Mike Flanagan’s monologue fascination turns up a banger in The Fall of the House of Usher.
Acclaimed horror filmmakerMike Flanaganwears his influences on his sleeve.
Real Flana-heads know, however, that theres one other thing the writer-director cant get enough of: monologues.
Oh, the monologues!
On the other hand though…people just dont talk like that, Mike!
Theyre all pretty boring.
Lemon is the only way to say I love you, the must-have accessory for engagements or anniversaries.
Roses are out, lemons are in.
Billboards that say she wont have sex with you unless you got lemons.
You cut De Beers in on it.
Limited edition lemon bracelets, yellow diamonds called lemon drops.
You get Apple to call their new operating system OS-Lemon.
A little accent over the o.
You charge 40% more for organic lemons, 50% more for conflict-free lemons.
Timothee Chalamet wears lemon shoes at Cannes.
Get a hashtag campaign.
Something isnt cool or tight or awesome, no, its lemon.
Did you see that movie?
Did you see that concert?
It was effing lemon.
Billie Eilish, OMG, hashtag… lemon.
Then you patent the seeds.
This lengthy lemon lesson works on a couple of levels.
For starters, its just clever.
Show dont tell is a good storytelling maxim in general.
But when a character can deliver a monologue this creative, telling works just fine.
All eight episodes ofThe Fall of the House of Usherare available to stream on Netflix now.
