Strangest actor/director collaboration?
 

In your opinion?

For me, Harmony Korine and Selena Gomez.

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Usually when I think collaboration I think that, w/ the positions used here, that both worked to get this project going, etc etc. I don't think Gomez had much to really put in, though she did fine for what Korine wanted. I really ended up liking that one.

Taking your basis... Cameron Diaz and Martin Scorsese. I seriously think the Weinsteins put her in there, such an odd casting choice.

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I was gonna say WILD IN THE COUNTRY (1961) with Elvis Presley and a script by Depression-era playwright Clifford Odets, thinking that Odets had directed it, but when I looked it up on IMDB, it turns out Philip Dunne, a longtime Fox screenwriter-turned-director had directed it. Not so strange a collaboration after all.

So I'll just add that my fervent wish is that in some alternate Hollywood universe, Robert Altman had directed JAILHOUSE ROCK or Elvis had appeared in NASHVILLE.

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Lars Von Trier / Bjork
David Cronenberg / Marilyn Chambers

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John Carpenter / Amber Heard

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kevin smith / johnny depp

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Ed Wood / Bela Lugosi

George Lucas / Alec Guiness and Peter Cushing

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Moranis/Thomas---Max Von Sydow

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David Lynch-Richard Pryor/Ann Miller

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i'd add david lynch / billy ray cyrus

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At the time Pineapple Express came out, David Gordon Green directing Seth Rogen was pretty strange.

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Werner Herzog- Pamela Anderson
Mike Tyson

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Paul Thomas Anderson / Adam Sandler
Ingmar Bergman / David Carradine
Wes Craven / Meryl Streep
Fritz Lang / Marilyn Monroe
Akira Kurosawa / Richard Gere
John Cassavetes / Judy Garland
Darren Aronofsky / Marlon Wayans
John Carpenter / Roddy Piper

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Steven Soderbergh / Sasha Grey

He said on The Treatment that she was a very good listener, she must've taken direction well.

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Maybe strange in the sense that he was working with one of his first American actors. But not because his career was a joke at that time. At the point that he made Serpent's Egg he had already worked with Scorsese and Altman and was fresh off what I still think stands as the best film of his career "Bound For Glory" directed by Hal Ashby about the life of Woody Guthrie. At the time that he worked with Bergman, he was probably regarded as serious up and coming American actor, as opposed to the typecast joke he sort of became.


This film was kind of made right in the middle of a transformative time for Monroe, when the film was shot she was still sort of Norma Jean, as opposed to Marilyn Monroe. The persona and the notoriety wasn't quite there yet. It would have been more strange had she made the film with Lang 4/5 years later, but at the time she was still just an up and coming actress.




At the time maybe it was strange as Piper was almost exclusively known for wrestling, but in retrospect the casting isn't at all odd when you consider how good Piper is at being a second rate Kurt Russell. At the end of the day it was almost a perfect match. Piper fits perfectly in Carpenters filmography.


The rest I agree with.

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Great list.