Many directors have shot a lot of works, but the response is mediocre, but some directors have taken the side of the sword, but they have achieved good results, and the first film has become a classic, and it has become a sample version imitated by many people later. The most famous of these people is, of course, the Italian Cult director Aquido.
Aquido's full name is Dario Aquido, he is the son of the famous Italian producer Salvador Aquido in the sixties, with better and more favorable conditions than others, Dario Aquido was influenced by his father when he was in high school, and he was very obsessed with and loved movies while writing for those films while going to school.
After graduation, he followed in his father's footsteps and did film-related work. Compared with the producer's father, his beginning was from the screenwriter, and he participated in the screenwriting of the very famous movie "Once Upon a Time in the West".
As a screenwriter, he also has his own personal preferences, that is, he prefers crime detective works full of horror, mystery and horror.
When he read the novel The Screaming Mimi, he was so moved by the eerie tone and story in the book that as a screenwriter, he did not hesitate to write it into a script.
Usually, a screenwriter treats his own script as much as his own son, but everyone in that circle knows that the director is the one who has the most say in any work, and sometimes, the plot or plot that the screenwriter likes, when the director does not like it, will be deleted. Dario Aquido, who has been immersed in movies for many years, naturally understands this truth clearly.
In the script he adapted from the novel, he loved it more than any script he had ever written before, and in order to keep his efforts from being wasted by others, Aquido came up with the script that he directed as a director.
But filming requires sponsorship and funds, and at this time, he thought of his father's film company, as the producer's parents, gave him support, and finally agreed to fund his first film, his debut film "The Bird With The Crystal".
The poster and title of the film use a rare bird of South America that appears in the movie, and the strange and beautiful bird appears, which is unforgettable at a glance. It also opened up a new way of attracting people for the film, and many later cult films have quoted this routine of Aquido.
The film's domestic translation is "Flower Destroyer", which seems to have little connection with that English name, but it is actually very much in line with the positioning of this film.
The film tells the story of an American writer Sam, in order to play to find inspiration, he and his girlfriend went to Italy to travel, in a foreign country to feel different customs and customs, to find inspiration for their own creations. As a result, the inspiration was not found, but a murder was witnessed locally. The perpetrator of the murder is also a serial killer, and when he becomes an eyewitness, trouble ensues, but all this trouble is his own, because driven by curiosity, he bypasses the police alone to investigate these serial murders.
In this movie, the case is not the most attractive place, the most fascinating to the audience at that time is Aquido in this movie, using his idol Hitchcock's film noir style, weird scenes, weird soundtrack, bloody shots, horror atmosphere creation, all of which give people a strong visual feeling of extreme black.
While paying tribute to the thrilling and bold horror films of the 1940s and 1950s, there are also some innovations that belong to personal characteristics, which make many people feel related after watching it. After the film was released, it became a classic among Italian Cult films. That extremely strong visual impact expression is still imitated by many black horror films.
Subsequently, he also filmed "Nine-tailed Cat" and "Four Flies on Grey Velvet" and the above-mentioned "Flower Destroyer" became an animal trilogy.
This film can be said to have opened the road of Aquido Cult-level films, and those later works, on this basis, laid the foundation for his cult film master's status.
The Animal Trilogy is followed by the Mother Trilogy, namely "Wind Gusts", "Hell", and "Tears of evil spirits". At the age of three, he knew his life, and his first work knew the characteristics, and the personal characteristics of Dario Aquido were already revealed in his first work.
Original article / Three Uncles of the Handsome Film and Television