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American director and screenwriter Rian Johnson was born in the last month of 1973 in Maryland, USA. The future promising filmmaker grew up in the town of San Clemente, Orange County, in sunny California. After successfully graduating from high school, he enters the University of Southern California, graduating from the School of Film Arts in 1996.
Brand style
From the very beginning of his creative career, Rian Johnson personally writes scripts for his directorial works, but this is not the only formal sign by which his cinema can be called "author's". The giftedness of a person who has something to say, as a rule, is easily recognized, regardless of whether the success of the project among a wide audience is deafening or not. The signature style of the director - "authorship within the genre" (meaning the mandatory presence of a personal director's statement within a certain genre structure) - sooner or later will provide the author with the status of "cult". Director Rian Johnson is an outstanding visionary of our time, for his debut film he received a special prize from the jury of the Sundance Film Festival for "originalauthor's vision.”
Debut
The author wrote the script for his debut film back in 1997, but the search for funding for the project dragged on for six long years. His incredibly stylish and unequivocally non-standard detective story "Brick" (IMDb: 7.40) was named by eminent film critics as one of the best film debuts of the decade. The tape tells about the murder of a girl and a lone detective who becomes an avenger. The creator's trick was that high school students became the heroes of the canonical story for noir, the viewer was transferred to the school yard and canteen instead of the usual smoky bars and rainy streets. Filming took place in the hometown of the director. Rian Johnson went to the same school he featured in his debut film.
Then in 2008, the author shoots a light film "The Brothers Bloom" (IMDb: 6.90) about the adventures of adventurers with the names of Joyce's "Ulysses". The tape failed at the box office, although this fact is not an indicator of the quality of the picture.
Flirting with genres
Director Rian Johnson, whose films are familiar to every cinephile, in 2012 directed his third work, Looper, in which he continued to boldly flirt with cultural codes and genres. An exceptionally promising director very elegantly shot a futuristic action movie, in which the near future was invented without burdensome pretentious design nonsense. In a word, Johnson's future turned out to be extremely plausible, even though jet skis hover inair, and the gangsters continue to wear cowboy hats. The plot of the picture exaggerates the topic of criminal time travel and its consequences that does not lose its relevance. The director, having a pronounced postmodernist thinking, in his third project completely refuses to close the vicious loop, becoming an erudite collector of annoying clichés. In Loop, the heroes of the present and the future came together in a duel to the death almost like Anthony Johnson and Ryan Bader.
For the future
In 2017, the premiere of another picture from the cult saga "Star Wars" is scheduled. "Episode VIII", in fact, is a continuation of the internal chronology of the epic and acts as a sequel to the previous films, both the second and third trilogy. The episode "The Force Awakens" was planned to be directed by Johnson before production began, but JJ Abrams took over directing. Episode 8 was directed by Rian Johnson with Abrams as executive producer. It was co-produced by Ram Bergman, Kathleen Kennedy and Lawrence Kasdan, ex-screenwriter of The Force Awakens. The script for the project was written by Johnson in collaboration with George Lucas. Ryan, being under the strongest impression from watching Henry King's films "Vertical Takeoff" and "Unsent Letter" by Mikhail Kalatozov, forced all the actors to review the named films before the start of filming.
The final ninth episode of the Star Wars trilogy will be directed by Colin Trevorrow, author of The WorldJurassic Period , and Johnson will act as a screenwriter.
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