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Greta Lee Sets Directorial Debut With 'The Eyes Are the Best Part'
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I can’t wait as long as they change the ending from the book, almost everything aside from that was expertly crafted but the last like 10 pages completely destroyed everything
I agree, it started off brilliantly with Umma’s character. And the ending, just really did a disservice in my opinion.
Another book added to my list!
Past Lives was deeply moving. Didn't know she had aspirations to be a director. Good on her sounds intriguing.
I'm sure this will be very well done, but man am I over the "elevated cannibalism" phase we're in right now.
"Elevated cannibalism phase"? I don't know of anything else besides Raw.
There's Armie Hammer's actual life.
i think if you read the statements made by his victims you wouldn’t be making jokes about it.
to the downvoters; he’s a rapist who threatened to slit a girls wrists and cum in the open wound and then lick it out
and that’s not even the worst of it
Wouldn't I? It reminds people he's a piece of shit.
I think the point is that the cannibalism stuff was an incredibly minor and largely out of context aspect of it, that his own team elevated a lot to try drag attention away from other things. Even in his own statements, he's recalled the "accusations around cannibalism" and referenced the sort of jokes around it. But the primary allegations were about violent rape fantasies and continuously abusive behaviour, that gets largely memed away by the cannibalism stuff.
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Fresh, Raw, We Are What We Are, The Bad Batch, Bones and All (okay that one not horror, but elevated for sure). It feels like it's definitely a 'thing' this past decade.
Five films in ten years is a thing? We’ve had like four or five times as many slasher films in half that time.
Five films in ten years is a lot for a niche topic like cannibalism, yeah, which had previously been relegated to splatter b-movies or 1980s Italian exploitation cinema. How many wide-releases of cannibal movies with critically acclaimed actors/directors did we have in the the 2000s? The 1990s?
The idea that you're comparing cannibal movies to the Slasher genre as a whole is a bit ridiculous, I have to say.
Dude these people literally don’t know what they’re talking about lol? I agree with you, we’ve definitely been seeing some prominent elevated cannibal films the last decade. Comparing that to the amount slashers is a disingenuous argument lol idk why people are pretending there isn’t nuance here
Best Picture winner Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon, Sweeney Todd, Bone Tomahawk, Ravenous were released in that time. Doesn't seem too much like a trend, really. Still pretty niche.
Bone Tomahawk was released in the last decade, it supports my point.
And three of your movies are in the same series about the same cannibal (!). And to that end, Red Dragon is about Francis Dollarhyde, who does not eat people. If you want to expand the criteria to simply "movies that feature a cannibal in some way" then I can draw on many more movies from the last decade. But I chose movies that thematize cannibalism, or hinges its plot on it.
Fair points! Cannibal movies can bite me, then.
Dude Bone Tomahawk is not elevated lol. It's a shitty slasher about cannibals. That's like calling the "Wrong Turn" series elevated.
From 2000-2010, not counting DTV films, there were 16 larger cannibal films. If you add in name actors or directors, it’s 6.
From 1990-2000, during the collapse of the horror genre, it was 3.
I was comparing it to slashers because that was a genre that fell out of popularity for a while but has made a comeback and is now a “thing” again.
What are these 16 elevated Cannibalism films in the 2000s? I'm suspicious of that number, so perhaps if we could name them?
No, I said there were 16 larger release cannibal films. For elevated, there were 6.
What are they? I was asking for names.
EDIT: *Crickets*
Ravenous (1999)
But it’s not niche. It’s a subgenre like any other.
What You Wish For is not as big (starring Nick Stahl and released on Magnet) but it's another one that came out right when Fresh did.
Didn't even know that one! Not exactly as high profile as the others, but it doesn't seem like exploitation either.
Yeah, I've found that Magnet movies are really hit or miss for me, kind of reminds me of Prime TV shows where there's always just that element of "this is fine/good but a few tweaks would make this way better" to them
Bones and All
that movie with WInter Soldier and Madame web
People love being over things on Reddit.
That's me. Reddit user guy.
Had so much fun with the book~ keen as!
By complete coincidence, I was reading this book during the same weeks I was watching Kim's Convenience, and the two are inextricably linked in my head now. I can't help but imagine the book is describing what Janet does when she's not on screen.
And for no reason whatsoever, the creepy guy dating her mom looks like John Locke's father (the original "Sawyer") from LOST.
I find her super attractive and she's so talented too. Some people do have it all.
I hope she got her private jet
A24 made her carve her own canoe from a tree. From what I've heard.
They never got the oner, so I doubt it.
I was buddies w her husband back in like the mid/late 2000s, you may like to know that she is also a very nice person.
I wonder if the title is a reference to the Siouxsie and the Banshees song Head Cut. One of the lyrics is "the head is the best part."
People have been saying "x is the best part" since forever. The Cook The Thief Hie Wife and Her Lover ends with, "Try the cock. It's the best part."
I am so here for a Siouxsie reference, haha.
wow i LOVE this book! so exited for it to be adapted, hopefully they don’t make it any less gross 👁️
LETS GOOOOOO
Seated.
I remember the author workshopping her query letter for the book on r/PubTips (which everyone loved, btw, and it's a tough group to impress). Seeing her go on to get published and now a movie adaptation directed by Greta Lee?? That's amazing
I remember this too! Her query was awesome