Paul Schrader

[colinr0380]

I think this all just suggests that, rather than being at the cutting edge, that Schrader is only just catching up IRL to where Spike Jonze was with Her over a decade ago.

[Stefan]

By the way, to whom it may concern, German film literature will FINALLY see (next month) the very first translation of Schrader's book. Hallelujah! It only took 54 years after the first US-edition.
https://www.alexander-verlag.com/progra ... reyer.html

[pistolwink]

This is kind of mean, but my first thought when I read Schrader's post about how impressed he was at the "ideas" for films generated by AI was that his last few scripts read a lot like what an AI might produce should you have fed it scripts by Paul Schrader.

I don't recall if this site has a rule against AI in posts, even if it's acknowledged, but I asked Gemini to pitch me some ideas for future Paul Schrader films and I'm not sure if I could distinguish these fakes from the real, unintentionally self-parodic summaries of e.g. Master Gardener. See for example:

The Arbitrageur
A high-frequency commodity trader operating from a dark basement apartment in Chicago manipulates agricultural futures, disconnected from the physical reality of the food supplies he trades. His isolation is absolute until he begins a platonic relationship with an idealistic community organizer trying to save an urban farm from foreclosure by the trader's own firm. As his internal journal details his growing disgust with global financial abstraction, he leverages his insider access to execute an illegal, catastrophic market trade designed to crash his firm's stock, trading his personal freedom to wipe out the local community's debt.

It's only missing the part where the couple experience a conjoined epiphany surrounded by computer-generated expressionist imagery.

[Stefan]

I watched "The Card Counter" again yesterday and was amazed by how much Schrader was stealing from himself and made a poor man's Travis Bickle out of his main character.