David Fincher knows how to make a movie trailer...
David Fincher first popped onto the scene in 1995 with the deeply disturbing, but incredibly outstanding, dark thriller Se7en and then followed it up with Fight Club a mere four years later that delved deeper in the intricate detail of psychological thrillers. Fincher has always been intrigued and ultimately interested in dark subject matters.
Never has he made a comedy, and I think if he did it would definitely be a black comedy. The man is a genius director, an auteur and one of the best directors in the hall of fame.
The nearest film that even comes close to a comedy, that features slight comedic elements in the structure of the film comes with 2010's The Social Network. An in depth look at the story that led to the biggest social networking site and one of the most absurd court cases for the copyright of a website. The world of business and young entrepreneurs in the 21st century.
Constantly interested in lighting and atmospheric familiarity in his films, and the unique filmic style, lingering shots and the organic brutality of scenes, you know you're watching a Fincher film. He has a distinctive approach.
What I notice more and more with Fincher's films these days comes from the incredibly well made trailers. They never give anything away that doesn't entice you to see the film, or want another trailer. That is the mastery of a great director. All films are given the most obvious screen time in the trailers, that are designed supposedly to tease you, not to unveil every single plot point that'll take away the tension, the secrets, the ultimate interest of seeing it on the big screen.
Fincher has the crown for presenting what you need, but not selling itself too much.
Here are his most well known films and their standout trailers that hold in a class of their own and just watching them displays the credibility of the great director:
1. Se7en
2. Fight Club
3. Zodiac
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button- Brad Pitt's third collaboration with Fincher. A great combination of successful actor/director friendships. Perhaps Fincher's most lightest of films. A welcoming breath of fresh air.
5. The Social Network- the Oscar winning film that completely sums up society in the 21st century. A world where we put our everyday lives online for any and everyone to see which seems kinda ironic whilst writing about it like this. Integrity, loyalty, success, young entrepreneurs. All relevant ideals with which Fincher strips bare.
6. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- the English language adaptation of the Swedish best seller. One of the best trilogy of books I've ever read, let alone three of the best crime thrillers ever. Written by the late journalist Stieg Larsson, it follows Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist who team up to uncover the mystery of the disappearance of a woman from a prominent Swedish family who has been missing for over forty years. Fincher's take is dark, exceptionally perfect with the casting, the scenery, the feel of the film. Though critics prefer the Swedish version, I am a big fan of Fincher's take.
7. Gone Girl- of course there is a simple pattern when it comes to Fincher's films, he has made with incredible frequency, biopics, thrillers, dark social commentary's with some dark comedic elements (The Social Network) and just in general crime stories that are interwoven intricate psychological films. This years Fincher foray embarks with the recently crowned Batman "Batfleck" otherwise known as Ben Affleck (on the rise in the last couple of years as a prominent and talented director and decent actor..) this time portraying a journalist whose wife goes missing on their fifth wedding anniversary and ends up becoming the suspect in the case.
This trailer has a definite dark quality to it. What Fincher has done best with his trailers over the past 10 years is the decent choice of music and score to accompany the trailer and fill the film with the feeling it needs. With The Social Network he chose Radiohead's Creep sung by Scala, a haunting choir sung version, making it an incredibly popular song on downloads.
In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo he chose to combine with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross again who created a tense soundtrack for his Oscar winning social network film and made this trailer nail biting viewing. Flowing perfectly with the edgy Swedish quality of the film.
With Gone Girl, the score again shows the favoured success alongside the duo's collaboration combined to create a perfect soundtrack for a starkly gritty film.
Elvis Costello's She is used in the trailer, perhaps making it more eerie than normal (it is used in Notting Hill, most definitely not a gripping thriller) using snippets of information with certain scenes, Fincher paints a surreptitious story of a husband and wife, who seem to be hiding stuff that will surely be unveiled with great astute observations. Nothing is what it seems. Right up Fincher's street.
Who else can be classed alongside David Fincher as a great creator of intriguing trailers. Christopher Nolan is up there. You can never second guess anything he makes.
Follow me @mysticmeg13 on Twitter.
Never has he made a comedy, and I think if he did it would definitely be a black comedy. The man is a genius director, an auteur and one of the best directors in the hall of fame.
The nearest film that even comes close to a comedy, that features slight comedic elements in the structure of the film comes with 2010's The Social Network. An in depth look at the story that led to the biggest social networking site and one of the most absurd court cases for the copyright of a website. The world of business and young entrepreneurs in the 21st century.
Constantly interested in lighting and atmospheric familiarity in his films, and the unique filmic style, lingering shots and the organic brutality of scenes, you know you're watching a Fincher film. He has a distinctive approach.
What I notice more and more with Fincher's films these days comes from the incredibly well made trailers. They never give anything away that doesn't entice you to see the film, or want another trailer. That is the mastery of a great director. All films are given the most obvious screen time in the trailers, that are designed supposedly to tease you, not to unveil every single plot point that'll take away the tension, the secrets, the ultimate interest of seeing it on the big screen.
Fincher has the crown for presenting what you need, but not selling itself too much.
Here are his most well known films and their standout trailers that hold in a class of their own and just watching them displays the credibility of the great director:
1. Se7en
2. Fight Club
3. Zodiac
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button- Brad Pitt's third collaboration with Fincher. A great combination of successful actor/director friendships. Perhaps Fincher's most lightest of films. A welcoming breath of fresh air.
5. The Social Network- the Oscar winning film that completely sums up society in the 21st century. A world where we put our everyday lives online for any and everyone to see which seems kinda ironic whilst writing about it like this. Integrity, loyalty, success, young entrepreneurs. All relevant ideals with which Fincher strips bare.
6. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- the English language adaptation of the Swedish best seller. One of the best trilogy of books I've ever read, let alone three of the best crime thrillers ever. Written by the late journalist Stieg Larsson, it follows Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist who team up to uncover the mystery of the disappearance of a woman from a prominent Swedish family who has been missing for over forty years. Fincher's take is dark, exceptionally perfect with the casting, the scenery, the feel of the film. Though critics prefer the Swedish version, I am a big fan of Fincher's take.
7. Gone Girl- of course there is a simple pattern when it comes to Fincher's films, he has made with incredible frequency, biopics, thrillers, dark social commentary's with some dark comedic elements (The Social Network) and just in general crime stories that are interwoven intricate psychological films. This years Fincher foray embarks with the recently crowned Batman "Batfleck" otherwise known as Ben Affleck (on the rise in the last couple of years as a prominent and talented director and decent actor..) this time portraying a journalist whose wife goes missing on their fifth wedding anniversary and ends up becoming the suspect in the case.
This trailer has a definite dark quality to it. What Fincher has done best with his trailers over the past 10 years is the decent choice of music and score to accompany the trailer and fill the film with the feeling it needs. With The Social Network he chose Radiohead's Creep sung by Scala, a haunting choir sung version, making it an incredibly popular song on downloads.
In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo he chose to combine with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross again who created a tense soundtrack for his Oscar winning social network film and made this trailer nail biting viewing. Flowing perfectly with the edgy Swedish quality of the film.
With Gone Girl, the score again shows the favoured success alongside the duo's collaboration combined to create a perfect soundtrack for a starkly gritty film.
Elvis Costello's She is used in the trailer, perhaps making it more eerie than normal (it is used in Notting Hill, most definitely not a gripping thriller) using snippets of information with certain scenes, Fincher paints a surreptitious story of a husband and wife, who seem to be hiding stuff that will surely be unveiled with great astute observations. Nothing is what it seems. Right up Fincher's street.
Who else can be classed alongside David Fincher as a great creator of intriguing trailers. Christopher Nolan is up there. You can never second guess anything he makes.
Follow me @mysticmeg13 on Twitter.
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