Anyway, one of my favorite features in Entertainment Weekly is when a famous director or actor goes over his/her track record of past movies, and this is what the article about De Palma entailed. Unfortunately, as a result, I hate Brian De Palma. He incurred my unquenchable wrath by saying:
In any movie, as soon as you see a girl, you’re waiting for her to take her clothes off. You’ll sit there and watch her forever for this to happen. I get attacked for putting women in jeopardy and having them get attacked, but I’m sorry, if I’m going to photograph someone in peril, showing a woman in a negligee holding a candelabra is a lot more interesting to me than some guy walking around with a flashlight.No, I’m sorry. You, Mr. DP, might go to movies and wait for women to get naked, but I sure as fuck don’t go to movies for that reason. I’m fairly sure that a sizeable chunk of the population (oh, let’s say about 50%) don’t see a woman (not girl, you shit fuck, unless you are directing child porn) and wait with bated breath for her titties to appear and for a glimpse of the cooch. Maybe your career has seen its ups and downs since you seem to have absolutely zero regard for entertaining the audience, which is probably something a filmmaker might want to consider.
When I am a famous director, I think I would find it much more interesting to show Brian De Palma naked and getting fucked up by some demented killer. Chicks in lingerie getting raped and killed are so cliché. Make like the douche bag you are, sir, and get some fresh ideas. Just a suggestion.
Here was one of the headlines I saw regarding that movie:
ReplyDelete"How do you screw up a movie starring Hillary Swank & Scarlett Johannsen? Ask Brian DePalma."
I'm not going to see the movie. I love the book it's "based" on. You should borrow it.
And most of the movies I own, if not all, do not feature anyone being naked. But I'm a prude like that.
Read that too. It pissed me off. Just more of the unimaginative, status quo bullshit.
ReplyDeleteIt's too bad he screwed The Black Dahlia up. I really loved LA Confidential.
When I was taking Feminist Film Theory in college (for fun) there was a film major in the class who was obsessed with Brian De Palma. Every time we had class discussion he'd bring him up. I could see my prof. cringe on the inside. All the film majors were made to take the class regardless of being a feminist. It was an interesting class because you had the film majors and the feminist studies in one class. Oh, the discussions. I miss thee.
ReplyDeleteWhat a prat! I hope you wrote a letter to the editor of EW. If you don't, I will!
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