Genius Directors/Writers of our day
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UPDATED: Monday, May 24, 2004 05:35
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i totally agree with the list so far! my favs are joss (duh) and amy sherman-palladino.
i really like j.j. abrams (he created alias though doesn't come out to play with it much anymore 
) i think he's awesome at building stakes and building tension.
i really like ted elliot and terry rossio. they did the shrek movies and pirates of the carribean. i'm not a fan of shrek, but it is well written. i love pirates of the carribean. the voice for jack is off the wall! though that's a combination of the actor and the two previous writers as well. it's just so tight and happy, it's fun to see.
hmmm, you know this is a really hard list to compile. it's the nature of the business that you just don't get to know a writer and his/her style b/c nothing makes it through to the end the way they intended. even the mighty joss had no control over aliens resurrection. we're all getting really, really cheated. :-(
- emily
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Originally posted by pedme84:
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i really like ted elliot and terry rossio. they did the shrek movies and pirates of the carribean.
Apparently these writers were actually allowed on the set of POTC and got to contribute.
Imagine Joss writing POTC it would have been fantastic (can you imagine joss writing for captain jack sparrow) and he would have been happier than on the set of alien resurrection or whatever.
Thankfully it all worked out okay and he has full control over serenity.
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In addition to JMS, who gave us a rich and diverse universe to play in with "Babylon 5", how about Dick Wolf? We got three L&O series out of him. As "ripped-off" from the headlines as the stories may be, the twists and turns added to the stories always keep me coming back for more.
They can have my "Firefly" DVDs when they pry them from my cold, dead fingers....
Oh yeah, 
you, FOX TV!!
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In addition to JMS, who gave us a rich and diverse universe to play in with "Babylon 5", how about Dick Wolf? We got three L&O series out of him. As "ripped-off" from the headlines as the stories may be, the twists and turns added to the stories always keep me coming back for more.
They can have my "Firefly" DVDs when they pry them from my cold, dead fingers....
Oh yeah, you, FOX TV!!
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Richard Linklater
Philip Kaufman
Joel and Ethan Coen
Ridley Scott
Charlie Kaufman
wo men ren ran zai fei xing.
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Without doubt, i'd have to say
Roger Hargreaves
incase you never had the good fortune to witness his work. He created the Mr Men books (and little Miss)
i cried after reading mr bump..probably becuase the kid next to me threw a bottle at me.....
before you brand me with the tag ("you need some help" 
)
i also enjoy reading books by Dave Gorman. i think he is the man 
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Kevin Smith
John Woo
.....Nuff Said.
When faced with a moral question I ask myself; "What would The Lone Ranger do?"
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Wow, ECGORDON seems to be the only one amoung you who seems to have a serious answer to this question (as opposed to just mentioning the few mainstream movies that were a tiny bit 'stylish' and personal ...not that I don't think M Night isn't very cool, cause he is!).
I'd say the few genuis auteur directors still alive (other than joss), are:
Zhang Yimou (The Story of Qui Ju, To Live, To Raise the Red Lantern)
David Lynch (Mulholland Drive, The Straight Story, Lost Highway, Eraserhead, Twin Peaks)
Richard Linklater (Waking Life, Before Sunrise, Tape, Suburbia)
Lars Von Trier (Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, the element of crime, Dogville)
David Cronenberg (Spider, Naked Lunch, M Butterfly)
Tom Tykwer (Heaven, Run Lola Run)
Wong Kar-Wai (In the Mood For Love)
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Amores Perros, 21 grams)
Anh Hung Tran (the vertical ray of the sun, the scent of green papaya)
Anno Hideaki (Neon Genesis Evangelion, His and Her Circumstances, Love and Pop)
Martin Scorcese
Steven Soderbergh (Full Frontal, Solaris, sex lies and videotape)
Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Nausicaa)
Charlie Kaufmann (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Human Nature, Adadaptation)
P T Anderson (Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love)
and maybe Ang Lee, Atom Egoyan, JMS, Darren Aronofsky, Chris Carter, Satoshi Kon, Spielberg, Wim Wenders, Tarantino, the Coen Brothers, Don McKellar, Ridley Scott, Mamouru Oshii
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I started to say Soderbergh, but his work has been inconsistent in the last few years, and as for David Lynch, I have to be in a very weird mood to enjoy most of his stuff. Of course, I'm in a weird mood most of the time, but that's another story altogether.
PS: Tarantino would never make my list. Too derivative.
wo men ren ran zai fei xing.
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Originally posted by ecgordon:
I started to say Soderbergh, but his work has been inconsistent in the last few years, and as for David Lynch, I have to be in a very weird mood to enjoy most of his stuff. Of course, I'm in a weird mood most of the time, but that's another story altogether.
PS: Tarantino would never make my list. Too derivative.
about Tarantino, well that's sort of the point of his 'school' of filmaking. not that I'd really argue with you, he's definitely in my 'maybe', and only there because of kill bill and bit from Reservoir.
I disagree about Soderbergh ...well maybe he hasn't been 'consistent', but I think his best work is happening right now. I think Solaris and Full Frontal blow away anything else he has done.
As for Lynch, whether you enjoy him or not, he makes nearly the best use of one of the most 'natural' and ignored aspects of the medium (surrealism, of course), and he has that unique voice that combines the strange and the totally ordinary in a meaningful way, unlike anyone else has attempted. The moods he gets are just about the richest thing you can find in film, and you won't find performances quite like the kind you see in his films (which is a big deal consideirng how 'bland' performances tend to be even in the best movies ...no that this is always a minus). so hopefully you respect what he's doing even if you can't appreciate it. I could try to give a better 'defense' (i admit what I wrote isn't much of one), but that would take time and effort...
I just think the way that he contructs the very 'experience' of his films is much more 'purposeful' and complex and also coherent, than almost any other filmaker. He's interested in exploring the depths of the human mind and how film allows us to enter them ...I think he's one of those rare people who is in tune with the nature of the medium (though I do also believe in the 'realism' side of the nature of the medium, which paradoxically is the opposite of what I'm talking about here ...many of the best filmakers are able to combine the two, like Lars Von Trier, Kubrick, joss, and Kieslowski).
p.s. i updated the post with a few more names that I had forgotten, and added some movie names, in case you'd like to take a second look.
p.s. you're worrying about Soderbergh being inconsistent recently but you still wrote Ridley Scott???
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