Reasearch Into Iconic Thriller Directors
Juriz - Research into Iconic Thriller Directors Case Study:
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, was an English film director and producer, also known as "The Master of Suspense. He had a very successful career and ended up going to Hollywood and became a US citizen. His stylistic includes the use of camera movement that mimics a person's gaze which forces the audience to engage in a form of voyeurism. In addition, he framed shots to maximise anxiety, fear, or empathy, and used unique ways when editing. A variety of his films ends up having a plot twists and violence. After his appearances, interviews and movie trailers, he became an iconic figure to the society. Hitchcock borrowed the theme from psychoanalysis and sexual overtones. His first movie (The Lodger) was a silent film, which means that there were no sounds and no dialogues but purely just movements. In addition, he has directed more than 50 feature films and in 2002 it states that he was the most influential filmmakers of all time.
Maxwell - Research into Iconic Thriller Directors Case Study:
Christopher Nolan born in London on July 30th 1970, is a film director, screenwriter and producer. Nolan is a well renowned thriller producer with some of his famous works being The Dark Knight Trilogy and the also popular Momento. His work has had a massive impact on the thriller genre and really broadened the doors and expanded on some of the old thriller writers works. Especially with his film Inception.
Inception was also another popular and very unique film of Nolan’s. It was a thriller, but of a different kind. Unlike most thrillers in modern time that focus on death or crime. Nolan’s Inception is a more psychological thriller. With no enemy or horror techniques used, Nolan really began to expand his style of thriller and open doors for future directors to do the same or expand on his work.
Nolan often uses urban settings in his films and a dark tone often followed by men in suits is quite apparent within a lot of his films. He also says himself that all of his films are heavily influenced by film noir, which is a cinematic term often used to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, with dark characters and sexual motivations. By exploiting and creatively using many popular and not so popular thriller techniques Nolan is able to capture the audience's attention and manipulate their psyche and emotions like not many other film directors and screenwriters can do. Due to this varying style of thriller and his quality consistency, Christopher Nolan has a massive influence on thrillers as we know them today and will be inspiring, aspiring directors like me for many generations.
Andrew - Research into Iconic Thriller Directors Case Study:
Alfred Hitchcock, born in 1899 was a famous director and producer. It was around 1920 when Hitchcock joined the film industry. He started off drawing the sets (he was a very skilled artist). In 1939, Hitchcock left England for Hollywood. The first film he made there,Rebecca (1940), won an Academy Award for best picture. Some of his most famous films include Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964). His works became renowned for their depictions of violence, although many of his plots merely function as decoys meant to serve as a tool for understanding complex psychological characters. He described his childhood as lonely and sheltered, partly due to his obesity. He once said that he was sent by his father to the local police station with a note asking the officer to lock him away for 10 minutes as punishment for behaving badly. He also remarked that his mother would force him to stand at the foot of her bed for several hours as punishment (a scene alluded to in his film Psycho). This idea of being harshly treated or wrongfully accused would later be reflected in Hitchcock's films. Hitchcock directed more than 50 feature films in a career spanning six decades. He received the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award in 1979.
Joshua - Research into Iconic Thriller Directors Case Study:
Christopher Jonathan James Nolan is film director, screenwriter and producer, who is very prominent in the thriller genre. He is of american english descent, and has influenced the genre massively due to his numerous amounts of successful thrillers, made popular by his unique style. His nine films have grossed over US $4.2 billion worldwide and acquired a total of 26 Oscar nominations and seven awards. As a child he started making films and later learned techniques in the University College of London. He went on to make his first feature “Following” in 1998, and then “Memento” in 2000, which he won many awards for. In 2002 he directed the highly acclaimed thriller “Insomnia” . It was deeply psychological and this started his thriller directing career. He was also a successful producer, he produced the film “Batman Begins”, ‘The dark knight’, which went onto grossing more than a billion dollars at the worldwide box office. He was nominated for Directors Guild of America (DGA), Writers Guild of America (WGA), Producer Guild of America (PGA) and received eight academy award nominations. It was so successful due to its darker nature and physiological effect. In 2010 he made film history, captivating audiences with his sci fi thriller ‘Inception’. It was an instant success and a worldwide blockbuster $800,000,000 and achieved many many awards. Since 2010 Nolan has continued his success releasing this final installment in the Batman trilogy “The Dark Knight Rises” and also “Man of steel”. His success has been driven by his uniques ideas and portrayal of this in film.
Evaluation:
We completed this task in order to gain some information behind the true creators of the thriller genre. Looking at Christopher Nolan, helped me develop a good sense of the variety that can be seen in thrillers. And the different backgrounds that cause these thriller directors to create such trivial and exciting stories. It will help me with my own production work as taking inspiration and having almost a role model to guide us with our work will be really helpful in deciding what is effective at displaying the genre of our opening as thriller and keeping the genre consistent throughout.
Maxwell St Hill