Last Friday, filmmaker and Richardson High School graduate David Gordon Green opened his latest film, Your Highness, a madcap comedy about a couple of princes making their way through a farsical quest chock-full of bawdy, humorous hijinks. Green is no stranger to the buddy movie genre, having worked with the modern master of adolescent spoof, Judd Apatow, on Pineapple Express (2008). We caught up with the ever-busy filmmaker to find out his five favorite buddy movies. Here are his choices.
The Gravy Train
The funniest movie ever made. A brilliant wrecking ball set-piece!
The Blues Brothers
I love the dry cool delivery and chemistry. Also, making and action/comedy/musical/epic can’t be easy.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
A beautiful and soulful relationship movie. The perfect wit and cinematography to elevate it.
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
A movie with everything, comedy, action, beautiful landscape, bad ass fights and random moments throughout that make a very bold and distinctive film. Might be my favorite movie.
48 Hrs.
A great comedy that never gets in the way of a cool story and great action. I feel like nowadays people are trying to write jokes all the time and place them in an action movie. Here it feels organic and funny without desperate attempts. It’s a great movie even without the laughs.
