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Well, Rupert and I have narrowed down from many contender the 6 best Directors ever, unfortunatley i have forgotten the 6th, but here they are, in no particular order
Francis Ford Coppola
Roman Polanski
João Monteiro
Stanley Kubrick
Terry Gilliam
Ill leave you kids to fight that out amongst yourselves.
In this blog, i also have an adition to my much celebrated
“Underappreciated Actors”
If you dont know who he is straight away thats okay, he is a changeling, he looks very different in every role i have seen him in (except two, ill eloborate on that later)
To the eagle eyed and the well viewed, he is of course Danny from Withnail & I. He has afantastic cockney lisp, and is quietly malicious in that role, and also as Miami Vice in one of my favourite TV’s series (which was also cancelled) Lock, Stock.
He later reprised his role as Danny for Waynes World 2 where he played ex Doors roadie “Del Preston”.
He has also acted in a lot of shit, just like all my underappreciated actors.
Next Up
Martin Scorsese seems to have found his testicles and reattached them. His upcoming film is “The Departed”
Two men from opposite sides of the law are undercover within the Boston State Police department and the Irish mafia, but violence and bloodshed boil when discoveries are made, and the moles are dispatched to find out their enemy’s identities
Good too see him doing what he does best, however, there are two serious draw backs, that is his choice of stars
- Leonardo Di Caprio
Matt Damon
On the other hand, he also has cast Jack Nicholson and Martin Sheen, so, I am interested to see this films already.
HOWEVER, that is not what is really exciting me, what is really exciting me (and I am sure will interest Rupert) is his announced feature “Silence”
Two Portuguese Jesuit priests, Sebastião Rodrigues and Francis Garrpe, travel to seventeenth century Imperial Japan (wish has isolated itself from all foreign contact) to see how the evangelical mission is going. There they witness the persecution of the Japanese Christians at the hands of their own government who wishes to purge Japan of all western influence. Eventually they separate and Rodrigues travels the country-side, wondering why God remains silent while His children suffer.
Sounds like it is right up his alley, it is to be shot in Portugal and Japan, andit sounds fucking awesome, this will be ‘The Last Samurai” and “Memoirs of a Geisha” except done really well, this is the one for Scorsese, i can feel it in my bones, raw, rich and powerful, i have read quite a bit about it now, and it sounds like a masterpiece in waiting.
More still on Scorsese, i have decided to shoot another short film, it is based on one of the films that inspired me to make films. Its called ‘The Big Shave’. here, watch it.
Otherwise dawgs,…… peace.
And I leave Mr Owen with a rather intriguing photograph taken in 1967.
Please feel free to add this to your blog.
Butch,
this is indeed a most interesting post. Great shot of Gilliam too! Scorsese might be getting out of the right side of the bed again. That last pic is intriguing, what is Roman saying to those musical scally-wags? I hope you are getting inspired.
rups
Comment by rupert — June 24, 2006 @ 1:52 pm
You want to know something else about our influences, they are full of personality types who neither cringe from the big league nor play to it.
rups
Comment by rupert — June 24, 2006 @ 2:17 pm
Heya Butch! Sorry it’s been so long in-between visits. I just wanted to thank you for sharing “The Big Shave”. I’d never seen it before and loved it so much I watched it three times in a row. Hope you’re surviving well after you big shoot!
Comment by ChrisyG — June 26, 2006 @ 11:30 am
Heya Butch! Sorry it’s been so long in-between visits. I just wanted to thank you for sharing “The Big Shave”. I’d never seen it before and loved it so much I watched it three times in a row. Hope you’re surviving well after you big shoot!
Comment by ChrisyG — June 26, 2006 @ 11:31 am
Sorry about posting twice here folks. I was so excited I couldn’t avoid the pleasure!!!
Comment by ChrisyG — June 26, 2006 @ 11:32 am