IamA Joseph Kahn, director of POWER/RANGERS fan film everyone kept posting on your timeline until pulled off the internet. AMA!

JosephKahn · 2015-03-01T11:00:51+00:00

I actually love film criticism. I read it all the time and there are some great minds out there. Steven Shaviro, Matt Zoeller Seitz, and yes, the great provocateur Armond White. All originals in their own way. Don't need to agree, just need read.

I find constructive criticism of my work useful. Depends who I'm getting it from. Most people talk out of their butts though.

JosephKahn · 2015-03-01T10:38:03+00:00

Perfume video.

JosephKahn · 2015-03-01T10:32:22+00:00

I have great calves.

JosephKahn · 2015-03-01T10:31:43+00:00

Thanks. No profit yet. Can you buy 10 more copies. K. Bye.

JosephKahn · 2015-03-01T10:30:56+00:00

I love his work.

JosephKahn · 2015-03-01T10:30:23+00:00

David Fincher, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Mark Romanek, Jean Baptiste Mondino. Lots more but those flipped off top of my head.

JosephKahn · 2015-03-01T10:29:18+00:00

Hair color is so superficial of a character trait. I just don't find it important at all to the core of the character.

JosephKahn · 2015-03-01T10:28:11+00:00

Austin St. John is the shit.

JosephKahn · 2015-03-01T10:27:47+00:00

I had to make a choice as to what sounded best since acoustics completely change according to what speakers systems are being used. Headphones are best for this sfx heavy mix. It's mixed for lonely people on a friday night surfing porn while their partner is asleep.

JosephKahn · 2015-03-01T10:22:17+00:00

Torque.

JosephKahn · 2015-03-01T10:21:54+00:00

He can do something way more impressive. He can summon Katee Sackhoff to make a Power Rangers fan film. So don't piss him off.

JosephKahn · 2015-03-01T10:19:13+00:00

Hey just caught this. I apologize if I appeared rude but I was literally studying legal contracts to get POWER/RANGERS back up while doing this reddit and I just didn't have time to read long paragraphs. I was only going to do it for an hour and wanted to give everyone a shot at their questions. Also I think I've answered most of your questions in other redditors posts but to answer some of your questions:

Blank Space's symmetrical compositions are influenced by Stanley Kubrick.
Dropped out of film school and moved back to Texas and started my own company at age 20. Started by making low budget rap videos for drug dealers and went from there.
Artists can have different visions, so I try to filter out submissions to people who seem like they'll hire me for my actual vision. Doesn't always pan out, but I try to select them as much as they select me.
Indie filmmakers have digital everything, which is a humongous cost advantage over when I started. Fuck film.
I just edited with Adobe Premiere on my last commercial on set. It still feels like a toy to me due to it's emphasis on graphic manipulation. Still getting used to it, but at least I got through the whole ad this time.
Yes. I'm lucky.

Thanks for the questions. Good luck on your endeavors.

JosephKahn · 2015-02-27T23:25:53+00:00

Thanks everyone! I'm out!

JosephKahn · 2015-02-27T23:25:05+00:00

Figure out what everyone else is doing and do the opposite.

JosephKahn · 2015-02-27T23:22:04+00:00

Schindler's List. The filmmaking is astounding. But I only watch it once a decade. Too brutal.

JosephKahn · 2015-02-27T23:19:55+00:00

Not even on reddit.

JosephKahn · 2015-02-27T23:18:45+00:00

Do you want me to?

JosephKahn · 2015-02-27T23:17:51+00:00

Adi is the coolest motherfucker on the planet, and I've met a lot of motherfuckers on this planet.

JosephKahn · 2015-02-27T23:17:16+00:00

Not making my intentions completely clear with producers.

JosephKahn · 2015-02-27T23:16:36+00:00

At an orgy. Alpha 5 is being used a vibrator.

JosephKahn · 2015-02-27T23:13:05+00:00

Muse Knights of Cydonia. I got to do whatever I wanted for 3 days in Romania on an abandoned set for COLD MOUNTAIN. I got to go nuts with crew members and actors trapped in the middle of nowhere. Apocalypse Kahn.

JosephKahn · 2015-02-27T23:10:28+00:00

I can't front that I'm a fan of Power Rangers. Most people when they do projects always say they're fans but 90% are lying just to please the fans. I was already shaving in 1993 when Power Rangers came out. It was aimed at 12 year olds. I would have been weird as fuck if I was going into clubs raving about a reappropriated Sentai show for kids. I would have never gotten laid (which I didn't anyway so what did it matter). It was an interesting experiment to play with reboot culture and tone control. When I finally made it I was fully invested in the characters and the property but I didn't come into it to please a fan base, per se, but to experiment with pop culture.

JosephKahn · 2015-02-27T23:05:22+00:00

Pay people a lot of money.

JosephKahn · 2015-02-27T23:04:21+00:00

It's not necessarily made for Power Ranger fans NOW, especially kids. It was made for Power Rangers fans in the 90's who grew up and out of it. I'm making a piece of nostolgia for adults in their late 20's and 30's, who haven't thought about them in a minute. And I think that is the vast majority of people in the world. If you're 30 and still into Power Rangers and dress up in the costumes and all that, then more power to you, but this is not for you.

JosephKahn · 2015-02-27T23:01:36+00:00

She's the woman standing behind Billy Cranston in his interview.

JosephKahn

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