#1174

Yeah now you have your Sam Esmail or Cary Fukunaga etc who made their name on artistic, well crafted TV shows where they got multiple episodes to showcase their vision. Before that, even as recently as Breaking Bad or Mad Men, people would only be doing one or two eps at a time, so they would be sticking to the style of the show rather than showcasing their own individual skills or outlook

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#1175

Tbh I canā€™t name many film directors, I am quite terrible with names so find it really hard for my memory to stick the name to the film. So tv directors is just the same as that.

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#1176

I donā€™t like soap operas because they are incredibly unremarkable in the scope of their storytelling for the most part which isnā€™t something I enjoy in general - I like escapism whereas portrayals of the utter misery present in normal life I donā€™t need to see because I experience it every day.

Thatā€™s not to say I object to all contemporary drama because I donā€™t but soaps bring the extra thing of never actually finishing. They are an ongoing open-ended story and for me a drama needs to have a point to traverse, it needs to finish somewhere even if that leaves things open, the point is that it leaves things open and in your head you are filling in the blanks.

There are obviously places for fully open-ended stories and those are in role-playing games and computer games, otherwise itā€™s a huge drain on time I could spend with other things.

#1177

Ingmar Bergman directed scenes from a marriage, which is a very good tv show

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#1178

Yeah this is fair. I am not a ā€˜film guyā€™ but I have pretensions of being one and thus I can reel off specific directors as ones Iā€™ve made a point of seeing films by. But thereā€™s no particular reason to keep track beyond maybe being, ā€œI liked this film so Iā€™ll probably like the next one they do,ā€ or the reverse.

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#1179

I really wish weā€™d all coordinated and pranked @AQOS with lists that included these but in subtly different places until he realised.

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#1180

:heart: The first entry that put a big grin on my face and made me let out an audible ā€˜aw, yay!ā€™

My favourite role of hersā€™ is probably Wild Strawberries and specifically then scene in the car with the two guys arguing about the existence of God (what else!)

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#1181

Iā€™m jonesing for this thread now.

I canā€™t believe @AQOSā€™s got the audacity to stop putting in the large amounts of effort it takes to produce this thread simply because heā€™s busy. We have a right to be entertained without gratitude!!

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#1182

And even with active abuse!

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#1183

Other: 24 Hour Party People

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#1184

The Crown

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#1185

Sheā€™s amazing in it. Totally inhabits the character which must be flipping hard when youā€™re playing the most famous woman in the world. I thought the Aberfan episode was a brilliant if quite harrowing piece of TV.

In terms of the quality of whatā€™s being made it feels like the pendulum has really swung away from film towards TV In the last 20 years. Obviously thatā€™s a massive generalisation and thereā€™s a load of rubbish on TV and you can see the evidence of budget cuts in e.g the new David Tennant drama was too short at 4 episodes to tell the story they wanted to tell, but I think itā€™s true anyway.

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#1186

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#1187

I get that - who wants to see ā€˜everyday miseryā€™ when youā€™ve perhaps already experienced it yourself, but if a drunk Phil Mitchell rampaging in a JCB and almost killing his own daughter can be categorised as ā€˜unremarkable storytellingā€™ then I just donā€™t know :wink:

I will say however that, because soap casts are vast, dramatic storylines do get peaks/troughs and a conclusion. It isnā€™t just a continuous stream of people arguing over garden fences or popping out to buy milk - some characters get relegated to ā€˜just being aroundā€™ for a while, then it is their turn to take the spotlight in some weighty plot.

That tends to lead to a silly aspect though when a villianous character finishes their arc and, perhaps after a couple of weeks off-camera, comes back into the fold and everyone just treats them normally (a current example being Stuart Highway in Eastenders) but I guess if a performer tests well then the producers will want to keep them in.

#1188

ā€˜Raquel and Curly two-handerā€™?

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#1189

This GIF is now one of my most liked posts

I like how you can see Spall smiling at Considine just as heā€™s about to go off screen.

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#1190
  1. SAMUEL L. JACKSON

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  • Pulp Fiction
  • Jackie Brown
  • One of the other tarantinos
  • Jurassic Park
  • Those Marvels
  • Fuck me itā€™s tedious to do this on a phone

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#1191

I believe every film ever made should be listed in your poll there

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#1192

Unbreakable maybeā€¦

#1193

This reminds me of the time that Theo revealed that he literally ā€˜loathedā€™ books :thinking:

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