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nihilist
4 Mar 2005, 08:19 AM
From my list, the top filmmakers would most likely have to include:
Francis Ford Coppola
Darren Aronofsky
David Fincher
Stanley Kubrick

Yet, analyzing their works, none of them fall into INTP personality type. In reality, there are hardly any INTP filmmakers because most films have been traditionally defined as a series of inter-related moments designed to evoke strong emotions. Thus, F dominates over T.

The only filmmaker I could think about with an INTP personality type is writer and director, Richard Linklater. If you have ever seen Slacker, Waking Life, Before Sunrise, and Before Sunset, you know his work is plotless and impersonal. My all-time favorite is Slacker , where he follows the random conversations of Gen-X beatniks, intellectuals, existentialists, college dropouts, drug addicts, hippies, and post modernists in University of Texas-Ausitin. It is representative of a generation who is indecisive and lost between intellectual enlightenment and mundaneness of everyday life.

Ascending
4 Mar 2005, 08:40 AM
Sounds like waking life. :)
I'll have to take a look.

Arioch
4 Mar 2005, 09:46 AM
I've heard that the directer of "Lost in Translation" was a INTP

PonderBee
4 Mar 2005, 03:24 PM
Without taking a close look at him I'd guess that Scorcese is INTP.

Cate Blanchett described him as "very aurally sensitive"
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C.J.Woolf
4 Mar 2005, 06:13 PM
Welcome, nihilist! I love Linklater's films. I think I'd like him as a person too. But if he's an introvert then he's overcome his introversion impressively. He knows a lot of people and many of them have worked on his films. I've a feeling that one attraction of filmmaking for him is that it's an excuse to meet lots of creative people and work with them. Linklater also founded the Austin Film Society. INTPs seldom organize other people except under duress.

I can see Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) as an INTP. The DVD has an bit with her and Bill Murray talking about the production of the film. Murray did most of the talking, and Coppola was soft-spoken and shy. I took an instant liking to her.

Six
4 Mar 2005, 06:55 PM
The only filmmaker I could think about with an INTP personality type is writer and director, Richard Linklater.
would have been my first suggestion, too... and my last... don't know of any other who has that many INTPish characters in pretty much all of his movies...

wonder how he would do with a female INTP though ;)

Bugeater
5 Mar 2005, 05:49 AM
I can see Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) as an INTP. The DVD has an bit with her and Bill Murray talking about the production of the film. Murray did most of the talking, and Coppola was soft-spoken and shy. I took an instant liking to her.
I had the same reaction upon seeing that interview. I was like...cool, she's like me! Also, a lot of people I know hated that film, but I thought it was excellent.