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"ROBERT MITCHUM PLAYED THE DRUNK IN EL DORADO, DEAN MARTIN PLAYED THE DRUNK IN RIO BRAVO. BASICALLY IT WAS THE SAME PART. NOW JOHN WAYNE PLAYED THE SAME PART IN BOTH MOVIES, HE PLAYED JOHN WAYNE." ~ GET SHORTY
The movies Megan watches...when she gets around to posting about them. Sometimes it's a review. Sometimes it's a photo. Sometimes it's a quote. And sometimes she forgets. But she watches a lot...and you should watch some of these films too. ••• See more of her work on hitrecord or at The Director's Narrative. Feel Free: directormegan@gmail.com

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Looper • director Rian Johnson

Favorite Line: “I’m from the future. You should go to China.”
The Brother’s Bloom • director Rian Johnson

Favorite line: “You don’t understand what my brother does. He writes his cons the way dead Russians write novels, with thematic arcs and embedded symbolism and shit.”
Brick • director Rian Johnson

I realized I have a favorite line or dialogue exchange from every single one of Mr. Johnson’s films. So here’s the first one.

Brad: Yeah?
Brendan: Yeah.
Brad: Oh, yeah?
Brendan: There’s a thesaurus in the library. Yeah is under “Y”. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
Brick • director Rian Johnson

I just realized that Lukas Haas is the little boy in Witness. Mind blown.
Brick • director Rian Johnson
Looper • director Rian Johnson

As a fan of Rian Johnson, I knew going into Looper that I was going to have a good time. I’m very happy to report that I had more than a good time, I had one of my favorite cinematic experiences of the year. I won’t see much here simply because the movie is still so new, and I really want people to go into the film with a fresh mental palette.

Part of what I love about watching truly intelligent films is what happens to my brain while watching them. For starters I distinctly had a moment durring the film where I wasn’t thinking about something in the plot but instead I thought “I will never write anything that makes this much sense.” Yup. Rian Johnson wrote a fantastic, complex story that when put on screen he had the finesse to make it all seem deceptively simple. I have no idea how he did that. I’d love to figure that out.
Brick • director Rian Johnson