Eyebrow Cinema's video: This Might Be My Masterpiece - Inglourious Basterds and Lady in the Water

Gregg Araki's MYSTERIOUS SKIN is now streaming on MUBI in Canada and many other countries. Get a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: https://mubi.com/eyebrowcinema Like and subscribe if you'd like to see more video essays about movies. 0:00 - Introduction 4:54 - The Power of Art 16:27 - The Critic 20:41 - Ego 24:45 - Epilogue Support me on Patreon! Benefits include early access, exclusive vlogs, and more: https://www.patreon.com/eyebrowcinema In the 1990s, Quentin Tarantino and M. Night Shyamalan breakthrough as defining writer/directors of the American cinema. In the 2000s, both men would see their first high profile failures in The Village and Death Proof. Undeterred, both filmmakers would return just two years later with bold works of meta-cinema. This video essay is a comparative analysis of Lady in the Water and Inglourious Basterds, with consideration to how the two works depict art's influential power, the role of the critic, and the creator's own ego. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/danpgsimpson Filmography: https://boxd.it/gNBpg Works Cited: "The Man Who Heard Voices Or: How M. Night Shyamalan Risked His Career on a Fairy Tale and Lost." Michael Bamberger, 2007. "Locating Mr. Tarantino or, Who's Afraid of Metacinema?" Robert von Dassanowsky, 2012. Featured in "Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: A Manipulation of Metacinema." "The Grand Illousion." Srikanth Srinivasan, 2012. Featured in "Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: A Manipulation of Metacinema." Also available online: https://theseventhart.info/2009/10/03/the-grand-illousion/ "Exploding Cinema, Exploding Hollywood: Inglourious Basterds and the Limits of Cinema." Imke Meyer, 2012. Featured in "Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: A Manipulation of Metacinema." "'Fire!' in a Crowded Theater: Liquidating History in Inglourious Basterds." Sharon Willis, 2012. Featured in "Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: A Manipulation of Metacinema." "The Village Review." Roger Ebert, 2004. https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-village-2004 "Rewind: The Making of Inglourious Basterds." Gaynor Flynn, 2016. Film Ink. https://www.filmink.com.au/rewind-the-making-of-inglourious-basterds/ "The Director's Chair." Robert Rodriguez, 2014. "4 Great Artists Who Make it Really Hard not to Hate Them." Daniel O'Brien, 2011. https://www.cracked.com/blog/4-great-artists-who-make-it-really-hard-not-to-hate-them "Mark Kermode Reviews Later in the Water." BBC, 2006. Reposted on Youtube: https://youtu.be/z8HVurzYdUw Music Featured: Beauty is Found in Melancholy by Scott Lawlor Warmed Up Mono Box by Small Colin Setup With an E by Small Colin Finally Lost by Hinterheim When the World Goes Quiet Part VII by Rydox Both Flanks by Small Colin Love Him by Loyalty Freak Music The Placing Rule by Small Colin More Eyebrow Cinema: The Film Bro is Dead - https://youtu.be/KS-tAU8x4Jc Villains Reformed in Batman: The Animated Series - https://youtu.be/S19TB-6j1AA Listening to Blade Runner's Terrible Voiceover - https://youtu.be/3V2Hyq546gE No, Superhero Movies are NOT Like Westerns - https://youtu.be/SiV-bOulZl8 Dark Souls Difficulty and the Easy Mode Debate - https://youtu.be/z_lRIP8AkXM On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The End of James Bond - https://youtu.be/Ko492zTs9xs Long Movies are Good, Actually - https://youtu.be/YGhsxpsXgF0 Stanley Kubrick's Favourite Actors - https://youtu.be/Uon8unTCEX4 Never Say Never Again is a Waste - https://youtu.be/GsdMCujvmMA The Plot Holes of Vertigo (and why they don't matter) - https://youtu.be/xP9EDhntal4 The Decay of Cinema - https://youtu.be/hjDNtwh2i5M Star Wars Can't Move On - https://youtu.be/ESWgz-lcUuE Contextualizing Insomnia - Nolan's Secret Gem - https://youtu.be/IUef5zrtRQ4 How Terence Young Made James Bond - https://youtu.be/2sTt_nkgGFE The Curious Case of Forrest and Benjamin - https://youtu.be/gWAg1suGwnM