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You can only choose one director in this picture to keep
- Thread starter Bor Gullet
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De Palma
Body Double, Scarface, Carrie, the Untouchables, Carlito's Way, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Raising Cain, Phantom of the Paradise, Mission Impossible, The Fury, etc
He is BY FAR the most interesting of the bunch.
Body Double, Scarface, Carrie, the Untouchables, Carlito's Way, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Raising Cain, Phantom of the Paradise, Mission Impossible, The Fury, etc
He is BY FAR the most interesting of the bunch.
Yup. It's why I picked him even though my personal favourite is Spielberg.
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You get the adventures of Indiana Smith with some other director, if you pick Lucas.
If you pick Steven you get him directing James Bond.
Spielberg's best work is supremely enjoyable even on rewatches. He may not always make gritty dramas and he's got more than a few stinkers but I'll take his best work over nearly anyone else's.
He also has the biggest movie collection and is still doing quality work 45 years later. The others just don't have the output.
Especially if we're just going by directing. Like Lucas has only directed 6 films and only 3 of those are good.
Drop Lucas and the ripple effect is huge. Putting aside Star Wars, you lose:
- Industrial Light & Magic, and various pioneering in CG for digital effects, characters, environments, and compositing
- Pixar, which would fail to (at least as immediately) lead to Dreamworks and many other shops developing computer-animated films [edit: and this probably has other effects through to NeXT computing and Apple in some way due to giving Jobs a lot more walking-around money in the late 90s, but I'm not familiar enough with the history there to go so far as to say "No Pixar means no iPhone"]
- No LucasArts -- so no Monkey Island or other titles from folks that would form Double Fine and other shops (and, obviously, every Star Wars game ever)
Does any of this happen without Spielberg and Jaws though?
Jaws might have spearheaded the concept of the summer blockbuster, but Star Wars cemented it into Hollywood canon.
Though no Jaws means no Spielburg recommending John Williams to Lucas, so uh fuck
Apocalypse Now?
Anyway I went with Scorsese, Spielberg is a close second though
And? Spielberg has such an incredible and fun catalog. I don't want to watch the grittiest nam movie forever.
Well you said only two, but there be three incredible films form him
Have to go with Lucas, but Spielberg is a real close second. Just for reference my favourite film is Empire Strikes Back, my second is Jurassic Park.
My movie habits have dwindled as I've gotten older and it'd be hard to turn down the rewatchability of Godfather Part I+II over the more prolific or nostalgic output from the others. Alls I need.
part one and part two are the same one movie. Part 3 doesn't exist.
Hard to not vote Coppola because of The Godfather. As much as I have enjoyed Spielberg, De Palma and Scorsese, no Godfather is a no go. Scorsese is second though. I'm easy without Star Wars - never hooked me in any way.
Christ, what a question. Lucas is the easiest cut. De Palma has a fascinating filmography but he's lacking the amount of content and arguably the sheer masterpieces that Coppola has.
I'm torn between Spielberg and Marty. Spielberg has so much entertainment value while Marty has much better late movies.
Think I'll go Steven honestly, even though I don't like his newer work
I'm torn between Spielberg and Marty. Spielberg has so much entertainment value while Marty has much better late movies.
Think I'll go Steven honestly, even though I don't like his newer work
