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Monday 10 July 2006, by Anonymous : Did the writer of this article just call Jean-Pierre Jeunet inept? I’m sorry, but the bulk of the problem with Alien Resurrection was the script. Just look at the movies in which Jean-Pierre Jeunet directed and had a hand in writing (Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, and Amélie). Don’t get me wrong, I like Whedon’s TV creations a lot, but blaming the awfulness of Resurrection on the direction and not the mediocre script is ridiculous.Wednesday 12 July 2006, by Headstand Cyclops : “Amelie” is a great movie, but yeah, Jeunet ruined “Alien: Resurrection.” I read one of Whedon’s Alien scripts and that stupid giant-baby alien is not in it. That’s something Jeunet wanted added. Jeunet certainly is not inept, but hiring a foreigner to direct from a Joss Whedon script was an awful idea. The production company Brandywine — run by David Giler, Walter Hill, and Gordon Carroll — really made a bad decision. Jeunet is too artsy, and doesn’t even speak English. How could he possibly understand the intended tone of Whedon’s dialogue? A much better choice would have been John McTiernan (Predator, Die Hard). Another interesting candidate, though much less obvious: Wes Craven, the director of "Scream." And by the way, the original Buffy director, Fran Rubel Kuzui, isn’t an inept director either. She’s good with comedy. The movie was funny. Her mistake was in turning Buffy into a comedy in the first place. It should have been a funny horror movie, not just a comedy with vampires in it. These comments are an anwser to this article : Joss Whedon : Why he should stick to television |
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