Topic: Fuck Rock n Roll!
Started by: Latreya Sena
Started on: 4/8/2006
Board: Forge Birthday Forum
On 4/8/2006 at 6:59am, Latreya Sena wrote:
Fuck Rock n Roll!
...These stars are more like filmmakers!
Ron Edwards = George Lucas - in his younger years :-)
Vincent Baker = Quentin Tarantino
Paul Czege = Tim Burton
Clinton R. Nixon = Terry Gilliam
Zak Arnston = Steven Spielberg
Seth Ben-Ezra = Richard Kelly
Jared Sorensen = Peter Jackson
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On 4/8/2006 at 7:49am, Thunder_God wrote:
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I dunno, it's possible Jared S. is Quentin.
Anyway, I'm Guy Ritchie.
We even share the first name.
On 4/8/2006 at 7:54am, Ben Lehman wrote:
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Shouldn't you be discussing indie film-makers?
On 4/8/2006 at 8:00am, droog wrote:
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Yeah--at least somebody less crassly commercial. Like Bergman or Cassavetes.
On 4/8/2006 at 9:01am, Gordon C. Landis wrote:
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In this, one thing is certain - Jared is Cronenberg. The rest, I have no clue.
On 4/8/2006 at 9:10am, talysman wrote:
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No, Jared is not Cronenberg. Ron is Cronenberg. Jared is Don Coscarelli.
WHO?!
The guy who directed "Phantasm", of course. BOY.
I am Roger Corman.
On 4/8/2006 at 10:42am, Latreya Sena wrote:
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Shouldn't you be discussing indie film-makers?
Hey dorks! All of these directors were major, classic, indie filmmakers and for most films still are!
If Jareds going to be Cronenberg or Tarantino (hey, I concede he could be both) then that would leave Vincent to be.. umm...
On 4/8/2006 at 10:56am, droog wrote:
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I nominate John Cassavetes for Vincent.
On 4/8/2006 at 12:25pm, TonyLB wrote:
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Dibs on Sam Raimi!
On 4/8/2006 at 12:57pm, lumpley wrote:
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Yeah I'm all like, "Jared, Peter Jackson? The HELL does Jared have to do with Middle Earth - oh wait."
Someone should get to be Soderbergh.
-Vincent
On 4/8/2006 at 1:33pm, Ron Edwards wrote:
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Not George Lucas.
John Sayles.
Best, Ron
On 4/8/2006 at 2:17pm, droog wrote:
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How about Shohei Imamaura for Paul Czege?
Tony, I'm thinking maybe Pedro Almodovar.
Ron, I think you must be someone more seminal, like Kurosawa, or Jean-Luc Godard.
On 4/8/2006 at 2:36pm, joshua neff wrote:
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Is there a more seminal indie director than John Sayles?
On 4/8/2006 at 2:52pm, Eric J-D wrote:
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I think Jeff's got it about right. Either would be more fitting for Ron than Sayles (even though I love Sayles' movies).
Kurosawa, according to film historian Donald Richie, was the first director to point his camera upwards and do a tracking shot of the sun through the trees (this is in Kurosawa's beyond-words incredibly brilliant Rashomon). That, to me, has Ron written all over it--pointing folks in a direction that they hadn't really seen clearly before. [Incidentally, you can see the heavy influence of Kurosawa's famous upward tracking shot in Terence Malick's visually beautiful The Thin Red Line]
Godard's a great choice too. Given his famed commitment to "make it new," Godard was once asked something to this effect, "But surely you would agree that all films have to have a beginning a middle and an end, n'est ce pas?" To which Godard gnomically replied, "Of course! But not necessarily in that order!" That too strikes me as echt/i] Ron."
Cheers,
Eric
P.S. Ron et al, does it ever embarrass you all to have folks talk about you in this way? Or does it "creep you out" (to use a phrase my daughter is fond of)?
P.P.S. To Josh: yeah, John Cassevetes.
On 4/8/2006 at 3:00pm, joshua neff wrote:
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Eric wrote:
P.P.S. To Josh: yeah, John Cassevetes.
The "father of independent films" who made harsh movies about troubled relationships and people's...er, demons? Yeah, good call.
On 4/8/2006 at 3:15pm, Eric J-D wrote:
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Josh:
Hey, don't get me wrong. I LOVE John Sayles' movies. If there is any indei guy who, in my opinion, deserves to be brought to the top of the "Give 'em the Criterion treatment" list it's Sayles. Several of his films that are currently available deserve to be given a good cleaning and spiffier presentation. But I digress.
This might seem like a bit of a weird choice, but part of me thinks that Jared should be Jan Svankmajer. Either that or the Quay Brothers. I hope that flatters rather than infuriates, Jared.
Cheers,
Eric
On 4/8/2006 at 3:20pm, joshua neff wrote:
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Eric,
Huh? I wasn't arguing with you, I was agreeing with you. Why are you still trying to convince me?
On 4/8/2006 at 3:34pm, Thunder_God wrote:
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Pedro Almodovar is so totally Paul Czege.
On 4/8/2006 at 3:36pm, Eric J-D wrote:
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Josh,
Not trying to convince so much as make clear that the love being shown for Sayles here is love that I share.
Cheers,
Eric
On 4/8/2006 at 3:45pm, droog wrote:
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Pedro Almodovar is so totally Paul Czege.
But Almodovar, he is ¡Muy Macho!
On 4/8/2006 at 3:49pm, joshua neff wrote:
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Ah, gotcha, Eric.
On 4/8/2006 at 3:55pm, Thunder_God wrote:
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And Paul isn't?
I'm saying for the fucked upness brilliance.
You know what I mean. My mom watches Almodovar, and I think my mom could enjoy Czege, if it weren't participational, AKA, if he were a movie director, which he'd be Almodovar ;)
On 4/8/2006 at 4:06pm, Bryan Hansel wrote:
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Who's Kevin Smith? Has anyone made five games about the same thing -- dick and fart jokes, and then after he said he'd never make another game like the others, he turns around and makes a sequel to his first game?
On 4/8/2006 at 4:07pm, Ben Lehman wrote:
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I'm working on Kevin Smith :-)
yrs--
--Ben
On 4/8/2006 at 4:21pm, droog wrote:
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I'm thinking Zhang Yimou for you, Ben.
On 4/8/2006 at 4:38pm, talysman wrote:
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Ron can't be Godard, because he can't say "I hate all you bourgeois american pigs" in french.
Anyways, all roleplayers are Godard. Just watch Alphaville.