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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2017 23:04:31 GMT
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Jul 15, 2017 0:03:09 GMT
Depends on what you like, I'd say Tarkovsky, but he doesn't appeal to everyone. In terms of remaining popular and successful, maybe Spielberg.
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Post by hi224 on Jul 15, 2017 0:06:16 GMT
Chaplin.
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Post by barkingbaphomet on Jul 15, 2017 4:49:44 GMT
Hitchcock, maybe.
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Jul 15, 2017 5:11:27 GMT
Orson Welles
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Post by mslo79 on Jul 15, 2017 7:37:56 GMT
In terms of popularity/success...
Steven Spielberg ; he's surely got to be one of the top picks looking at it from that angle and i would imagine his name is more known to a wider range of people as i would say there is a decent chance someone has at least heard that name even if they are not into movies to any higher degree as for someone not into acting in the movie industry i would imagine Spielberg has to be one of the biggest names if not THE biggest.
but if i personally had to base my choice around a director who's got more than one movie amongst my 10/10's... it would definitely be Sergio Leone because of Good Bad Ugly/For a Few Dollars More/Once Upon a Time in the West which makes up 30% of my 10/10's (i.e. 3 out of the 10 total movies i gave a 10/10). a rare feat to pull off 10/10's for me in general but he did it three times for me and i don't restrict my ratings on movies either as i simply base it around movies i enjoy the most and then it scales back from there as there used to be more 10/10's for me but they have seen fallen off. hell, even 9/10 range movies only 17 movies managed to pull that off.
p.s. on a personal level though... i could definitely find directors who make more overall enjoyable movies than Speilberg as for me the only Spielberg movies of any real worth for me at this point are... Munich(2005)/War of the Worlds(2005)/The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997). but i realize that Speilberg has quite a few big name movies that a lot of people like and has himself locked into movie history.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jul 15, 2017 8:41:53 GMT
The most genius person in Hollywood was Walt Disney.
I would say the most genius filmmaker in Europe was Mario Bava.
Spielberg is just a copycat hyped up by the media. Hitchcock is also overrated. He did not influence society anywhere near as much as Disney did.
Disney and Bava have been far more influential if you look at their impact on filmmakers and society.
Bava with Danger Diabolik can take credit for influencing Dr. Phibes, Death Race 2000 (and subsequently Robocop), Planet of the Vampires influenced ALIEN, among other things. The ending to POTV is not too far a twist removed from the ending to Planet of the Apes--may not have inspired it since Serling had a TZ with a similar ending-but Bava was thinking in parallel).
I think his talking rock creature from Hercules in the Haunted World predates the Thing from Marvel Comics.
Disney was responsible for bringing together various talents and film engineers like Ub Iwerks.
Hitchcock BTW-could not have made the Birds without Disney's help
Disney also wrote a famous memo on animation in the 30s detailing the importance of music--I suspect Spielberg got the memo.
Disney also probably helped create the animal rights movement--anti circus, anti-deer hunting.
I sure hope Wall Street Disney made mention of the 50th anniversary of his death in December. I know they despise him but they could at least show a tiny bit of class. Probably asking too much of them.
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Post by politicidal on Jul 15, 2017 12:44:20 GMT
D. W. Griffith only since everything we expect from films, he did first with just one movie.
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Post by johnspartan on Jul 15, 2017 14:07:33 GMT
D. W. Griffith only since everything we expect from films, he did first with just one movie. Yep, and that movie and director can't even be calmly discussed these days thanks to easily triggered internet snowflakes.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 14:20:00 GMT
Kubrick
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Post by politicidal on Jul 15, 2017 14:38:40 GMT
D. W. Griffith only since everything we expect from films, he did first with just one movie. Yep, and that movie and director can't even be calmly discussed these days thanks to easily triggered internet snowflakes. That's when I recommend his follow-up feature Intolerance, a far superior film imo.
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Post by koskiewicz on Jul 15, 2017 16:10:57 GMT
Frank Capra
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Post by ironjade on Jul 15, 2017 16:19:31 GMT
Stanley Kubrick.
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Post by kevin on Jul 15, 2017 17:09:27 GMT
I still haven't seen many Tarkovsky and Hitchcock films (I really want to watch them soon), but if I had to choose just one from the other ones probably Kubrick.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 18:02:51 GMT
woody allen, I believe I've already spoken of my love for his works.
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Post by outrider127 on Jul 15, 2017 18:14:09 GMT
Hitchcock
William Wyler
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Post by koskiewicz on Jul 15, 2017 19:52:03 GMT
I also like Victor Fleming...he made his director chops directing Gone With The Wind and The Wizard of Oz...
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Jul 15, 2017 20:45:24 GMT
George Lucas
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jul 16, 2017 0:19:45 GMT
Kubrick transcended the medium, so he's my choice.
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Jul 16, 2017 2:13:42 GMT
Kubrick transcended the medium, so he's my choice. In what ways do you believe he did this? I agree he was an incredible, one-of-a-kind talent, but could you say more about that? Just wondering what you mean specifically since I've been on a weird Kubrick kick lately and haven't really discussed it with anyone.
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