Directors who are household names

[Talleyrand]

Originally Posted by stvn1974

Spielberg, Tarantino and Eastwood are the only three I think you could walk up to 10 people on the street and 7 could tell you who they are by giving them a film they directed and asking them who made it. Hitchcock might be recognized if you only asked older people.

I bet if you asked most people to name who directed the Dark Knight Trilogy they couldn't tell you. Same goes with Scorsese and Coppola. People who frequent movie boards are a minority.

Bingo.

The idea that, for instance, Fincher is a household name, as some have posited, is insane.