# Directors who made films in the style of another director **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [April 28, 2023, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-who-made-films-in-the-style-of-another-director/983332 "2023-04-28T23:42:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2023, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-who-made-films-in-the-style-of-another-director/983332/21 "2023-04-29T21:03:04Z")
Martin McDonagh’s _Seven Psychopaths_ sure feels like a Tarantino homage, with the added bonus of an opening scene that more or less announces “Don’t worry, this won’t be **that** kind of Tarantino homage.” ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-who-made-films-in-the-style-of-another-director/983332/22 "2023-04-29T21:41:17Z")
Among numerous attempts to mimic _Pulp Fiction_’s mix of stylized crime, multi-characters and irreverent dialogue that I’ve seen, I thought the best was… > **[Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1998) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169222/?ref_=tt_urv)** > > Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl: Directed by Katsuhito Ishii. With Tadanobu Asano, Ittoku Kishibe, Sie Kohinata, Kimie Shingyôji. In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki. Fortunately, she... From a review on IMDB: “…Tarantino was in the audience when I saw this movie, and when Ishii answered questions at the end of the film, and someone asked him who influenced him, he grinned at QT, and said (through his translator) something like “I think you know the answer to that.” (subsequently QT hired Ishii to direct the animated sequence in Kill Bill…)” ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2023, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-who-made-films-in-the-style-of-another-director/983332/23 "2023-04-29T22:19:56Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I find the idea of a shot for shot remake tedious and pointless. I watched it and you are correct, it absolutely was. ---
**Author:** ![Didi44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@Didi44](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didi44)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2023, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-who-made-films-in-the-style-of-another-director/983332/24 "2023-04-29T22:36:13Z")
_Godsend_ by Moon Si Hyun looks exactly like a Kim Ki Duk (_Bad Guy, Samaritan Girl_) film. Understandable, since Kim was the writer and producer of the film and Moon was the Assistant Director on a number of Kim’s movies. ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2023, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-who-made-films-in-the-style-of-another-director/983332/25 "2023-04-30T02:23:57Z")
I’ve thought _Zack and Miri Make a Porno_ was Kevin Smith aping Judd Apatow. Or do I think that because Seth Rogen is in it? (Also Gerry Bednob, who was in _The 40-Year-Old Virgin_.) ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2023, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-who-made-films-in-the-style-of-another-director/983332/26 "2023-04-30T16:57:58Z")
In theory, Spielberg was trying to channel the ghost of Stanley Kubrick when he made AI. I’m not sure that I’d agree but I do think it made him think more about the photographic aspects of his films. They’ve all looked a bit less straight forward since then. ---
**Author:** ![anny\_m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@anny\_m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anny_m)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2023, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-who-made-films-in-the-style-of-another-director/983332/27 "2023-04-30T23:00:12Z")
Interesting that of the Brian DePalma movies mentioned as homages to Hitchcock his 1972 picture _Sisters_ isn’t included. Ebert in his review when the movie was released called it a homage to Hitchcock. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2023, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-who-made-films-in-the-style-of-another-director/983332/28 "2023-04-30T23:28:43Z")
Francois Truffaut was a HUGE admirer of Alfred Hitchcock, and he made **The Bride Wore Black** as a definite homage to Hitchcock. He took the plot and title from a story by Cornell Woolrich, whose story “It Had to Be Murder” was the inspiration for Hitchcock’s own fil **Rear Window**. And he got Bernard Herrmann, who had scored Hitchcock’s **Psycho** , **Vertigo** , and the second version of **The Man Who Knew Too Much** to do the music. If ever there was a film “in the style of another director”, this is it. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2023, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-who-made-films-in-the-style-of-another-director/983332/29 "2023-04-30T23:50:34Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Francois Truffaut was a HUGE admirer of Alfred Hitchcock, and he made **The Bride Wore Black** as a definite homage to Hitchcock. Yeah, I’ve read a richly illustrated copy of Truffaut’s interview book with Hitchcock more than thirty years ago. Never saw “The Bride Wore Black”, will catch it the next time it runs on TV. ---
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-who-made-films-in-the-style-of-another-director/983332/30 "2023-05-01T00:02:34Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > _Blow Out_ was an homage to Antonioni’s _Blowup_ Has anyone made a porn homage entitled “Blow Job”? I’d bet on “Yes” just because the temptation is too great. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-who-made-films-in-the-style-of-another-director/983332/31 "2023-05-01T02:27:33Z")
_[Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie!_vs._Mardi_Gras)_ was directed as if it was directed by Jean-Luc Goddard… with a George Romero script, and a Roger Corman budget. ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-who-made-films-in-the-style-of-another-director/983332/32 "2023-05-01T03:05:01Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > French film _Rififi_ Plot sounds similar to Asphalt Jungle which came out 5 years before, directed by John Houston. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2023, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-who-made-films-in-the-style-of-another-director/983332/33 "2023-05-03T00:34:14Z")
Quick! Who directed **Poltergeist**? If you said Steven Spielberg, you’re wrong. He produced it, but it was directed by Tobe Hooper, who directed _Texas Chain Saw Massacre_ (among other films). But it doesn’t _feel_ like one of Hooper’s films. It really does feel like a Spielberg movie. According to Wikipedia > [@](#): > > Accounts differ as to the level of Spielberg’s involvement, but it is clear that he was frequently on set during filming and exerted significant creative control. For that reason, some have expressed the view that Spielberg should be considered the film’s co-director or even main director, though both Spielberg and Hooper have disputed this. > **[Poltergeist (1982 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist_(1982_film))** > > Poltergeist is a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Tobe Hooper and written by Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais and Mark Victor from a story by Spielberg. It stars JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson and Beatrice Straight, and was produced by Spielberg and Frank Marshall. The film focuses on a suburban family whose home is invaded by malevolent ghosts that abduct their youngest daughter. > As Spielberg was contractually unable to direct another film while he made E.T. the Extra-Terre... At the time of its release, _Cinefantastique_ dryly commented that Spielberg was playing Howard Hawks to Hooper’s Christian Nyby, which suggeste a situation similar to that of the 1951 movie _The Thing from Another World_, which was nominally directed by Christan Nyby, although most people give the credit to produced Hawks. Myself, I give Nyby credit, because, according to several cast members he did direct it, even if he got a lot of Hawks input. Certainly you’d expect him to direct in Hawks’ style, since he learned from the man. The Wikipedia page has an entire section on the controversy, which I won’t quote here, except for the last paragraph > [@](#): > > At a reunion of _The Thing_ cast and crew members in 1982, Nyby said:[[9]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World#cite_note-fuhrmann19970525-9) > > > Did Hawks direct it? That’s one of the most inane and ridiculous questions I’ve ever heard, and people keep asking. That it was Hawks’ style. Of course it was. This is a man I studied and wanted to be like. You would certainly emulate and copy the master you’re sitting under, which I did. Anyway, if you’re taking painting lessons from [Rembrandt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt), you don’t take the brush out of the master’s hands.[[9]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World#cite_note-fuhrmann19970525-9) > **[The Thing from Another World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World)** > > The Thing from Another World, sometimes referred to as just The Thing, is a 1951 American black-and-white science fiction-horror film, directed by Christian Nyby, produced by Edward Lasker for Howard Hawks' Winchester Pictures Corporation, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film stars Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, and Douglas Spencer. James Arness plays The Thing. The Thing from Another World is based on the 1938 novella "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell (writi... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-who-made-films-in-the-style-of-another-director/983332.md?page=1)