7 Artists Who Secretly Made Your Favorite Movies

When you think of great movies we often think only of the actors, directors, and producers who make them. We often forget the scads of supremely talented people who do so much to bring awesomeness to the masses.

The following article shines some light on these people. It's a good read.

www.cracked.com/article_19652_7-artists-...orite-movies_p2.html

Robert Evans is such a bad ass. He is the very definition of the Hollywood power player. I'd rather be him than Steven Spielberg. There's a great autobiographical documentary about him, The Kid Stays in the Picture.

I think Alex McDowell's work on Minority Report is hugely underrated- there's some fantastic visual futurism in that picture, and I think he totally got the Dick concept of these ultra-futurist concepts mixed with midcentury Americana.

Alan Silvestri is a little outclassed on the list, IMO.

Colleen Atwood is amazing, but the further she stays away from Tim Burton the better.

You know who else is awesome in pictures but doesn't get enough credit? Saul Bass. He's mostly known for doing credit sequences, but his graphic style is so iconic that it virtually defines the movies he's done. Like Vertigo.

Jack Pierce would be another one...he's the makeup artist that created the look of all the classic Universal Monsters.

The further everyone stays away from Tim Burton the better.

They only have to put Alan Silvestri in there because the equivalent person to the others for film scores, John Williams, is well known by the general public, and produced the most iconic soundtracks in the history of cinema.

I think that Stan Winston deserves a nod there too, probably just over McQuarrie.

Ancient_of_MuMu wrote: They only have to put Alan Silvestri in there because the equivalent person to the others for film scores, John Williams, is well known by the general public, and produced the most iconic soundtracks in the history of cinema.

I think that Stan Winston deserves a nod there too, probably just over McQuarrie.

They are both on this list:

www.cracked.com/article_18523_6-artists-...e-movie-moments.html

I'd take James Horner over Alan Silvestri. I love the Predator and Who Framed Roger Rabbit music, but the Aliens score is The Action Movie Music Bible. Plus, there's Krull. It's as if he sat down with the final edit and went "I've been watching a mountain float through space for five minutes now. Oh well, I'm just going to score the living fuck out of this scene. It'll be hilarious." At least, that's what I'd like to think he did, because it is hilarious.

Basil Poledouris scored the Greatest. Soundtrack. Ever.

Jeff White wrote: Basil Poledouris scored the Greatest. Soundtrack. Ever.

Red October?

Nothing to add but I love this portait of Nicholson and Evans by Helmut Newton.