"as you´re making a movie and the audience knows you have control of everyhting, of every single thing and the audience knows you can show them everything...... so the question is ....what don´t you do? Not ...what do you do?"
-David Fincher
If i met David Fincher, i would probably ask him ,
who will be the narrator of your next movie??
I really enjoy his movies, the way each one stands on its own. His abbility to make COMPLEX characters, living WORKS OF ART , the fictional he makes it possible and actors grow and glow on the big SCREEN. Many directors are also writers, editors or visual poets.
To me David Fincher is more than all that put together Fincher always waits for...The right story to tell.
His movies are raw, very straight forward and mind benders. Coming from music videos he is no stranger to stress, special effects and having a field Making deadlines and having to work with STARS such as MADONNA. He made the jump to movies by continuing the work of Ridley Scott and James Cameron, in one of the most loved sagas in movie history. The ALIEN franchise.
In Alien 3, While in outer space Ellen Ripley had the choice of ending her life by killing an alien species. Fincher had the same to do with a NO SCRIPT film he never even finish editing.To me... He made a masterpiece out of a mess.
Then with SE7EN the everyday routine of an almost retired cop takes a slow motion turn when a serial killer obsessed with giving humanity a seven deadly sin lesson.
Fincher made not only one of the most memorable films in the last 30 years he also give birth to a whole new genre in detective darkness TV spin offs! (CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION, CRIMINAL MINDS and NCIS) to name a few.
The GAME has the best movie ending in movie history.
It´s clever and has a brilliant Michael Douglas in it. Not as the ALL MIGHTY, ALL POWERFUL MAN but as the Doubtful and Fearfull human WE ALL ARE, when confronted by the silent narrator of the story...THE UNKNOWN.
In FIGHT CLUB Tyler Durden narrated "you are not... your god damn cakis!!" being this workfreak catalog consuming furniture lover its not such a surprise he has another side
even the main character Edward Norton is called NARRATOR?
PANIC ROOM is a movie told by a house. Every room is a character and people are like mice running from each other.
The story of an unknown serial killer in san francisco in the 70´s is told by his own letters sent to a newspaper...makes the mystery of the ZODIAC even bigger! Fincher pushes the technical boundries by making a really scary movie SHOT ON video, not film and edited in Final Cut.
"It's about power and greed and loyalty and jealousy and betrayal and ambition and class and power..." A movie based in two lawsuits against FACEBOOKdoesnt sound too much fun, but what if you made both law suits questionnaires the narrator in the Mark Zuckerberg inspired The SOCIAL NETWORK which deals with how social media has made the world a smaller place and one social network to be our NEW SOCIAL CONNECTION .
The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo´s main character is (as portrayed in the opening credit sequence) by THE DARKNESS INSIDE EVERY CHARACTER that is the narrator from the first scene, all because the disappearence of Harriett.
The Courious Case of Benjamin Button is told by the CAMERA and Brad Pitt´s voice , both tell the singular story of a man born old and who died young...."some people"
Within the realm of realism and the NO BOUNDRIES in technology that FINCHER makes use to. His main goal has not change. He wants to tell a story.
i REALLY want to see GONE GIRL
Because i want to see how Fincher tells it.
How his characters evolve before my eyes.
How he makes me doubt the plot.
Where does he take me.
Fincher makes the impossible possible, where there is no meaning and only puzzles, darkness and human despair...he spreads a clear vision, LIGHTS THE WAY of the roads ahead by having one NO SIMPLE RULE... SLOWLY AND FOCUSED. Fincher is more than a DIRECTOR he is a MASTER STORY TELLER OF human RELATIONSHIPS.
"my job ...is to create for you an enviroment where you are on the inside looking out. YOU never have to be ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN"
-David Fincher
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