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The Discipline of D.E.

United States

1982

9 Min
Black and White
English
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DIR Gus Van Sant

PROD Gus Van Sant

SCR William S. Burroughs, Gus Van Sant

CAST David Worden

ED Gus Van Sant

Synopsis

In 1982 Gus Van Sant’s first project was a short based on the William S. Burroughs’ essay ‘Do Easy’.

“DE is a way of doing. It is a way of doing everything you do. DE simply means doing whatever you do in the easiest most relaxed way you can manage which is also the quickest and most efficient way, as you will find as you advance in DE.” — William Burroughs

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Gus Van Sant

A director who is capable of crafting both deeply unconventional independent films and mainstream crowd-pleasers, Gus Van Sant has managed to carve an enviable niche for himself in Hollywood. Since debuting in 1985 with Mala Noche, Van Sant has become one of the premiere bards of dysfunction, populating his films with a parade of hustlers, junkies, psychopathic weather girls, homicidal teens, and troubled geniuses.

The son of a traveling salesman, Van Sant was born in Louisville, KY, on July 24, 1952. One constant in the director’s early years was his interest in painting and Super-8 filmmaking. Van Sant’s artistic leanings took him to the Rhode Island School of Design in 1970, where introduction to Avant-Garde cinema quickly inspired him to change his major from painting to cinema. After mobving to LA, Van Sant became fascinated by the existence of the marginalized section of L.A.‘s population, especially in context with the more ordinary prosperous world that surrounded them… read more

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14May11

Nothing big, it was OK. The best description is written below my comment. ''Nothing interesting from Gus, but the writing from Burroughs is a lot of fun.''

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