does hollywood typecast music video directors?

[md]

with the exception of like fincher or spike...does hollywood have a tendency to typecast music video/commercial directors...

[godardian]

I don't know... some have had a tendency to typecast themselves by retaining their vid/ad style even when it's not well suited to whatever feature they're working on...

I'm thinking of the Scotts, Lyne, and Guy Ritchie, in particular. Throw out some names.

[Xixax]

Phil Joanou?

"Entropy" was pretty great, and he slipped in cameos with his U2 buddies.

[md]

if a music video director, who directs overly commercialized music videos, that are not original but does it because that is what the demand is, actually has talent...will he be typecasted within hollywood as only being able to direct very commercialized feature length films...

[aclockworkjj]

if a music video director, who directs overly commercialized music videos, that are not original but does it because that is what the demand is, actually has talent...will he be typecasted within hollywood as only being able to direct very commercialized feature length films...

Perfect example is that dude who did Belly....Hype Williams?  (Is that right?)...although I would not consider it a bad movie, just out of my taste...it is exactly like any of his videos...but then again, that's probably what everyone wanted...

[meatwad]

hype williams actually has some style. I bet if you threw a good script at him, he could make a really good film







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[Keener]

Mark Romanek is my hero.

[Newtron]

Chris Cunningham may prove to the the illest after Neuromancer comes out.

No doubt the best music video directors are doing great things for cinema, so if being groundbreaking is a 'typecast', then, shit... need I finish this badly structured sentence?

[aclockworkjj]

I liked The Cell....There was camera movements in there that were just unreal....very cool...

hype williams actually has some style. I bet if you threw a good script at him, he could make a really good film

Yeah, I liked the whole Black and White (but being filmed with color...is that making sense?) thing in Belly...I like his visual style....

[meatwad]

pabst blue ribbon! i love crackin open a pbr on a saturday night

[jenkins]

please list examples of movie directors who started as music video directors

inspired by watching belly again, and i agree with meatwad that hype williams has some style

Hype Williams
Belly

Joseph Kahn
Torque
Detention

The Directors Label Series:
Mark Romanek
Spike Jonze
Anton Corbijn
Stephane Sednaoul (0 movies)
Michel Gondry
Jonathan Glazer
Chris Cunningham (shorts)

David Fincher
Tarsem Singh
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris

Garth Jennings (formerly Hammer & Tongs)
Son of Rambow
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Richard Ayoade (special mention, tv overlap of course)
Roman Coppola (his family is helpful?)
Jonas Åkerlund

Floria Sigismondi
The Runaways

Francis Lawrence
Constantine
I Am Legend
Water for Elephants
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

please remind me of the ones i'm forgetting and tell me about ones i never realized

[MacGuffin]

Michael Bay
Gore Verbinzki
Marc Webb
Samuel Bayer

[jenkins]

^hell yeah

Samuel Bayer

he especially is so interesting to me. all kindsa videos and one movie: a nightmare on elm street (remake). can spot the reasons for hiring him, but i'd like to rewatch the movie and spot his skills. and i just didn't guess that i'd ever wanna rewatch that movie. but you know, next month is october...

[pete]

Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Little Miss Sunshine