Shane Meadows
6 connections found
View:
Connections, in both directions
Hill has noted that he was inspired by harsher pics like Larry Clark’s Kids (scripted by Harmony Korine) and Shane Meadows’ This Is England , and the non-judgmental perspectives of those films are carried over here, meaning that we watch uncritically as a bunch of uncomfortably young lads get up to all sorts of particularly LA-type mischief.
If anything, the heart of the film strikes closer to Elephant, where every moment is captured in rapid fire constant motion (not to mention both films feature cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt), or This is England, where the cast comes across as a random group of people rather than a gaggle of well trained actors.
Hill has spoken of the influence of both Shane Meadows’ This Is England and largely forgotten kids flick The Sandlot Kids as his inspiration.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Directed by Martin McDonagh
influenced by Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
Characters
With her assured gait, unflinching stare, and blue overalls she seems more like Paddy Considine’s angel of death in Dead Man’s Shoes than any sort of heartwarming soldier of justice.
The film’s first two thirds owe a huge debt to Shane Meadows‘ revenge pic Dead Man’s Shoes, for both its agonizing tone and the grotty look.The final part of the film is not entirely dissimilar to The Wicker Man (only far less camp) as a strange mask-wearing occult becomes a very large part of the plot.
Cinematographer Danny Cohen, who did such magical work on This Is England and London Road, explores this forbidding world with a child’s openness.
Wright must be aware of the criticism leveled at another promising U.K. director, Shane Meadows, when he cast too many zeitgeist British actors in Once Upon a Time in the Midlands , and was criticized for helming a self-gratifying jolly, with its abundance of talent detracting from the drama.
The King's Speech (2010)
Directed by Tom Hooper
influenced by Dead Man's Shoes (2004), This Is England (2007)
It is the work of a highly talented group of artists who might be regarded as British realists – Tom Hooper directed the soccer epic The Damned United ; Eve Stewart was production designer on Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy and Vera Drake ; Jenny Beavan was responsible for the costumes worn in Gosford Park and The Remains of the Day ; the cinematographer Danny Cohen lit Shane Meadows's This is England and Dead Man's Shoes ; Tariq Anwar's editing credits range from The Madness of King George to American Beauty ; and the screenplay is by the British writer David Seidler, who co-wrote Coppola's Tucker: The Man and His Dream .
It is the work of a highly talented group of artists who might be regarded as British realists – Tom Hooper directed the soccer epic The Damned United ; Eve Stewart was production designer on Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy and Vera Drake ; Jenny Beavan was responsible for the costumes worn in Gosford Park and The Remains of the Day ; the cinematographer Danny Cohen lit Shane Meadows's This is England and Dead Man's Shoes ; Tariq Anwar's editing credits range from The Madness of King George to American Beauty ; and the screenplay is by the British writer David Seidler, who co-wrote Coppola's Tucker: The Man and His Dream .