Richard Linklater

Richard Linklater

  • Born: 1960-7-30
  • Birthplace: Houston, Texas, U.S.
  • Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m)
  • Profession: Director, screenwriter, producer
  • Nationality: America
  • Graduate School: Sam Houston State University
  • Representative Works: Boyhood, Before Midnight, Before Sunset, Before Sunrise
  • Richard Stuart Linklater (Richard Linklater) , born on July 30, 1960 in Houston, Texas, is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, photographer, and editor. He graduated from Sam Houston State University.
    In 1988, he directed his first film "It 's Useless to Die to Study ", which officially opened his director career [1]  . In 1995, he directed the romantic film " Before Sunrise " and won the Best Director Award at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival [2]  . In 2001, directed the feature film " Waking Life ", which was nominated for the Golden Lion Award at the 58th Venice International Film Festival [3]  . In 2004, directed the feature film " Before Sunset ", which was nominated for the 54th Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear Award [4]  . In 2006, directed the feature film " Fast Food Nation ", which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at The 59th Cannes Film Festival [5]  .
    In 2013, he directed the romantic film " Before Midnight " and was nominated for the 86th Oscars Best Adapted Screenplay Award [6]  ; in the same year, he won the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival Berlin Photography Gold Award [7]  . In 2014, directed the feature film " Boyhood " won the 64th Berlin International Film Festival Best Director Award [8]  , 72nd Golden Globe Awards Best Director Award [9]  . In 2019, the directed drama " Where'd You Go, Bernadette " was released [10]  .

    Early Experience

    Richard Stuart Linklater was born in Houston, Texas, USA. After graduating from high school, he won a scholarship from Sam Houston State University for his outstanding baseball performance, but it didn't take long before he left school and worked alone in the offshore oil field in the Gulf of Mexico for two and a half years. Later, Linklater came to Austin, the capital of Texas with a deposit of $18,000, and formed the "Austin" film community with a group of like-minded young people   .

    Character Evaluation

    Richard Stuart Linklater connects the scattered fragments of the film with a unique narrative style, turning chaos into a depiction of chaos   . Similarly, his works show strong postmodern subversive characteristics   .
    Richard Stuart Linklater uses humor, vivid language, poetic lens and ethereal music to show people's feelings and thinking about love in the process of growing up   . In addition, he unscrupulously expressed his artistic ideals and aesthetic views in his works, and has always maintained his passion and closeness to real life   .
    Richard Stuart Linklater's film "Love in the Trilogy" eliminates this gap with its documentary-like qualities. It truly reflects the life and emotional experience common to humans in the process of time, and uses the subjective and objective dual narration of the camera and the character dialogue. , To reproduce the difference between the poetry of "this moment" in the movie and daily life. He gave new ideas to the film's narrative effect by breaking the convention, and showed the charm of the film in another way   .
    Extended Reading

    Hitchcock/Truffaut quotes

    • Peter Bogdanovich: [Discussing "Psycho"] The very first screening of that film, none of us had a clue what was gonna happen. And when that - murder - that shower scene came, I've never seen an audience react like that. You could hear a sustained shriek from the audience downstairs. It wasn't like "ah-ah-ah". I was like "aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh". Like they wanted to close it out. But, they couldn't stop watching it. You wanted to close your eyes but you couldn't. Hitch was right, you didn't have to build suspense anymore, they were, they were - blithering idiots. The audience was, "wha-what happened"? They couldn't believe what happened. They kept thinking it couldn't have happened. She's gonna be alive. It was every impulse that you have going to the movies, it was the first time that going to the movies was dangerous.

    • Alfred Hitchcock: [Discussing "Psycho"] Seven days, seventy set-ups. I used a nude girl, a lot. I shot some of it in slow motion. Because of covering the breasts, you couldn't do it quick. You couldn't measure it correctly.