The Devil's Rejects

I just watched “The Devil’s Rejects” on DVD. I’m actually not that into horror movies, generally speaking. When they’re bad, they’re so boring, and when they’re good, they’re too scary because I’m a wuss. But man, that thing was A-OK. It looked absolutely beautiful. The daytime parts had a golden 70s feeling that I’m hoping to get but don’t quite know how to articulate. The “TCM” remake had the look, in spades. (By the way: scared the crap out of me.) My visual vocabulary’s just not that developed, and I don’t know anything about film stocks and processing except that they matter. All I can do is point to things that I think look right, and say, “Like that...?”

It’s pretty weak. But I don’t feel too bad about it, because Matt Stone was telling me about working with a DP who had worked with [redacted], the director of [redacted, redacted, and redacted], and the DP was saying how nice it was to have someone making observations like, “Yeah, that’s close, but it would be good if we came in lower on shots like that,” and misc. other not too highly technical but still somewhat substantive comments while watching dailies. Matt was all like, “Why’s that nice?” to the DP, and the DP said that [redacted] would just look at them every day and yell, “It has to look cooler! More fucking cooler, okay?! I don’t know! Just make it more awesome! Fuck!”

Come to think of it, maybe I’ll take my cue from [redacted].