Director's Lineage

[SHAFTR]

Alright, so this is an idea I have so I hope I am able to convey it to everyone here clearly.  Directors often remind us of other directors, who remind of us other directors, and so on.  So, why don't we try to trace current directors back to a director before him, and so on.  Perhaps by the end of this thread, we can trace everyone back to a few key directors (perhaps Melies & Griffith), we'll see.

I'll start it out, feel free to add a completely different lineage or to add on to mine, or to dispute it.

Jean Renoir > Robert Altman > PT Anderson

[Just Withnail]

Similar, yet very different thread: http://www.xixax.com/viewtopic.php?t=4772&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

[SHAFTR]

Similar, yet very different thread: http://www.xixax.com/viewtopic.php?t=4772&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

Ya, I noticed that before I made this topic.  I think this is a different subject though.  That is trying to classify filmmakers into established categories; this is trying to establish categories.

[SHAFTR]

David Lean > Steven Spielberg

Arthur Penn > Oliver Stone

[picolas]

Hitchcock > Fincher

[SHAFTR]

Hitchcock > Fincher

that's the spirit.

[RegularKarate]

Mountain Dew Commercials > McG

[killafilm]

Hitchcock > Spielberg > M. Night
Hitchcock > DePalma  > Roger Avery

[SHAFTR]

Hitchcock > Spielberg > M. Night
Hitchcock > DePalma  > Roger Avery

Could you explain?  Especially the DePalma > Avary.

[72teeth]

just 'cause of the frequent Split/screen or anything else...

[NEON MERCURY]

Mountain Dew Commercials > McG

hahahahaha!!

[mutinyco]

Might be funnier if the approach was like: if this director + this director had a baby...

[Pubrick]

might be funnier if we ignore mutinyco's suggestion..

[mutinyco]

Or even funnier yet if Pubrick had used that footage of Bjork attacking the reporter at the airport in his avatar...

[hedwig]

more like depressing and exploitive