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Henry Letham: Do you know the Tristan Rêveur quote about bad art? It's "bad art is more tragically beautiful than good art 'cause it documents human failure."
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Sam Foster: [gesturing to the surrounding paintings on display] Are any of these yours?
Henry Letham: Ouch.
Sam Foster: What?
Henry Letham: Well... these are bad, Sam.
Marc Forster
Marc Forster (Marc Forster), born on November 30, 1969 in Ille Thyssen, Germany, a German director, screenwriter, and producer, graduated from New York University.
In 2000, he directed his first film " Everything Put Together ", thus starting his career as a director
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. In 2004, with the biopic " Finding Neverland ", he was nominated for the Best Director Award in the 62nd American Golden Globe Awards
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. In 2007, the directed feature film " The Kite Runner " was nominated for the best non-English film at the 61st British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards
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. In 2011, directed the action film " Machine Gun Preacher "
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. In 2013, directed the feature film " World War Z "
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. In 2016, he served as the director and producer of the thriller " ALL I SEE IS YOU "
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Early Experience
Marc Forster's parents were German physicians and architects, and moved to Davos, Switzerland with his parents when he was a child. Although he grew up in Switzerland, he is still a German citizen. The first cinema movie he watched in his childhood was when he was 12 years old, Francis Coppola's "Apocalypse Now", inspired by this, he dreamed of advancing on the path of director.
In 1990, Marc Forster moved to New York to attend the New York University Film School and made several documentaries
. In 1993, he moved to Hollywood and shot the experimental low-cost film "Longers".
Performing Experience
In 2000, he directed his first film " Everything Put Together ", thus starting his career as a director. This film was the opening film of the 16th Sundance Film Festival and won the 16th Sundance Film Festival Jury Prize- Nominated for a feature film
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In 2001, directed the romance film " Monster's Ball " co-starring Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Maria Berry . The film was nominated for the Golden Bear Award at the 52nd Berlin International Film Festival and the Best Foreign Language Film at the 26th Japan Film Academy Awards.
In 2004, directed the biopic " Finding Neverland " adapted from the story of Peter Pan author James Matthew Barry . The film was co-starred by Johnny Depp , Kate Winslet , and Alfred Thomas Highmore , and won the Magic Moment Award at the 61st Venice Film Festival. The 77th Academy Awards-Nominated for Best Picture, and for this film he was nominated for the 62nd American Golden Globe Film Category-Best Director Award, and the 58th British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards David. Nominated for the Lynn Director Award
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In 2005, directed the thriller " Stay " co-starring Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor . In 2006, directed the fantasy romance " Stranger Than Fiction " co-starring Will Ferrell , Quen Latifah , and Emma Thompson . The film tells the story of a national tax auditor who discovered that he was actually a character in the novel
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In 2007, directed the feature film " The Kite Runner " adapted from the novel of the same name by Khaled Husseini . The film was co-starred by Sean Tossa, Said Taghmaoui and Atossa Leoni , and won the 61st British Film and Television Art Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Non-English Film
. In 2008, directed the action film " Quantum of Solace " co-starring Daniel Wroughton Craig , Olga Kurylenko and Mathieu Amalric
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In 2011, directed the action film " Machine Gun Preacher " based on the autobiography of the American missionary Sam Kidds . The film was co-starred by Gerard Butler and Michelle Monaghan . It told about the establishment of an orphanage in Sudan by Sam with a sharp personality. The story of saving child soldiers
. In 2013, directed the feature film " World War Z " based on Max Brooks's novel of the same name . The film was co-starred by Brad Pitt and Mireille Enos
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In 2015, directed the thriller "The Hand of God" co-starring Ron Perlman , Alona Tal and Dana Delany
. In 2016, directed the thriller " ALL I SEE IS YOU " co-starred by Blake Lively and Strahotski , and served as the producer of the film
.
Character Evaluation
Marc Forster is the kind of director who wants to play with commercial art and has a good time. He does not insist on the European position like his peer Tom Tykway. He is also different from Roland Emmerich. He knows how to include in his works. The importance of business elements. The commercial films he shot, whether it is the thriller "Stay" or "The Big Break Quantum Crisis", are also amazing, with a bit of artistic flavor. He conquered the American audience with his unique personality and artistic charm, and he was not completely reduced to an assembly line skilled worker, and he was able to make ends meet in the studio system, but he also crossed the United States with the early European directors and created Hollywood movies. Different aesthetics .
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