John Boorman

John Boorman

  • Born: 1933-1-18
  • Birthplace: London
  • Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m)
  • Profession: director
  • Nationality: U.K
  • Representative Works: Point Blank, Excalibur, Deliverance, Hope and Glory, Panama Tailor
    • John Boorman (John Boorman) , born on January 18, 1933 in the suburbs of London, England, is a British director, screenwriter, and producer.
    In 1967, he directed his first Hollywood movie " Point Blank ". In 1970, he won the Best Director Award at the Cannes International Film Festival with " Leo the Last " . In 1973, he was nominated for an Oscar for best director with " Deliverance ". In 1981, the film " Excalibur " directed by him won the Best Artistic Contribution Award at the Cannes International Film Festival. In 1988, with " Hope and Glory " won the Oscar nomination for best director. In 1998, he won the Best Director Award at the Cannes International Film Festival with " General ". In 2004, won the British Academy Film Awards Lifetime Achievement Award .

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    John Boorman's film styles are flexible and diverse, rich in genres, and full of dreams. His series of works spanned the so-called "Swinging London", New Hollywood, European art films, the blockbuster era in the United States, the revival of British cinema in the 1980s, and his pioneering work on the Irish film industry. He integrated the uniqueness of his works into the trend of the times and industrial mechanism. In addition, his films have taken into account the British nationality and regional characteristics, the requirements of American commercial types, and even the attempts of continental European art films. There are successes, regardless of box office audiences or film festival awards; there are also failures and unsatisfactory ones. Works, but there is no mediocre work. It's just the difference in timing and critical angle   .
    John Boorman is a director with both fame and strength   . "Hope and Glory" directed by him is his own childhood memories. Although there is no clear storyline in the whole film, the audience can feel the battlefields of London when the Second World War just broke out through the rich and interesting descriptions. Atmosphere, humorous, joyful and delicate, it is a surprising war literary film   .
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    • Arthur Frayn: You see, our death-wish was devious, and deep. As Zardoz, Zed, I was able to choose your forefathers! It was careful genetic breeding that produced this mutant - this slave who could free his masters! And Friend was my accomplice! Don't you remember the man in the library, Zed?

      [a chime is heard]

      Arthur Frayn: It was I who led you to the 'Wizard of Oz' book! Ha-hah, it was I who gave you access to the Stone! It was I!

      [a chime is heard]

      Arthur Frayn: I bred you! I led you!

      Zed: And I have looked into the face of the force that put the idea in your mind. You are bred, and led, yourself.

      [He strides away, and Friend advances to join Arthur]

      Friend: Arthur! We've all been used!

      Arthur Frayn: And re-used.

      Friend: And abused!

      Arthur Frayn: And amused!

    • Zed: What is it you want?

      Friend: Sweet death. Oblivion.

      Zed: For yourself, or for the whole Vortex?

      Friend: For Everybody. An end to the human race. It has plagued this pretty planet for far too long.

      Zed: You stink of despair. Fight back! Fight for death, if that's what you want.

      Friend: I thought at first you were the one to help. But it's hopeless. All my powers have gone.

      Zed: Where is it? The Tabernacle?

      Friend: The Tabernacle... is... I can't remember!

      Zed: Who made it? Someone must know how to break it.

      Friend: Yes, but you can meet him for yourself! One of our founders, one of the geniuses who discovered immortality.

      [Friend goes to the bed of the Old Scientist and, rousing him noisily, shouts]

      Friend: We want to die! Hm? What - what's the trick?

      Old Scientist: [feebly] Death... death... Talk to May! May!

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