new chris cunningham advert

edit: that made no sense because it has music, never mind

  grinningcat said:

i like it

 

love the thought of some clever spark in the gucci advertising department trying to convince all the other gucci people that chris cunningham is the right man for this job, by showing them rubber johnny etc.

 

how the hell did he land this!

With ad agencies i think cunningham is usually at the top of their lists anyways. They probably try to get him for a lot of stuff (hence why he doesnt worry about doing movies)

Nice use of a classic disco track.

Beautiful.

I know I'm beating a dead horse but I really think his version of Neuromancer would have been amazing. Sigh...

  takeshi said:

Beautiful.

I know I'm beating a dead horse but I really think his version of Neuromancer would have been amazing. Sigh...

you really are though... because if Cunningham ever had to make anything longer then 10 minutes, people watching it would be oddly compelled to shove their heads up their own asses. I mean, he's a genious in his medium. But please no movie. Just look what happened when he was given all the creative power he wanted = Flex. Super head asss crushing.

  AOOproductions said:

  takeshi said:

Beautiful.

I know I'm beating a dead horse but I really think his version of Neuromancer would have been amazing. Sigh...

you really are though... because if Cunningham ever had to make anything longer then 10 minutes, people watching it would be oddly compelled to shove their heads up their own asses. I mean, he's a genious in his medium. But please no movie. Just look what happened when he was given all the creative power he wanted = Flex. Super head asss crushing.

I've only seen parts of Flex but didn't he say it was intended as an "experiment"? That's like saying he can't do tell a story because he did Monkey Drummer. I think it'd be more appropriate to look at something of his like Windowlicker to draw a conclusion about how he would do in a longer medium. And for me the non-music parts of the video aren't so esoteric as to make me think he can't carry a narrative.

  takeshi said:

  AOOproductions said:

  takeshi said:

Beautiful.

I know I'm beating a dead horse but I really think his version of Neuromancer would have been amazing. Sigh...

you really are though... because if Cunningham ever had to make anything longer then 10 minutes, people watching it would be oddly compelled to shove their heads up their own asses. I mean, he's a genious in his medium. But please no movie. Just look what happened when he was given all the creative power he wanted = Flex. Super head asss crushing.

 

I've only seen parts of Flex but didn't he say it was intended as an "experiment"? That's like saying he can't do tell a story because he did Monkey Drummer. I think it'd be more appropriate to look at something of his like Windowlicker to draw a conclusion about how he would do in a longer medium. And for me the non-music parts of the video aren't so esoteric as to make me think he can't carry a narrative.

thats just a small scene with people talking. you cant go by that. And everything he does is an "experiment". I just dont think I can see him working with a huge budget and not jizzing his pants. and i can totally see him reshooting a leaf blowing across the ground like 100 times.

that was cool i liked it better than most of his music videos

  AOOproductions said:

  takeshi said:

  AOOproductions said:

  takeshi said:

Beautiful.

I know I'm beating a dead horse but I really think his version of Neuromancer would have been amazing. Sigh...

you really are though... because if Cunningham ever had to make anything longer then 10 minutes, people watching it would be oddly compelled to shove their heads up their own asses. I mean, he's a genious in his medium. But please no movie. Just look what happened when he was given all the creative power he wanted = Flex. Super head asss crushing.

 

I've only seen parts of Flex but didn't he say it was intended as an "experiment"? That's like saying he can't do tell a story because he did Monkey Drummer. I think it'd be more appropriate to look at something of his like Windowlicker to draw a conclusion about how he would do in a longer medium. And for me the non-music parts of the video aren't so esoteric as to make me think he can't carry a narrative.

thats just a small scene with people talking. you cant go by that. And everything he does is an "experiment". I just dont think I can see him working with a huge budget and not jizzing his pants. and i can totally see him reshooting a leaf blowing across the ground like 100 times.

Believe me, I could give a fuck if you think he is or isn't capable of directing a film. My point is if you want to make correlations between what you think he can do and what he's done you might want to choose a work of his that is closest to a feature film instead of an art installation that is 17 minutes of a naked couple fucking and hitting each other...IN SPACE.

lol

pretty fucking cool. all ads should be this pretty. i would be interested in his neuromancer actually, now. for some reason this was cooler than a lot of his music videos. also neuromancer is all style anyway.

this had nothing to do with anything

but it was so ill

  zaphod said:

pretty fucking cool. all ads should be this pretty. i would be interested in his neuromancer actually, now. for some reason this was cooler than a lot of his music videos. also neuromancer is all style anyway.

Neuromancer is cool and all but I think the first book in the bridge trilogy would make for a much better/more coherent movie.

I would love to see a full length movie directed by Cunningham, though, regardless of what it is.

  JohnTqs said:

this had nothing to do with anything

but it was so ill

the girl was getting overwhelmed by the beautiful fragrance around her, with every squirt of gucci perfume hitting her like a field of flowers, mist, and light.

makes sense

whos version of i feel love was that

  beneboi said:

I would love to see a full length movie directed by Cunningham, though, regardless of what it is.

Flower scented perfumes, what will they think of next?

  Rubin Farr said:

whos version of i feel love was that

Chris Cunningham.

He always had some weird movie ideas too. The xanxerox manga adaptation comes to mind. Shit thats pretty out there stylistically.

ranxerox is fucking awesome

its kind of like miller's hard boiled, but french

god i'm getting sadder and sadder that the guy who made torque is making neuromancer. this is apparently a poster for it:

wtf

it's not fucking steampunk.

and then his reaction to people thinking maybe he isn't the man for the job

  Quote

Variety blew my cover over the weekend. This is the screenplay I've been working on for the last two years.

 

As to the backlash.

 

There's going to be a backlash. You have to be nuts or stupid to take on a monster like this. I knew what I was getting myself into. Stanley Kubrick could take this on and he'd have a 14 year old in Iowa blogging on how wack the cgi effects were in 2001, and then on the otherhand a 45 year old child molestor completely insistant nothing will ever look as good as the visuals in his own head.

 

And they'd both hate Torque.

 

I could see how the combination of the Britney Spears director with William Gibson is a controversial choice. But the problem is, the summation of my career is not Britney Spears. I've done plenty of "cred" videos: Moby, Chemical Brothers, Korn, U2, Muse to name a few. The headlines sound attractively pessimistic to slap the successful pop example of my work to a supposedly nihilistic work like Neuromancer. It really just demonstrates how little most people know of the music video world and how it pertains to filmmaking.

 

For instance, before David Fincher became the dark auteur that fanboys salivate over, he made his name doing...Paula Abdul videos. And hard core Michael Bay with his rumbling guns and explosions made...Meatloaf videos, as well as...The Divinyls "I Touch Myself." Those of you in the music video business know the score and understand why this is.

 

I guess this is turning into a defense of myself, so I will defend myself.

 

The other complaint lodged at me is that my movie Torque basically sucked. It's either a sell out piece of commercial crap, or an incompetant long form music video, or both, and it's a sure sign I'm clueless as a filmmaker. And to all of this, I'll say: they're wrong.

 

Making your first movie under the Hollywood studio system is hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done. I'm telling you honestly with no exaggeration: you have no clue what it's like to be put through that studio grinder and retain any sort of authorship. The politics, the pressure, the scapegoating, the interference, the pure physicality of an intense 70 day shoot, the budget hysterics, the permeating sense of fear and negativity from everyone. Torque is not 100% of what I wanted, but I'm proud of what it is, because at the end of the day, after going through this studio machine that blends movies together into mediocrity, it split people. Some hated it, others loved it. Some actually had both reactions at the same time. Whatever it was, it wasn't safe. The ice cream on the cone couldn't be digested without a strong opinion. That's a tall order for an Ice Cube biker flick. Your welcome.

 

So that's one of the reasons why "they" hired me to do Neuromancer, and make no mistake, Gibson is one of "them." There's no way in hell I'm on this without at least a half disinegnous grunt of approval from him. Yes, Chris Cunningham was attached to this years ago and you may think him as a far cooler director than me, but he quit. HE QUIT. Understand? Sorry. He abandoned the baby on the doorstep, and it will never come to daddy again.

 

I'm on it because I am nuts, and I am stupid, and I will throw everything I have at making a book that's been ripped off left and right and considered impossible to adapt...work. I've spent my whole life making things. People who don't know me seem to dismiss me as some cliché blinged out music video director, and even if that jealous perception were true then remember this - I started with nothing. No contacts in Hollywood, no money, nothing. All I've ever had to survive is the dedication to my craft. All I know how to do is make things, and if Neuromancer is on my plate, I am going to make it. That's why this film finally has a chance at getting made.

 

Now here we are and all I know is this: the movie in my head rocks. I've already watched it, I just need to execute. Is it Gibson's vision? Not quite. There's no way this film can ever achieve what Gibson did. He practically changed the world and how we imagined ourselves growing up into it. The novel is always going to be the superior work of art. The book's a legitimate work of genius in a millenial way, not the Richard Roeper thumbs up way. I'm working on a two hour movie, so it's my distillation of his vision into a much shorter form. Compomises and interpretation will be required, and the personal issues I chose to focus on will be the things that turn me on about the book. So at the end of the day, there's wiggle room: the good shit is his, the bad shit is mine.

 

But when it gets made, maybe on some level, everyone will be ecstatic to see some version of it moving on a movie screen, like when a parent is happy to see their toddler draw a crayon of the sun. If I'm lucky, maybe even Gibson himself will dig it.

 

So there it is.

 

I only have one more thing to say.

 

When Variety broke the story, this is how they described me:

 

Joseph Kahn, a Korean-American commercials director who made "Torque" for Warren Bros., has inked to direct.

 

What the fuck does my race have to do with directing Neuromancer?

what an asshole.

i think cunningham is extremely overrated but the guy does need to make a feature. and why not this. he'd at least make it interesting and new.

he doesn't know kubrick is dead?

  beneboi said:

  zaphod said:

pretty fucking cool. all ads should be this pretty. i would be interested in his neuromancer actually, now. for some reason this was cooler than a lot of his music videos. also neuromancer is all style anyway.

 

Neuromancer is cool and all but I think the first book in the bridge trilogy would make for a much better/more coherent movie.

I would love to see a full length movie directed by Cunningham, though, regardless of what it is.

Man, if I ever saw Gibson in public they'd have to taser me to get me to leave because I'd basically beg him to let me have the movie rights to Idoru. I know exactly how to make that novel into a film, I even wrote up a screenplay for it a few years ago, just for writing practice.

  zaphod said:

Is that a bluetooth headset?

  takeshi said:

  AOOproductions said:

  takeshi said:

  AOOproductions said:

  takeshi said:

Beautiful.

I know I'm beating a dead horse but I really think his version of Neuromancer would have been amazing. Sigh...

you really are though... because if Cunningham ever had to make anything longer then 10 minutes, people watching it would be oddly compelled to shove their heads up their own asses. I mean, he's a genious in his medium. But please no movie. Just look what happened when he was given all the creative power he wanted = Flex. Super head asss crushing.

 

I've only seen parts of Flex but didn't he say it was intended as an "experiment"? That's like saying he can't do tell a story because he did Monkey Drummer. I think it'd be more appropriate to look at something of his like Windowlicker to draw a conclusion about how he would do in a longer medium. And for me the non-music parts of the video aren't so esoteric as to make me think he can't carry a narrative.

thats just a small scene with people talking. you cant go by that. And everything he does is an "experiment". I just dont think I can see him working with a huge budget and not jizzing his pants. and i can totally see him reshooting a leaf blowing across the ground like 100 times.

 

Believe me, I could give a fuck if you think he is or isn't capable of directing a film. My point is if you want to make correlations between what you think he can do and what he's done you might want to choose a work of his that is closest to a feature film instead of an art installation that is 17 minutes of a naked couple fucking and hitting each other...IN SPACE.

I'm just saying. The very nature of him, the fact he made a 17 minute art film about people fuckin space... when he had all the control he wanted and and amazing 35 millimeter camera... he made flex. It shows you where his priorities r at. his bread and butter is matching visuals to music. he loves it, hes good at it, and thats that. He wont, and can't make a feature film. If he could of he would of by now. He knows himself better than we can speculate. He was in the same class as Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry in terms of creativity... he could of taken the same route but he didnt. mistake... bad timing... i think not.

  takeshi said:

an art installation that is 17 minutes of a naked couple fucking and hitting each other...IN SPACE.

lol