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Contextual research: Directors

TAIKA WAITITI

Taika Waititi is probably my all time favorite director. I fell inlove with his work after watching his mockumentary about vampires in New Zeland called "What We Do In the Shadows" and I'm very excited about the sequel " We're Wolves" (we're wolves - werewolves - that's genius). He's also well known for mastering happy sad cinema. He believes that when the atmosphere is tense and uncomfortable that is when we feel the need to laugh most, his goal is to find the lighter form of tragic. Great examples of this kind of tragic comedy are his films "Boy" and "Hunt for the Wilderpeople".  Recently he's known for directing Marvel's "Thor: Ragnarok" which was received pretty well by most (some are unsatisfied because it's more of a comedy than an action film, but that's one of the main reasons why I, personally, liked the film so much). His directig style includes, as he himself has said, very mundane comedy and usually he tweaks the given original script a little bit (shortens the scene: ends it when he starts getting bored by the scene, adds some jokes or comedic situations). He's also known to act in his own films, it may not be the main character, but he writes himself a part. He said, he does it because he's an egomaniac (From experience in this project - acting in something you're directing is way harder than he makes it look).  


KEVIN BRAY

I chose Kevin Bray because he has directed the pilot episode of "Suits" and that is the episode I chose to redirect for this project. Up to this day he has directed 12 episodes of the show, although he stoped directing it in 2016. From looking at the list of other shows he has directed I noticed that there were a lot of detective type of shows ("Suits", "White Collar", "How to get Away with Murder", "Chuck", "Criminal Minds", "CSI:NY" ) a lot of which I've seen and although I have seen numerus episodes that he has directed I can't really tell what is his unique way of directing. Could be the fact that he worked on shows that had pretty much set style of directing (establishing shots, wide shots, shot reverse shot and CU shots). Personally I think that directors can put more of themselves into film and make it their own for example in the films that he has directed ( "All About the Benjamins", " Walking Tall", " Linewatch") has a lot of POC actors and deal with simmilar issues - a cop/detective/sheriff fights against a mob that deals drugs. These films has some comedic aspects but are mostly action films.

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