Bo Burnham
Bo Burnham (Bo Burnham), born on August 21, 1990 in Hamilton, Massachusetts, is an American director, screenwriter, and actor.
In 2006, I uploaded a self-deprecating song of my own creation on YouTube
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. In 2009, he performed a talk show in the show "Comedy Center Tribute" and began to establish his image as a comedian
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. In 2013, participated in the talk show "Bo Burnham: What." ". In 2016, he wrote, directed and acted on the talk show "Making Happiness". In 2017, directed the comedy talk show "Gerald Karl Mike: 8". In 2018, he directed his first film " The Coolest Girl in the World ". With this film, he won the 28th Gotham Independent Film Awards Best Breakthrough Director Award
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, the 28th Gotham Independent Film Awards 71st Directors Guild of America Award Film Category-Best Feature Film Debut Director Award
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. In 2020, starring in the feature film " Promising Young Woman " directed by Emerald Lilly Fennell
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Performing Experience
In 2006, I uploaded a self-deprecating song of my own creation on YouTube
. In 2009, he performed a talk show in the show "Comedy Central Tribute" and began to establish his image as a comedian
; in the same year, he appeared in the comedy film " Funny People " directed by Judd Apatow
. In 2011, co-starring with Thomas F. Wilson and others in the TV series "Zac's Fame".
In 2013, participated in the talk show "Bo Burnham: What." ". In 2016, he wrote, directed and acted on the talk show "Making Happiness". In 2017, directed the comedy talk show "Gerald Karl Mike: 8"; in July, the romantic comedy film " The Big Sick " in which he participated was released
; in the same year, he played Toby in the comedy film " Rough Night ".
In 2018, she directed her first film " The Coolest Girl in the World ", which tells the story of the ordinary and inferiority 13-year-old Kayla who experienced various troubles in the last week of junior high school, but finally grew up and won the 90th American National Critics Association Award for the Top Ten Films of the Year Award
. For this film, he won the 28th Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Breakthrough Director
and the 71st American Directors Guild Award for Film Category-Best Feature Film Debut Director Award
; in the same year, he directed Comedy talk show " Chris Rock: Tambourine ". In this comedy special, Chris Rock expressed his wife's observations and opinions on the role of father, infidelity to his partner and American politics.
In 2020, he co-starred with Carey Mulligan in the drama film " Promising Young Woman " directed by Emerald Lilly Fennell . In the film, he played the role of Ryan Cooper, a pediatrician who met his college classmate Casedela while buying coffee
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Character Evaluation
In the movie "The Coolest Girl in the World", the director Bo Burnham abandoned the possibility of drama in his debut work and focused the lens on such an ordinary girl with introverted personality and social anxiety
. He took the half-old child Interpretation of the suffering of growth is subtle. There is no "cruel youth" here, nor is it focused on showing school bullying. No matter what age audience you are, you will be reminded of the feeling you experienced when you were growing up. This is what makes this movie great
. Moreover, he avoided the clichéd plots of genre movies, and explored the embarrassment and anxiety faced by young girls in their growth in a delicate style Review of ).
