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Post by mortsahlfan on Jul 16, 2020 14:13:00 GMT
A combination of the movies and the person.
I go with John cassavetes
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Post by angel on Jul 16, 2020 17:34:30 GMT
A combination of the movies and the person. I go with John cassavetes Mel Brooks. What's funny about Cassavetes? |
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 16, 2020 17:41:19 GMT
Stuart Gordon told some funny anecdotes.
Making a movie in Rome, they don;t shoot without sound.
A set carpenter was hammering away as he was filming.
He says, "Would you mind not doing that?"
Worker: "Fellini lets me hammer."
Director: "Well I'm not Fellini."
Worker: "That's for sure."
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 16, 2020 17:41:42 GMT
Hitchcock could be rather funny.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jul 16, 2020 18:24:19 GMT
Kevin Smith, more so before he started smoking weed all of the time. Him telling his experience of writing the Superman movie is some of the funniest stuff I've ever heard.
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Post by millar70 on Jul 16, 2020 21:11:16 GMT
I bet most directors are pretty funny guys and gals. A good sense of humor is probably needed to be a director of movies. To have a job with so many things on the plate, you better be able to roll with the punches.
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Post by llanwydd on Jul 17, 2020 4:08:28 GMT
Mel Brooks has been mentioned. Good choice. I think Woody Allen was the most consistent, though. In his "earlier, funnier" period.
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Post by dirtypillows on Jul 17, 2020 4:17:33 GMT
A combination of the movies and the person. I go with John cassavetes Mel Brooks. What's funny about Cassavetes? I agree. No offense to somebody's personal opinion, of course, but, judging from his movies, John Cassavetes seemed almost devoid of humor. I like his wife, though. |
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Post by onethreetwo on Jul 17, 2020 6:38:48 GMT
John Hughes?
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Post by mortsahlfan on Jul 17, 2020 15:20:35 GMT
A combination of the movies and the person. I go with John cassavetes Mel Brooks. What's funny about Cassavetes? He's funny (check out almost any interview), and his movies are funny.
What's funny about Mel Brooks??
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Post by Archelaus on Jul 17, 2020 15:29:25 GMT
Mel Brooks. His films are funny and he did some stand-up routines during the 1950s and 1960s like the "2000 Year Old Man".
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Post by angel on Jul 17, 2020 20:17:20 GMT
Mel Brooks. What's funny about Cassavetes? He's funny (check out almost any interview), and his movies are funny. I've seen a fair few, he's a raconteur definitely, one who's always struck me as interesting, witty and intelligent but also pretty earnest, contemplative and serious about his craft and the collegiate method he developed. As for his films, there's quite a bit of dark humour in Husbands, and maybe A Woman Under the Influence and even Opening Night but 'funny' is not the takeaway I usually get from a Cassavetes film - (I was genuinely intrigued). Horses for courses. |
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Post by Vits on Jul 17, 2020 20:27:57 GMT
Trey Parker comes to mind.
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Post by mortsahlfan on Jul 18, 2020 12:00:52 GMT
He's funny (check out almost any interview), and his movies are funny. I've seen a fair few, he's a raconteur definitely, one who's always struck me as interesting, witty and intelligent but also pretty earnest, contemplative and serious about his craft and the collegiate method he developed. As for his films, there's quite a bit of dark humour in Husbands, and maybe A Woman Under the Influence and even Opening Night but 'funny' is not the takeaway I usually get from a Cassavetes film - (I was genuinely intrigued). Horses for courses. It's not always a dark humor.. There's little things, comments to each other that are funny. Katherine Cassavetes is hilarious (John's mother)... "Coca Cola??? What is this Coca-Cola?"
"This baby is naked!!!" "Why do you wanna marry my son. He's a bum!"
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Post by thisguy4000 on Jul 18, 2020 17:06:02 GMT
Quentin Tarantino comes across as a pretty amusing person.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jul 18, 2020 17:13:14 GMT
Charlie Chaplin
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Post by angel on Jul 21, 2020 22:32:47 GMT
I've seen a fair few, he's a raconteur definitely, one who's always struck me as interesting, witty and intelligent but also pretty earnest, contemplative and serious about his craft and the collegiate method he developed. As for his films, there's quite a bit of dark humour in Husbands, and maybe A Woman Under the Influence and even Opening Night but 'funny' is not the takeaway I usually get from a Cassavetes film - (I was genuinely intrigued). Horses for courses. It's not always a dark humor.. There's little things, comments to each other that are funny. Katherine Cassavetes is hilarious (John's mother)... "Coca Cola??? What is this Coca-Cola?"
"This baby is naked!!!" "Why do you wanna marry my son. He's a bum!"
Quite often when you see a Cassavetes interview he’s often with his usual collaborators and friends, in other words, people he’s familiar with and you get a sense of a man holding court and enjoying himself and so there is a degree of humour but I also get a strong sense of a very serious, intense and deeply committed artist. It's also quite revealing hearing other people talk about their experience working with him. I remember listening to Peter Falk declaring he'd never work with him again when he first started collaborating due to the unorthodox methods Cassavetes employed, only to completely change his mind at the end of the process when he realised what a transformative experience it had been because of his relentless search for a deeper truth from his actors. And there's definitely humour in his films, (Gina Rowland doing a triple back flip into a swimming pool in Love Streams - now that's a laugh out loud moment!) but you would expect some humour given he's shining a spot light on the intensity of lives and relationships, but for me, more often than not, it is uncomfortable laugh and I personally don't go to a Cassavetes film expecting to laugh and I've never really come away from one thinking that was funny - intense and emotionally charged yes, but funny – 'fraid not. |
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Post by mortsahlfan on Jul 22, 2020 17:03:49 GMT
It's not always a dark humor.. There's little things, comments to each other that are funny. Katherine Cassavetes is hilarious (John's mother)... "Coca Cola??? What is this Coca-Cola?"
"This baby is naked!!!" "Why do you wanna marry my son. He's a bum!"
Quite often when you see a Cassavetes interview he’s often with his usual collaborators and friends, in other words, people he’s familiar with and you get a sense of a man holding court and enjoying himself and so there is a degree of humour but I also get a strong sense of a very serious, intense and deeply committed artist. It's also quite revealing hearing other people talk about their experience working with him. I remember listening to Peter Falk declaring he'd never work with him again when he first started collaborating due to the unorthodox methods Cassavetes employed, only to completely change his mind at the end of the process when he realised what a transformative experience it had been because of his relentless search for a deeper truth from his actors. And there's definitely humour in his films, (Gina Rowland doing a triple back flip into a swimming pool in Love Streams - now that's a laugh out loud moment!) but you would expect some humour given he's shining a spot light on the intensity of lives and relationships, but for me, more often than not, it is uncomfortable laugh and I personally don't go to a Cassavetes film expecting to laugh and I've never really come away from one thinking that was funny - intense and emotionally charged yes, but funny – 'fraid not. Yeah, I remember Falk saying "Then again, I'm slow".
A lot of the humor I like wasn't very intentional, and none of it was slapstick or screwball (which I never find funny)
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