Post by NorrinRaddOfZennla on Nov 5, 2017 23:51:25 GMT
Coogler has stated that BP requires a Black Director:
Coogler also stated of BP:
He is committed by immersing himself totally into this project but does the final product represent something that is novel, a different POV (besides HIS POV) of the character and his craft? I am intrigued at the prospects even though he knows that what he is doing still has to fit within the Marvel narrative. I don't think Coogler is compromising himself or his craft at all; or the story that he wants to tell. I think he is a good fit but of course I don't think he is pushing any envelopes. Is there an argument that he wasn't the BEST person for this project?
“Yeah, I think it’s important,” states Coogler. “Perspective is so important in art. It’s an important thing. That’s not to say that you can’t work outside yourself. When I was coming up, I made movies about things that were close to me; I made movies about things that weren’t close to me. But I definitely think that it helps when you are close to a subject. Like, I was an athlete for most of my life before I was a filmmaker. And that helped to inform me when writing this script, when directing. Having had those types of experiences helped me inform this process. A lot of times with great movies, you find some part of the filmmaker’s life informing what they were doing. You look at Marty’s great movies. It’s like, man, you look at Mean Streets, that was his life. That was what he was dealing with. That was what he was coming up with.”
“If someone said, ‘What’s Marty Scorsese’s greatest movies,’ they’re going to generally be about the Italian American experience,” he continues. “People are going to throw out Goodfellas, they gonna throw out Mean Streets because it was something that was close to him. That’s not say that Departed isn’t a great movie. But the proximity…you could feel the director’s proximity to a movie like Goodfellas a little better because he grew up in that neighborhood. He grew up in Little Italy. That was his world. So I think that there is a potential for a greater truth when a filmmaker comes from a particular culture that they’re dealing with. That’s not to say that a filmmaker can’t work outside his or her cultural space. >But I do believe that the opportunity for the film to have more nuance will come when you looking at filmmakers that bring a little bit of that from their personal experience.”
Coogler also stated of BP:
"It's going to be my most personal movie to date, which is crazy to say, but it's completely the case. I'm obsessed with this character and this story right now, and I think it's going to be very unique and still fit into the overall narrative that they're establishing." Coogler said.
He is committed by immersing himself totally into this project but does the final product represent something that is novel, a different POV (besides HIS POV) of the character and his craft? I am intrigued at the prospects even though he knows that what he is doing still has to fit within the Marvel narrative. I don't think Coogler is compromising himself or his craft at all; or the story that he wants to tell. I think he is a good fit but of course I don't think he is pushing any envelopes. Is there an argument that he wasn't the BEST person for this project?
I'll be spending next weekend with some family I like and trying to avoid any remotely controversial conversations with others that I spend the rest of the year avoiding 