The Witch
The Northmandirector Robert Eggers say that he ca n’t stand his feature of speech moving picture launching , The Witch . The art - house picture director made waves with his first major motion pictureThe Witch , and followed that up with thecritical darlingThe Lighthouse , starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson . Eggers ' extremely anticipated action revenge drama , The Northman , will be releasing in theaters this month and will reunify the director with Anya Taylor - Joy .
Released in 2016,The Witchproved to be an outstanding first attack at a full - length feature photographic film . The narrative centers around a New England Puritan family in the 1630s . After the syndicate is banished from their residential area , and set up their secluded homestead in the nearby woods , they are presently targeted by a beldame who kidnaps their immature child . The Witchwas well - have by critics and did well at the box office , garnering over $ 40 million on a $ 4 million budget .
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In an interview withThe Guardian , Eggers has said that he ca n’t stomach hisbreakout celluloid , The Witch . In anticipation for his upcoming revenge epos , The Northman , the director reflected on the timbre of his preceding work and quality of himself as a filmmaker . Read what Eggers had to say below .
" candidly , I ca n’t stand watching The Witch now . It ’s not that it ’s bad , and the performances are groovy , but I was not skilled enough as a filmmaker to get what was in my brain on to the screen . In The Lighthouse , I was capable to do that . And The Northman , I ’m proud of the movie , but not everything is quite what I hoped it would be . So I would wish to do something with the reach and scale that I can actually get what ’s in my resource on to the screen . "
Despite Eggers ' own unfavorable judgment with his first film , critics and spectator generally agree thatThe Witchwas as good an intro a managing director could hope for . An creative person can be their own worst critic , face upon their work with the harsh of judgment , hopefully with the mentality of interminable betterment . As Eggers has say , without the hands - on experience that he can only gain from doing the piece of work , he could n’t totally gain the imagination he primitively had forThe Witch . Yet , it was most probable the effort that he put in onThe Witchthat helped him completeThe Lighthouseto his satisfaction .
Sometimes , creatives can be the most decisive of their own body of work . George Lucas was win over the originalStar Warswould flop and even skipped the film ’s premiere . Andrew Garfield hatedThe Social Networkafter see it , convinced he and co - star topology Jesse Eisenberg bankrupt the movie . It appear Eggers is just the latest in this trend , feelingThe Witchwasn’t as unattackable as it could have been . Many looker sense otherwise , considering how well - receivedThe Witchwas at the time of its liberation . And withThe Northmanshaping up to be another brutal and unnerving hit for Eggers , the director is setting himself up to have one of the skillful course record book in Hollywood .
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