Adam mckay - the big short, vice
Peter Farrely - green book
Todd Phillips - joker
How did this trend started?
it's not that new, and it's no different than comedic actors doing drama or actors becoming directors.
comedy is just how they broke in -- but they love it all. Ben Stiller wanted to be a serious director from the start but that's not how his career developed.
Uhm yes it's different. Acting and directing are 2 different crafts.
shareyeah, it is different -- but different in a way that goes against your head-scratching at this "trend"? They're creatives in film. You may have pigeon-holed them in your mind but that has little to do with their background and goals. If you think acting to directing is more of a leap, why question the shorter leap of a director directing more than one genre. That's not new. They're directors of film -- that's the "How?" The Oscar aspect is just due to the political climate and hot button issues in the films you mention. At another time, some of them would've been passed over for sure.
shareI dunno. None of them had really directed anything good before they directed those films either.
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