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Cary Joji Fukunaga Film Club
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We had a Danny Boyle Film Club, so I thought it would be appropriate to start a film club for our new director!
Filmography:
Sin Nombre (2009)
Jane Eyre (2011)
True Detective - Season 1 (2014)
Beasts of No Nation (2015)
Maniac (2018)
Which of his movies, TV shows have you seen and what did you think about them? Are you planning to watch the ones you haven't seen yet? Are you planning to do a 5-hour Maniac marathon this weekend?
Filmography:
Sin Nombre (2009)
Jane Eyre (2011)
True Detective - Season 1 (2014)
Beasts of No Nation (2015)
Maniac (2018)
Which of his movies, TV shows have you seen and what did you think about them? Are you planning to watch the ones you haven't seen yet? Are you planning to do a 5-hour Maniac marathon this weekend?
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I've only seen season one of True Detective (some of the best TV I've ever witnessed) and Beasts of No Nation (incredible), but I'm just not sure if he'll be well suited for James Bond. I guess we'll find out eventually - it's certainly the most optimistic I've been about a Bond director since 2008.
Maniac looks ridiculous; whether that's a good or a bad thing remains to be seen, but I enjoy him enough as a director to at least give the first episode of it a viewing once it's released this weekend.
I have only seen True Detective, but I am sold based on that AND that other people who have seen his other work are strongly positive about that also.
I think he is very well suited for Bond - like in every way I can think of, @Creasy47. Action, drama, emotional scenes, tracking shots, all cinematography, tone. Only thing that is a question for me is the music, that's all.
And look what he got out of McConaughey and Harrelson, those two easygoing pussycats. ;)
EDIT: Fukunaga was born in Alameda, California. His father, Anthony Shuzo Fukunaga, was a third-generation Japanese-American, born in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. I'll have a harder time pronouncing this than Danny Boyle. I'll just refer to him as The Director for now.
Not sure I'd go that far, but losing another director this late in the game would most certainly be disheartening.
?? The opening sequence in SP is brilliantly done! What do you think Mendes didn't do right with his impressive opening shot?
True Detective is really well written, acted, and its tempo was certainly to Terence Fletcher's liking.
Can't wait to see Maniac.
Haven't seen any of the others, but I'm looking forward to.
"Brilliantly done"? Sadly it's not even a proper tracking shot, it's three separate shots spliced into one. Goodfellas and that moment in True Detective are how it's done. Hell, I don't even mind that it's stitched together if the scene itself demands it (see: most of the tracking shots in Children of Men.)
To be fair, it'd be nigh-on-impossible to pull off that Spectre sequence in one take considering the location restraints. It's a cracking opening despite not being a "true oner", almost flawless in its edits.
I suppose it's impossible in the sense that the hotel is a separate location from the rooftop that Bond walks on (I'm pretty sure anyway - correct me on that if I'm wrong). If it wasn't, I don't see why it couldn't be managed utilizing a small Steadicam.
Anyway, don't want to turn this into another Mendes bashing thread - God knows some of us engage in that enough. I do hope Fukunaga manages to give it another shot, unless that's something he thought only worked in True Detective and isn't some sort of staple of his as it is for other directors, like Alfonso Cuaron.
I agree.
I am going to watch True Detective from the beginning, starting tonight (I have the dvd). I will try to look up some of Cary's other work.
I think this is a director who can handle different kinds of stories. He certainly can do action and realism very well. I think doing a Bond film might be a fun challenge for him, creatively. ("fun" in actual enjoyment, though it will be, as it always is, very hard work) I don't expect him to go way overboard in any area.
Also watched Beasts of No Nation last night and was mesmerized, particularily with the cinematography, visceral energy, and the performances he was able to get out of the actors.
Really hope this works out.
Glad you're loving Maniac as well, it completely floored me with its bizarre originality and fever dream-esque feel throughout. Already itching to re-watch it, the show seems to demand it with how in-depth and confusing it can be.
It makes for one of the greatest TV outings I've ever seen. That season alone sells me on him taking over to direct.
Downloaded, not yet seen. It seems to resemble Barry Lyndon somewhat, which isn't a bad thing, of course.
Exactly. And Kubrick's the best influence any director can have IMO.
--OK, it was:
bizarre, haunting, Kubrik from 2001 and ACWO, funny, Inception, slap-stick, nostalgic, classic horror and modern horror...
(and a Bond fan may see a reference-- or three!!)
It was so many things in a mixed-up bag, but it was lovely and beautiful and about two people who found each other. And they fell in love.
It was-- like TRUE DETECTIVE-- nothing you've seen before in one package.
Call me over-fu****gly-whelmed.
It was greatness.
Holy. Smokes.
And this guy is going to be the next Bond director?? Girls and boys of the Bond-verse, celebrate!!
Wow-- as @ColonelSun had mentioned almost two weeks ago: EoN may have been looking at TV directors for a reason (please read the posts! they're very prescient due to his connections and experience in the industry...)
And those attributes he was laying on the table for us were found in spades with the Fukunaga hiring!!!