re: #137 Joe Bacon ✅

re: #142 teleskiguy

Roger Corman might be the person that is most responsible for pretty much everything that has happened with Hollywood in the last 70 years. He basically invented the cinematic language of the modern genre film and pushed sci-fi and horror into the mainstream. Without him, there is no Star Wars and there are no comic book movies. The dude was an absolute legend.

He also basically had his own little school for up-and-coming directors before film school was a thing. They’d make a Corman movie, and it gets their name out there, making them better known. James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, Coppola, Jonathan Demme, and Ron Howard all owe a lot to Roger Corman: Actors, too - he launched Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper’s careers, among many others. That’s not even getting into how, for many years, he was almost single-handedly responsible for the distribution of basically every foreign film in the United States. He’s the reason Americans know who Federico Fellini and Akira Kurosawa are.

RIP.