Guy Maddin
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Like a vintage Hollywood silent (or Guy Maddin's 1992 cult gem, Careful), events transpire within tight parameters - the village square, the mead hall, a verdant thicket in the woods.
The closest comparison in modern cinema might come from Guy Maddin 's 2015 fever dream, The Forbidden Room, which uses myriad photographic techniques to create the illusion of old films either lost or forgotten.
The whole affair feels like one of Guy Maddin’s ferociously obscure retro exercises like Brand Upon the Brain! or The Forbidden Room , even if Eggers’ film is more psychologically akin to Victor Sjöström’s silent masterpiece The Wind in its study of loneliness eating away the mind.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Directed by Nicholas Stoller
influenced by Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)
Setting aside that fact that there have in fact been penises in movies before - why, just last week I was watching Guy Maddin's Cowards Bend the Knee , in which a man with no hands watches enviously as another man urinates, shown in lovingly detailed close-up - I suppose it isn't a small deal that a mainstream comedy made in the back half of the '00s (the most nudity-phobic decade of cinema since the end of the Production Code) would prominently feature the male organ.
The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Directed by Joel Schumacher
influenced by The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
Visuals
To breathe fire into a film adaptation of Webber's travesty you would need a visionary director like David Lynch or Guy Maddin ("The Saddest Music In The World") to plunge the story into its darkest depths and utilize its music as narrative support.
Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
Directed by Julius Onah
influenced by Rumours (2024)
Characters
…last year, he was in “Rumours” (2024) in a similar capacity.