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With Gods and Monsters, a fictionalized biography of the last days of Frankenstein director James Whale, and Kinsey, Condon aligns himself with the great pantheon of directors like John Ford, Douglas Sirk and Francis Ford Coppola who bring auteurist pizzazz to classical Hollywood filmmaking structures...
According to Condon, the film is ultimately about, “the connection [sex] makes between people…[this] contradictory aspect of his endeavor. Sex is never just about sex and he was trying to make it just about sex and that’s almost impossible...
Kinsey is more or less a traditional bio flick, fraught with melodramatic dialectics and plot points that you will see coming a mile away; however, Condon’s style keeps getting in the way of all that. Though working with conventional Hollywood filmmaking and storytelling techniques, Condon manages to bring an artistic sensibility to enervated Hollywood clich?...
This style of filmmaking is obviously very appealing to Condon, particularly in Gods and Monsters and Kinsey, “because it so reflects the time in which they’re happening and then taking that and obviously reinventing it. You sort of wanna both look to reflect your time, but you want to speak in a language that’s universal over time not only over different cultures...
...Condon, the avid film lover, loves to “watch movies age. The ones that sort of speak in the most contemporary languages are inevitably the ones that sort of fade the fastest, you use certain things when they’re appropriate...