A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
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I don't know why nobody has talked about this movie. I loved it, and I'm generally really critical of films. Some of the best performances I've seen in a while, including Shia LaBeouf and Channing Tatum's best work that I've seen. The DP on the film is nothing short of a genius, and Dito Montiel directing a movie based on a book based on his life allows his experiences to translate more directly to screen. Good god...great great movie.
Yes, I thought this movie was nearly a masterpiece. And that was before I found out it was a first-time director and first-time editor. The choices they made in directing, acting, and editing were original and inventive. It just goes to show that truly original cinema is most likely to come from someone who has no idea what he's doing because he's not going to NOT do something just because he read a rule in a book. He doesn't know what's right or wrong so he's gonna do whatever feels right.
I listened to a little bit of the commentary and there was a scene where he set up two shots and the second one was "across the line". So the people on the set came up to him as if he had just committed murder and were like, "You can't do that. You crossed the line. You can't cross the line." And he was like, "What?? What's the line?" And they explained the 180 degree line to him and he said to his D.P., who is someone who's done like 400 films. "I just crossed the line. Do we have to shoot it again?" And the D.P. was like "**** the line. Who the **** cares." And the funny thing about it all was that I never noticed it until they brought it up. Anyway, it's so true. **** the line. Direct how you want to direct. Be original. Don't follow rules. This guy is living proof of that.
I listened to a little bit of the commentary and there was a scene where he set up two shots and the second one was "across the line". So the people on the set came up to him as if he had just committed murder and were like, "You can't do that. You crossed the line. You can't cross the line." And he was like, "What?? What's the line?" And they explained the 180 degree line to him and he said to his D.P., who is someone who's done like 400 films. "I just crossed the line. Do we have to shoot it again?" And the D.P. was like "**** the line. Who the **** cares." And the funny thing about it all was that I never noticed it until they brought it up. Anyway, it's so true. **** the line. Direct how you want to direct. Be original. Don't follow rules. This guy is living proof of that.
