Sat Aug 04, 2007 1:50 pm by dmohrUSC
deleted, deleted. For you and everyone else out there who might need these things spelled out, here's my point with comparing 'Godfather 3' and a potential 'BR' sequel directed by Ridley Scott.
Personally, I believe the quality of any given film is related directly to the "sensibility" of a director, at any given point in their lives. Every movie - and for that matter, work of art - ever made is a thing shaped of its own time and place in history, and where those artist's sensibilities were at their point in their own personal evolution (or, as some of us might oftentimes regard it, devolution).
The fact is that artistic and aesthetic sensibilities change over time. The greatest example (to me, anyways) is Godfather Parts I & II vs. Godfather Part III. I would personally argue that the very greatest aspect of what makes Parts I & II endure as great moviemaking and great art is Francis Ford Coppola's directorial SENSIBILITY (or temperament if you like), his extraordinarily sharp, insightful and unique way of looking at the world and portraying it dramatically and cinematically, circa 1972-74. Coppola simply had a completely different emotional and artistic sensibility in 1990 when he made Godfather Part III than he did in 1972-74 when he made Parts I & II.
It's totally up to you, deleted, or anyone else, to be convinced that Ridley Scott's directorial sensibility hasn't changed one single iota since the days of 'Alien' and 'BR' circa 1979-82, and that if he started work on a BR sequel, it would be as brilliantly uncompromising moment-for-moment as his on-set work behind the camera in 1979-82. Do I myself really believe that?
In the interests of civility, and with genuine respect to this website that I admire and am glad to contribute to, I truly have *no* interest in turning this thread into a bashing of Ridley Scott's post-BR filmography. I'll just say that you can definitely count me in the negative on the latter question, and that I personally pray that Ridley Scott never attempts to make a 'BR' sequel. But of course, that's just me.
Hope that's a little more relevant for you, deleted.