Film Society Talks | Nicolas Winding Refn | 'The Neon Demon'

[@bradpitt3823]

He said so many original things in this interview. Total genius.

[@agentjackstone3543]

Lol really? What was original about anything he said?

[@BonBonPalace]

I feel like nic is such a sub

[@filmmoviePRODUCTIONS]

I think that Nic is the filmmaker that non-film-snobs think that Tarantino is.

[@alexwangechi7175]

He's my fav filmmaker by a distance. I was fortunate to watch "Drive-2011" a year or so after its release.... was going through a rough patch at the time, and I remember being blown away. Then I watched Valhalla rising and, later, Only God Forgives. I love his silent, brooding style of narration... his slow, intense pacing and his experimentation with color. I really want to watch him direct Aden Young in a film.

[@SuperDuckPro]

Who the fuck turns down a job as Refn's DP?

[@adamprince5547]

people who can get work as Scorsese's DP

[@Splattermelt]

People who want to eat.

[@tozzed]

The neon demon is the worst film ever made , everyone involved in that film should be shot ASAP, it gives a bad name to indie filmmakers. How this cunt got 7 million to make this crap ......

[@AesirAesthetics]

I liked it.

[@vicspegveg]

tozzed, shut the fuck up you useless piece of shit. neon demon is brilliant. third place in cahiers du cinema.

[@ettena93]

I saw a couple of interviews with him and thought he was a complete asshole. He gave me goosebumps because he seemed so creepy. But through this interview I realized the importance of allowing him speak and fully explain himself. The "big" interviews with a lot of audience and press always seemed more interested in talking about shockfactor and even cut him off a couple of times, this was more in dept and interested in the process behind the films. Great interview all in all, and Nicolas is more likable to me now.

[@roywilson4514]

Great interview

[@taufiqhariyadi]

Lovely

[@atkascha]

Coming back to this years later. The first 5 minutes is quite poignant

[@winter9741]

second time watching this

[@janfranszuidema8512]

Nic Refn has a sense of self = Ego. Nic Refn thinks he is important = NOT! Nic Refn does kinda put his money where his mouth is. Nic Refn isn't much of a Romantic. I am Nic Refn...

[@liamarunbennett8282]

39:37 puke

[@Anton-fw2wb]

The images of the film, by themselves, are very refined, "artistic" - I agree with the concept of synthetic -, but the film is really stupid. Narcissism is an ancient theme. Why men have to change their idea on it? This is basically a teenage film that pretends to be a philosophical point of view on humanity. The subject is tiny little and particular but treated like It was universal. Where is the feminism? The perspective of a feminine future seems to be horrible. The problem is that men are incapable to see women in other way than lying in their beds. Beauty has no sex, no gender. But to understand it you have to reach a higher level of consciousness. It's not an horror movie. It doesn't provoke in me feelings of fear or anguish.

[@tonyjunior3186]

Anton Dionyso he didnt change any idea on it. The movie talks about how deadly beauty is and to what extent are you willing to go to in order to be beautiful. It's a horror movie because in a way that effort and attempt to stay and be beautiful disgraces humanity. Thus the movie doesn't touch on gender equality or sex or any of that, which I personally love because that subject has been deteriorated by the social media. It talks about how we, human beings, are crawling down that dark passage to accumulate beauty at all costs

[@Anton-fw2wb]

It's not an horror movie. Maybe a splatter. Where is the suspense? I was not scared watching it and I didn't care about the girl's fate. It seems to talk about an hypotetical futuristic society. The subject of the film is not about the beauty but the worsening of competition in the capitalism. All films have a gender politicy.

[@SUAVEcritic]

@@Anton-fw2wb compartmentalising this movie into a genre is the biggest flaw one could make. It clouds your vision in fully understanding The Neon Demon as a whole.

[@Anton-fw2wb]

@@SUAVEcritic Tell me, what does it represents? An aestheticistic vision of our brutal times behind our fashion masks? I don't know.

[@SUAVEcritic]

@@Anton-fw2wb it’s a long answer, maybe check out the analysis video on our channel where We discuss the movie at length

[@davejohnson-yi2rk]

A one hit wonder ("Drive") shows that he can make a good looking & well cast movie into a complete artistic bomb in "Neon Demon" . I think he's a pretentious f-ck who knows zero about scripts or stories, story structure, characters, pacing etc. He really needs to go back to Syd Field's screenwriting 101. If an NYU or SVA, USC or UCLA ostudent had handed this in as their senior thesis project, it would've been torn to shreds. Except for Fanning, the movie is a disaster, maybe the worst Hollywood movie I viewed in 2017. I did nothing but read scripts for an agency for 3 years and if I had approved this P.O.S. excuse for a story, I would've had my head handed to me & shown the door.

[@yoyoassful]

^^ how to spot a failed director/writer with one weird trick

[@alexwangechi7175]

Lol... You're an absolute nobody talking shite from behind your keyboard. GTFOH

[@vikrampinto]

he's got that Wim wenders calm and charm

[@brennan7859]

nah this is balls on a filmmaker. fuck the haters. It's visual storytelling at its best. If your looking for more of a straightforward film your not gonna like it.

[@mwolf9868]

Everyone talks about how genius this man is but I just see a pretentious guy with a great sense of aesthetics.

[@adamprince5547]

why do you write this comment on all of his videos?

[@unholyshape]

Remind us what movies you've directed again

[@dambition7495]

i think they dig well on imdb rating...

[@armensog87]

cause it takes less time to write bullshit , rather than watch at least one movie and try to understand it.

[@x_ask616]

M WOLF Ironically YOU are the pretentious guy, fucking idiot

[@ZacharyORay-is7us]

What a fuck up. Drive and Bronson were good. Neon Demon not so much.