Lastnightstony

David Fincher

Back in school one of my design classes took the idea of making a film festival around a director. Each student chose a director research and then make a campaign around. Back then I chose Abel Ferrara because he was really obscure compared to others and he made this film that I loved called Bad Lieutenant. So last night, went to see the latest David Fincher film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons. Yeah I know it’s been out for ages, on some things I am slow, but it did have me think about some of David Fincher’s work. Last year W+K made a Nike spot with Fincher called Nike Fate. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlXRengzZoc&eurl=http://blog.wk.com/2008/10/nike-fate.html&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] A great story of two athlete’s meeting with destiny. Very Fincher-esque if you consider several other pieces of his work that also work with a destiny plot.Fight Club is such a great film. Taking control of your destiny rather than living the cliche of an IKEA dream. There is something about the use of color in all of Fincher’s films. In Fight club, the color of the blood from these guys is much more brown and green. Not bright red. Also a lot of the fight sequences were shot in places that also seemed green and yellow. This effect in a way calms down the site of blood and takes the film out of a gore genre. I am sure there is more reasoning behind it. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QgFWXLN-ug[/youtube] Great poster for this film. There are a lot of ways of telling a story and again Fincher’s use of light to create mood in Zodiac should be noticed. Bright flourescent lights for periods in the film that are to be revealing of information towards the case or of the characters. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dWgRfb17-M[/youtube]