Director’s Cut 🎬 (Tribute to You Right by Doja Cat & The Weeknd) / (Cover by Adam Christopher)

Original written by: Abel Tesfaye, Amala Ratna Dlamini, & Lukasz Gottwald

*If you are mentioned in this song, please know that I deeply respect your artistic creations as a director, an actor, a comedian, etc. :D
**Special thanks to Dr. Ann Malloy, for her awesome Art Of Film course at Tulsa Community College!

Lyrics:

Tell me where to stand
And I won’t move
Tell me where to stand
And I won’t move
Like chessboard pieces, you know how to play
In just a blink, cleverly rearrange
You’re giving me a director’s craze
You will never be replaced
When we’re all stumped, you know what to do
You make filmmaking so cool

Hitchcock type:
Rob Reiner delight
Robert De Niro’s style
J. J. Abrams til sunrise
Watching Quentin Tarantino’s groove
Coppola, ‘lost’ lines
James Strong, Broadchurch style
Michel Gondry on fire
Watching Ridley Scott, so smooth

From Disney to Docter’s, it’s all sugary sweet
M. Night Shyamalan’s super spooky
Creepy shorts from Stephen King
Consistent classics from Clint Eastwood, obviously
I prefer Peter Serafinowicz
And Norm Macdonald’s comedy
You create, for one and all,
We tune in to see
Your artistic mastery
Looking forward to career following IT Crowd Star Richard Ayoade
The silliest teen girl in me
Can’t stop listening to Matthew Gray Gubler, he’s
Reading, aloud, Annabel Lee
Originally by Edgar Allan Poe, so….

Tell me where to stand
And I won’t move
Tell me where to stand
And I won’t move
Like chessboard pieces, you know how to play
In just a blink, cleverly rearrange;
You’re giving me a director’s craze
You will never be replaced
When we’re all stumped, you know what to do
You make filmmaking so cool

Ahmed Khan type:
James Cameron, big time
Guillermo del Toro excites
Simon Pegg action tonight
Watching Alan Taylor’s groove
The Mel Brooks type
Mel Gisbon tonight
Steven Spielberg’s fight
Watching Enrico Casarosa’s groove

Your art, I love, like Corpse Bride, it’s so cute
Tim Burton, a mystery
Just what I like to see
I know these people influence our society’s truths
Neill Blomkamp for District 9, Elysium, and Chappie
Rewriting our histories
Lucas, in the stars, where he sees
Dont get too attached to any generation
Because reels keep developing
Where there’s vex, vex, vexation,
Here’s my philosophy:
A couple hugs can put an end
To pain’s reigning dynasty

Tell me where to stand
And I won’t move
Tell me where to stand
And I won’t move
Like chessboard pieces, you know how to play
In just a blink, cleverly rearrange
You’re giving me a director and actor’s craze
You will never be replaced
When we’re all stumped, you know what to do
Like Roman Polanski, oh so cool

Spike Lee vibes:
Gene Wilder tonight
John Lasseter’s style
James Wan invite
Stan Lee & Woody Allen’s groove
Shine in Joss Whedon’s light
Dustin Hoffman’s style
David Slade’s Hard Candy vibe
Watching Arnold Schwarzenegger’s groove

End

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