Yeah I get you. You're a busy man. But if anyone can draw a throughline from George Washington/Undertow Malick-esque DGG to The Sitter/Your Highness DGG to Halloween/Exorcist remakes DGG...
I think adding to the difficulty is that you pretty much have to talk about his TV work too. My argument on DGG would rest heavily on how getting into TV, first with Eastbound but then more extensively in the late 2010s with Vice Principals and Righteous Gemstones, altered how he makes movies. And once you have TV entered into the discussion, you almost have to go another step and discuss the parallel works of Jody Hill and the acting trajectory of McBride on the way to codifying them as a writer/producer/director trio with the three moving seamlessly between roles to create a collective body of work...so the number of puzzle pieces to fit together grows fast!
I guess it's a little interesting to see how he floats around from one mode to another. You can never give up on him because he's always capable of doing something great-- and the TV shows, insofar as he's responsible or not, are awesome-- but it can be so difficult to find those connections. (Other than most of then suggesting a director who isn't above getting baked.)
I was thinking about it, but it'd be an awfully heavy lift if I were to watch the films I don't remember that well again. He's such a strange case.
Yeah I get you. You're a busy man. But if anyone can draw a throughline from George Washington/Undertow Malick-esque DGG to The Sitter/Your Highness DGG to Halloween/Exorcist remakes DGG...
it's you
I think adding to the difficulty is that you pretty much have to talk about his TV work too. My argument on DGG would rest heavily on how getting into TV, first with Eastbound but then more extensively in the late 2010s with Vice Principals and Righteous Gemstones, altered how he makes movies. And once you have TV entered into the discussion, you almost have to go another step and discuss the parallel works of Jody Hill and the acting trajectory of McBride on the way to codifying them as a writer/producer/director trio with the three moving seamlessly between roles to create a collective body of work...so the number of puzzle pieces to fit together grows fast!
I like to think of Danny McBride as the Yoko Ono in this situation
I guess it's a little interesting to see how he floats around from one mode to another. You can never give up on him because he's always capable of doing something great-- and the TV shows, insofar as he's responsible or not, are awesome-- but it can be so difficult to find those connections. (Other than most of then suggesting a director who isn't above getting baked.)