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Thing Corrin likes #3: Steven Soderbergh films

After seeing a few Steven Soderbergh films, I enjoyed them for the exact same reasons, then awkwardly realized they were all directed by the same person. 

Top Three Reasons:

1) Visually Beautiful

Soderbergh has been quoted saying, “Making a film that’s supposed to be fun to watch is really hard – that’s the weird irony of it.” 

I could watch a Steven Soderbergh film on mute and the cinematography alone keeps me entertained. The manipulation of color saturation, temperature and contrast of images on film contribute to the feelings the movie is supposed to evoke. The “Ocean’s” movies are highly saturated, making the colors very bright and giving an orangey/red hue to all the characters. The colors in “Out of Sight” have a low temperature, where everything takes on a greyish/blue tinge. The images in “Traffic” have dark contrasts and a lack of bright color that gives the movie it’s documentary-like style and doesn’t draw your attention away from it’s more serious subject matter.

 

2) Subject Matter

As my ex-boyfriend Dane Cook (not really) always says, “Any guy here, more than sex, if they had the choice of sex or this one other thing… any guy here would rather be part of a heist!”

This isn’t only true for guys. The “Ocean’s” movies epitomizes the glamorous, Rat Pack-esque heist I would ideally want to play a role in. In both the “Ocean’s” movies and “Out of Sight”, the criminals and law enforcement maintain mutual levels of respect for one another and maintain a kind of camaraderie, which I can only describe as… sexy. I guess that word came to me seeing that the criminals and law enforcement often end up… having… sexual intercourse… with… each other. In the scene from Oscar-nominated “Out of Sight” shown above, George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez act out one of the classiest sex scenes I’ve seen… maybe… ever.

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3) Casting

 

Summarized in two words.

Bradley.

Pitt.

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