COMM 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Susan Faludi, New Line Cinema, Media Culture
Document Summary
Began making films at age of 8 after seeing butch cassidy and the sundance kid. Began working with film production companies after high school. Hired by industrial light and magic: worked on production for: Began directing commercials for propaganda films: led him to music videos. First feature film was alien 3: 20th century fox, had such bad experience with 20th century fox, he went back to making music videos. Helped leverage new line cinema to keep the ending scene. Studio heads thought it was too disturbing. Directed the game: with michael douglas and sean paul, intensely psychological film that kept audience questioning what they knew. Why fincher is so good: cares about information, nothing but exposition sometimes, drama happens when character learns new piece of info. How do they react to truth: lock down/tripod filming. Hates handheld shots: avoids connecting camera to specific person.
