I don't like in the percentage game. I need loaded dice. In the first place it is the daring gems that sparkle, not the average (with all due respect to the craftsmen like Wyler). In the second place if a director has made10 bad movies he has made too many. I'd say a series like the one Dave here mentions or one like A Matter of Life And Death - The Small Back Room - Black Narcissus - Red Shoes - Tales Of Hoffmann - Peeping Tom or Citizen Kane - Ambersons - Lady Of Shanghai - Touch Of Evil - Chimes At Midnight or Ossessione - Senso - The Damned - Death In Venice. In slightly more recent times TAxi Driver - Raging Bull - Goodfellas - Age Of Innocence is a pretty decent score. Tarantino needs to make a few more really good movies to come into view.
w Op 4 mrt 2013, om 00:46 heeft Posteropolis het volgende geschreven: > I haven’t done the numbers but in terms of a homerun hitter I think Billy > Wilder has to be way up there. Yes, in later years he fanned at a lot of > pitches but in his prime (and his prime lasted about 15 years) he knocked a > lot out of the park: Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Lost Weekend, > Sabrina, The Seven Year Itch, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment. > > Dave > > From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Bruce > Hershenson > Sent: March-03-13 6:12 PM > To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU > Subject: [MOPO] Questions for those of you who REALLY know your movies > > In baseball, percentage is everything. A batter who gets a hit one out four > times for an entire season is barely hanging on, while one who gets a hit one > out of three times is a major star, and there has never been a player who > gets a hit once every two times! Likewise, a team that wins four out of ten > games is usually in last place, while a team that wins six out of ten teams > is usually in first place! > > So my question is, which MOVIE DIRECTORS (among the superstars) have the > greatest percentage of "winners vs losers"? And which ones have the greatest > percentage of "home runs"? And which ones (among the superstars) have the > highest percentage of "strike outs"? > > Now of course it HAS to be a percentage game, because some directors did 20 > movies and some did 100. If the person with 20 has two losers, then the guy > with 100 is entitled to ten (by my way of thinking!). > > Answers? > > > > -- > Bruce Hershenson and the other 29 members of the eMoviePoster.com team > P.O. Box 874 > West Plains, MO 65775 > Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take > lunch) > our site > our auctions > > > Complete Buyer Protection - No time limit on our guarantees & NO buyer beware > Hershenson Help Hotline - Direct line to Bruce (our owner!) for urgent > problems > Also, please read the following three pages of in-depth Customer Reviews of > our company - Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, which shows you in our customers' own > words exactly what makes our company and our auctions so very different from > all others! > > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
