23rd August 2010, 3:17 AM
Just because you cant write doesn't mean you should get mad at writers. No wonder your mother doesn't like you and everyone deleted you from myspace.
Say what you want but Night has a gift with portraying realism and a comprehension of human study that's unmatched by any director alive today save maybe Spielberg. The 'Twilight Zone' feel is exactly why I see his films because that is his thing and doing it right is difficult.
Something happened with Night somewhere between Unbreakable and the Happening that drove people to dislike him. Almost everyone will say Unbreakable is a fantastic film, but after that they all say he went downhill and I dont see it. I think it has less to do with the actual content and more to do with the style that got people annoyed that the feeling and scope was the same for every film. The fact that a director can carry a trademark feeling and scope to each movie is something to be praised not condemned (unless it gets boring), I guess it wasn't that the content was predictable but more that people knew it would have a twist, like they were just being lied to and couldn't accept devoting energy to a film that will just turn everything on its ear.
Mind you Last Air Bender was pretty well deserved in its poopiness. But I think that was a contracted film that Night didn't want to do.
All that a side, I love modern films that focus on a single set. Joel Shmuckmaker struck gold with Phonebooth and I also approve of The Strangers, Panic Room, Red Eye and other films where one location is our primary focus. imo the writing benefits from the focus and almost all of them would make Hitchcock proud. So DEVIL should be really interesting, my theory is that the people on the elevator strike a temporal rift or a pocket of space in to another dimension because of the imagery of the world being upside down (alternate dimension). But i dunno, the evil looking dude in the trailer at the end is a man wearing a mask. Is that a lost soul of hell or a terrorist? or a thief attempting to create a distraction while the vaults of the building are emptied and electronically playing with people to make sure his get away is undetected? There's a hundred scenarios and thats the fun of going in to a film like that.
Say what you want but Night has a gift with portraying realism and a comprehension of human study that's unmatched by any director alive today save maybe Spielberg. The 'Twilight Zone' feel is exactly why I see his films because that is his thing and doing it right is difficult.
Something happened with Night somewhere between Unbreakable and the Happening that drove people to dislike him. Almost everyone will say Unbreakable is a fantastic film, but after that they all say he went downhill and I dont see it. I think it has less to do with the actual content and more to do with the style that got people annoyed that the feeling and scope was the same for every film. The fact that a director can carry a trademark feeling and scope to each movie is something to be praised not condemned (unless it gets boring), I guess it wasn't that the content was predictable but more that people knew it would have a twist, like they were just being lied to and couldn't accept devoting energy to a film that will just turn everything on its ear.
Mind you Last Air Bender was pretty well deserved in its poopiness. But I think that was a contracted film that Night didn't want to do.
All that a side, I love modern films that focus on a single set. Joel Shmuckmaker struck gold with Phonebooth and I also approve of The Strangers, Panic Room, Red Eye and other films where one location is our primary focus. imo the writing benefits from the focus and almost all of them would make Hitchcock proud. So DEVIL should be really interesting, my theory is that the people on the elevator strike a temporal rift or a pocket of space in to another dimension because of the imagery of the world being upside down (alternate dimension). But i dunno, the evil looking dude in the trailer at the end is a man wearing a mask. Is that a lost soul of hell or a terrorist? or a thief attempting to create a distraction while the vaults of the building are emptied and electronically playing with people to make sure his get away is undetected? There's a hundred scenarios and thats the fun of going in to a film like that.