My mom introduced me to Alfred Hitchcock by showing me the Birds, which is one of my favorite thriller (is that the right genre to put it in?) films of all time and I've still never seen any other film make birds so unnerving like this movie did.
Sadly, my respect of Alfred Hitchcock took a huge hit when I learned about his treatment of Tippi Hedren. You'd think someone who carries himself with such class would handle rejection better.
I can still enjoy Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Birds, but whenever I see Tippi I can't help but feel for the poor woman.
edited 24th Oct '11 7:11:58 PM by SoloWingPixy
Alfred Hitchcock once said "Actors should be treated like cattle". Like Kubrick, he just really liked to push his actors to the limit.
More Buscemi at http://forum.reelsociety.com/@ Jordan-sorry I took your spot on mentioning Hitchcock ><
@ Buscemi- while I didn't know about "Actors should be treated like cattle" (thanks for the info by the way) and that adds onto my mentioning him, what I was referring to for the most part was when Alfred tried to court Tippi and when she refused he decided to destroy her acting career and more or less got away with it
. It occurred to me you probably knew about that part, but I wanted to remind you just in case it slipped your mind.
edited 24th Oct '11 8:00:29 PM by SoloWingPixy
I didn't know that detail. I knew he was really nasty to her on the set of the film, particularly in his Enforced Method Acting choices, but besides that, he was rather misogynistic.
I'll say in general that I'm not a big fan of directors who are really nasty to actors and are a fan of Enforced Method Acting. I believe James Cameron was mentioned earlier, and has a reputation for that. The other two directors I'm familiar with as having a reputation for that are the guy who did The Exorcist and Fritz Lang. I'm not really into the film of those directors, so it doesn't really affect my opinion of the films, but to state the obvious, it's a lot nicer to learn that an actor is Mean Character, Nice Actor than to find out that the creator of great art is a totally unlikable egomaniac.
edited 24th Oct '11 8:16:34 PM by Jordan
Hodor... After finding out what Kubrick did to the cast and crew of Dr Strangelove...
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...I'm never watching a Kubrick film EVER again. EVER.
edited 11th Nov '11 2:21:18 AM by gingerninja666
"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs SchneizelOn Michael Bay: in my opinion, he's not so much tyrannical as: "You guys! We're totally making an awesome movie and we're gonna do it really fast and there'll be EXPLOSIONS! How come you're not all as pumped about this as I am?"
I believe he said something on the commentary for the first Transformers that he tends to get way more shots done per day than most directors, so part of the complaint may be his sheer relentless pace.
To me I have a positive aspect of this with Guillermo Del Toro films. I love him as a person, cause he is so much like us a huge fanboy. He is amazing in interviews so automatically when I see that he has worked on a film I think this movie will be awesome. His personality makes me like his movies more. But on bad note, James Cameron's ego can set me off his later films, but I still liked Aliens and Terminator. I sorta take James Joyce's belief of an artist that a huge ego actually is the way for an artist to realize they have something no one else can give to the world. Some are unwarranted though like Shaymalan, and Boll.
While a director will certainly make me excited or wary of particular films, I make an exception for Roman Polanski and Roman Polanski sympathizers.
I'm sorry, but if you drug and rape a young girl and then skip bail, or if you think that sort of thing is excusable because said rapist "makes really good movies", you are not getting my goddamned money.
The guy who made Casablanca was apparently (and I heard this from Cracked, so take it with a grain of salt) guilty of manslaughter, as well. He filmed a flood scene in an extremely dangerous way, that he knew was dangerous and that he had been advised against doing, and three extras drowned.
Interestingly enough, I'd actually be far more comfortable watching that than a Polanski film.
He also did The Adventures Of Robin Hood. Despite all of the arrow shooting in that one, nothing really bad happened.
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Y'know, Hype Aversion has been keeping me from watching Casablanca. Now I have one more reason to not watch it
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I don't really 'get' Polanski supporters. Do they actually believe he's innocent, or do they know he's guilty but think it doesn't matter since he makes good movies?
I'd actually recommend it. What about the hype turns you off? The guy's long dead, by the by, so you don't have to worry about giving any money to him.
edited 16th Nov '11 3:39:04 PM by HamburgerTime
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I think it's a mix of both. I think he's got a lot more support because some of his films are seen as "beautiful", somone who made that can't have done that, should be allowed to be free. If it was just really great films like Chinatown he'd probably have less support.
Thats true. It seems to be willfull ignorance, it's not exactly hard to find about more about the case.
I don't like Polanski, supporters, but I'm not bothered enought to boycott their films.
Am I a good man or a bad man?

That's exactly why Alicein Wonderland was more enjoyable to me than most,Tim Burton totally conditioned me to enjoy it. Wasikowa probably would've sucked if she was directed by anyone else,but I didn't mind the Dull Surprise so much. Of course Anne Hathway's performance as the White Queen was still inexcusable.
edited 22nd Oct '11 9:05:31 AM by terlwyth