This is S.J. Clarkson director of Madame Web, and obvious hack.
She's spent her entire career as a tv director, but I was surprised to find out that her resume seems to be pretty okay? Are directing movies and tv just fundamentally different?
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yes, tv is trash
tv directors don't have as much control over everything as movie directors
With her and Issa López, February has proven to be the month of empowered female directors.
>her resume seems to be pretty okay
I beg your pardon? She's directed a string of medium to shit episodes of a collection of medium to shit TV shows. She's never helmed anything good, never been the showrunner of a good show... She's just a hack given a multimillion dollar budget by a desperate studio
you'd be hard pressed to watch the Succession episode she directed for example and realize this person is incompetent to the point of allowing major lip sync errors on widescreen major studio release
>person is incompetent to the point of allowing major lip sync errors on widescreen major studio release
reminder that this board is full of opinionated children who don't know what they're talking about in how films are actually made by studios.
you show 'em S.J. The patriarchy fricked this movie like it did the Marvels.
A show like succession needs an entirely different skillset than a broad action event-film like Madame Web was supposed to be. None of what she's done up to now shows that she's capable of helming something like that which is mostly spectacle and storyboard-driven page-turners.
>pretty okay
Her GOT:Bloodmoon pilot was so bad HBO scraped it.
>Bloodmoon
Was that the real fricking title? Holy shit lmao that's fricking cringe. What's with these horseshit fantasy titles recently?
this is most likely the truth, but almost nobody had ever seen it, and even the executives when explaining why they shelved it tended to be diplomatic about it rather than admit their girl boss director was moronic.
All these directors in super hero films aren't the real directors of the film, the production company takes all the intakes.
That's really only the case with the MCU.
The same discord trannies will have no problem telling you that Barbie was Greta Gerwig's creation.
It's different to direct a tv shows or tv movies than a blockbuster franchise studio movie. It's never your movie.
Let me put it with a food analogy. You're an amateur cook that likes to cook spaghetti. One day a hotel owner hires you and asks you to make spaghetti for 150 people. The sheer logistics, the materials, the changes in the recipe, the time table and the high expectations from both customers and catering staff would be such that you'd be hard pressed to even pull out something edible out of it. That's what happens. Blockbusters are onto another scale entirely
Stop making excuses, b***h. Try harder.
>implying she had any creative control
>implying sony didn't just need a body on set
>implying she wasn't paid for her name in the credits
Get lost, S.J.
then how was it even worse than Morbius
She was only given the movie because no other female director wanted to direct a fricking Madame Web movie. Any established director who is female would have bailed or pas but Clarkson was desperate to break into movies so we get a inept movie made by a TV director. It's always the director's fault for being fricking naive. A director should know this out of the gate. Just like directing a James Bond or a Mission Impossible movie.
>A director should know this out of the gate. Just like directing a James Bond
Funny fact. She was unironically at one point considered for James Bond.
I mean...Zack Snyder directed deodorant commercials before making films
also a hack
There is this thing called a producer who will usually help tv directors match their styles to what previous things in the "universe"
So Succession has producers that help her shoot stuff in their style, and Sony has producers that help her shoot in their style
TV directors have practically no creative freedom, except in special cases. They're all just goons for the showrunner.
Look at how enthusiastic and genuine she seems. I can't help but feel bad for her.
yes, totally different
She's a director. Madame Webb was also her screenplay. Her writing credits are nonexistent.
Idiot.
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The problem isn't the direction, it's the producers, focus groups, and suits. They're terrified of directors getting to do anything. She could suck, but there's no one failure, it's the whole gaggle of em.
I just want to point out that she's actually really cute for an old lady.
Ah I see another man of taste.
She looks like she has some good fricks left in her.
Deadass. That fake innocent mousy look always gets me bricked up.
I don't think the movie was stylistically bad except for the zoomy camera action sequences. And some of the other visual elements were pretty good. I'm not sure she had the pull to have any sway over the actors though. Dakota Johnson was in a different movie than the rest of the cast entirely (except Adam Scott who matched her in their scenes together). But then again, that other movie was better so good on Dakota for not being entirely serious.