https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/robert-eggers-no-interest-making-contemporary-films-1236118268/
He admitted he is too stooped to know how to photograph a cellphone
Guy's a fucking bellend who makes boring films.
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Well, no, that's not what he said. He didn't say he doesn't know how to do it, he said he has no interest in doing it. That's quite idiosyncratic, but it's not 'stooped'.
He said “to make a contemporary story you need to photograph a cellphone” which is just untrue, so he’s either lying or stooped. Which one is it?
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He's just illustrating a point with an example: modernity doesn't interest him. They aren't the kinds of stories he wants to tell.
Evidently, he intends to remain the history / fables / gothic horror guy he's been so far. That's his direction of interest. That's his thing. There's a lot more history than there is present day, so he's unlikely to run out of inspiration by disavowing stories in contemporary settings.
So you’re saying you can’t have fables/gothic horror set in the modern day? That’s just blatantly untrue as well. The gothic horror genre is practically peak modernity. An idiosyncratic filmmaker is someone like John Waters, not Robert Egghead whose only obsession seems to be making creepypasta movies
shareGood for Eggers knowing what he likes. Let the man cook.
shareI'm with him. He does period piece horrors so well. Keep at it!
shareI like his movies but it was easy to tell from day one (The Witch) that he was, what they call, a hipster. A full blown one at that.
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