Gotta enable subtitles, and with a voice that gets as low and mono as yours i would lower the soundtrack and raise your narration and with a deEsser and youll be golden. Keep up the good work
According to his blog he has two projects close to securing. The fifth one he said would be "The Big Stone Grid", while the fourth one is closer to becoming a reality. It's unknown what it is, but I heard a rumor its a fullblown horror film. Take with a grain of salt.
@@therope340 i heard he wanted to adapt one of his novels...Chickenpenny something, sounded really cool but it would be a black and White 3 hour film starring a Jim Henson puppet thing...good luck financing that lol
I remember casually stumbling into cinema and catching Bone Tomahawk late night screening not knowing what it was. It was one of the greatest cinemawatching experiences in my life - this movie wasnt fucking around and came out for blood. IMHO best Russell 'stache.
He's building up an audience. He'll have his day. I predict he's gonna hang around with fincher, tarantino and other big names when it comes to good movies.
Dude you seriously need to either hire a speaker, or learn yourself how to speak more brightly and clearly. This too often gets muddy and really fucking hard to understand. And get someone to do a proper audio mix, the music gets in the way of the narration way too often.
Appreciate the constructive criticism! I plan to go back and fix the audio. If you are also interested I’m making my first feature length film currently! You can track my progress on Stray~Ward’s Instagram and Facebook!
His movies and movies like Blue ruin, Killer Joe, etc… are treasures and must be revered. In an industry that’s saturated with 100 million dollar cgi box office disasters, its movies like these that will survive and eventually save the industry (I hope)
This guys movies violence is way more realistic than Tarantinos violence thats always cartoonish & over the top!!!! Tarantino is a way better writer , his scripts is what makes his films intense , not his carnage!!!! But this guy goes for realism more than Tarantino does & picks way better music & its usually all original that he produced himself!!!!
Let me know what you think, it seems to be most people's third favorite of his, but I personally find it to be my most enjoyable watch of his. Second being Bone Tomahawk.
Great stuff. You've really got a knack when it comes to editing for contrast, especially when you're detailing Zahler's work. Maybe try to match the visual editing to the speed and volume of narration - try upping the volume so it's easier for the audience's brain to process the audio while keeping up with the visual cuts. Subscribed, keep it up!
Went on a Zalher binge last year watching all his movies and reading A Congregation of Crows this year. Eager to read the rest of his books. Curious what he is currently working on.
New Hollywood was great and all, but it was not Hollywood's golden age. You can find at least equally great, if not arguably better films in the 30s, 40s, and into the 50s. This is not even to mention the great silents from the 10s and 20s.
This is not to belittle your overall message or appreciation of S. Craig Zahler's films. I think they are worthy of discussion and I share your appreciation of his body cinematic work for the ethical complexity of their narratives, challenging viewers. I do think you misuse the word "trilogy" within the context that three of his films are somehow directly connected, which is what a trilogy represents but ultimately condemns these films into a category that is manufactured rather than organic.. It a revisionism that is far too commonplace with contemporary film analysis. this idea of manufacturing a "trilogy," when the aesthetics and approach to the individual narratives is more a reflection of the storytelling of their creator that gets pigeon-holed into a bad marketing term that does not apply. There is no shared narrative nor history within the stories of the three films toshoebox them as a trilogy, when they are extensions of his entire cretive process in writing. Each film is a self-contained universe. They are a trio of individual films with individual merit and a shared aesthetic, but they are not a trilogy. For Brawl in Cell Block 99, I think the closest analog would be Jamaa Fanaka's Penitentiary, but that was not a Hollywood production. It also feels like Brawl in Cell Block 99 owes as much to Story of Ricky as it would Penitentiary, and Story of Ricky's film adaptation lands square in the early 1990s. The graphic violence and fiefdom private prison setting and the myriad of cartoony prisoners the protagonists have to dispatch definitely feel comparable. I think you're stretching with the Assault of Precinct 13 comparison. Prior to that, you gloss over the very obvious analog to Bone Tomahawk. Definitely 70s-era influence but less to do with The Wild Bunch (a film from the 60s)). If anything, Bone Tomahawk takes Zahler's love of the western genre and plants it firmly into the Italian cannibal subgenre that emerged in the 1970s with Umberto Lenzi's Man From Deep River (itself inspired by the a 70s era studio productions I would not be surprised if Zahler appreciates: the A Man Called Horse trilogy), Ruggero Deodato's cash in Ultimate Cannibal World; followed by Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust and Lenzi's Cannibal Ferox (1981, outside the 70s) and perhaps to a lesser extent Sergio Martino's Slave of the Cannibal God. Bone Tomahawk essentially transplants a western into an Italian cannibal film milieu. I share your enthusiasm for Zahler's films though. They are complex and and are intelligent exploitation.
Really enjoy how this video is written and put together but please speak up. why are you whispering? very hard to hear and that vocal fry... it' like you're recording in the middle of the night while trying not to wake up your roommate
background music levels need to be reduced significantly so that your voice is clear. i say this with respect, the content is strong! i think the video would be much better with these tweaks. no disrespect my friend 🙏🙏
S Craig zahlers movies 1. aren't close to as good as the wild bunch or the French connection. Assault on precinct 13 is more his speed but carpenter has better music in the film and his concept is much more intriguing. Also, his film isn't over 3 hours long. 2. Zahlers films are more grating on the sociopolitical environment we grow up in now.
The male youtuber vocal fry is so thick i can barely understand what’s being said at times. It sounds like youre trying to growl; it’s so weird… just use your normal human voice.
Your presentation and structural style remind me of Horses (my favorite RU-vid essayist). Keep making stuff like this and you'll undoubtedly find success.
So, firstly, great video, secondly some light criticism in that some of the music to voice balancing is a tad off with the music getting a bit loud in relation to your voice.
Loved the video, and he's a man with great concepts, which is why I imagine that he enjoyed great success as an author, but he is just not skilled enough to express his ideas as a director, Bone Tomahwak is competent with great thrill moments, but Brawl in Cell Block 99 is just terrible, awful drivel.
Thank you thank you thank you thank you. I’ve been screaming from the rooftops my love for this filmmaker. I cannot wait for his next film/book/comic. Edit: This channel only has 313 subscribers? Not for long I would imagine.
cuz it's a social experiment in creating uncomfortable arguments between viewers afterwatching based on interpretations, and it does it using hammy over the top emotional tricks. I'ts not just a clever title you will feel dragged across concrete. It's like he was angry at the studios for editing his previous two films in such a way as to create cathartic masterpieces. @@therope340
