Do the Movies Have a Future? by David Denby

Author:David Denby [Denby, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Performing Arts, Film & Video, History & Criticism
ISBN: 9781416599470
Google: iFkdwaLUHiYC
Amazon: 1416599479
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2012-10-02T07:00:00+00:00

PART FIVE / DIRECTORS

INTRODUCTION

In thinking about directors, I’m always attracted by a play of contraries. Otto Preminger, a mid-century liberal who believed in free speech and debate and balanced views, was an absolute dictator on the set, a terror to younger and more vulnerable actors. Victor Fleming directed the two most famous movies of the late 1930s, Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz, yet, until Michael Sragow revived him in his 2009 biography, Fleming had been largely forgotten. Pedro Almodóvar is a flagrant sensationalist with a sweet, generous temperament. Clint Eastwood became an American icon by playing men who killed with pleasure, yet, as he got older, he came to revise, even reverse his attitudes toward violence and virtually everything else. The Coen brothers are jokesters with a dark, even savage view of life. Quentin Tarantino has turned pop movies into a quasi-academic canon; his outrageousness barely masks piety. David Fincher is a visual formalist who embraces chaos. I don’t mean to suggest that the contraries are what make them talented, but it certainly makes them fun to write about.

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