Director Refn's influences? "The Shining", "Occurence At Owl Creek Bridge" (the granddaddy of this genre) and "Jacob's Ladder", though in fairness to these two great films "Fear X"'s director ignorantly breaks the *rules. Ultimately there's another movie maker who should receive top award for Influence......will name the name later.
*Films that take the full-time ride telling their story only to reveal at the end that everything takes place in a few seconds or minutes of the main character's life have to, repeat, have to, let the audience know that this is what it's all about at the conclusion. "Fear X" fails the test by it's false ending and since the story's structure didn't cleverly lead us all to a Lady or the Tiger ending, one feels cheated.
Most influential director to Refn? Andy Warhol. (Oh, the tedious longness of much of the scenes. Edit you bastard, edit.....you're not Stanley Kubrick!)
(For Someone's Information: An earlier writer commented that Refn had "used Kubrick's photographer (cinematographer?), Larry Smith, from "The Shining" on this movie. "The Shining" was shot by the great John Alcott. Larry Smith is one of two gaffers on "The Shining".
*Films that take the full-time ride telling their story only to reveal at the end that everything takes place in a few seconds or minutes of the main character's life have to, repeat, have to, let the audience know that this is what it's all about at the conclusion. "Fear X" fails the test by it's false ending and since the story's structure didn't cleverly lead us all to a Lady or the Tiger ending, one feels cheated.
Most influential director to Refn? Andy Warhol. (Oh, the tedious longness of much of the scenes. Edit you bastard, edit.....you're not Stanley Kubrick!)
(For Someone's Information: An earlier writer commented that Refn had "used Kubrick's photographer (cinematographer?), Larry Smith, from "The Shining" on this movie. "The Shining" was shot by the great John Alcott. Larry Smith is one of two gaffers on "The Shining".
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