There's a lot of great stuff about filmmaking and Hollywood egos in TROPIC THUNDER starring written and directed by @BenStiller
Including fake trailers before the movie, with multiple different Studio logos before, which has never been done before or since!
@funnyman6869 Cannot wait to see it. And still looking forward to your review on Faces of Death. Call me crazy, it is set in Florida and well basically a documentary on a Florida Man gone crazy. A dash of se7en and silence of the lambs .
ZODIAC (2007). Dir. David Fincher. Ernest B. Schoedsack & Irving Pichel directed THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (1932). Here, that film is cited in Fincher's film via photos in 'The Bad Guys: A Pictorial History of the Movie Villain' by William K. Everson. #FilmsInFilms#BooksInFilms
The Coen brothers based O Brother, Where Art Thou? on The Odyssey without ever reading it, drawing instead from myths absorbed through pop culture. The soundtrack became a phenomenon, selling over five million copies and winning five Grammys, including Album of the Year.
"Zombie" by The Cranberries is a powerful song that directly addresses the violence and conflict in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, including references to the IRA.
On the set of FULL METAL JACKET with R. Lee Ermey in 1985. Since we shot the film in reverse (Vietnam in ’85 and Boot Camp in ’86), Lee was serving as technical advisor here. Actor Tim Colceri was originally cast to play Gunnery Sgt. Hartman. Fortunately for audiences (and unfortunately for Tim), Lee convinced Stanley that he was the real deal and replaced Colceri. Thankfully you can still see Tim as the helicopter door gunner in the “Get some” scene.
If you’d like to support the @FMJDiary project and exhibition (currently on display at the National Veterans Memorial and Museum in Columbus, Ohio), you can bid on some signed FMJ items here: https://t.co/1IS30wNjSG
In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), the director gave Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet completely different directions.
To Kate: “Go as big as you want, this is a comedy.”
To Jim: “This is drama, not comedy.”