Favorite Directors
So when Eric asked us to look through are move collections and see what directors we gravitate towards. In looking through my what seems like hundreds of DVD's, I tried to separate all the films into Directors categories. Many directors had about two or three in there pile. But at the end of the indever I found that two directors had one or two more on there pile then the others. The two film makers were Bruce Timm and comedy legend Mel Brooks.
Bruce Timm - Being that it is well known to the class by now that I am a huge comic book and superhero geek (only DC comics,. No Marvel. marvel has never had that great of characters or stories that have enthralled me, well... except for X-men). Growing up in the 90's I was intrigued to find out that animation director Bruce Timm help produce some of my all time favorite Warner Brothers cartoons. Timm is most famous for directing, and writing the Emmy award winning television program Batman: The Animated Series. What has made this particular series stand out not only agents many other cartoons of the day but agents adult and other prime time TV shows is that even though it is animated, the writing is particularly superb. Timm wanted to show batman as a realistic character and never dumbed down the story just because the main targeted audience was children. The stories were adult in nature and was not afraid to show the evils that are hero faced in his dangerous escapades. I will say it here and now that as an adult I am not overly a big fan of Disney. Over the years of collecting my DVD's, the thought occurred to me that many of these films will probably be viewed by my one day children. As such I want to make sure that they will be viewing quality story telling with dynamic characters. So I started collecting the films that inspired me to venture into reading comics and then became part of why I want to gain a career in film making.
Mel Brooks - This is the man is probably responsible for everything that I find humors in life. Even though my first experience in a move theater was the legendary Superman. my second movie going adventure was seeing Mel Brooks Robin Hood: Men in Tights. This movie made me fall in love with brooks comedy, so much so that every time i visited a video rental store, I could not leave without renting at least one of Brooks prior films. Brooks is known as the king of satire. He takes a fa-miler film property, spins it, and places it on its head to make you lough so hard you cry. Wile I admit that Brooks film are probably not high brow art, they still have a charm and passion that sucks you in. Mel Brooks in truly one of my film icons and I hope to one day meet him and tell him how much I enjoy his movies.
