Pickpocket wrote:Yeah. I also might respect him more if he wrote his own stuff but he just takes other people's scripts and shoots them. He's not even creative enough to come up with his own ideas.
Goddammit, I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. But in case it isn't, what about Hitchcock or Scorsese, whose best films were written by other people? It's not as though you can't be an auteur without coming up with your own stuff. (Note: This is not intended by me to be a defense of Ridley Scott. Though Blade Runner is self-evidently awesome.) If this is sarcasm, please ignore.
stain wrote:Probably the same thing Werner Herzog gets out of remaking one of his own movies as a fiction film with name actors (Rescue Dawn), then remaking Bad Lieutenant... and that Robert Benton received by making The Human Stain, which is quite unlike anything he's ever done... and that Philip Kaufman received by making that risible Ashley Judd thriller Twisted (also out of character, for him). I think of this whole subgenre of film as "401K movies".
I doubt very much that Rescue Dawn was meant to contribute to Herzog's retirement fund, and the only reason the Bad Lieutenant brand was attached to Herzog's new film was because the studio mandated it; it isn't a remake. And to be fair, The Human Stain is based on a hell of a book... I think that might have been a pet project that simply went awry.