Comments on: NYFF: Steve McQueen Talks ’12 Years A Slave,’ Michael Fassbender & More Plus Watch Full Q&A

By: waavedada

waavedada — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:52:02 +0000

Great read. Thanks for sharing. http://waavedada.com/news/2013/10/15/interview-magazine-w/-steve-mcqueen/

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... — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:52:02 +0000

Alarming because he is watering down his own work down by talking where he should not talk. Here, in my opinion, it adds more limitations to the expression of the film, than anything else. Naturally most people will never see these, but for us (or me), it leads to a wrong track, and makes the film appear merely like a shallow surface, which offers no further view point, than the one that is readily chewed up for you.

And as someone who became known as a conceptual artist, I am sure he should be able to do better, if he really believed in his own product to be more than that surface. Did he sidetrack from his own beliefs just to please? Could it be, that he never found himself as deep into the topic, he originally wished for?

But yes, I still want to see the film, no worries there.

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... — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:52:02 +0000

Terrible moderator, such straightforward questions with so much trouble getting it out in the air. And secondly, I am surprised how badly McQueen talks about his own film, and many of the ideas he introduces don't seem to bring anything new, interesting, and/or there's absolutely no greater insight to his own process.

And this I find alarming, since with the two earlier films he seemed very clear, and I somewhat labeled him as a decent intellectual, who has an understanding of human behavior, of social context and of storytelling / filmmaking.