And so, we have a winner -
Fincher it is! Personally, despite the slight setbacks on the way, its been a fun exercise. We could have tried to do it better or differently, but I think the end result might have been more or less the same. Perhaps we can extend this now one decade at a time and see how things change? So next round, we are allowed to include the 80's and thereafter the 70's. Might be hair splitting, but fun as well. Who knows.
Anyway, since Shariqq is not around (vacation), he wrote the following in anticipation of the win.
From Shariqq:Quite unsurprisingly, and yet with a lot of work, we have arrived at who many would have considered the obvious winner from the start.
The man who is already a living legend, having given us at least 3 ground-breaking movies in the past two decades, and continues to fuel fanboy frenzy like no other director out there.
For many of us, as much as we loved
Se7en, the movie that caught us by our collars and stood us up in unanimous awe was the modern cult classic from 1999:
Fight Club. It made us talk the talk, walk the walk, and dream of anti-consumerism slogans ourselves. We had the entire audio-track of the movie recored to tape for playing in his car. We had stick-figure-version of the movie done. We'd quote the movie at unsuspecting office drones, and chuckle in our heads. It made us re-discover his earlier movies (
Alien 3, The Game). It's the movie that defined our generation.
Many of us, after
Zodiac, knew that this man could pick a phonebook and make an interesting movie out of it. And he almost did that! With
The Social Network, another work set to become a modern classic, he made a movie about (the foudners of) Facebook! No amount of skeptical comments at that initial idea would keep us away from the movie, and for those of us who have seen it, declare it one of the best of the year already.
David Fincher. The Man. The Legend.
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