Joe Wright is an English filmmaker. The BAFTA Pride and Prejudice Award winner has been awarded the Carl Forman Award as the Most Promising Newcomer.
The beginning of the work of the famous British director Joe Wright was the pastoral film project "Pride and Prejudice." Behind him were Atonement, Soloist, Anna Karenina, Peter Pan and Hard Time.
The beginning of film activity
The biography of the director began in 1972. The future filmmaker was born on August 25 in London in a family of puppet theater owners. The boy subsequently called his childhood magical. He grew up in a wonderful world of fairy tales and dolls. About how films are shot, the child began to think from an early age. Wright was greatly impressed by Lynch's Great Expectations, Billy Wilder's films, and films with Greta Garbo.
The future film director ceased to get involved in classics by adolescence. Cinema captured Joe completely at age 16. After watching the "Blue Velvet" guy established himself in the choice of future activities. He became interested in drama circle, British realism. In his subsequent works, the director sought to build bridges between theater and cinema.
In 1997 and 1998, the first film works under the names "Crocodile Cotton" and "The End" were shot. In 2003, viewers saw the mini-series "The Last King". The telenovela shows the story of Charles the Second, his exile, triumphant return, attempts to return former glory to the country and the monarch’s romance novels.
The film debut was successful. Joe introduced the audience a dramatic picture of Pride and Prejudice. The work was nominated for an Oscar in four nominations, two in Golden Globe and six in BAFTA. Deficiencies in recreating a bygone era were noticed only by individual critics. They pointed out to the newcomer the simplification of customs and conventions accepted in the then society.
However, almost all censors noted that neither the characters nor the plot were modernized, and the attention of the audience was successfully accented by separate comic episodes with a refined irony.
Iconic movies
In the film adaptation of the famous work of Jane Austen, the main character was played by Keira Knightley. The actress has become Wright's favorite singer. Spectators who managed to fall in love with the work of the director approvingly greeted his new film, Atonement. Released two years later, the picture was again decorated with the inimitable Knightley. In 2007, the director became the youngest director honored to show his film at the opening of the Venice Film Festival.
Created based on the work of the same name by Ian McEwan, the film showed the power of real feeling and piercing art, which managed to defeat death. Wright never attributed his work to genuine Hollywood projects. Much closer to such works is the drama "Soloist".
Another bright work of Joe was the action movie "Hannah." The bizarre and fascinating movie attraction and the originality of the script merged in the project. Having read it for the first time, the director fell under the charm of the main character, a naive, albeit rude girl, Hannah.
For the most part, the action scenes of the action-packed action movie are made in the form of meticulously designed and very long plans. Similar episodes became Wright’s ridge. Joe specifically invited Alexander Sokurov, a steadicam operator from the Russian Ark, to work on the project.
For the next film adaptation of "Anna Karenina" a magnificent script was written, the main role was offered by Keira Knightley. The picture received the prestigious BAFTA and Oscar.
Film experiment
However, the director calls his fantasy work "Peng: Journey to Netlandia" the most striking experimental project. Wright admitted that he missed the happy endings so much that he decided, for a change, to pose a positive picture with an optimistic ending.
The director decided to show what is happening on the screen through the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy. As a result, the film turned out to be memorable very bright. The famous story of the legendary hero was so changed that the audience saw an almost new narrative, transferred to a different era and in a completely unusual surroundings.
In 2017, the military-political drama "Hard Time" ("Dark Times") hit the crane. The painting highlights the significant events of the life of the legendary Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Also, the tape talks about key moments in the history of the last century.
The screening of the new film directed by Woman in the Window is scheduled for 2019. According to a synopsis published by the media, the main character, suffering from agorophobia, happened to see the crime committed before her eyes.
