There is such a sentence: In fact, every director only makes one movie in his life, and all his works are just imitations and improvements of ** works. Therefore, it becomes particularly interesting to trace the first films made by those great directors, and today this article has sorted out the first work of a famous director to see if their first work laid the foundation for their life.
1."Reservoir Dogs" (1992) Quentin Tarantino.
When Tarantino conceived Reservoir Dogs, he was a struggling screenwriter, an idea that first came to him while working at a California video store.
I just kept writing it, and when I wrote Reservoir Dogs, I felt it was time. "And then, like everyone else, it's a huge build-up of pressure, and it's ......."Easy!I wrote the script very quickly, and we started making films about seven months later. ”
He also said that he hopes that all his future films will be like "Reservoir Dogs". Check out the interview with the director below to learn more about the story behind the movie Reservoir Dogs, including how Harvey Keitel helped the film get off the ground.
2."Las Vegas" (1997) Paul Thomas Anderson.
In 1993, instead of going to school, young Anderson spent all his money on making his business cards — short cigarettes and coffee. Soon he was noticed and invited to join the Sundance Filmmakers Lab. In 1996, he began filming his own film, Las Vegas, battling Paramount Pictures' request to re-edit the film.
Luckily, with the support of a lot of people, and that extra $200,000 in funding, he was able to release the original cut and start his career, and the film was not promoted with Paramount Pictures. "The first film, I had to work on to finish," Anderson said, "was a baptism of fire." In the first film, I learned everything I needed to learn, including protecting myself and how to lock the door to the editing room. ”
3."Land of Blood and Honey" (2011) Angelina Jolie.
This tense war drama that revolves around the love story between a Serbian soldier and a Bosnian prisoner of war is an emotional rollercoaster ride for everyone, but for Angelina Jolie, who is directing the film for the first time, the film shocks her.
I just wanted to tell the story, and I ended up being a director. Angelina Jolie once told Marie de Jane magazine: "I suddenly feel responsible, I feel small, whose responsibility should I bear?".Do you think I can change?What did I do?I was completely devastated. Julie's film was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
4."The Legend of the Martyr" (1980) Pedro Almodovar.
Pedro Almodóvar's female-centric films began with 1980's The Legend of the Martyrs. The filmmaker has become a major figure in Madrid's New Wave cultural movement, and together with one of the production members of Super Eight, he is busy creating a series of weird and wild short films, performing in a punk rock band, and he is starting to get involved
After 18 months of filming, he brought the nightlife of trendy culture to the big screen. "'The Legend of the Martyrs' was a film full of flaws," the director later recalled. "When a film has only one or two flaws, it is considered imperfect, and when a large number of technical flaws appear, it is called style. That's what I joked about when I was promoting the film, but I think it's very realistic. ”
5."Blood Labyrinth" (1984) Joel Cohen and Ethan Cohen.
As we all know, at a time when filmmakers were trying to get their careers off the ground, Evil Dead's director Sam Raimi influenced two of the greatest art filmmakers of the era, Joel Cohen and Ethan Cohen, and later collaborated with Sam Raimi on Bug Hunt.
In the book My First Movie, Joel Cohen and Ethan Cohen talk about how their new Black *** Blood Labyrinth, set in Texas, was conceived. It was their first time working on a professional set, but according to them, no one there knew what they were really doing.
6.Eraser Head (1977) David Lynch.
After leaving art school and applying for a filmmaking grant from the American Film Institute, David Lynch began working on Eraserhead. Budget constraints and other hurdles bogged down the film for years in the making, but directing the unforgettable black-and-white footage gave him a deeper understanding of his fictional surreal world.
In a 1984 interview, he talked about how Eraser Head inspired a love of filmmaking: "Sound and image, these are two senses. They really bring something to people, and they cover a lot of different things as well. These are feelings that you don't get from any other art form. And no one really knows how powerful they are. I haven't been able to figure it out either, so they're like math, but I really wanted to explore them in a "feel" way, thinking about the real cohesive connection in terms of sound and image. ”
7."American Beauty" (1999) Sam Mendes.
Sam Mendes - Director of the movie "007: Skyfall". In the beginning, while working on Alan Bauer's American Beauty, he saw the first scene he shot and realized that he had made several big mistakes.
I made a very conscious decision early on that if I didn't technically understand something, I wouldn't be embarrassed to say, 'I don't understand what you're saying, please explain.'" In the end, the film swept the Oscars, but the entire filmmaking experience and the eventual success made Mendes paranoid and distrustful of people for a long time. "But not anymore. He said in an interview.
8."What's Wrong, Tiger Lily?".(1966) Woody Allen.
Woody Allen doesn't have much to say about his first directorial work, other than those he has already explained in actual films. But his early work did teach him that he had to make certain artistic sacrifices in his creation.
If you watch my first film, it's very broad and interesting. It was through this that I became more humane and sacrificed a lot of humor for something else, but I personally felt that the sacrifice was worth it," he told The Paris Review in 1995. ”
So, movies like "The Purple Rose of Cairo" or "Manhattan" won't have as many laughs. But I think it's more fun to do them that way, at least for me, and I'm happy to keep doing it, and I'm going to try to do something serious. ”
9."The Following" (1998) Christopher Nolan.
At the 1999 Rotterdam International Film Festival, Christopher Nolan, the director of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", won the "Golden Tiger Award" for his new black ***.
I don't think I'll ever make a movie this way again. I think the great thing about this film is that I don't have to answer anyone's questions about the creative side of things but myself. But that doesn't mean I'm going exactly what I planned. You have to know that everyone has to work well with each other, people work together, but for me, I can give the right reasons to do something freely instead of being told what to do. Honestly, I can't do that anymore. The money I raise for my next film will be someone else's money, and I'm going to be responsible for someone else's right away, so in a way I'll never have the same freedom as before, but I can spend more money on visuals, like the next film will be partially in color, shot with a 35mm lens, etc., which gives me a technical advantage, and I don't know the rest, so ask me in a year. ”
10."Rocket in a Bottle" (1996) Wes Anderson.
In a 2008 interview, Anderson said of his first book, Bottle Rocket: "We didn't really see it as a stepping stone to anything, because it was everything to us at the time. ”
I remember when we were working on Rocket in a Bottle, there were a couple of times when I was thinking, I don't know what to do, so we have to do something to get through this, and then I remembered what I thought when I was making Youth, and I don't think that kind of scene will ever happen again. I don't care that we've worked 18 hours, it's half past five in the morning, 45 minutes before the sun rises, and we have to get this done and do it as well as we can, because the shoot will eventually end and we'll only have what we have, and I'm going to spend the rest of my life with this film. It should have been obvious, but I didn't think so at the time. The film also shows myself in a way. ”