William Friedkin on Cruising (1980):>I shot 45 minutes of gay male pornography, that I knew would be cut by the rating board. I shot it because I could. how can one man be so based?
He wanted to kick David Gordon Green's ass after hearing they were making a 6th Exorcist movie. Definitely based beyond belief
This is still one of the funniest interviews I've ever seenhttps://youtu.be/1jPWGEoyJHY?si=82pAtfLHCdvXK9DQ
>>201755522Giga based. Hes being Hyperbolic (i think) but he wanted the portrayal of the Crusin life to be raw and real and wasnt afraid to show it realistically. If you have never seen this movie its still surprising what they got away with and im sad that we didnt get to see the uncensored vision and FUCK FRANCO for wasting everyones time trying to reproduce it.
>>201755522>>201755993He says in an interview somewhere how he went cruising himself in order to familiarize himself with the gay culture. And that no one paid attention to him because "I was just another fat Jew in a jockstrap".
>>201756035>And that no one paid attention to him because "I was just another fat Jew in a jockstrap".the pain of rejection and realization of you inferior genetic status is universal. we are destined to be behind the camera.
>>201756107>picpeople really feelbad about this? You can become famous in a split second. It's usually not good.
>On one occasion, Billy hired a local for a few pesos to drive the car carrying Scheider back into town, a scene that occurs at the end of the picture. He instructed the driver to stop for nothing and no one. The unhappy man ran over a pig, and continued on. Friedkin cut, screamed and ranted at the campesino, and fired him on the spot. “The pig was dying on the side of the road, screaming in pain,” recalled Johnson. “Billy went over to it and started to cry. Every single person on the cast and crew had very snide comments about the fact that he shed a tear for this pig, and yet the location manager, who was a very sweet woman, had been fired and sent running from the set in tears. Yet this is how Billy chose to show his sympathy.” He adds, “At that point, people were beginning to question whether or not he had a heart.”
>Sorcerer was filled with European actors like Francisco Rabal, Amidou, and Bruno Cremer. Sheinberg told him, “You know, a problem is, this picture, it seems like a foreign film because it’s got all these foreign names in it.”>“Well, I don’t see where that’s a problem. Let’s just get these guys to change their names.”>“Whaddya mean?”>“Well, like Francisco Rabal, could be Frank Roberts or something. And Amidou, he could be Joe Smith. And I’ll change my name if you want, I don’t care.”
>“‘Why haven’t you married my daughter, William? Is it because she isn’t a Jewish girl?’ William went insane. He had this terrible trait, he threw tantrums like a two-year-old. He foamed at the mouth, spittle flew out of it, he screamed at her, ‘You’re a racist!’ My mother sat very upright, a houndstooth-suit, silver-caned kind of a lady, didn’t flinch at all. I was quivering with terror. My mother calmly said, ‘Well, William, I suggest we retire now and you think about what you’ve said.’ William called to me, ‘Come to bed with me. Come to bed with me.’ I said, ‘No, I’m going with my mother. Blood’s thicker than water.’ The next morning, he was on his best behavior. He sat there and blew bubbles in the milk, like a seven-year-old kid, like, ‘Aren’t I a good boy now.’ My mother left the following day.”
>>201757810>>201757844>>201757876still voting Friedkin
>>201755522Best of his generationAnd no one does a chase scene like Friedkin. Even the 1 mph chase scene in Jade is tense and exciting.
>>201755588knew it would be M E D I C before i even clicked kek
>Like the others, Friedkin was a victim of the too-much-too-soon disease. “Arrogance and pussy were the double-pronged temptress for guys in our position,” he says. “We all thought that where we were was the center of the universe and that everything revolved around our problems, our needs, our ambitions. I would never have stated it this baldly, but I really thought that directing films was the most important job in the world. We were endowed with some kind of magic.”
His exorcism documentary was nice and could made up with The Exorcist's writer after years without talking each other.
Linda Blair was twelve. Friedkin needed to make sure she could deal with the more outré requirements of the role. He asked her, “Did you read The Exorcist?”“Yes.”“What’s it about?”“It’s about a little girl who gets possessed by the devil and does a lot of bad things.”“What sort of bad things?”“She pushes a guy out a window and masturbates with a crucifix and—“ “What does that mean?”“It’s like jerking off, isn’t it?”“Yeah, do you know about jerking off?”“Oh, sure.”“Do you do that?”“Yeah, don’t you?”She got the role.
>>201755522This nigga looks like the faggiest nerd of all time and yet he would routinely talk down to even studio executives. How you ask? Let me tell you. Two words. Sidney Korshak. Look up the guy. He got friedkin into the movie unions and got him his first jobs in Chicago. He was a guiding hand when friedkin moved to Hollywood. Friedkin was the kinda nigga who was not born wealthy but he knew how to schmooze people in power. Everything he got after the 90s is because he managed to fuck Sherry Lansing's rusty cunt.
>>201755522>I wasted everyones time and (((producers))) money for no reasonthat's not based
>>201755522disgustingsage
>>201755522based>a 300 page novelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8pXQUPBh7A
>>201755522Underrated movie, as hellish and original as the Exorcist. The only problem is Richard Gere was the first choice for the Pacino role as the twinkish rookie who gets staked as bait and it would have worked better with him.
>>201755522>degeneracy >basedAm I in Bizarro World?
>>201756035Do you think Friedkin and Paul Schrader ever popped into each other in the same gay club and just dance awkardly together?
>>201758340I think anyone who has so arrogance and attitude towards any every colleague was bound to have some nepotistic support. Try making a career in hollywood and going around saying fuck Scorsese and fucking Sumner redstone or fuck Jeff katzenberg. The day wind of that teaches them, you're finished in that town. Friedkin definitely had some friends in power who could get him work in Hollywood no matter how much he fucked up no matter how many tantrums he threw. Dumbfucks on 4chan think it's le based but we know the truth.
>>201758654There you go tale as old as Hollywood itself https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/09/movies/director-married-studio-with-new-assignment-paramount-cries-nepotism-dog-william.html
