25.05.2016
Guillermo del Toro ontketent Twitterstorm over John Carpenter
Guillermo del Toro, regisseur van Pan’s Labyrinth en Hellboy, belaagde zijn volgers op Twitter met een epische reeks berichten over regisseur John Carpenter, waarbij hij zijn bewondering voor de horrorgrootmeester niet onder stoelen of banken stak.
Carpenter, regisseur van onder meer Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, The Thing en They Live, kende enkele grote successen en zijn films verwierven een cultstatus. Aan de hand van een hele reeks tweets bejubelde del Toro Carpenter en de manier waarop hij onmiskenbaar zijn stempel op de hedendaagse cinema gedrukt heeft.
When I think of John Carpenter, I am amazed at the fact that we take him for granted. How can we? Why should we? He is lightning in a bottle
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 22, 2016
Assault on Precinct 13 by John Carpenter. Carpenter flexing his muscles, revamping the archetypes of a Western and establishing his own.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 22, 2016
Halloween by John Carpenter. A genre supernova. Creates a taxonomic category that still lives. Unsparing precision, simplicity and elegance.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 22, 2016
Sidebar: We must all agree that Carpenter is a brilliant writer / director. A rare breed. A true auteur. Oh, and a hallowed composer.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 22, 2016
The Fog by John Carpenter. 1/2 One of my favorites. Highly original blend of bare bones folk tale horror and metaphor.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 22, 2016
The Fog by John Carpenter. 2/2 The film works like JC's scores, by spare rhythmic punctuation. Its origin reveals a literary streak in JC
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 22, 2016
Carpenter's scores fluctuate w his films. Listen to them: they embody the spirit of each film perfectly. They are his final auteur voice.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 22, 2016
Beyond him quoting Machen verbally, the film feels like Hope Hodgson, Machen, Hawthorne, Washington Irving, etc via B movie verve.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 22, 2016
Second sidebar: John Carpenter doesn't give a fuck whether we like his films or not.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 22, 2016
John Carpenter is one tough motherfucker.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 22, 2016
The Thing by John Carpenter. 1/4 A game-changer (again) and one of the finest horror films ever made. It cannot be matched. Holy Grail.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 22, 2016
The Thing by John Carpenter. 2/4 Make up effects, score, cinematography, production design are all utter perfection. But so is the script.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 22, 2016
The Thing by John Carpenter. 3/4 the irony is that most reviewers at the time were entirely blind to the virtues of story and character.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 22, 2016
The Thing by John Carpenter. 4/4 The movie bombed and was panned both. And I believe it fragmented Carpenter's heart somewhat. Fuck them all
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 22, 2016
The Thing by John Carpenter 5/4 Carpenter chose (like Scott in Alien) to define character and story through audio-visual coding and…
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 22, 2016
The Thing by John Carpenter 6/4 …their interactions. Viewers needed to pay attention to the way characters related and spoke. Structure…
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 22, 2016
The Thing by John Carpenter 7/4 …not neatly packaged into a pre-digested structure. The movie was fiber, not pablum. You had to chew…
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 22, 2016
The Thing by John Carpenter 8/4 …but we were at the peak of pre-chewed regurgitation.We MUST atone for the errors of the past. Masterpiece
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 22, 2016
Anecdote 1/2: One night, over dinner, I told John Carpenter, how much all generations love The Thing. How amazing it was that it had…
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 22, 2016
Anecdote 1/2: One night, over dinner, I told John Carpenter, how much all generations love The Thing. How amazing it was that it had…
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 22, 2016
Final thought for the day: Carpenter creates masterpiece after masterpiece and they are often ignored. Now, go to bluray church and pray.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 22, 2016
.@RealGDT pic.twitter.com/RVxXtUAssV
— Great and Secret (@greatnsecret) May 22, 2016
Regarding Carpenter: We all talk about inequalities in film. We can add up a huge one: Genre inequality. Horror will always be punk rock!
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 22, 2016
Producer Stuart Cohen, die meewerkte aan The Thing, deed na een tijdje mee aan de online conversatie, en haalde anekdotes op.
As one of the producers of THE THINg I was the first person to visit John after the opening weekend. When he opened the door …
— stuart cohen (@CohenStuart) May 22, 2016
… he looked ten years older – as if he had physically been punched in the gut.He was really bothered by the idea that he had…
— stuart cohen (@CohenStuart) May 22, 2016
.. made something unclean, almost unfit for public consumption. Had a few beers and decided, indeed, to "Fuck them all "…
— stuart cohen (@CohenStuart) May 22, 2016
De dag nadien ging del Toro lustig verder met het woord te verspreiden.
In The Mouth of Madness by John Carpenter. Fun, smart, shocking Lovecraftian riff. Made the Top 10 of Cahiers du cinéma. Vive la France!
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 24, 2016
Vampires by John Carpenter.James Woods' Jack Crow is 100% worthy of the Carpenter Pantheon of hardasses along with Snake, Napoleon, Nada,etc
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 24, 2016
Fact: Drew Struzan painted the iconic THE THING poster overnight and was the model for the central figure. pic.twitter.com/xHCWseAYZ3
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 24, 2016
Fact: John Carpenter predicted the 21st century in They Live with more accuracy than that French apothecary guy, Nostradamus.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 24, 2016
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