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Palpateen
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RE: Total Film's 100 Greatest Directors Ever: 41. Ang Lee
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41. Ang Lee
The outsider
Always the shy misfit (Taiwanborn, American educated), Ang Lee’s fascination with other cultures was spawned by The Wedding Banquet’s critical love-in – a sign for Lee that compelling human stories are universal. Almost old-fashioned in their elegant craftsmanship, his films show uncanny insight into worlds as opposite as Jane Austen’s England (Sense And Sensibility) and ’70s American suburbia (The Ice Storm). “The more foreign a story is, the happier I am and the more creative,” says Lee.
Picture perfect The Ice Storm. Lost and found in suburbia.
Overrated I say.
OVER RATED? ANG LEE? 
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Zaz
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I've liked what I've seen.
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Any guy who can do a martial arts epic and a Jane Austen adaptation and significantly raise the bar in both genres is okay by me.
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He also did Hulk. 
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Zaz
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Superhero movies are a waste of the talent of everyone involved, IMO.
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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Jango10 posted:
He also did Hulk.
Didn't see it, but no director is a hundred percent. Seen Hitch's Torn Curtain?
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40. David Lean
The autocrat
Experiences as an editor, clapperboard assistant and tea-boy ensured Lean knew every aspect of filmmaking by the time he stepped behind a camera for In Which We Serve; whether they also fostered the authoritarian streak that irked so many of his collaborators is open to debate. (“Actors can be a terrible bore on the set,” he once said, “though I enjoy having dinner with them.”) His prickly personality went hand-in-hand with a mastery of his craft as evident in his adaps of Dickens and Coward and in those later grandiloquent epics.
Picture perfect Lawrence Of Arabia. Genius in 70mm.
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Lean started modestly, with British genre movies, such as "Brief Encounter", "Oliver Twist" and "Great Expectations". He could do comedy..."Hobson's Choice", which is very funny.
And then he fell in epic film-making, which basically ended and limited his career. There were two extraordinary films: "Bridge on the River Kwai" and "Lawrence of Arabia". But then the giantism did him in.
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Lean's last project (never realized) was the Bounty Trilogy (the Mutiny, Bligh's voyage in the open boat, and the aftermath). One film was made by Roger Donaldson, I think, with Mel Gibson as Christian.
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Zaz posted:
Lean's last project (never realized) was the Bounty Trilogy (the Mutiny, Bligh's voyage in the open boat, and the aftermath).
I've never understood why nobody has made a movie about what happened to Bligh after he was mutinied upon. Hell, he sailed something 3,000 miles in an open boat. From what I know of the mutiny on the Bounty, Bligh's voyage is considered one of the greatest feats of seamenship in the Age of Sail.
I was given Lawrence of Arabia for Christmas. Brilliant film. To watch this movie is to be in the prescence of greatness.
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When the mutineers cast him adrift, it was certain death. Not to him, though. He was an excellent sailor, and not the evil, violent man, the legend makes him out.
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39. Ridley Scott
The boss
From art school to Hovis commercials, Ridley Scott was honing his acute visual sense early, but his gong-collecting ad career made him a late bloomer: debut The Duellists came at the age of 39. He followed it with a mind-blowing pair of sci-fi landmarks: Alien and Blade Runner. Little wonder he hasn’t consistently matched that level, but when he’s on form – Gladiator, Thelma & Louise – he distils cinematic ambition and crowd-pleasing diversion. “When something good is happening on a movie, you can sense it,” says Sir Scott.
Picture perfect Blade Runner. Cyberpunk future vision.
I know Zaz, and many others, do not like him, I am a big fan of Ridley Scott. Not only does he make good films, but they are very accesible to mainstream audiences. He is a blockbuster dirctor with quality.
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10/17 4:58pm
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Not a fan. He has an impeccable visual eye: his movies almost always look perfect. He came out of the gate impressively enough: The Duelists wasn't a bad debut, Alien is near-perfect, many feel the same way about Blade Runner although I personally don't care for it, and Legend, while crappy, is a beautiful-looking movie. He spent the next dozen years making movies, some terrible (1492, GI Jane), some worthwhile (Thelma & Louise) before making it big with Gladiator which, despite Crowe's charisma and some stupendous scenes is a boring movie. Hannibal: Bad. Black Hawk Down: Visually awesome. I actually kind of liked Kingdom of Heaven, but haven't cared enough to see American Gangster or Body of Lies.
I guess what it comes down to is: I don't hate him, I enjoy some of his movies, or at least some of some of his movies, he's certainly far far better than Tony Scott, but I don't think he's a great director. He may have a good eye, but he's not a visionary.
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Palpateen posted:
OVER RATED? ANG LEE?
Yes. I agree. Granted, I haven't seen many of his films -- EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN, THE ICE STORM, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and LUST, CAUTION are all on the list, and may well change my mind -- but I thought CROUCHING TIGER was an immense bore with a few fantastic sequences, and HULK was not so good either. He's not even one of my favorite Chinese directors, let alone one of my favorite directors in general.
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^^ It should be obvious even at a glance that Ang Lee has had a very varied directing career. Passing judgement on him based on just those two films, neither of which are representitive of the scope of his career as a whole, strikes me as more then a little presumptuous.
As for Ridley, I find it hard to make up my mind about him. His name all but guarentees a visually beautiful film, and likely solid performances as well. But I get the feeling his film choices are usually motivated by a desire to dabble in as many styles and settings as possible, rather then by any deep investment in the stories and characters. That would explain why his films can end up feeling a bit hollow.
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