The late William Friedkin had a reputation for his wild, swirling and aggressive personality on the shooting sets. He was so windy and capricious that he won the nickname “the Hurricane Billy” of his colleagues. The stories of the whole of his 1973 horror masterpiece “The Exorcist” are frequently told, and many actors, photographers and writers have talked about things that have happened outside the film. Friendkin, it seems, prospered in a chaotic environment and played noisy tribal singing audio cassettes between the catches. Someone even alleged that Friedkin occasionally drew whites in the air, making sure everyone was a bit nervous. This type of behavior would be considered too reckless today, but in the slowdown days of the 1970s, it was considered a little metal.
Friedkin has made several horror films and thrillers in his career beyond “The Exorcist”, which is still often considered one of the most frightening films of all time. He also made the film Serial Killer “Rampage” in 1987, and the film My-Nanny-Is-A-Murderous-Druid “The Guardian” in 1990. In 2006 and 2011, he made two tracy letts play adaptations with “Bug” and “Killer Joe”, perhaps the two most disturbing films in his career.
In an interview of 2015 with viceThe director argued that he had no particular inclination for horror, just that he was attracted by certain types of stories. Friedkin made action films, a sporting film, a drama from the sweet voice audience room and several criminal films. There is no one for whom he felt an affinity. He admitted, however, that he was certainly more attracted to dark dramas than light comedies; His only real comedy film was his first beginning of 1967 “Good Times” with Sonny & Cher.
In the interview with the vice, Friedkin was asked about horror in particular, and by discussing the genre, he admitted to having hated a haunted classic haunted house: “The Shining” by Stanley Kubrick.
William Friedkin hated the Shining by Stanley Kubrick
Friedkin estimated that there were only three reasons why people go to the movies: laugh, cry and be afraid. Admittedly, Friedkin was not able to create films that caused laughter, but he could sometimes make us cry and, more often than anything, scare us. Even Friedkin’s non -horror films are intense enough to keep the occasional audience on board, and when it comes to his simple horror films, he had a certain way of thinking about it. It seems that his approach did not depend on an overabundance of style … Something he hated “The Shining”. He said:
“I think that I come back to horror films as much as high intensity films on characters who have their backs against a wall and no place. But you know, the genre of the horror film is a little fraternity of real classics. ” Bright.’ I’m not a fan of ‘The brilliant ‘ at all. It’s a bit of masturbatory things, I felt. I can’t find it scary, and I also found it … a little dark. I don’t know what it was! “”
Stanley Kubrick can easily be accused of being cool and handled at the point of alienation. Many of his characters do not feel completely human, and the slow and deliberate rhythm of the filmmaker can be updating for certain viewers. Friedkin was certainly not fascinated by Kubrick’s style. He seemed to love the more stimulating and more salted narration – stories that plunged into madness and panic in a way in which Kubrick would have remained the distance from Arm.
And Friedkin, having made “the exorcist”, certainly has all the right to Lamba “The Shining”, just as Stephen King often does. The two films are very different, of course, but the two appear regularly in the 10 best lists, and the two are greeted as among the more frightening of all time. In Friedkin’s defense, I guess it would take a lot to scare the guy who made “The Exorcist”.