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Post by Martin Stett on Jun 18, 2024 13:54:50 GMT
The idea of this poll is to take the BP winner of each year and reimagine them with the best director nominees of that year, and ask which director would make the best version of that film. If the BP winner was nominated in directing, that option will not be listed.
Altman walked away with '92, doubling the votes for runner-up Jordan
So our choices for The Silence of the Lambs are...
Barry Levinson Ridley Scott John Singleton Oliver Stone
Previous winners: 2022: Ruben Östlund's Everything Everywhere All at Once 2021: Ryusuke Hamaguchi's CODA 2020: Lee Isaac Chung's Nomadland 2019: Martin Scorsese's Parasite 2018: Spike Lee's Green Book 2017: Jordan Peele's The Shape of Water 2016: Kenneth Lonergan's Moonlight 2015: Lenny Abrahamson's Spotlight 2014: Wes Anderson's Birdman 2013: Martin Scorsese's 12 Years a Slave 2012: Steven Spielberg's Argo 2011: Woody Allen's The Artist 2010: Joel and Ethan Coen's The King's Speech 2009: James Cameron's The Hurt Locker 2008: David Fincher's Slumdog Millionaire 2007: Paul Thomas Anderson's No Country for Old Men 2006: Paul Greengrass's The Departed 2005: Bennett Miller's Crash 2004: Martin Scorsese's Million Dollar Baby 2003: Peter Weir's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2002: Pedro Almodóvar's Chicago 2001: David Lynch's A Beautiful Mind 2000: Ang Lee's Gladiator 1999: Spike Jonze's American Beauty 1998: Steven Spielberg's Shakespeare in Love 1997: Curtis Hanson's Titanic 1996: Miloš Forman's The English Patient 1995: Chris Noonan's Braveheart 1994: Krzysztof Kieślowski's Forrest Gump 1993: Jim Sheridan's Schindler's List 1992: Robert Altman's Unforgiven
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Post by finniussnrub on Jun 18, 2024 14:00:06 GMT
None of these are going to be great.
Levinson would be generic serial killer slop.
We saw Scott's version with Hannibal, though I'll concede that Silence is the better story.
The story would play into some of Stone's most over the top instincts.
Singleton wouldn't be a great fit either.
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Post by stephen on Jun 18, 2024 14:00:14 GMT
I mean, we know what Ridley's would look like, but he was working with shite material. The look and direction of that film isn't the problem.
I'd be fascinated in Oliver Stone's take on it the most, though I expect we get James Woods as Lecter or something.
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Post by mhynson27 on Jun 18, 2024 14:00:24 GMT
Interesting with Ridley here, considering he's already done a Hannibal movie.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jun 18, 2024 20:04:37 GMT
Demme's direction is irreplaceable but Scott's the easy choice here with the only post-Silence Hannibal movie worth a damn.
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