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Director/Actor Rivalries

posted 2 years ago by BillHicksFan (10087)
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Popular, but real rivalries.... If you think of producer, writers, feel free to list away.

First one that came to my mind was Bette David and John Crawford.

"You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good… Joan Crawford is dead. Good!" - Bette Davis

I'll look for more. I'm more interested in directors criticizing others' works. Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino have said words about each other, mostly about vulgar language, but I rather find more things concrete about their movies, or career in general.

Here's a great site
www.theyshootpictures.com/directors.htm

[–] capuchin (2645) 2 years ago

A famous one is Ingmar Bergman on Jean-Luc Godard: 'I've never gotten anything out of his movies. They have felt constructed, faux intellectual and completely dead. Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. ... He's made his films for the critics.'

Godard, however, considered Bergman not only great but a primary influence - so... awkward.

And Orson Welles strongly disliked Woody Allen. Said, among other things, that he was physically repulsed by him - or words to that effect. Don't know if Allen ever bit back... but you probably wouldn't want to bite back at Orson Welles. He's Orson Welles.

[–] Otter (24464) 2 years ago

Sorry, do you mean "director vs. director rivalries and actor vs. actor rivalries", or "director vs. actor rivalries"?

[–] BillHicksFan (10087) 2 years ago

Doesn't matter..

[–] FredBurroughs (19645) 2 years ago

Herzog and Kinski might just be the ultimate director/actor rivalry.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (71425) 2 years ago

First one that came to mind
Their animosity was legendary, I seem to recall one of them pulled a pistol on the other...sheesh!

[–] FredBurroughs (19645) 2 years ago

I think it was during the filming of Fitzcarraldo deep in the jungle where Kinski's behavior got so out of hand that a tribe of natives basically said to Herzog: "Just say the word and we'll take him off your hands. No one will ever find out."

[–] ShogunofYonkers (71425) 2 years ago

Wow
Ego and alcohol are a bad combo

[–] samoanjoes (50714) 2 years ago

Tip Torn hits Norman Mailer with a hammer as they fight. There's video of it:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6AzmhorISf4

[–] BillHicksFan (10087) 2 years ago

What a name - Rip Torn. He was hilarious in (my favorite show), "The Larry Sanders Show"

[–] NitroHangover (1115) 2 years ago

The first thing that came to mind for me, sadly, was Kevin Smith vs Bruce Willis...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntnT-6tR5dI

[–] beantown23 (1438) 2 years ago

William Holden and John Ford

[–] BillHicksFan (10087) 2 years ago

Ah interesting. Never knew that. Can you please elaborate? I did a few google searches, and it kept bringing up Holden and Wayne

[–] beantown23 (1438) 2 years ago

Holden was shocked how abusive Ford was to Wayne and tried to convince him to stand up to him but Wayne refused. When Ford tried those tactics on Holden he threatened to punch his lights out and Holden refused to work with Ford again.

[–] mikethemartian (6052) 2 years ago

I was watching “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane” a couple of nights ago and compared to real life their characters got along relatively well. :-)