What is it with this influx of foreign
directors taking over Hollywood to direct for the first time and given crappy
scripts??
I'm starting to see directors
such as Jee-Woon Kim, a Korean director that helmed the once sadistically good
film "I Saw The Devil" coming over here to direct a run of the mill
action movie for what should be retired actors; yea I'm talking to you Arnold Schwarzenegger!!!
Then you had Fernando Merielles, the
Brazilian director of one of my favorite movies of all time City of God. He
came over a couple years ago to direct the atrocious "The Constant
Gardener" it was a weak script and was no where near worthy of the caliber
of film he created his first time out. His counterpart Jose Padilha who
directed a great film called “Tropa de Elite” is now here filming the
re-imagining of Robocop. He says that , “ It is the worst experience. For
every 10 ideas he has, 9 are cut. Whatever he wants, he has to fight. ‘This is
hell here,’ he told me. ‘The film will be good, but I never suffered so much
and do not want to do it again.’
On the other hand you have Spike Lee a
great American director helming the American remake of a Korean classic
"Oldboy". Why not let the original directors Chan Wook Park helm his
own film. It is a blood good time and don't think Lee has the vision to
reproduce it the way it is intended; much like the David Fincher remake of Girl
with the Dragon Tattoo, which did not do the original any justice because of
the different tone and vibe he brought to the film.
If anything it hurt it tremendously
the original should've been marketed more to American audiences now there's no
talk of even going through and filming the trilogy because of the abysmal box
office numbers.
Hollywood needs to stop poaching foreign
directors and giving them shitty starts just start financing foreign films
overseas and bring them to American audiences, subtitles and all.
