Thursday, June 16, 2011

Fincher and Nolan on the genius of Malick

It's nice to see that there's a very obvious line of succession through certain filmmakers and their influences. Since he's only really made five films, it's easy to downsize Terrence Malick's influence, but his films are still such massive achievements going back as far as the 1970s. Malick takes his time on his films, as made evident from the long gap between each individual venture. So it's not all that surprising that he served as influence towards such mainstream magnates as David Fincher and Christopher Nolan. It almost seems like an insult to the two to call them "mainstream". All the same, if you look at the aesthetic of Malick's films, you can see a bit of that trickle down into the works Fincher and Nolan.

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