edit: this is way long and i am so sorry
What should we call you?
- you can call me Zan, hello it's nice to meet you :)
What pronouns should we use for you?
- whatever you please
What was the first movie that you remember watching?
- I honestly don't know. Probably a movie adaptation of a kids' show like sesame street. I'd say that my first interaction with a film that made me actually love film was probably Fantastic Mr Fox (wes anderson) or Dead Poets Society (Peter weir).
Any favorite directors?
- Edgar Wright, sam raimi (mostly for the Evil dead trilogy because the films may not be super high brow but man is the directing creative), and wes anderson. I of course love the classics (Kubrick, Scorsese, Christopher Nolan) as well. However, i do not like Kubrick's abuse of his actors. oh also I love Hitchcock.
What is your favorite and least favorite trope?
- Favorite trope: I don't think this counts as a trope, its more of a directing segue thing, but I love when a character will be like "where do you want to eat?" (or something) and then it will be them at the restaurant. aka: answering questions visually.
- Least favorite trope: I saw the Matrix recently for school and could not stand the constant "he is the messiah!" and the character who is the messiah ignoring every blatant 'call to action' and just vehemently denies his destiny until the point of it being absurd. I understand that is half the Matrix but it annoys me no matter what movie it is. I understand that 'ignoring the call to action' is one of the steps in the Hero's Journey as well, but when it is done that repetitively I just get annoyed.
What's a movie mistake you can never unsee?
- It's less of a mistake and more of something I just cannot put together which is that in this new film, The Power of the Dog (new jane campion film), there's a name on this set of explicit magazines as if the character labeled them with their name? like why would you do that? it's meant so we (and the individual who finds them) understand whose they are, but there has to be a better way to show it. because it's just nonsensical.
Why do you like movies?
- Visually showing stories? seeing each director's unique perspective of the world, maybe? I'm not really sure but there's always been an itch in the back of my head that's made me want to make them and that's made me hooked on watching them.
Do you have any movie-related social media for us to follow you on? (Letterboxd, a dedicated blog or twitter account, etc!)
- I do have a Letterboxd and it is capnschmazz. Also I have a Group on here for discussing Edgar Wright films! it is called the Edgar Wright film club
Do you have a favorite actor? What makes them stand out?
- David Tennant. I know, it may not be an obvious choice, but he is a criminally underrated actor. I think his name's gotten caught in all the Doctor Who reputation stuff and he's thought of (often) as more of this upbeat, funny guy who does a good amount of daytime television stuff, but he is not that. His Hamlet (2009!) is everything I've ever imagined Hamlet to be. I read the play in school and when I saw Tennant's performance I was like, that's Hamlet. What fascinates me about him as well, as a fellow actor, is the fact that he does not know what he is doing. In multiple interviews people ask him, yknow, "how do you do it?" and his response everytime is just "I do things?". He played the British serial killer Dennis Nilsen in 2020 in the show, Des, and he was absurdly good. He won the NTA for it (thank god) which he more-than deserved. He has an incredible ability to just transform himself into roles and often I just forget who he is. His versatility is incredible as well. A perfect example of this is to go from watching this (slightly mediocre but Tennant is incredible) show called 'Secret Smile' (free on Prime with ads) where he plays this nightmare ex-boyfriend. He is terrifying. Then, that year, he gets cast in Doctor Who. Then, watch an incredible show called 'Deadwater Fell' which is slightly similar to Broadchurch (but not really at all), then watch Broadchurch, and then watch an american sitcom called Camping. Then there's Bad Samaritan which is an okay-horror movie in which he plays a terrifying American serial killer. Then there's his King Richard II, his Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, and so much more. He's the most underrated, brilliant, brilliant, actor I have ever seen grace a screen.
What's your favorite movie?
- This one is tough. I love Shaun of the Dead. It's just perfect, perfectly made, perfectly, shot, acted, perfectly written, everything just is tied up so wonderfully with a little bow on top. Then again, there's Parasite which was mindblowingly good. I love Dead Poets Society, as I said earlier. Napoleon Dynamite is a comedic masterpiece. There's an early Benedict Cumberbatch indie film called Wreckers which is an incredible, ambiguous, unsettling, psychological (sort of thriller) drama. Tinker Tailor Solider Spy is amazing. There's so many amazing films.
thanks for having me. y'all seem great :)
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