“People gotta go to the movies… The movies have become very unrisky as possible. And the truth is, to get people go to the movies, you have to take some risks.” Indeed – I completely agree with him on this point. One of the latest filmmakers to visit the famous “Video Club” video store in Paris is director James Gunn, while promoting the release of Superman. They recently had Francis Ford Coppola and Luca Guadagnino (along with Nicolas Winding Refn and Gareth Edwards), but now it’s Gunn’s turn to geek out about movies in the Paris video shop. Gunn peruses the store and picks out some of his favorite movies including: Kung Fu Hustle, Brotherhood of the Wolf, The Villainess (which has directly inspired many action sequences in his movies), Herzog’s Rescue Dawn, Ti West’s Pearl, Jaws (of course everyone loves it), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pixar’s The Incredibles, and great filmmakers including Preston Sturges & Sergio Leone. This video is also good because it’s sort of an interview discussing Superman & Hollywood & screenwriting. // Continue Reading ›
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