David Fincher - And the Other Way is Wrong

2014 ж. 30 Қыр.
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For sheer directorial craft, there are few people working today who can match David Fincher. And yet he describes his own process as “not what I do, but what I don’t do.” Join me today in answering the question: What does David Fincher not do?
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  • After he calls viewers perverts and stares into the camera, I feel like he's undressing me with his eyes. lol.

    @HalcyonSerenade@HalcyonSerenade8 жыл бұрын
    • +HalcyonSerenade He was looking right through the lens directly at you! lol

      @theartist124@theartist1248 жыл бұрын
    • +HalcyonSerenade Ikr, I felt the same

      @asielsmith6007@asielsmith60078 жыл бұрын
    • +asiel smith Fincher and chill.

      @calipanhead@calipanhead8 жыл бұрын
    • actually he was the pornstar, and then decided he'll like to be behind the camera instead. When he realised he was quite good at it he heavily edited his work..... for a more, um... less stimulated folk??

      @asielsmith6007@asielsmith60078 жыл бұрын
    • +asiel smith the movies he makes are for stimulated people, they get off on different content though ;)

      @DarkAngelEU@DarkAngelEU8 жыл бұрын
  • That smile in the end

    @RodrigoMeschiatti@RodrigoMeschiatti8 жыл бұрын
    • Like the cat who caught the canary, something he got away with but can't contain his pride. So coquettish, and somewhat adorable. Just pat the Fincher on his face. Jeez, Tony kind of cut that perfectly. Love seeing someone that's good at what they do criticizing and analyzing their chosen artform, using that same format to express analysis and criticism.

      @minutewalt@minutewalt8 жыл бұрын
    • Always be around a hunky man when you're with Fincher. Make sure you pay the hunkbeef. Take care.

      @praveensharma9893@praveensharma98937 жыл бұрын
    • yeah thats been playing in my mind over and over haha

      @NatsAdvice@NatsAdvice6 жыл бұрын
    • Thanks to the perfect cut and the music volume ramping up gives you a sense that there's more to it.

      @Gyork_@Gyork_6 жыл бұрын
    • just keep that Emily ratajkowski scene from gone girl in mind...

      @chloerines@chloerines5 жыл бұрын
  • I wish I were cinematically literate enough to even catch any one of these nuances in films I watch.

    @ThrillaWhale@ThrillaWhale7 жыл бұрын
    • Thrilla Whale Not too late to learn, I hope

      @ysabarro333@ysabarro3337 жыл бұрын
    • Just keep getting knowledge of the art, watching this channel may help, also plenty of books exist. One of the few thing is to *always* remind you that everything happens in a film for a reason, nothing is left to random, remind you that the camera is present, always. You'll get all the angles and cut easily. It may ruin some of movie experience for you (it did for me after I entered cinema classes) but it opens a *whole* new world. I remember when I was a kid I wouldn't even notice cuts, like it's sound stupid but it seemed logical for me, born in a generation where everything comes at you in such massive flow of video flux, when I actually learnd grammary of cinema it changed my view like hard, I still remember how I wa not getting it and had bad grades my firt year along with 3/4 of my classes, I was like "but why ? I worked on this..." but I didn't did it the right way, after it "clicked" (that's the key word) I jusut couldn't miss any cuts lol, then t just develops from there, slight different focals, the étalo (doesn't know what's the english word ? The colour of the pciture if you'd like" and importantly : how all of these grammary tools serve the subject. That's the main thing, the most important one. Hope you continue get into this, and long live cinema.

      @lukascielocaminante257@lukascielocaminante2577 жыл бұрын
    • You may not have noticed it... But your brain did.

      @MaartenvanRossemLezingen@MaartenvanRossemLezingen7 жыл бұрын
    • Thrilla Whale You don't have to be "cinematically" smart, just observant and focused on the details. Even moviegoers who watch films as a hobby can explain why X shot focused so much on X character or X item. Every time the camera pans towards something or someone, there's a reason behind it.

      @TaoPhysiques@TaoPhysiques6 жыл бұрын
    • Relatable

      @anacosta6181@anacosta61816 жыл бұрын
  • I love David Fincher, one of my favorite directors. And he's right, I am a pervert.

    @Jombo1@Jombo18 жыл бұрын
    • +Jombo What did he mean by that though??

      @MrHonwe@MrHonwe8 жыл бұрын
    • +MrHonwe I think he meant that we, as audiences, like to invade the privacy of the characters on screen. Which is why he lets uncomfortable and private things like rape scenes go on for a long time, and how he holds a shot to seriously ramp up the tension.

      @Treadstone2AwesOMe@Treadstone2AwesOMe8 жыл бұрын
    • Theodore Tan oooooooooohhhhhhhh

      @MrHonwe@MrHonwe8 жыл бұрын
    • So is Kevin

      @juliamunozderios1414@juliamunozderios14146 жыл бұрын
    • Jombo Do you have instagram? We can talk about movies.

      @tf5500@tf55006 жыл бұрын
  • It's incredibly refreshing to see a film reviewer on KZhead that has a grasp for the technical side of filmmaking and cares enough about a movie to analyze its presentation rather than just describe the plot of the film and whether they liked it or not. Thank you for making these. Hope your Patreon campaign goes well.

    @YMS@YMS9 жыл бұрын
    • I follow you both and find it endlessly eye opening and almost essential for how I see movies. It's like I've been waiting for someone to say this stuff all my life. Thank you.

      @Landscapesuk@Landscapesuk9 жыл бұрын
    • Everything is important in a film. You can have great technical shots, well designed scenes, but none of those work if the plot sucks. You'll be thinking about why is this scene relevant before you decide that it's gorgeous. For instance, Michael bay can produce wicked cgi and create epic looking scenes, but I'm thinking what the fu k is going on with this movie (transformers: age of extinction). I say plot and story are the core in film making, and everything else should serve to compliment the story. David fincher can certainly have a style of film making, but he also tends to choose dark stories, which compliments his undertone and gloomy style. But more important, every decision that he makes informs the plot (interview with Flynn and Pike). When he makes movies, everything right, all shots are relevant, all scenes designed in a way to inform the overall narrative.

      @junjunjarjarbinx@junjunjarjarbinx9 жыл бұрын
    • ***** Not entirely true... As my good friend Akira Kurosawa stated: "With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can't possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. The script must be something that has the power to do this." I understand what you're saying; that the technical power of cinema can be very persuasive, but your type of thinking is precisely what is destroying Hollywood right now.

      @Orbis-Factor@Orbis-Factor9 жыл бұрын
    • Wow, it's fantastic to see my two favourite film dudes on KZhead bump into each other. Both of you do stellar work - keep these videos coming.

      @Gotakibono@Gotakibono9 жыл бұрын
    • ***** Ridley Scott's motto.

      @Bhetol@Bhetol9 жыл бұрын
  • Shit, this channel is great.

    @borohhh@borohhh8 жыл бұрын
    • +Juan Sebastian Amador Bjarner lol i thought i commented on this video a long time ago and forgot about it

      @averagebusinessmen2@averagebusinessmen28 жыл бұрын
    • +Jack Mancuso HAHA! Great taste you got, sir.

      @borohhh@borohhh8 жыл бұрын
    • +Juan Sebastian Amador Bjarner so where is that picture from?

      @lok2676@lok26768 жыл бұрын
    • Radiohead album. Amnesiac.

      @borohhh@borohhh8 жыл бұрын
    • +maskei Right? I just subscribed few minutes ago. The soundtrack of this video was amazing, a good editing/soundtrack choice inside a review of a great director.

      @edumalafaia11@edumalafaia118 жыл бұрын
  • After years I keep coming back to this channel.. such a gold mine

    @opedromagico@opedromagico3 жыл бұрын
    • So true

      @jtwinter1126@jtwinter11263 жыл бұрын
    • Good channel, good narration, good analysis, good useful information, good way of editing. *last video 6 years from now*

      @jdrc1233@jdrc12333 жыл бұрын
    • We all do buddy, we all do.

      @giuliolepri596@giuliolepri5963 жыл бұрын
    • What happened to this channel???

      @user-ny6jk7ol3m@user-ny6jk7ol3m3 жыл бұрын
    • @@user-ny6jk7ol3m It's closed. The video will remain online and available but there wont be no more new stuff uploaded on this channel.

      @giuliolepri596@giuliolepri5963 жыл бұрын
  • "Double rainbow!? What does it meeean?" Lol

    @Jimmy-fu3lq@Jimmy-fu3lq7 жыл бұрын
    • I totally scrolled down to see if someone commented on that. X-) Fincher's hip to YT reference. Nice.

      @handsinknead77@handsinknead776 жыл бұрын
    • can you explain ? I actually didn't get it :(

      @Quakeee@Quakeee5 жыл бұрын
    • Child kzhead.info/sun/grWMfsyjbHt5h4E/bejne.html

      @ejensen@ejensen5 жыл бұрын
  • You know what? I'm okay with David Fincher calling me a pervert.

    @VenSensei@VenSensei8 жыл бұрын
    • I can't argue with the truth, so I'm okay with it as well.

      @NihonNiv@NihonNiv4 жыл бұрын
    • I think we're all okay with it..

      @SightForMemories@SightForMemories4 жыл бұрын
    • We're all perverts, they just don't know it yet.

      @thedoctor2871@thedoctor2871 Жыл бұрын
    • It's the truth. And it's the people who deny it that you have to look out for...

      @joeking6972@joeking6972 Жыл бұрын
    • @@joeking6972 Truth only from your point of view

      @LordVader1094@LordVader1094 Жыл бұрын
  • The ending just killed me. Love the guy. Great video, thanks.

    @AleksandreMzhavia@AleksandreMzhavia8 жыл бұрын
    • +Aleksandre Mzhavia agreed altho I cant say I know too much of his body of works of the top of my head.

      @Francosteiner@Francosteiner8 жыл бұрын
  • Tony leaving KZhead has left a massive hole. Miss you buddy. Hope you're doing well.

    @Chris-tc7gk@Chris-tc7gk3 жыл бұрын
    • ?

      @mb2001@mb20013 жыл бұрын
    • @@mb2001 about 4 years ago he posted a video saying goodbye and that he was ending Every Frame A Painting for the foreseeable future. I can't find it anymore. Edit: Here is the article nofilmschool.com/2017/12/rip-every-frame-painting-farewell-advice-tony-zhou-and-taylor-ramos

      @Chris-tc7gk@Chris-tc7gk3 жыл бұрын
    • @@Chris-tc7gk Oh… I see.

      @mb2001@mb20013 жыл бұрын
    • totally agree, one of the best channels in the whole platform in my opinion.

      @ajgonzalez5109@ajgonzalez51092 жыл бұрын
    • Where'd he go? ...does he create on another platform?

      @Graphomite@Graphomite Жыл бұрын
  • Hey...David Fincher is a pretty man

    @theMOSKTO@theMOSKTO7 жыл бұрын
    • Pervert.

      @s.bakyhnh1756@s.bakyhnh17567 жыл бұрын
    • hes mine thank you very much

      @chloerines@chloerines5 жыл бұрын
    • He's like a Swiss Guy Fieri.

      @BubblewrapHighway@BubblewrapHighway5 жыл бұрын
    • You are all damn perverts. I am glad to be part of the club. lol

      @Leprutz@Leprutz4 жыл бұрын
    • @@sicongli6594 metal...Gear??

      @VictorAHunter@VictorAHunter4 жыл бұрын
  • I swear, David Fincher is my favorite director working today.

    @carloswachuwa13@carloswachuwa139 жыл бұрын
    • carloswachuwa13 he's my 2nd or joint first with Nolan... but my favourite to study

      @warlord456able@warlord456able6 жыл бұрын
  • Lately everything has a shaky cam, it drives me nuts-

    @DigitalBerserk@DigitalBerserk9 жыл бұрын
    • Irreversible would be one hell of a ride for you. lol

      @Onmysheet@Onmysheet9 жыл бұрын
    • or cloverfield !!!

      @AbhishekSingh-uv4rt@AbhishekSingh-uv4rt9 жыл бұрын
    • Onmysheet The two have nothing to do with each other. One is for artistic effect, the other for fear. I absolute love irreversible, but I loath the shaky cam as slung into popularity by The Blair Witch Project and used throughout action shot.

      @frankunderwood2325@frankunderwood23258 жыл бұрын
    • frank underwood I love found-footage shit, because I used to be obsessed with filming my life and watching it over again when I was a kid. That's not the only reason, though - it definitely lends some power and drama to scenes when used right.

      @Liliputian07@Liliputian078 жыл бұрын
    • DigitalBerserk shaky cam is not to be confused with handheld

      @nicolaslabra2225@nicolaslabra22258 жыл бұрын
  • Came here as soon as I saw the trailer for VOIR. Congratulations Tony

    @andersmai844@andersmai8442 жыл бұрын
    • Yep same here. Back again to what Tony in action.

      @snapperjw@snapperjw2 жыл бұрын
  • David Fincher is the main reason why I am an aspiring filmmaker.

    @TASCmedia@TASCmedia7 жыл бұрын
    • Cigarettes are the main reason why I'm an asthmatic filmmaker.

      @2nd3rd1st@2nd3rd1st7 жыл бұрын
    • Debilitating bouts of malaria are the reason I'm an attritive filmmaker.

      @johnsmith5669@johnsmith56697 жыл бұрын
    • Alcohol is the reason why i am an abusive filmmaker

      @salmanyafiz@salmanyafiz7 жыл бұрын
    • 3D is the main reason why I'm an antipathic filmmaker.

      @lukascielocaminante257@lukascielocaminante2577 жыл бұрын
    • Drugs are the main reason why I'm an abstract filmmaker

      @TitusCheshire@TitusCheshire7 жыл бұрын
  • I don't care how many hundreds of times I watch Fight Club; that flying shoe cracks me up like the very first time, EVERY time.

    @smeagol92055@smeagol920559 жыл бұрын
    • Jason Gormally I feel like this is what doing 50 takes gets you. That one take with a perfect flying shoe. I also LOL every time at Brad Pitt pulling off Norton's shoe and beating him with it.

      @everyframeapainting@everyframeapainting9 жыл бұрын
    • Fight Club is full of shots that are just too perfect.

      @smeagol92055@smeagol920559 жыл бұрын
    • Can anybody shed some light? I've seen Fight Club about a hundred times and again after reading this comment and have no idea what scene you guys are talking about

      @rainpeopleperson@rainpeopleperson7 жыл бұрын
    • It's one of those montage scenes where fight club members have to pick fights with random people. 6:28

      @TheMaukingbird@TheMaukingbird7 жыл бұрын
  • That last cut is so awesome though!!! That smile and than the perfect blend with the music!! Love it!!

    @moviemaen@moviemaen8 жыл бұрын
  • This shows how perfect Fincher and Sorkin are for each other. I really wish they'd do more together. They compliment each other perfectly. Fincher knows how to direct the deep expository scenes Sorkin loves to write.

    @maxhydekyle2425@maxhydekyle24255 жыл бұрын
  • Fincher's style is very much like the way scenes are composed in graphical novels. It's true you can watch his movies with the sound turned down and still get a very good idea about what is going on.

    @charliegovenor3681@charliegovenor36817 жыл бұрын
  • At the end there, he is the Zodiac

    @thinlet1@thinlet18 жыл бұрын
    • The truck driver in Nice, France is the zodiac killer

      @matt.pma.kresnaputra5458@matt.pma.kresnaputra54587 жыл бұрын
    • The truck itself was the Zodiac Killer.

      @zodssnappedneck2806@zodssnappedneck28067 жыл бұрын
    • France is the Zodiac killer, stabbing people with the Eiffel Tower

      @Mothman1992@Mothman19927 жыл бұрын
    • Fuck I didn't watch the Zodiac.I hate spoilers ! Next time warn while giving a spoiler

      @sluggishhollow2030@sluggishhollow20303 жыл бұрын
  • Stanley Kubrick episode?

    @harrysmith5340@harrysmith53409 жыл бұрын
    • +Harry Smith Yes yes yes yes. He's my favourite director and I study/worship him.

      @EndOfSmallSanctuary97@EndOfSmallSanctuary978 жыл бұрын
    • +Harry Smith We're not ready.

      @opmike343@opmike3438 жыл бұрын
    • +opmike343 Well, he said that he wouldn't do videos on directors that tons and tons of people have already talked about. So, the chances of him doing a Kubrick video are very slim.

      @LegoStarMovies@LegoStarMovies8 жыл бұрын
    • LegoStarMovies But there aren't a lot of videos on KZhead about his film making style tho. Most of them are interpretation videos which make theories of his movies and the others are Illuminati/Moon landing conspiracy bullshit

      @miguelpereira9859@miguelpereira98597 жыл бұрын
  • David Fincher calling me a pervert and then smiling was the cherry on top of the reasons why I love this man.

    @jessebond4280@jessebond42804 жыл бұрын
  • That smile is kind of...HOT

    @jiwonyissobored@jiwonyissobored7 жыл бұрын
    • Ikr?

      @cynthiat4949@cynthiat49497 жыл бұрын
    • Philogal H Smile of who ?

      @fifinoirdefer9458@fifinoirdefer94587 жыл бұрын
    • Thank God I'm not alone.

      @mas6525@mas65257 жыл бұрын
    • Pervs...

      @temperspace@temperspace7 жыл бұрын
    • Avacado's Constant Ikr

      @mas6525@mas65257 жыл бұрын
  • The final quote in this video is 100% correct. You realize it the more you grow older that the people around you are as fucked up and have their own little details which make it fun to see.

    @KevinMuller5@KevinMuller57 жыл бұрын
    • I love the twinkle in his eye with that shit eating grin. He is so devilishly appealing, but if I was an actor I wouldn't last more than 10 takes working with him.

      @jmwild1@jmwild17 жыл бұрын
  • Do an episode on Paul Thomas Anderson

    @masonbrown9155@masonbrown91559 жыл бұрын
    • Jeffery Lebowski you´re not mr lebowski.. you are the dude.. ok ? so thats what you call yourself... that.. or his dudeness or duder or el duderino, if you´re not into the whole brevity thing

      @moviemaen@moviemaen9 жыл бұрын
    • moviemaen those dickholes at google+ urinated on my rug

      @masonbrown9155@masonbrown91559 жыл бұрын
    • Jeffery Lebowski was it a valuable rug, dude ?

      @moviemaen@moviemaen9 жыл бұрын
    • He will propably do that when inherent vice gets released, i think!

      @ofilantvanderplas@ofilantvanderplas9 жыл бұрын
    • SamActionMovies hopefully

      @masonbrown9155@masonbrown91559 жыл бұрын
  • Trent Reznor and David Fincher complement each other's styles so well.

    @zs23100@zs231007 жыл бұрын
  • One of my favorite directors along with Richard Linklater and Edgar Wright.

    @Deviltriggerfounder@Deviltriggerfounder7 жыл бұрын
    • hell yeah! all of them rule!

      @alifa9675@alifa96756 жыл бұрын
  • I hate handheld too, it's overused and cheap.

    @tdreamgmail@tdreamgmail8 жыл бұрын
    • +tdreamgmail Especially with the genre of handheld "homemade" movies. fucking paranormal activity 9000+

      @MrRadioperse@MrRadioperse8 жыл бұрын
    • +tdreamgmail Depends on how it's used. It's used quite well in Seven, but in movies like Blackhat, that just gives me a headache.

      @TheGeorgeD13@TheGeorgeD138 жыл бұрын
    • +metricmetamorph That's so frustrating.

      @borohhh@borohhh8 жыл бұрын
    • ***** You also gotta remember that handheld is very different from shaky cams. Shaky Cams are overused, but believe me, more movies use handheld cameras than you think.

      @TheGeorgeD13@TheGeorgeD138 жыл бұрын
    • +George Daugherty I know George. I happen to be a film enthusiast haha. But horror "homemade" movies are indeed shaky cams. I know handheld is really common and most of the time really intricate and suitable. You can check out a video on my channel called Paranoid Android, tell me what you think.

      @borohhh@borohhh8 жыл бұрын
  • Has anyone been reporting their findings from Gone Girl to you yet? Just in case, I noticed: yet again, loads of exposition and people talking at a table one handheld shot of Affleck running to his car from the press a lot of switching POV'S (husband, wife, diary, cops, cameras) increased use of fades in editing (maybe this started in Benjamin Button? or Zodiac?) camera doesn't go through anything

    @kinghadbar@kinghadbar9 жыл бұрын
    • There's at least one moment where one of the characters talks to another one offscreen (use of emptiness in the frame), but I don't remember what it was. Maybe it was Affleck's character talking to his sister and then going to another room to pick the box full of letters, but I'm not %100 sure.

      @luisguillermojg@luisguillermojg9 жыл бұрын
    • luisguillermojg Yeah, that sounds right. Maybe a similar moment in the trailer park when Amy's two new "friends" start tossing her bedroom and it's filmed from another room over?

      @kinghadbar@kinghadbar9 жыл бұрын
    • There's a moment of emptiness when Amy looks at Nick and touches the bed next to her, implying there's a space for him. I also saw two fridges. TWO, Fincher? COME ON.

      @everyframeapainting@everyframeapainting9 жыл бұрын
    • Every Frame a Painting Perhaps they had two fridges in the novel. Must investigate further...

      @luisguillermojg@luisguillermojg9 жыл бұрын
    • Every Frame a Painting The guy loves fridges, man.

      @kinghadbar@kinghadbar9 жыл бұрын
  • This is cinephile porn. New favourite channel.

    @glacio95@glacio958 жыл бұрын
  • Funny how i use you videos about camera directing to get better at framing comic panels. Thank you and keep up the good work

    @MizukiTheUnderPro@MizukiTheUnderPro8 жыл бұрын
    • It also works well in learning how to better frame in photography.

      @jonathonraist@jonathonraist8 жыл бұрын
    • ***** I concur about Watchmen, and all the more fascinating in that every panel of the 12-volume epic is exactly the same size and shape, regardless if it's a close-up of an eye or a panoramic landscape. The strict rigidity of the layout keeps our focus on the content within each frame rather than using relative size & shape to emphasize one panel over another.

      @MisterRlGHT@MisterRlGHT7 жыл бұрын
    • Ditto. I try to borrow from everywhere.

      @bodhimind108@bodhimind1084 жыл бұрын
  • Handheld is usually overused or exaggerated to make it look "handheld" "Impressive" camera moves is also overused (The Hobbit, I'm looking at you). Save the impressive camerawork for the impressive or important moments or the whole movie will become bland.

    @GonkThePowerDroid@GonkThePowerDroid8 жыл бұрын
    • +GonkThePowerDroid Its remarkable going back to the Lord of the Rings films and looking at how well balanced it was visually compared to the hobbit, without even getting into arguments over CGI. Jackson in LOTR was at his peak form giving us both a big story with impressive visuals to underscore the enormity of the world and the task before them but also giving us a very intimate collection of character stories inside of this grand stage. The Hobbit failed at this in both respects, perhaps because to augment a lack of as comprehensive a character story the Hobbit actually is he expanded action that was tone deaf to the style and mood of the world we all know from the books and LOTR films and because the action itself was so disconnected from the story that was there because Tolkien was never about action like what Jackson used to stuff the Hobbit into a trilogy.

      @BollocksUtwat@BollocksUtwat8 жыл бұрын
    • Impressive camera moves can't be overused IMO. If they are stylish and flaring to the point where it's distracting it's a problem. Look at Edgar Wright and Martin Scorsese, who are both excellent with putting energy in to the camera but always to serve the characters, story, comedy, dialogue etc. Handheld can be done well, like Paul Greengrass in Bourne Ultimatum, but it takes a lot of work to make the camera move feel organic and purposeful when doing handheld. I do think impressive camera work should definitely be reserved for important moments or payoffs or indications or anything worthy of emphasis, but it should also come from a lot more than just camerawork to emphasize something (actors, delivery, editing). Michael Bay overdoes camerawork because it's distracting and all style and 0 substance, and most of the time is to no purpose, and his camera movements, composition and framing is most of the time not going to be serving the characters or story in anyway. I think it's more about what to convey and how to convey it to emphasize something, whether it's impressive camerawork or not.

      @Andrewroo12@Andrewroo127 жыл бұрын
  • Have an additional new found respect for Fincher after watching this video.

    @JayCarver@JayCarver8 жыл бұрын
    • +JstyleFilms Me too.

      @SlenWash@SlenWash8 жыл бұрын
  • It's amazing how you can come back to a channel like this, almost 8 years later on and see how his analysis still holds up. With Mindhunter basically being about sitting around and having complex and deep talks with deeply disturbed men, and Gone Girl being about how a marriage gone sour were for most of the movie the characters are practically alone in the shots and how surgical the whole movie feels (like how the wife surgically creates the perfect escape framing her husband). Not to mention how little close ups at all in Gone Girl, and how expertly the close ups are used in the interrogation scenes in Mindhunter! Wish this channel would come back!

    @JacobStroem99@JacobStroem992 жыл бұрын
  • My favorite director.

    @alwaystiredboy@alwaystiredboy8 жыл бұрын
  • I find your observations interesting and insightful. Would love to see your take on more directors -- on the Coen Brothers in particular.

    @andrewkww@andrewkww9 жыл бұрын
    • Andy "Hi my name is Tony and this is Every Frame a Painting. These two guys are geniuses." --> cue DJ Shadow music, done.

      @everyframeapainting@everyframeapainting9 жыл бұрын
    • Every Frame a Painting But why are they geniuses, Tony? This can only be explained in sufficient depth in a video essay. :)

      @ExtremehamJkd@ExtremehamJkd9 жыл бұрын
    • ExtremehamJkd I think you mean *several* video essays (or several dozen), which might be the problem. :P

      @Lethologican@Lethologican9 жыл бұрын
  • I love how you pointed out that Fincher used the camera in a what that doesn't make you think a person is holding it. It's almost like the camera is an out of body experience, or a ghostly chase. Really the only film that has the shakiness in it that truly makes the scenes work for me is Saving Private Ryan. It'd be neat if you could do a short video just on the D-day scene, but I figure many folks already have.

    @creekandseminole@creekandseminole8 жыл бұрын
    • creekandseminole I liked how the brazillian film "Elite Squad" used it. It really added to the feel of the movie IMO

      @miguelpereira9859@miguelpereira98596 жыл бұрын
    • The scenes of war, (particularly the D-Day scene) in Saving Private Ryan was shot handheld and was a decision by Spielberg to emulate the spontaneous hand-held visuals of authentic WW2 archival footage. Outside of the scenes of conflict, the camera is stoic, deliberate, or controlled.

      @PhantomFilmAustralia@PhantomFilmAustraliaАй бұрын
  • How did I JUST discover you channel????

    @aliaalmutairi4783@aliaalmutairi47837 жыл бұрын
  • And now Tony from this channel has a Netflix doc with Fincher! Amazing

    @ahmedhallajian8886@ahmedhallajian88862 жыл бұрын
    • Really? What is the name of the doc?

      @josuebenvindo@josuebenvindo2 жыл бұрын
    • @@josuebenvindo VOIR :)

      @ahmedhallajian8886@ahmedhallajian88862 жыл бұрын
    • @@ahmedhallajian8886, thank you. I gonna watch it.

      @josuebenvindo@josuebenvindo2 жыл бұрын
  • An awesome video essay Tony. Love the way you present this. Insightful and extremely enjoyable

    @SkyCinema@SkyCinema8 жыл бұрын
  • I still get back to watching this every now and then.

    @berkertaskiran@berkertaskiran Жыл бұрын
  • This is actually really useful info if you're into graphic novels as well, considering how the still shots are organized.

    @BlueisNotaWarmColour@BlueisNotaWarmColour8 жыл бұрын
    • Sorry but what do you mean? :)

      @AidanB@AidanB8 жыл бұрын
    • Aidan Brooks I'm just pointing out that if you were writing and drawing some kinda comic, this would help you construct many of the dialogue-driven scenes. Laying out the panels and whatnot.

      @BlueisNotaWarmColour@BlueisNotaWarmColour8 жыл бұрын
    • +The Lukanator Very true, but be wary. There are many things that work on screen but not on the page. Vice versa, don't be critical of something that works on the page because it wouldn't onscreen.

      @luckygitane@luckygitane8 жыл бұрын
    • I love comparing comic frames and movie frames. I find comic books movies most interesting. It's shame there's not many of those. All of Frank Miller's work, Dick Tracy, Unbreakable.. that's about it. Please suggest more if you know any.

      @youarelife3437@youarelife3437 Жыл бұрын
  • Subbed. What a great video

    @MATTDALOR1AN@MATTDALOR1AN7 жыл бұрын
    • Arent you Stuckmann’s boi?

      @redshirts4757@redshirts47575 жыл бұрын
  • my favorite youtuber making a video on my favorite director. I don't think I can handle this...

    @zabreklz@zabreklz9 жыл бұрын
  • I'm learning so much from you... and I don't even fully understand most of what you're talking about. Thank you for making my viewing experiences that much richer.

    @rohbit@rohbit8 жыл бұрын
  • I miss this channel so much...

    @murciadoxial8056@murciadoxial80565 жыл бұрын
  • Dude, you videos are rock solid. The audio is at a constant and comfortable level, no jump cuts, and the voice over is impeccable. Simple, yet extremely effective. Keep it up, brother.

    @joebeuselinck6325@joebeuselinck63257 жыл бұрын
  • Without a doubt these are some of the best videos I've seen anywhere about film, you know how Tarantino makes movies that make you want to make movies, your video essays have that same power. You're really good at this.

    @SamDLIVE@SamDLIVE8 жыл бұрын
    • Tell em

      @crystalash227@crystalash227 Жыл бұрын
  • Well done video! Its mice to see someone genuinely love the industry, and intelligently discuss it in such an entertaining way. Without histrionics. Thank you!

    @joenewman2402@joenewman24024 жыл бұрын
  • Fincher quoting "Double Rainbow" Awesome!

    @ytsejam58@ytsejam587 жыл бұрын
  • Ending on a smile in a close up... You're a class act, Tony!

    @styankendall@styankendall2 жыл бұрын
  • "Even if you don't like Fincher "...I mean , come on...Who doesn't like the guy if not love..

    @sada0101@sada01018 жыл бұрын
    • Sada sivan I don't particularly like him. I don't hate him.

      @kieranl5249@kieranl52498 жыл бұрын
    • +Sada sivan Still my favorite director.

      @slug237711@slug2377118 жыл бұрын
    • It's impossible to hate anyone we don't know personally.

      @Cinetropa@Cinetropa7 жыл бұрын
    • I have mixed feelings on him and his style.

      @bored_person@bored_person7 жыл бұрын
    • I'm kinda mixed. He's either really amazing or just meh. For every Fight Club, there's The Game. For every Se7en, there's an Alien 3. For every Gone Girl, there's a Panic Room.

      @mikepuppetz9@mikepuppetz96 жыл бұрын
  • Fincher-Reznor >>>> Nolan-Zimmer

    @piter2084@piter20847 жыл бұрын
    • Yes. Oh god, yes.

      @TASCmedia@TASCmedia7 жыл бұрын
    • I am agreeing so hard.

      6 жыл бұрын
  • great work as ever! thanks Tony! you're so close to 1 million, man! congratulations!

    @GrahamRobinsonArt@GrahamRobinsonArt7 жыл бұрын
  • i LOVE david fincher's work. he is such a crafty storyteller.

    @dante224real1@dante224real18 жыл бұрын
  • You seriously make some of the best videos about films.

    @Michael-fs1cw@Michael-fs1cw9 жыл бұрын
  • There's a special place in heaven for Tony Zhou.

    @smackdaddy9802@smackdaddy98024 жыл бұрын
  • I've seen this video 10-15 times now, love your video essays!

    @NithinVasisth@NithinVasisth7 жыл бұрын
  • Hey, just wanted to say I have just found these videos and they are absolutely brilliantly done, really love and appreciate the work. Many thanks

    @jbartlettcoys@jbartlettcoys8 жыл бұрын
  • So, now I'm a pervert

    @temari894@temari8947 жыл бұрын
    • Ruth S only now?

      @idiotDB@idiotDB7 жыл бұрын
  • Fincher is one funny and down to earth guy

    @Childrenoflightprod_@Childrenoflightprod_ Жыл бұрын
  • every upload from you feels like a well-made short film or docu. I love the quality of your content and felt like I had to say something. Thanks for sharing !

    @ets175@ets1757 жыл бұрын
  • I'm so happy I discovered this channel. I see a lot of channels on here that analyze film, but I love your focus on cinematography. Looking forward to more of your content!

    @seanarnone724@seanarnone7248 жыл бұрын
  • Personally I LOVE it when a movie has an intro clip with some music, like in Se7en. When it's well done it's not cheesy at all, but actually sets the theme right away. It also makes the movie very memorable. I don't know if you did a video on this yet, I just found your channel!

    @Cinnoney@Cinnoney7 жыл бұрын
  • My favorite close up ever was that zodiac scene i just love that and putting that bird noise in there while showing the bullets.Fincher is probably my favorite director

    @dougiebull2074@dougiebull2074 Жыл бұрын
  • Your analysis are excelent and your videos are always a pleasure to watch. Thank you for the passion and the work you put into it.

    @Ed_Crane@Ed_Crane8 жыл бұрын
  • Too good. Keep on posting more of these

    @sarthakjariwala7334@sarthakjariwala73347 жыл бұрын
  • Great job! This is becoming my favorite channel on KZhead.

    @TheGamerFromMars@TheGamerFromMars9 жыл бұрын
    • +TheGamerFromMars You here?

      @IMmephiles@IMmephiles8 жыл бұрын
    • It's weird to see a big channel with less then 10 likes on a comment.

      @aydankhaliq2967@aydankhaliq29672 жыл бұрын
  • Fridge shots are so film school.

    @maxfrederick2951@maxfrederick29519 жыл бұрын
  • This is one of the best edited pieces of KZhead gold I've ever witnessed.. That transition at the end from Fincher to the credits and Donovan gave me goosebumps.

    @mawoo42@mawoo427 жыл бұрын
  • I'd love for this series to return. Great video, thank you.

    @KieranGarland@KieranGarland4 жыл бұрын
  • I miss you, Tony. Everyday.

    @juanpronko816@juanpronko81610 ай бұрын
  • I don't usually love the concepts but he's a genius - "like what's happening is doomed to happen". Love it.

    @jmcclary4941@jmcclary49417 жыл бұрын
  • You guys did a truly great and inspiring job, thank you for that!

    @birchtree14@birchtree148 жыл бұрын
  • this is brilliant - just what ive been looking for -great series keep it up please

    @growfilmspromotions2071@growfilmspromotions20718 жыл бұрын
  • Fincher is the reason why I got so into film. There was a time when my favourite movie was Transformers but after Benjamin Button impacted me so much that I started looking at cinema more as an art than entertainment. Even though I do realize that the film that started it all wasn't as good as I thought, it still holds a place in the heart this cinephile and if I now watch films In the Mood for Love or Wings of Desire and study filmmakers such as Haneke or Bergman I have Fincher to thank for that. In the slight chance that you've seen this comment (it seems like you know the double rainbow so I guess you're somewhat in touch with the internet haha) I have to truly thank you, Mr. Fincher and I hope I can one day be cited alongside you as one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.

    @Mrsupermatt2172@Mrsupermatt21729 жыл бұрын
  • I had to re-watch after hearing about the announcement of VOIR. Congrats to both Tony and Taylor, can't wait to see what you have been up to!

    @JD98ns@JD98ns2 жыл бұрын
  • I miss you Tony! Your video essays are still the absolute best on youtube :)

    @Robin6000@Robin60004 жыл бұрын
  • Excellent video, I really enjoyed it, thank you for making it.

    @danielskaluba5520@danielskaluba55204 жыл бұрын
  • Dude, I love this.

    @JakeJarvi@JakeJarvi9 жыл бұрын
  • Fincher's body of work is nearly flawless, and he just keeps getting better. He manages to convey the most intense uneasiness with amazingly choreographed camera shots that don't rely on the support of excessive dramatic music, sound effects or cheap gore. It's pretty amazing how he draws from his actors every ounce of emotion needed to make the viewer understand what's going on in their minds with as little as a well-placed frame. I haven't checked if he has favorite editors of DPs, but I would guess he does, because the structure of his movies is usually as recognizable as his directing style. His refusal to overuse handheld is also something I would like to thank him personally for. I want to watch a story develop without the need to also develop a headache, you know?

    @Palmieres@Palmieres6 жыл бұрын
  • I wish this channel would of kept on. 5 years since the last video and I'm still recommending this channel as a gateway to understanding film

    @Rafa-ke2sz@Rafa-ke2sz2 жыл бұрын
    • David Fincher put out a 6 episode documentary series on Netflix called VOIR that Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos did episodes for.

      @kalm4th@kalm4th2 жыл бұрын
  • so well made, incredible editing and presentation

    @travisjones4106@travisjones41068 жыл бұрын
  • Brilliant director - not always picking the best stories to tell, IMO, but perhaps he likes the challenge.

    @Nygaard2@Nygaard28 жыл бұрын
    • Disney approached him for a Star Wars film but they didn't agree to the same vision apparently. I would love to see a Fincher Star Wars film personally.

      @ogfunk187@ogfunk1878 жыл бұрын
    • Agreed - and if Disney is clever about it, Star Wars can be an interesting canvass for a lot of storytellers.

      @Nygaard2@Nygaard28 жыл бұрын
    • +Monkey Magic it would turn fincher mainstream, and i feel that often times ruins a directors career. (unless they had already been fairly mainstream like Abrams, because hes pretty good at what he does already).

      @nicko2864@nicko28648 жыл бұрын
    • +Monkey Magic Lets see, Fincher thinks we're all perverts and Disney owns Star Wars... how could that possibly not work out.... :P

      @BollocksUtwat@BollocksUtwat8 жыл бұрын
    • +Magnus Nygaard That's true. He is like one hit, one miss, one hit, one miss. But he surely tells them interestingly none the less.

      @zenithquasar9623@zenithquasar96238 жыл бұрын
  • I think this channel is still the best of its kind.

    @MrDeyzel@MrDeyzel2 жыл бұрын
  • Always love essays on the technical aspects of filmmaking. Go on like this :)

    @matthias7893@matthias78932 жыл бұрын
  • This is great, happy to find a good KZhead channel about filmmaking! Keep on the amazing work!

    @FrancaFambrini@FrancaFambrini7 жыл бұрын
  • Fincher is just so good.

    @peachylady@peachylady4 жыл бұрын
  • Awesome Awesome Awesome!

    @FilmmakerIQ@FilmmakerIQ9 жыл бұрын
  • Love your works man! thanks a lot

    @hungryharb1128@hungryharb11287 жыл бұрын
  • Thanks very much! Will def support.

    @bennyrietveld9355@bennyrietveld93556 жыл бұрын
  • i remember seeing the game in the 90's when i was a young teenager and thinking that the atmosphere and feel of that movie was unlike anything i'd felt before. He creates worlds that make you feel them viscerally.

    @devinmichaelroberts9954@devinmichaelroberts99544 жыл бұрын
    • Devin Michael Roberts Ditto

      @CloverPickingHarp@CloverPickingHarp4 жыл бұрын
  • "Even if you don't like Fincher"? That's a thing? Well alright.

    @theriffwriter2194@theriffwriter21947 жыл бұрын
    • John Milton Def a thing. I know people in the film industry, that don't like his work. Why? Because some feel that his movies are "cold & overly analytical". Tony kind of touches on that, when he talks about how all his shots being on a tripod, and even movement is very smooth perfect. He's right that it's very similar to Kubrick. If you watch the Shining, it also has a very "clean" and almost "analytical" feel to it. And for some, this makes the films lack "soul" and "energy". So I actually can understand why some don't personally enjoy his work. But I love Fincher. I'm not that picky when it comes to film/art, and I actually seek out diversity, and am open to various styles. Fincher is definitely a master at his craft, and his style would probably be horrible for most filmmakers. But because he's so good at what he does, he uses his style effectively. As a side note, I know actors/production that hate Fincher, because he shoots and re-shoots scenes too many times. I think it was Robert Duvall, but he got angry when Fincher asked him to do a scene 50 times. He pretty much said, if you don't think an actor can get the scene right in 10 shoots, then you have no business working with actors (or something to that effect). He basically accuses Fincher of being incompetent, and overly lacking in confidence.

      @mewgiah8057@mewgiah80577 жыл бұрын
    • 🤣🤣

      @hellodavey1902@hellodavey19022 жыл бұрын
    • You just don’t say “I don’t like Finchers work” and get away with it calmly

      @siinxx7656@siinxx7656 Жыл бұрын
  • Thank you so much. What great analisation about my favourite director.

    @thienhoangnguyen1233@thienhoangnguyen12336 жыл бұрын
  • I love your knowledge, you really help me understand the craft of filmmaking more! Bless your channel

    @Yvory@Yvory8 жыл бұрын
  • Perfect way to whet the appetite for Gone Girl -- thank you Tony!

    @MultiplexShow@MultiplexShow9 жыл бұрын
  • Was that ending cut and music meant to imply ... that Fincher is the Zodiac?

    @coolidgedollar2154@coolidgedollar21547 жыл бұрын
    • Haha!!

      @mclare71@mclare715 жыл бұрын
    • Just coming back here when the zodiac mystery was finally solved

      @baronharkonnen7894@baronharkonnen78943 жыл бұрын
  • What a fantastic video!! Thank you

    @Aljess@Aljess4 жыл бұрын
  • You nailed everthing, even the ending song, amazing

    @Cron0s91@Cron0s917 жыл бұрын
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