RIP to a legend of the industry and my sixth most-watched director.
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There should be a list of the names of all the careers he helped to get started. It would be as long as the Hollywood Walk of Fame. RIP Roger Corman.
I think I'm gonna watch 'Targets' today.
Targets is a masterpiece. 1968 has such an embrassment of riches that it's not quite my favourite, but probably the most zeitgeisty of the year.
Living in Texas and in school when the Austin shooting took place, Targets has always been a gut punch of a movie.
Quite simply, he was the most important independent filmmaker in history. His style of filmmaking launched numerous careers and influenced even more. The word "legend" gets thrown around to the point where it is meaningless, but Corman was truly a legend. American movies would not be what they are today without him.
A true legend has left us. It can simply not be overstated the influence he had on modern cinema. The list of people that started under his wings is just mind boggling.
The documentary "Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel" just has a who's who of Hollywood singing his praises.
I just saw that documentary this afternoon, yes. It's a middle of the road, serviceable tale, but as you say, it shows who he was, for people who didn't know.
Exactly, and yeah, that's a good doco. Iconoclastic to the end.