10 жыл бұрын
10 жыл бұрын
Пікірлер
@robertbeckerbecker1354 14 күн бұрын
He did make a movie on par with Citizen Kane or damn near, the greatest horror movie ever made.
@gaylordfocker7990 Ай бұрын
LMAO, had to call them out for being out of focus and then using jump-cuts right after. This dude always likes to roast and bust balls in every interview I seen.
@davedupey8823 Ай бұрын
What a douche. He just propagated the myth of the Klan existing to "protect" white women from newly freed slaves. Absolutely ahistorical and disgusting justification. The Klan existed to keep newly freed slaves from exercising their political and social power. The only "crimes" that they committed were against laws that were put in place to keep them subjugated. What a stupid asshole.
@cd3694 Ай бұрын
I was just about to say the same thing. Indicates how ignorant he is. And racist.
@brandothecatmeow Ай бұрын
He is 100% right about film today. What it has become and where it's going. I also agree about film school. It's not like it was in the 60s & 70s. I do love his film selections and his film To Live & Die in L.A. is in my top 20 of all time.
@asmodeus0454 Ай бұрын
I remember the French film "Z" and it was nominated for several Academy Awards if I recall correctly.
@xavierpaquin 2 ай бұрын
I guess fade-in figured they weren't gonna top this interview and called it quits
@lazyartiste_2357 Ай бұрын
True
@HeadbutKneecap 3 ай бұрын
"He wasn't out of fo us like you guys - he doesn't do these jump cuts like you guys" *Cameraman scrambled to correct himself*
@spoobsjammin 4 ай бұрын
Wasn’t he just stating the plot of Birth of Nation and how it was a an advancement in film technique, didn’t appear to me he was agreeing with the subject matter. I didn’t hear him say he agreed with the movies take on the matter or that it was a fact the KKK was set up for that reason. Maybe when they directed this interview they should have questioned this to clarify what he meant rather than having people just jumping to the conclusion he’s racist. I think we can all agree anyone in their right mind would know Birth of nation is a racist movie.
@funk0tron 2 ай бұрын
That's exactly what Friedkin was doing, but people will hear what they want to hear. They'll conveniently forget the fact Friedkin created a documentary for Paul Crump, a black man, which saved him from the death sentence. Those darn pesky facts though getting in the way of spinning a narrative about a legend.
@cd3694 Ай бұрын
He clearly said the movie is not popular in the “politically correct” time, because it’s about the KKK and how the KKK was created to prevent black crime because the former slaves were running amok. I sure didn’t hear him say that was a complete racist fallacy. It came across as he was in agreement.
@obscure.reference 22 күн бұрын
@@cd3694 he said ‘it’s not popular in a politically correct time’ to have a film that justifies the ku klux klan. is that not true? he’s talking about why the film interests him, why should he have to lay it out the morality to you like you’re a child when he’s just explaining what the film does and where its ideas come from? have you even seen any of his films? few of them lay out morality so simply like this. to friedkin, no people are and no person is solely good or bad. to completely write him off because of one bad thing you perceive him doing is no great loss, because it’s unlikely you would connect to even one of his morally complex films and characters.
@craigkennett6226 4 ай бұрын
Jesus did he talk up the worst story line movie ever Birth Of a Nation? Who cares how it was made? To say it isn't allowed to be shown or used today is only politically correct when in fact it's just the decent thing to do out of common decency is ignorant. He wouldn't like the networks showing all the home made nazi movies of the concentration camps and rightly so. But where are the factual stats supporting his claims of newly freed slaves going on a rampage committing rape and other crimes? No wonder the Jews are hated so much when he's a representative. Power to the Palestinians
@funk0tron 2 ай бұрын
Friedkin never said he's a representative for Jews. How do you know Friedkin would have said that about nazi movies? His family left the Ukraine in 1903 due to Russian progroms. They didn't interact with the Nazis. If I was a betting man, I'd bet Friedkin would say show those movies so people could see for themselves the evil in what they did. Have anything factual to backup your assertions about Friedkin? "No wonder the Jews are hated so much when he's a representative." Careful Adolf, your mask is slipping.
@boutrosboutrosboutrosboutros 5 ай бұрын
OK slow your roll Bill. People massively respect Buster Keaton. This guy likes to tell everybody what they think. He reminds me of so many brilliant artist types.
@boutrosboutrosboutrosboutros 5 ай бұрын
Black crime? freed slaves raping everyone? Really Bill?
@obscure.reference 22 күн бұрын
cultural perception at the time
@Al_NERi 5 ай бұрын
Friedkin is correct film school is bunk.
@criticalmass613 5 ай бұрын
Best car chase scene filmmaker in cinema. Along with being one of the best storytellers of his generation.
@James_Bowie 5 ай бұрын
One of the most erudite film makers and always very generous with his time to discuss the art. RIP Bill.
@sgt.thundercok4704 5 ай бұрын
'You're losing the kids, Bill, with all the Keaton talk!' Just kidding. I loved listening to this.
@sgt.thundercok4704 5 ай бұрын
Unique mind.
@Zepster77 5 ай бұрын
He lauds Steve McQueen but doesn’t mention “Papillon”…. 🤔
@Zepster77 5 ай бұрын
Content starts at 2:22
@JingleJangleJam 5 ай бұрын
I agree with William Friedkin. I went to film school for a semester, taking one course in it to see what it was like as an elective. The lecturer said don't just try to be Hitchcock and to start off low in the trade first, or something. Well I'm quite certain that I learned more about cinema from on the sofa after midnight watching Hitchcock's film Sabotage that I did in school. That film's side character's dialogues have such heart, compassion, moral dignity that you really learn how film can be a medium for discussing moral ideas like the individual's rights to presumed innocence in a society, and how to create a sense of true warmth and connection, in between moments of despair and suspense for fright, without becoming schmaltzy and still remaining with a sense of irony and humour about it.
@moorishg 6 ай бұрын
Screw him he's a lying piece of crap! Birth of a nation was a total racist movie. Black did not rape women. They wanted nothing to do with white southerners. They were finally coming up and well to do southern whites hired white terrorists to suppress blacks. It's simple this guy has no clue! Good riddance 🎉
@funk0tron 2 ай бұрын
I will just say I believe Friedkin was explaining the subject matter of the movie. Not saying that's what history is, though I will grant you it can be taken that way. Friedkin made The People vs Paul Crump in 1962 which helped exonerate a black man from a death sentence, because Friedkin believed through police brutality he was coerced to admit to the crime and was in fact innocent. He did this by getting the film in front of the Illinois governor. In other words he really pushed for this man's innocence. A man who would make such a documentary in 1962 doesn't scream racist to me or one who aligns with a vile group such as the KKK. In that regard I think dancing on his grave is a bit much.
@user-bs1qk2ku7b 6 ай бұрын
How numbingly predictable. Thank God Friedkin became so much more than his influences.
@BassUndertow 6 ай бұрын
"He wasn't out of focus like you guys...he didn't keep doing these jump cuts like you guys." 😂😂 Lol, he roasts the people interviewing him while discussing why Birth of a Nation is great cinema
@Jungus1999 6 ай бұрын
Why he low key sound like Trump 😂
@creasefold1986 6 ай бұрын
The first Klan was established in the wake of the American Civil War and was a defining organization of the Reconstruction era. Organized in numerous independent chapters across the Southern United States, federal law enforcement suppressed it around 1871. It sought to overthrow the Republican state governments in the South, especially by using voter intimidation and targeted violence against African-American leaders. Each chapter was autonomous and highly secretive about membership and plans. Members made their own, often colorful, costumes: robes, masks and conical hats, designed to be terrifying and to hide their identities.
@jpm9628 6 ай бұрын
Total film hero but he doesn't know SHIT about Jim Crow. LOL.
@kailuakidd1512 6 ай бұрын
Great interview, and wonderful analysis of film history. Thank you
@john-ic5pz 6 ай бұрын
is it me or does McConaughey look like he date r*ped the whole cheerleading squad?
@andybaldman 6 ай бұрын
You kids and your fucking jump cuts.
@andybaldman 6 ай бұрын
So ads are just part of the video now?
@MultiStats 6 ай бұрын
Z was one on both Siskel & Eberts top 10 list for 1969. It was quite good.
@lifelongbachelor3651 6 ай бұрын
pc ruined film.
@TheFly212 6 ай бұрын
Yes but CGI and comic book movies ruined it also, especially marvels shit and DCs shit of the middle to late 2010s n(Only Nolans' Dark Knight films are any good) did. Film was quite good till around the late 2000s. I mean, look at 2008..... One of the great years in film and probably the last great year in movies. Also, the lack of dramatis' and adult dramas and thrillers the last 7ish years have also impacted the quality of film. But.... When your dumb ass popcorn munching masses only want to see comic book movies and sht... I guess that's what you get.
@jaceconverse6337 6 ай бұрын
And that was10 years ago. Things are even worse in regard to films now with all the obvious woke messages and political correctness embedded in the junk Hollywood pushes . .
@charleswinokoor6023 6 ай бұрын
Go to 6:45 and listen to what he has to say about “Birth of a Nation.”
@joesantamaria5874 6 ай бұрын
Nice pants
@michaelattwell7502 6 ай бұрын
Excellent discussion. I would add his French Connection to the list of all time great film classics.
@jebediahkrimsoncraftleding3012 6 ай бұрын
Incredible. He had the awareness to know that people (who are complicated) can hold the simultaneous beliefs that, 1.) Birth of a Nation is a landmark in movies, and 2.) Certainly reeks of 1915 American social values, and he finds it only valuable as a way to, first, pretend he's above it all by calling it political correctness (notice, too, how he doesn't even care to mention anything made recently, as if he's stuck in the 70's when his movies were even watchable), then as a challenge, like he has to now defend the film because what's ostensibly a classic has, naturally, been examined through different critical lenses over the years. In his brilliance, his takeaway is, "Yeah, the ku klux klan being justified in that movie was actually okay, because the black people during reconstruction actually were just rapists and pillagers." Again, incredible. Let Friedkin rot in a shallow grave, having lived in small esteem for the better part of his life.
@obscure.reference 22 күн бұрын
he didn’t even say that, he’s still talking about the perspective of the film there. hes saying being morally wrong or socially irresponsible is meaningless to whether a film is good or important. also cites a polanski film here. insane how much more animosity you express prompted only by him mentioning the film and it’s effect without bothering to twirl in a circle around how ‘racism bad’. just compare the tone of what you’re saying to him, he’s literally talking about history dispassionately, and you’re saying you hope he rots in a shallow grave. it’d be funny if it didn’t seem psychotic.
@davesv123 6 ай бұрын
Listed the most basic Film 101 films but did it with such genuine love that I can't hate on it.
@nir0bateman 6 ай бұрын
10:05 And his last film is "The Mutiny on the Caine Court Martial", which is pretty Rashomon-y in theme, but not in tone
@jimhowaniec 6 ай бұрын
kind of a dink
@user-db6pt7vr3l 6 ай бұрын
I think he just justified the rise of the Ku Klux Klan when talking about The Birth of a Nation.
@mikey8718 6 ай бұрын
I've never even heard of killer Joe, I don't know why I was 26 ten years ago, I actually thought it was a new trailer when it came on 😆 silly though didn't see any minorities😉
@stevenfrost6441 6 ай бұрын
Friedkin is one of my top 5 favorite Directors. He didn't give a shit about anything except his craft. Epic Artist. RIP.
@rickydalejr6028 6 ай бұрын
His voice is a combination of Trump and Gary Cole
@Charles-xm1ml 7 ай бұрын
Good list..
@dbaytug 7 ай бұрын
I bet his Trump impression was awesome. Such a similar voice.
@Concreteowl 7 ай бұрын
I'm not sure his description of the KKKs mission is historical accurate.
@araucariapasquale1 7 ай бұрын
Things can start legitimately enough. Vigilante justice was a necessary way of life in some parts of the US. Does not mean it cannot grow to become a monster. Evil is not always born evil.
@dicktaylor7575 7 ай бұрын
Z was shot like a documentary becoz it is based on real events that occured in Greece.
@Shoulderdevil2023 7 ай бұрын
Brilliant
@michaelmiller7160 7 ай бұрын
Friedkin is far too concerned with movies that change filmmaking or films ahead of their times. Or chase scenes. I like a great suspenseful entertaining film.
@yoinkhaha 7 ай бұрын
“I haven’t seen too many films since Blade Runner.” Amen.