i should start out with the fact that i used to hate his films. i thought he used unnecessary scenes just to through you off, and weird character jives to make the audience uneasy. this is like a horror film where the monster pops out to get a shriek out of the audience. i hated watching the movies untill i saw "the player" .
this opened my eyes to a new look on him. he doesn't have this shallow pop-technique that i was thinking, he just has very odd foreshadowing. he uses very odd objects to give the audience a clue to what's going to happened next. for instance the scene in "the long goodbye" where you see the camera zoom in on 2 dogs having sex. the one dog is screwing the other from the behind but then out of nowhere the dog being humped bits back. this gives a settle but clear clue toward the future. the main character (the dog being humped) is going to bit back (shoot the man who is screwing him). its a little graphic for my taste but it gets the point across. you can see this throughout the movies (like in the player when the detective cant catch the fly.) i cant recall half of them, i know they were there.
to notice an outman film, usually there is a huge cast to look at (i don't know why he likes this, but o well) and also there seems to be a lot of friction threw the characters. now when i look back at his career, i can see his view and begin to like him more and more.
