With 'Flashdance,' '9 1/2 Weeks,' and 'Fatal Attraction,' the director's back-to-back-to-back hits aroused mainstream audiences and told a story about the decade.
Ahhh, good stuff. In my head, I'd completely forgotten Lyne did Flashdance, because I associate it so strongly with Bruckheimer et al--really feels like that group of filmmakers (Bruckheimer, then Michael Bay, leading into i wanna say Zack Snyder) took the visual fetish language of Lyne's style and just removed the sex out of the fetish, if that makes sense?
really nice write up, Scott. and I really had to do a double-take and check wikipedia because I remembered the alt-ending of Fatal Attraction being the real one
Ahhh, good stuff. In my head, I'd completely forgotten Lyne did Flashdance, because I associate it so strongly with Bruckheimer et al--really feels like that group of filmmakers (Bruckheimer, then Michael Bay, leading into i wanna say Zack Snyder) took the visual fetish language of Lyne's style and just removed the sex out of the fetish, if that makes sense?
Jacob's Ladder, the sexiest movie of somebody's nightmares.
really nice write up, Scott. and I really had to do a double-take and check wikipedia because I remembered the alt-ending of Fatal Attraction being the real one
Scott brothers? Oh, right. Somehow I always conflate Tony Scott (a brother) with Ted Demme (a nephew), both of whom died untimely deaths.