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The Director's Chair => The Director's Chair => Topic started by: SHAFTR on March 08, 2004, 02:30:05 PM

Title: Director's Lineage
Post by: SHAFTR on March 08, 2004, 02:30:05 PM
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
Title: Director's Lineage
Post by: Just Withnail on March 08, 2004, 05:02:18 PM
Similar, yet very different thread: http://www.xixax.com/viewtopic.php?t=4772&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15
Title: Director's Lineage
Post by: SHAFTR on March 09, 2004, 12:59:57 AM
Quote from: WithnailSimilar, 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.
Title: Director's Lineage
Post by: SHAFTR on August 23, 2005, 07:58:50 PM
David Lean > Steven Spielberg

Arthur Penn > Oliver Stone
Title: Director's Lineage
Post by: picolas on August 24, 2005, 12:33:01 AM
Hitchcock > Fincher
Title: Director's Lineage
Post by: SHAFTR on August 24, 2005, 03:32:35 AM
Quote from: picolasHitchcock > Fincher

that's the spirit.
Title: Director's Lineage
Post by: RegularKarate on August 24, 2005, 12:38:42 PM
Mountain Dew Commercials > McG
Title: Director's Lineage
Post by: killafilm on August 24, 2005, 03:06:52 PM
Hitchcock > Spielberg > M. Night
Hitchcock > DePalma  > Roger Avery
Title: Director's Lineage
Post by: SHAFTR on August 24, 2005, 03:16:54 PM
Quote from: killafilmHitchcock > Spielberg > M. Night
Hitchcock > DePalma  > Roger Avery

Could you explain?  Especially the DePalma > Avary.
Title: Director's Lineage
Post by: 72teeth on August 24, 2005, 03:18:22 PM
just 'cause of the frequent Split/screen or anything else...
Title: Director's Lineage
Post by: NEON MERCURY on August 24, 2005, 03:34:58 PM
Quote from: RegularKarateMountain Dew Commercials > McG

hahahahaha!!
Title: Director's Lineage
Post by: mutinyco on August 24, 2005, 03:46:56 PM
Might be funnier if the approach was like: if this director + this director had a baby...
Title: Director's Lineage
Post by: Pubrick on August 24, 2005, 04:44:12 PM
might be funnier if we ignore mutinyco's suggestion..
Title: Director's Lineage
Post by: mutinyco on August 24, 2005, 05:33:20 PM
Or even funnier yet if Pubrick had used that footage of Bjork attacking the reporter at the airport in his avatar...
Title: Director's Lineage
Post by: hedwig on August 24, 2005, 05:34:34 PM
more like depressing and exploitive
Title: Director's Lineage
Post by: mutinyco on August 24, 2005, 05:39:21 PM
Quote from: Hedwigmore like depressing and exploitive

No...would've been if he used that guy who sent her the mail bomb, then painted himself up like D'Onofrio in The Cell and blew his brains out...
Title: Director's Lineage
Post by: killafilm on August 24, 2005, 07:36:33 PM
Quote from: 72teethjust 'cause of the frequent Split/screen or anything else...

Just the use of split screen really.  I wanted to go down another notch, and Avery was the only person that really came to mind for DePalma.
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