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The Director's Chair => The Director's Chair => Topic started by: ShanghaiOrange on February 08, 2006, 11:35:45 PM
Hey! I've got an observation. It's pretty inane though. I warned you!
Did you ever notice that some directors' previous jobs are reflected in their films? Seriously! I hope this is pretty obvious, cause I'll get pretty mad if I have to explain it!
Godard - Critic
De Sica - Office Clerk
Tarantino - Video Store Guy
Gilliam/Burton - Animator
Altman - TV Director
Woody Allen - Stand-up Comic
Scorsese/Coppola/Lucas - Film Student
Kurosawa - Painter
Kubrick - Photographer
Crowe - Writer
Cameron - Physics Major/Truck Driver (I didn't make that up)
Smith - Guy who stands around and talks, I mean, clerk
Eastwood - Bad Ass
Reiner - Meathead
Malick - Researcher for Haley's Comet
Wes Anderson - Executive Sales Chief, Pretentious Witticisms, Inc.
Paul Thomas Anderson - Paul Thomas Anderson
Brett Ratner - Shitmonger
Pretty neat, huh? Also, pretty inane! Can you think of any yourself? Go ahead, it's fun! (and inane.) :(
Quote from: ShanghaiOrange on February 08, 2006, 11:35:45 PM
Malick - Researcher for Haley's Comet
he was professor of philosophy at MIT and freelance journalist.
Quote from: ShanghaiOrange on February 08, 2006, 11:35:45 PM
Brett Ratner - Shitmonger
no one will top that. :bravo:
mel brooks - writer for sid caesar's Your Show of Shows
michael moore - editor for various left-wing magazines
brad bird - worked on The Simpsons, other cartoons
david lynch - painter
Paul Schrader -- critic
Mike Nichols -- comedian
alejandro gonzález iñarritu - worked in marketing, professional dj
antonioni /fernando meirelles - architects
werner herzog - superhero