Not to be too morbid, but if you consider all of your favorite filmmakers and actors, whose sudden death would affect you the most profoundly?
(I meant someone who currently is alive, whose future work you would miss the most, I guess it could be a musician too, if they are more important to you)
Do you read the obituaries like my grandma? lol!!! Actually, i am not a celebrophile and i have a few directors i really like but there are so many great foreign films made that i really wouldn't be affected. I am unaffe ted unless i know someone personally.
That being said, i always like the work of wes anderson so i would miss his movies if he stopped making them. They are genx movies mostly except for that weird 60s one i didn't like but i loved The Royal Tannenbaums, The Life Aquatic, Darjeeling Unlimited and Grand Budapest Hotel. But i really don't search for a new movie he has made because theme matters to me more than director.
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shareYes, I just mentioned that under another post. I asked whether one would still carry on making films if the other passed (God forbid) I'm a huge fan of theirs but I don't really know if one contributes more than the other. They seem almost like a creative conjoined twin.
Sorry about Chris.
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shareYeah he was a good singer but I only really know Black Hole Sun and the Bond song.
But I love the Coens... hope they have many films left in them.
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shareI'll check it out... always looking for something new
The Coens seem pretty prolific... Think they help with Fargo the Series too.
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shareI'd guess they have a strong hand in at least giving advice on the general course of the show. They are producers whose names appear on the credits each week. The first season didn't feel much like a Coen Bros. movie, but the last two seasons definitely feel more like it to me.
Agree that it's one of the best shows on right now.
Does George R. R. Martin count? Not a director or actor, I know, but he's pretty instrumental for Game of Thrones.
shareYes, that's another excellent choice... although it seems like the current showrunners and writing staff have things well in hand if something went wrong. I did worry a lot at the beginning of the show because he is so morbidly obese.
Love that show!
I actually can't answer this question at all. I think I may be one of those who only knows once it happens.
I had no idea I had real feels about Stan Lee being alive until one of the pub regulars informed me (mistakenly) that Stan Lee had died. Nobody, including me, expected me to shout "WHAT?" and run out in tears.
I guess the question was meant to be more like... whose future work would miss the most? Whose next album or movie or tv show would you miss? Instead a lot of people answered more about older people who meant a lot to them... but in my mind I thought about people in their primes whose work I'd really miss a lot.
shareA great many of my friends are musicians, so I can't really answer that since the list would be staggering and very personal.
Film/tv wise?
Oh god, this is going to be all over the place....
Dario Argento
Paddy Considine
Both Afflecks
Michael Fassbender
Bruce Campbell (oh man...dat chin...
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Michael Haneke and Stellan SkarsgΓ₯rd.
I would also be HELLA upset if Rory McCann shook this mortal coil.
Cache's a great sleeper film... and always loved Breaking the Waves.
Need to catch up with Haneke's films... haven't even seen The White Ribbon or Amour.
I love him. I wish I had been there when Funny Games was shown for the first time and more than half the audience walked out.
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shareI need to watch them soon... I always kick myself when I watch some crappy show that's popular when there are shows like these that I still haven't seen yet. But sometimes when the subject matter is heavy... it's hard to motivate... even though you know you will end up glad that you watched it.
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shareGood list with some eclectic choices thrown in there. Thanks!
shareThank you! I some long standing attechments there, and with one of the Afflecks, maybe a bit of penance. I used to have an almost irrational dislike of Ben Affleck. I was a fool.
shareOh... Ben went through a rough patch there where he really did some poor films (Gigli, Daredevil)... but he's proven to be a more than competent director... Gone Baby Gone, Town, Argo... and Gone Girl was a good acting role. He needs to stay away from superhero films... for a tall man, he has a weird blocky shape that doesn't translate well into superhero roles... He's not a dad bod like Vince Vaughn... but it just doesn't work somehow.
I loved Manchester by the Sea though... who knows... maybe Casey's a weirdo douchebag... or maybe he's a wonderful human... but he's a great actor if nothing else.
Yeah, when he turned director is when I started changing my opinion of him. I didn't even want to see Gone Baby Gone at first because "uuugh Ben Affleck". BOY did he show me.
But I will disagree about the superhero thing. I didn't enjoy Daredevil, BUT...his Batman is BEAUTIFUL. I've loved Batman since I was a kid, and for me, he's the perfect screen representation. The film itself, yeah, could have been a lot better (only saw the extended version, but I heard the theatrical release was absolute rubbish) but if I could rate his Batman apart from the film? 10/10
Casey Affleck I briefly didn't like at first either, but nowhere nearly as intensely as I disliked his brother. Casey Affleck is one of the few actors whose characters haunt me. I also REALLY liked that Joaquin Phoenix experiment "I'm Still Here". I think Casey Affleck is a genius.
I dunno... that Zach Snyder always has a beautiful production design... but I end up falling asleep because he doesn't know how to tell a story. Maybe, I'll give it a chance again... hard to separate the role from a poor film... at least for me.
Yeah I've liked Casey since Jesse James... not a superfan like you... so I haven't sought out all his smaller films but really impressed with him in almost everything that I've seen.
It's easier to separate things like that if you've been in love with a fictional character for most of your life. π But if you do decide to give it a second chance, do the extended one (even though I never saw the theatrical version, I have heard it's so bad it's the reason everyone's so damn angry at this film). Ben was so impressively spot on as a physical representation of Bruce Wayne/Batman that my jaw dropped and I started shaking a little. My boyfriend laughed at my reaction, but agreed. He didn't like the film but he said Affleck made a fine Batman.
I'm so sad that he may think he screwed it up. I'd like him to know that even if it's just me, he made someone who'd loved Batman for a very long time, very happy. So happy that I started re-reading all the Batman comics I had, and start filling in the timeline holes, and starting new arcs. Thank you, Ben Affleck.
Casey - I saw him first in To Die For. And I didn't like him. lol. BUt his character wasn't exactly likeable. And then there was Jesse James. At first, I REALLY didn't like his character. Slappable face. By the end of the movie I was crying for Robert Ford. Casey Affleck's a master at subtlety. He says so much without saying a word.
My first impression of Ben was the douchebag in Mallrats... and so I think my default impression of him to this day is that character. Then I kind of liked him in Chasing Amy... but then I remember being turned off by the Good Will Hunting hype train, even though I thought it was a good movie.
Then came his shit phase... I guess Armageddon wasn't bad for a commercial blockbuster but I hated Pearl Harbor. But then I think around the time Hollywoodland came out, his career was in full reboot mode and I started to like him again at least as a director.
I don't remember Casey from To Die For... It's like the other day I saw Imogen Poots in 28 Weeks Later... didn't remember her until I saw it years later. I need to watch Lonesome Jim and Ain't Them Bodies Saints... my sister recommend that one to me. But I like small minimalist indie films... so I like those types of performances as well.
I hated Pearl Harbour too. Still do, so much! The more I read about Ben Affleck now, now that I like that man...I feel so very bad about having no basis upon which to have disliked him so much. I don't live in the USA so I would have escaped a lot of the intense hype around him (and everyone, come to think of it). I based it...on his face. He just looked smug and slappable. And then there were all those unimpressive acting roles, and then the J-Lo thing. In retrospect, I feel so bad for him. I know someone's going to say "Don't, he has far too much money to have anyone feel bad for him", but that's not really the point. And now that I'm a fan, I see how many people want him to fail. They take pleasure in it, even. Even when I disliked him, I never wished that.
Casey was Phoenix's friend in To Die For. Cheeky Little snot. LOL.
A lot of people complain that they can't understand Casey Affleck in many of his movies, as he's mumbling. I don't appear to have trouble hearing him, but many do. Ain't Them Bodies Saints is one of the movies that people commented on his speech patterns/habits.
Well, Prince's death affected me so maybe if Slash died i'd be upset. I love his guitar work.
shareWow! Not one single woman mentioned.
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shareKathryn Bigelow would be a big loss... but she's not too prolific so it's harder to miss her. I liked Sofia Coppola but she hasn't been productive recently either.
Be sad to lose Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Natalie Portman, Charlize Theron, Anne Hathaway... Evan Rachel Wood would be bad because I love Westworld... Any key actresses in Game of Thrones because I love that show. Rhea Seehorn because of Saul
There was a time where I'd miss Chrissie Hynde but she doesn't make much music anymore... same with Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Rickie Lee Jones. Maybe Regina Spektor... Gaga... Bjork... Cat Power
How come you didn't name yours?
I think probably Jane Campion as director, and all of the actresses you mentioned in the first line, and Cate Blanchett. I recently discovered Carole King, and really like her music and voice.
Oh, and Emily Mortimer.