You know how it is - you're on a plane, you're bored, you can't sleep, so you find yourself either watching a film - or in Moonlight director Barry Jenkins' case - watching a film over someone's shoulder and tweeting about it.
The film in question was Notting Hill and Jenkins' observations on the film were pretty hilarious, especially as he was only seeing the images and none of the audio or dialogue. On top of that, as he admitted himself, he also had a few drinks on him and hadn't watched the film before.
As a director, Jenkins clocked some of the creative choices by its cinematographer, Roger Michell...
After peeping these dolly/zoom combos in this dinner scene I looked up the director and OF COURSE it’s Roger Michell!!! a G and a Gent, was a Telluride regular for quite some time.
— Barry Jenkins (@BarryJenkins) January 4, 2018
Other times, it was about the fact that Hugh Grant seems to be permanently clean-shaven...
WHY IS THERE A SCENE OF HUGH GRANT SHAVING?! Everybody knows HUGH GRANT DONT SHAVE!!!! That dude ain’t NEVER NOT BEEN CLEAN SHAVEN!!! I doth protest!!! English cat game means HUGH AIN’T TO SHAVE BRUH!!!!! Flag on the play Coach Michell!!!
— Barry Jenkins (@BarryJenkins) January 4, 2018
There's also the fact that he's watching a film over someone's shoulder...
Oh god oh god watching a quasi love making scene between Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts over someone’s shoulder is like CRAZY AWKWARD!!!!
— Barry Jenkins (@BarryJenkins) January 4, 2018
And the fact that nobody who runs a bookshop these days could afford a flat in Notting Hill.
Okay so Hugh is in his bookstore now and as a lover of books and a believer of miracles I can see, I can FINALLY FULLY see how Julia Roberts as Jenny From The Block fell for this English Cat Game, I salute you book slinging grey Oxford wearing remnants of shaving Hugh Grant �
— Barry Jenkins (@BarryJenkins) January 4, 2018
You can read the whole thread, but if we're taking suggestions of directors live-tweeting stuff, we'd like to see Werner Herzog do RuPaul's Drag Race.
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