Title: David Gordon Green's SUSPIRIA
JEFFREY ALLEN RYDELL - March 7, 2008 01:05 AM (GMT)
I know I've seen this mentioned before some time back, but Green's
talking it up.
Domenick Fraumeni - March 7, 2008 01:29 AM (GMT)
Progenitor of the "Torture Porn" movie? An Italian gore film?
Talk about missing the boat, altogether.
JEFFREY ALLEN RYDELL - March 7, 2008 01:38 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Domenick Fraumeni @ Mar 6 2008, 08:29 PM) |
Progenitor of the "Torture Porn" movie? An Italian gore film?
Talk about missing the boat, altogether. |
Yeah, those MTV guys are sillyheads.
John Egan - March 7, 2008 02:29 AM (GMT)
He remarks that Susperia "doesn't make a lick of sense." A movie doesn't have to explain everything to make sense.
Is there a specific college course that teaches young people that it's all been done and that they shouldn't make the slightest effort to come up with a single new idea? Why do they believe this?
Chris Stangl - March 7, 2008 02:39 AM (GMT)
I "love" the way Mr. Green explains how sleazy and awful SUSPIRIA is, and that he can elevate this garbage with his art-skills and turn it into something classy, because he is an Artist, and by implication we should understand that Mr. Argento is not an artist.
By "love", I mean "hate". By "hate" I mean "considering suicide".
JEFFREY ALLEN RYDELL - March 7, 2008 03:06 AM (GMT)
Ugh. Maybe this wasn't worth posting.
The 'MTV News' piece struck me as a very informal run-in with Green, maybe at a premiere or other function, with a scant few sentences delivered to an interviewer who probably hadn't seen the film in question.
I don't care to see SUSPIRIA remade, but I just can't get too worked up about these obviously off the cuff remarks.
Bill Picard - March 7, 2008 04:20 AM (GMT)
Although the headline says CONFIRMS, the body of the article states Green's "already written and hopes to direct a new version of the 1977 film" (italics mine). I'm not sure what's being confirmed, that the script is done or that he wants to do it? Also unclear is who the "they" is in the first paragraph.
Vincent Pereira - March 9, 2008 05:34 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (John Egan @ Mar 6 2008, 08:29 PM) |
He remarks that Susperia "doesn't make a lick of sense." A movie doesn't have to explain everything to make sense.
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I think some folks are misreading this. I think what "doesn't make a lick of sense" that's being referred to is the idea of David Gordon Green being approached to direct a remake of a classic horror film given his past filmmaking endeavors:
It’s an indisputable horror classic, and one of the scariest gosh darn movies you’ll ever see. So, naturally, when the decision came to remake Dario Argento’s iconic Suspiria they went to the guy best known for Southern coming-of-age stories? “No, it doesn’t make a lick of sense,” David Gordon Green laughed with MTV News...
Even though Green goes on to say he loves SUSPIRIA "plot holes and everything", I think the "doesn't make a lick of sense" thing really was referring to the eye-brow opening concept of him, of all people, being hired to direct a remake of SUSPIRIA given his previous films.
Vincent