Born on 20 October 1956 in Manchester, England, Danny Boyle graduated from Bangor University and is a British film director, screenwriter and producer.
Entering the audience's attention is mostly through "Slumdog Millionaire" and his director of the London Olympic Games, which is also a British national treasure director, the old strategist of Great Britain? The title didn't seem to fit him very well, as he was an outlier at the beginning of his career as a director, whose most famous work, Guess the Train, was listed as the bible of the rebellious teenagers of the time.
Let's take a look at some of his masterpieces.
"Guess the Train"
Macriton was an addict, and the three people he lived with were of the same kind, Simon the Sick Child, Daniel the Mentally Handicapped Potato, and a young girl named Alison, whose young daughter Dorne was born to one of her and the three, but none of them could figure out who the father of the child was. Also with them are Tommy and Bergbie, a lively, healthy, drug-free Tommy who is in love with Liz, and Bergbi, who is violent.
Mark tried to quit drugs, but in the end he could not resist the temptation, and the vices remained. He and Daniel robbed tourists and used the money they could get to buy drugs. Tommy is devastated by the departure of his girlfriend Liz, and is also addicted to drugs, physically and mentally destroyed. Alison's little daughter suddenly died violently in bed. Mark and Daniel were caught stealing something in the supermarket. In order to forget this series of troubles, Mark smoked an excessive amount of Hero and thus fell unconscious, and was sent to the hospital for rescue. When his parents took Mark home and locked him in his room and forced him to quit drugs, he realized that stability is the true meaning of life. So after rehabilitating from drugs, Mark left Edinburgh and found a job at a real estate company in London.
Who knew that Mark's new life had just been interrupted at the beginning, and Bergbie and Simon followed. Mark couldn't stand them anymore. At this time, the bad news came that Tommy had died of AIDS, and they returned to Edinburgh for the funeral. Begby got £4,000 worth of heroin from Russian seafarers, then went to London with Mark and others (including Daniel, who had been released from prison) to resell it for £16,000, making a fortune. That night, Mark took advantage of everyone's sleep to take all the money and prepare to go abroad to start his new life, but he left Daniel's share in his suitcase.
"Guess the Train" is a film that allows the audience to experience the general feeling of electricity and high. Drug addicts, unknown lives and lawless lives, Danny Boyle, the "rebel leader" of the British directorial industry, has indeed launched a revolution that has surprised the entire British film industry. The film's camera vocabulary and soundtrack are very distinctive, and the whimsical plot of climbing into the toilet to find embolism, high-speed photography, and the rock music in the film are all dazzling.
2. Slumdog Millionaire
Many people have had this choice, but this choice is carried forward by this "Slum Millionaire". (I wouldn't say I actually knew about the movie through the Love Apartment)
The film is based on the work Q&A by Indian writer Vikas Swarup. Dave Patel, Frida Pinto, Yani Kap and Sharuba Shukla co-starred. The film was released in China on March 26, 2009. The film tells the story of Jamal, an Indian street teenager from the slums, who participates in the TV show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", whose purpose is to find his missing girlfriend Latoka, who has always been very enthusiastic about the TV show. But when he was about to receive a high bonus, he was accused of cheating.
The film can be said to be Boyle's god-making work, which is a natural combination of India's local culture and the contemporary film and television industry, but also reflects the problem of slums, and won many Oscar awards that year.
3. "Solar Havoc"
In 2057 AD, after only half a century, under the confirmation of scientists, the "source of life" on which human beings live, the sun, gradually lost its energy that pervaded all things, and had entered a terrible stage of exhaustion in advance. The earth will be frozen due to the lack of light energy, and all mankind will be on the verge of extinction. For small human beings, it is tantamount to the early arrival of a terrible catastrophe. So, humans organized a "solar rescue team" of eight people. Aboard a spaceship called Icarus II, it sped off toward the scorching sun. They were tasked with transporting nuclear warheads and rekindling the dying sun.
The name reminds me of a "popular group"
Carrying a powerful bomb on their ship, the bomb thrown at the sun will re-energize the sun if it goes well. However, this spaceship flying in space, as it gets closer and closer to the sun, unexpected events follow. First, they lost contact with the earth, trapped in the vast universe, and the loneliness of no one to rely on tormented everyone. And the fear of the vast road ahead also makes the atmosphere more and more tense. Then they learned that seven years earlier, a rescue team with the same mission had embarked on the same journey as them, and that they had not been heard from again, let alone returned to Earth safely. This terrible accident plunged their mission into catastrophe, and the entire team realized that they had to fight not only for their lives and reasons, but also for the future of all mankind. They must remain sane and sober because they are the last hope of saving the planet.
The actors in this film also come from all over the world, Yang Ziqiong in China, Mitsuyuki Sanada in Japan, etc. Director Danny Boyle in order to increase the feelings of several team members, especially before the start of filming, yang Ziqiong and Sanada Hiroyuki and others lived together in a dormitory for two weeks, so that everyone had a more tacit understanding when performing.
4. "28 Days of Shock"
The Cambridge team has found a virus that can permanently kill infected people, and the virus is extremely fast and unstoppable. After members of animal protection groups accidentally released a group of gorillas carrying the virus in the lab, bustling London became a dead city in just 28 days.
When the bike courier (Sillian Murphy) woke up one morning 28 days later, he found himself lying naked in a dilapidated hospital, surrounded by chaos that made him suspect that he was in a dream. When night came, he was attacked by people infected with the virus, and in a critical moment he was rescued by Schlenna (Neiomi Harris) and Mike (Noah Huntley), and he learned of what was happening in London, and the city's uninfected people were only a small number of London residents and some soldiers stationed outside Manchester. When the three of them worked hard to find a glimmer of hope for the future, they found that the real horror was not the virus.
It's the movie Boyle still uses Murphy, the actor is a familiar face in Hollywood, "Time Planning Bureau", "The Girl with the Pearl Earrings" have its performance.
Recognizable looks
4. "127 Hours"
The film tells the story of hiker Aaron Rosston who is lonely stranded on a hike in Utah because he is unable to move because he is crushed by a falling rock in a remote canyon. Over the next five days, Roston was mentally ordained, while also examining his own life and, more importantly, using the various conditions at hand to get out of danger. Finally, he made up his mind, and with amazing courage, he amputated his arm and climbed down to the bottom of the valley of 65 feet, while walking 8 kilometers in pain, and finally got rescue and successfully survived.
Personally, I think this is a traditional so-called "American spirit" movie, the tone is more similar to "The Revenant", if you are bored, you can watch it.
5. The Biography of Steve Jobs
The film consists of three stories, focusing on the three key points of the Jobs-led Macintosh computer, leaving Apple to create NeXT, and returning to Apple to launch the iMac, telling the story between him and his work partner and daughter Lisa. Interestingly, Apple CEO Tim Cook disagreed with the film's portrayal of Jobs, and Jobs's widow, Laurena, tried to obstruct the film's shooting.
Fa Shark plays Jobs please
There is nothing to say about the plot, and it is estimated that everyone has long been familiar with it when writing argumentative essays in high school. But since the film can be directed by Danny, it means that he is no longer the outlandish middle-aged man of The Humble, but has become a storyteller who has both Style and Story.
To borrow the words of a netizen: the growth of his directing career is to know how to integrate style into the mainstream context, and make himself "seem" different under the premise of the greatest range of recognition. Like his absolute non-mainstream in the early days, he now directs the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, in a sense, it can also be seen as how a suspected angry youth has grown into a "social pillar".
Also, don't go to his Trance, of course, if you're heavy on taste, I didn't say it.