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542. Directorpiece Theatre: How Good Directing Can Hurt A Movie (Dark Water)

🕑 Added 2022-11-08 14:01:02 +0000 UTC

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Dave Ruff

Been meaning to say this for a while: I'm a (primarily portrait) photographer, and I GENUINELY LOVE when you guys geek out over things like focal length, apertures, color theory, depth of field, etc. I've long been fascinated with how they are used in a moving medium vs. still, though much of the thought process (framing, compression, complementary colors, etc.) is similar.

Mat Brady

You right~ Here l was thinking one of us had been Mandela’d :p

Small Beans

I believe they're both in the movie. JCR as the landlord and PP as the super.

Mat Brady

I think you fellas might be confusing John C. Reilly and Peter Postlethwaite

E l i j a h

I've only seen the original (it was actually a movie), and I liked it alright. I've actually never seen any american remakes of the turn-of-the-century j horror, but from what it sounds like the originals did a lot better job of differentiating themselves from each other. I never got the feeling of 'sameyness' from them that you describe. The film language between the ring and the grudge are very far apart seeming, and even dark water felt like its own thing. In fact I feel like the movement was very motivated by creativity in concept and execution. Marebito is a great example of that, and is highly undercelebrated. For a genre where pretty much every entry has a pale child or woman and focuses at least somewhat on the digital era, there is an insane amount of variety, moreso than one would reasonably expect of a subgenre. Oh and the On the Road movie suuuuuucked hahaha I feel like it was trying to fight what the book was about so hard, so it makes sense to me that he was fighting the source material in dark water, too. Bleach bypassing was an inside job