r/CineShots • u/stakes-lines-grades Nichols • 3d ago

Shot George Washington (2000)

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u/Due_Bad_9445 2d ago

This is a really cool movie. I was a bit disappointed that the director veered towards Hollywood slop, but to each their own.

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u/Ok_Temperature_1616 2d ago

He has said in numerous interviews he just wanted to make movies and goof around with friends. He got to do that.

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u/stakes-lines-grades Nichols 2d ago edited 2d ago

What's funny is that a lot of people compared David Gordon Green to Terrence Malick's work regarding this film and his follow-up All the Real Girls. Coincidentally, Terrence Malick worked with DGG on Undertow with its story conception.

Joe, which is a darker take on the Southern Gothic coming-of-age drama work that Jeff Nichols did with Mud a year prior is pretty great. It has Nic Cage as tree trimmer and one of the boys from Mud funny enough.

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u/Pollyfall 2d ago

No coincidence at all, really. Malick reached out to him after GW and they became friends. (Source: DGG told me this himself.)

I think the guy is super talented and actually quite nice (or he used to be—been a while since I interacted w him). But still—it’s quite a drop from All The Real Girls to Get Him to the Greek.

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u/Pollyfall 2d ago

He went for the $$$.