/referencing them in a contextually appropriate movie.
Move on, dummy, you have no idea what you're talking about because you don't understand Babylon and don't understand the ridiculousness of your blatant misreading of the direct, obvious inspirations for the movie.
The scene with Toby is lifted
>Move on, dummy
lol concession accepted, keep coping and seething. Chazelle is a hack
Again: if you can't see how ridiculous you sound, just move on and accept the fact that you can't grasp the otherwise obvious.
That's equally pathetic because you're simply attempt to characterize differently scenes that had used the same mechanism (reference) for different narrative purposes. Babylon is quintessentially a meta commentary on cinema, and again: it takes a lot of low IQ autism not to get the movie's intentions when quoting others or, even worse, assuming Chazelle was just pilfering scenes on the hopes nobody would notice. Consider for a moment how truly cretinous that assumption would be
You use a lot of words to say absolutely nothing. Babylon's "meta commentary on cinema" includes an absolutely cringe-inducing final segment where he directly uses various scenes from various movies to attempt to drive home said commentary, it isn't beyond the mark to think he'd rip off scenes from another movie he copied thematically while hoping morons like you would do the heavy lifting of defending his plagarism
Your premise that Damien Chazelle, an Oscar-winning director, released a mainstream movie during Oscar season whose scenes quoting PTA's Boogie Nights were plagiarism instead of otherwise obvious references is beyond stupid.
The fact you can't realize how unlikely and ludicrous that assumption is simply makes it obvious that you're grappling with your own limits.
>only retort is to appeal to the authority of the fricking Oscars
wew lad, would've been better if you just left it alone.
The difference between quoting and plagarizing is adding something new to the scene given the context of the work and the overall medium. Interstellar references 2001 when they dock to the rapidly spinning out of control station, showing the finely tuned mechanical perfection of human advancement is still subject to out of control hubris and folly. The scene with Toby and the spitting goon adds nothing to the Boogie Nights scene, lifting both the gimmick and the thematic heft of the scene (a former up and comer in the industry forced to subject himself to the dangers of a seedy underworld when his friends place in the industry and life itself is put in peril due to declining intentions.) To make it even worse they then travel to an underworld club with the same name as the club in Irreversible.
Not an ounce of original thought was put into the film
>idea that Chazelle simply lifted scenes from PTA instead of quoting/referencing them in a contextually appropriate movie
NTA but this is painfully off-base. PTA quoted/referenced La Haine with his firecracker scene. Chazelle ripped off Boogie Nights with this spitting scene.
I guarantee you no one was contracting malaria or losing a 1/3 of their body weight on those sets.
That's why I highlighted what the comparison in these cases meant (clout to shoot ambitious projects). Projects shot on harsh locations haven't happened in a while though they were more or less frequent in the past (Desert of the Tartars, Cannibal Holocaust, Fitzcarraldo/Aguirre, Lawrence of Arabia etc)
and this takes the cake of the dumbest post I've ever seen on Cinemaphile.
>Check to see if it's mine
>A wave of relief washes over me
Checked.
That's because you're low IQ and have a hard time connecting the dots. Go to reddlt lowest common denominator, you're not fooling anyone
>Times Cinemaphile was right
I watched it by recommendation and it's an awesome movie.
Saw this screened at a local place. The first 40 minutes are weird and the last 20 are fricking insane.
great movie
>mel is never ever making his viking epic
>we have to tolerate villeneuve and eggers slop until we die