Tag: Frank Darabont
Filmmakers About Filmmaking
What’s the last movie you’ve watched guys?
This report will have to do a lot with all those great filmmakers that make us film-freaks, or, should I say – filmophiles? But, let me just ask you one more thing. Have you ever dreamed of making your own movie? And if you have, who’s your favorite filmmaker?
Scorsese, Cameron, Kubrick maybe? What words or advice would you want to hear from your favorite helmer?
So, what’s the best advice you can get about the whole thing?
“Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it’s not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people’s eyes.” That’s exactly what John Ford, man who made some of the most iconic American westerns of all time has to say about his work.
On the other hand, Stanley Kubrick thinks that “…a film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.” That’s an interesting one, you must admit, although I’m not quite sure if that worked out for his A Clockwork Orange. I mean, that one looks well-planned from the beginning.
Jamie Foxx Joining Gerard Butler in Law Abiding Citizen
Jamie Foxx is in final negotiations to star opposite Gerard Butler in the next film from writer/director Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Mist), the psychological thriller “Law Abiding Citizen.”
The script, written by Kurt Wimmer (Ultraviolet, Street Kings) and Darabont, follows a successful assistant D.A. (Butler) who finds himself at the center of a vigilante plot hatched by a traumatized victim of the legal system (Foxx). Foxx’s character is devastated to learn that, because of a plea bargain, one of his wife and daughter’s murderers will be set free. So he unleashes revenge on the killers and those who made the deal.
