The act of writing is — for the most part — a lonely, solitary activity and not very cinematically engaging, both visually and emotionally. Yet, filmmakers keep making films about writers. The way successful films make writers and their occupation exciting is usually by surrounding them with active characters with intense personalities.
For example, the Coen brothers paired up Barton Fink with a serial killer and Stephen King pitted author Paul Sheldon against maniacal super fan Annie Wilkes in Misery. (Granted, Misery was a book first, but Rob Reiner and William Goldman transformed it into a pretty stellar, cinematic film.)
Australian underground filmmaker Dominic Deacon also picks a couple of psychos to bedevil his writer main character, Frank Bannister (Haydn Evans), in the twisty mind-warp thriller Burlesque, but his antagonists are far more sexier than Annie Wilkes or Madman Munt.
Deacon never actually shows Bannister writing, but we learn through dialogue that...
For example, the Coen brothers paired up Barton Fink with a serial killer and Stephen King pitted author Paul Sheldon against maniacal super fan Annie Wilkes in Misery. (Granted, Misery was a book first, but Rob Reiner and William Goldman transformed it into a pretty stellar, cinematic film.)
Australian underground filmmaker Dominic Deacon also picks a couple of psychos to bedevil his writer main character, Frank Bannister (Haydn Evans), in the twisty mind-warp thriller Burlesque, but his antagonists are far more sexier than Annie Wilkes or Madman Munt.
Deacon never actually shows Bannister writing, but we learn through dialogue that...
- 10/27/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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