thats the post. dont lie to me i will know
Scorsese, not just because he makes good kino but also because one comment he made like 3 years ago is still pissing off Marvel fans to this day and I think that’s beautiful
Gotta be Verhoven. He has a better grasp of what Americans are like than any other director.
Currently Robert Eggers. The Lighthouse, northman, and VVitch are gigantic bangers for a guy who has only directed those 3 lmao
And next up is fuckin nosferatu! Christ!
Northman didn’t get the attention it deserved on release imo. I also think a lot of people were concerned it was going to be a movie Nazis gravitated towards because of their Viking obsessions.
It was, of course, amazing though and that culture was presented as absolutely irredeemable and brutal and fucking fucking insane. I really liked that movie
I really hated the trailer because it just looked like all period-aesthetic and violence. I really liked The Lighthouse though, so I assume this is still worth a watch?
brutal sure, but i felt like it was kind of presented without judgement?
like Eggers’ strength is he gets that history is an alien place, where people’s motivations and actions might not map cleanly onto modern understanding
plus the conclusion kind of implied the protag had fulfilled his ‘destiny’ within the context of his understanding, his worldview
so idk i could totally see fash finding it fulfilling (“he’s just like me fr”)
i liked it but i think i would have liked it better if they had found a way to convey that worldview stuff without the world tree segments, felt kind of cheesey to me
I guess my personal view of viking culture is pretty negative, so to see it without nobleizing all the brutality was rad
I’d like to mention Guillermo del Toro if only because he wasn’t mentioned yet.
