If You Were a Director, What Would Be Your Hallmarks?
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MissMargoChanning — 1 year ago(September 11, 2024 12:29 PM)
Your efforts are appreciated. You certainly have put a great deal of thought into this.
The problem? Most of us here don't make movies. We watch them.
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
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WarrenPeace — 1 year ago(September 10, 2024 10:52 PM)
Yeah, less is more.
Directors have just one or two trademarks.
Like old Hitch and his cameos in all of his movies.
Very subtle and simple which is how it should be.
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WarrenPeace — 1 year ago(September 10, 2024 10:55 PM)
So when is your first film coming out?
Based on his ideas it will be the most twisted, awkward, bizarre, surreal, darkest and just outright craziest Gilligan's Island remake you could ever see!
"Please vote to preserve the unique character of Warren…" - Robert Duvall -
MissMargoChanning — 1 year ago(September 10, 2024 09:34 PM)
If You Were a Director, What Would Be Your Hallmarks?
For starters, I'd never direct a Hallmark Christmas movie!
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
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∂³∑x² — 1 year ago(September 10, 2024 09:42 PM)
Those are the only ones I'd direct Margo
Well, maybe just the one with a rich successful American woman going to Europe for an important business trip just prior to her being married to that guy she doesn't quite love but knows it will please everyone back home. Only for…
…but just the one!
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MissMargoChanning — 1 year ago(September 11, 2024 11:24 AM)
So basically, you want to make the same movie, different settings, over and over. Gotcha!
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
It's Going To Be A Bumpy Night! -
MissMargoChanning — 1 year ago(September 11, 2024 12:21 PM)
Many of the great directors have used the same actors in a number their films.
Hitchcock, Scorsese, Altman come to mind….
You go right ahead and use the lovely Winnie in each and every one of your films!
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
It's Going To Be A Bumpy Night! -
/. — 1 year ago(September 10, 2024 09:56 PM)
- Improvised script
- Not much music. It's a cheap way to elicit an emotional response.
- No color filters. Natural light when possible.
- No CGI
- Natural dialogue. Nothing too snappy. Mostly silence.
- Normal looking people. No one above a 6, just like in real life.
- Bleak atmosphere, just like in real life.
- Mundane subject matter, like going to the store or cleaning a kitchen. Might lead somewhere, might not. You only know if you watch.
- Short. Hour and a half tops.
My password is password
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/. — 1 year ago(September 10, 2024 10:58 PM)
Every movie, no matter the genre would have a scene in which the protagonist randomly pulls down their pants and spreads their butthole for the camera.
Buttholes are never seen outside of pornographic movies so I want to pioneer their inclusion in mainstream cinema.
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Aph the cat whisperer — 1 year ago(September 11, 2024 09:10 AM)
Are we talking about horror movies or wot? Epic scores, twists, no happy endings.. I'd go for psychological attacks over jump scares as for me personally it is the only thing that destroys me when it comes to movies. Jump scares and creepy music are nothing in comparison to how a decent movie leaves you feeling once it's over. I would want my audience to be destroyed. Absolutely devastated. Too upset for icecream afterwards.
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Madotsuki_the_Dreamer — 1 year ago(September 11, 2024 10:15 PM)
I would want my audience to be destroyed. Absolutely devastated. Too upset for icecream afterwards.
A little while ago, I wrote a detailed outline for my own attempt at creating the most disturbing film ever made - one that would not only far exceed every other "sickest movie ever made" in terms of on-screen depravity, but would also tell an emotionally devastating story filled with truly heartbreaking pathos. The reactions that it got from the very few people who read it (one of whom said that she couldn't even read all of it) told me that I did exactly what I set out to do. I wasn't aiming for
August Underground's Mordum
-style gorenography trash, stringing together a bunch of ridiculously over-the-top depravity at random so that teenagers can challenge each other to watch "da sickest movee evar!!11!1!". I was not aiming to create some juvenile Halloween party item. Rather, I was aiming to create a thoughtful, intelligent, and deeply upsetting film that forces viewers to confront the unspeakably horrific reality of the unspeakably horrific world that we live in and leaves them feeling like they need to crawl into a corner and die.
Most of the detailed film outlines that I've written revolve around similar characters and have many similar hallmarks, but some of them are far more benign. -
WarrenPeace — 1 year ago(September 11, 2024 10:57 PM)
I wouldn't be a director.
Too much responsibility and I just don't have the intelligence or talent that would go with it.
Instead I would be one of the blue collars like a grip or best boy.
Actually I think it would be a lot of fun getting the props for a movie.
"Please vote to preserve the unique character of Warren…" - Robert Duvall
Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. 
