![]() ![]() "What studio would make Midnight Cowboy now, or Chinatown? It's a different business, mainly because it's become so corporate. ![]() He will speak Saturday night at the Vic before a "quote-along" screening of The Blues Brothers. Indeed, the fear that propelled the plots of some of his favourite movies now grips studio executives, says Landis, in town for the Victoria Film Festival. So says the prolific director who started as a mailboy at 20th Century Fox before becoming one of Hollywood's most successful commercial directors with megahits such as National Lampoon's Animal House, The Blues Brothers and Trading Places. Nothing is as scary as how much movie-making has morphed into a whole new beast in the 21st century, however. He explored it in his feature debut Schlock (1971), inventively combined humour and horror in his monster-movie classic An American Werewolf in London (1981) and recently revisited it in his coffee table book Monsters in the Movies: 100 Years of Cinematic Nightmares. After making movies for 40 years, John Landis has learned a thing or two about fear. ![]()
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