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Dan Brenner: Why the hell did you make that ransom video? Now your captors have no choice but to follow through!
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Paul Conroy: It's over, isn't it?
Dan Brenner: No!
[long pause]
Dan Brenner: Yeah.
Rodrigo Cortés
Rodrigo Cortés (Rodrigo Cortés), born on March 31, 1973 in Pasos, Spain, is a Spanish director, screenwriter, producer and editor.
In 1998, directed his first short film "Yul". In 2002, directed the short drama "Dentro". In 2007, the comedy film "Competitor" directed by him was released
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. In 2010, he directed the suspense thriller film " Buried "
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, with which he was nominated for the Best New Director Award at the 10th Phoenix Film Critics Association Awards
[4]
and the 25th Spanish Goya Award for Best Director
[5]
. In 2012, he served as the director of the suspenseful horror movie " Red Lights "
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. In 2013, he served as the producer of the suspense thriller movie " Grand Piano "
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. In 2018, directed the horror fantasy film " Down a Dark Hall "
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Performing Experience
In 1998, directed his first short film "Yul". In 2000, directed the short drama "15 Days". In 2002, directed the short drama "Dentro". In 2007, he served as the director of the short feature film "Dirt Devil"; in the same year, the comedy film "Competitor" directed by him was released
.
In 2010, directed the suspense thriller film " Buried " starring Ryan Rodney Reynolds . The film tells the story of an American truck driver who was attacked in Iraq. After waking up, he found himself in a coffin and was tragically buried. He had to use the limited props around him to find ways
With the story of escape from birth , he was shortlisted for the Best New Director Award at the 10th Phoenix Film Critics Association Awards, and the Best Director Award
at the 25th Spanish Goya Awards
.
In 2012, directed the suspenseful horror film " Red Lights " co-starring Cillian Murphy and Sigourney Weaver
. In 2013, he was the producer of the suspenseful thriller movie " Grand Piano "
. In 2018, directed the horror fantasy film " Down a Dark Hall " co-starring AnnaSophia Robb , Uma Thurman and Isabelle Fuhrman
.
Character Evaluation
The films "Buried" and "Red Lights" directed by Rodrigo Cortés have obvious similarities and inheritance in the thematic ideas. They all reflect the desires and spiritual dilemmas of modern society through the content of the film.
. Before he directed "Buried", no movie dared to tell the story in such an extremely cramped space. In the film, Kotlitz uses the form of shady and voice-over to express emotions, and to a large extent limits the protagonist’s "action", thereby limiting the flexibility of narrative. In addition, this choice of scenes also tests the director. The skill of telling stories
. In the film "Red Lights" directed by him, the entry point is supernatural themes, but it surpasses the superficial aesthetic dimension of the traditional supernatural film that focuses solely on sensory stimulation, or justice and evil, science and pseudoscience, God and the devil. The inertial narrative strategy of fighting between each other, and enters into a deeper level of exploration of human nature
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Extended Reading
