Rian Johnson
Rian Johnson
Rian Craig Johnsonis an American writer, producer, director, and voice actor. He won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival with his debut feature film, Brick...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth17 December 1973
CountryUnited States of America
emotional ideas use
My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.
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In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.
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Game of Thrones' is just incredible, what they pull off every week.
memories ideas able
Memory is a form of time travel. That's something we do during the course of the day, every single day. The idea of actually being able to physically adjust that and change it instead of being haunted by it is a really human thing.
dirty kind belgrade
Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.
my-favorite
All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.
talking want messages
You never want to make a 'message movie', but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.
fixing time-travel appeals
That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something.
running brother men
Back before 'Brick,' I wrote a short film that I never ended up shooting: hit men in the present who work for a mob in the future who send their victims back in time. A guy is sent his future self, he lets him run, and the whole short was them chasing each other across the city. That sat in a drawer for 10 years until after I made 'Brothers Bloom.
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Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.
school world serious
Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.
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My filmmaking background has really just been making movies with my friends since I was 12 years old. That's how I feel I learned how to tell a story visually, by just going out with a video camera and making movies with my friends and family.
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I mean, the first 'Back to the Future' is kind of a perfect script, I think, in terms of handling time travel the best. It depends on your definition. To me, that means it effectively uses it in the story.
thinking looks faces
I just don't think CGI is up to manipulating the human face yet. I feel like you can get away with it with aliens or monsters or something that's intentionally foreign, but I have yet to see anything digital to do with the human face that doesn't just look ridiculous.