from Bone Tomahawk, to Dragged Across Concrete, to Pupper Master: The Littlest Reich, the gritty, visceral films of S. Craig Zahler have captured RM’s collective imagination like no other filmmaker in recent memory. it’s high time we honor this bold, original filmmaker with this own thread. please discuss the man’s brilliant films here.
below is a picture of S. Craig Zahler
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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just felt super mean spirited in a way nothing else he'd done had. It colored the rest of the movie for me. It might've been because my wife was pregnant around that time.
I loved that because it totally subverts expectations. And yes it was violent and yes we should see it.
Yeah maybe it was because of your personal stuff but damn if that moment wasn’t powerful.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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