Filmmaking Style: Heavily employs pastiche drawing from classic films such as Ernest Goes To School, Ernest Goes To Jail, and Ernest Goes To Camp
Career Highlight: Getting to work with big-time Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein
Inspiration: Filling the world’s dorm rooms with posters reflecting his artistic vision
Tricks Of The Trade: Applied a CGI filter to Robert DeNiro’s face in order to make him appear Irish
Recurring Themes In His Work: Masculinity, religious guilt, mortadella
On-Set Mishaps: Accidentally left camera running on the tracking shot filming the Copacabana scene in Goodfellas that showed the rest of Ray Liotta’s life
Filmmaking Style: Allows the actors to ad lib the entire film, then passive aggressively displays better dialogue along the bottom of the screen
Preferred Themes: Environmentalism, social change, jokes that are sort of funny but also kind of just weird things that happen and you go, “Huh, that’s strange”
Defining Films: Snowpiercer FULL MOVIE SOUND (PT 1), Snowpiercer FULL MOVIE SOUND (PT 2 Click LINK TO CONTINUE)
Build: Lithe and birdlike in an alluringly breathless way—supple, naughty, and perfectly tart
Notable For: Trying to warn us about Kevin Spacey with American Beauty (1999)
Fun Fact: Like Skyfall, American Beauty, and Road To Perdition, 1917 continued Mendes’ tradition of basing films on anecdotes told to him by his grandfather
