If you could pretend to be any director for a family of unknowing movie goers (Like In "Close Up") who would it be?

And why???

I would pretend to be Bret Ratner

He has worked with a number of big stars (which would impress a family) plus he has a rep for being a douche bag so I could act however I wanted then sleep with the teen daughter

Haha. good one.

The rules are you can say you’re any director that ever lived. Lets pretend the family has seen a lot of films but knows literally nothing about them (ex. when they were made, what the director looks like/what nationality he is etc.)

Ingmar Bergman. Just to see if a 21 year old Texan-Mexican could pass for a dead Swede.

Guido Anselmi

Steven Spielberg, just because it seems like everybody’s seen at least 10 of his flicks, and I’d love to try and convince somebody that a 19 year old made so many movies.

Leni Riefenstahl.
If they aren’t interested in hearing sexy stories involving the fuhrer I could always tell them that Dustin Hoffman played me in Lenny.

Unless they actually know their history, then I’m going for Russ Meyer, maybe I can convince the mom to “audition” for me.

Werner Herzog, and I’d def replace the quietest and calmest person with Klaus Kinski… just to make things more interesting lol.