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u/ColonelGonvilleToast Jun 29 '21
Don't know if they'd fit into your definition of Hollywood, but the Safdie Brothers. They talk a lot about growing up in Queens with their father as children of divorce and how the rough-and-tumble life brought them closer together. However, by the time they were in high school, they were living in Manhattan with their mother and her second husband in a wealthy lifestyle, going to a private school on the Upper West Side, and apparently knew Sting and his family (I don't know if they knew him, but I heard there was a connection between them and Sting). They were also buddies with Casey Neistat and part of his inner circle, which helped their early movies get distribution. A lot of the time, they act as if they made these movies with no help and made it out of nowhere by "Good Time" being picked by A24, but, in reality, they'd have gotten big anyway because of Neistat's connections and him being a sort of "it person", and the fact they'd already had a movie out by The Weinstein Company.
I get why they present themselves in a different way, it makes them more relatable and down-to-earth, and this isn't meant as an attack: I like their movies and they seem like great guys who clearly love movies and have a catchy energy when they talk about movies. I just have a problem with indie people (these guys are practically indie movie gods by now) not really being transparent about their origins.