David Fincher (full name David Andrew Leo Fincher) - American director, was born on August 28, 1962 in the city of Denver, Colorado.
As a child, David ran every day to the nearestA cinema where I watched the same films several times. And after watching the western "Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid" eight-year-old boy began to ask his father to buy him a movie camera. Having received as a gift the most simple eight-millimeter camera, David started to make his own films. The hobby soon developed into creativity, close to professional, the amateur shootings of the young cameraman became more interesting. And when Fincher began to shoot fixed scenes, he realized that this requires a special system of machine tools and supports. And the future director decided to gain experience from professionals.
David got a job at the film studioshort films to be closer to the equipment for filming. His duties included the installation and dismantling of film cameras, as well as all technical equipment, including the director's chair. The diligent young man soon became an indispensable assistant for the entire film crew, including the director himself. Operators willingly shared with the inquisitive David the secrets of his profession, and he studied the technique of film production on-site.
In 1980, George Lucas's film was released"Star Wars", and Fincher did not leave the cinema all day. He decided in any way to get acquainted with the famous director and in 1982 he went to work in the company that produces special effects for the cinema, which belonged to Lucas. Thus, David managed to take part in the production of the films "Return of the Jedi" and "Indiana Jones". Subsequently, David Fincher's films will be somewhat similar to the works of George Lucas.
In 1984 Fincher opened the possibilityindependent work, where he could already apply his knowledge and skills. And although these were just TV commercials, David started filming. Driven over the edge of the creativity of the director immediately priklekla to him the attention, the orders poured. All Fincher projects differed in the novelty of solutions, and most importantly they were professional from a technical point of view. Companies such as Nike and Revlon, Lewi's and Coca-Cola, lined up for the director.
Two years later, David Fincher settled in the studioPropaganda Films, which produced expensive music videos. The first video of the director was "Janie" s Got A Gun "for the Aerosmith band, followed by a clip of" Love Is Strong "commissioned by Rolling Stones and" Freedom "for George Michael, and when Madonna asked David to make her two videos for hits "Vogue" and "Bad Girl", he was flattered.Clips for the singer turned out stylish and imaginative.
However, while doing music videos,David Fincher planned to do film projects in the near future. And in 1992 the director made his debut in a big movie. He was approved for the film "Alien-3", which was a direct continuation of the fantastic action movie "Alien" staged by Ridley Scott and "Aliens" directed by James Cameron. Fincher's debut was not without clarifying the relationship with the management of the film studio "20th Century Fox", in which it was considered that the director was overly serious about the script, and David Fincher himself stated the weakness of this scenario. As a result, quarreling with the studio management, Fincher left. Filming somehow ended without him, but the film had no success and barely escaped the box office failure.
The director decided to take a break from his difficultdebut in a big movie and returned to time for music videos. He shot short films and commercials until 1995, until the studio "New Line Cinema" offered him a director's chair to work on a psychological thriller called "Seven." David Fincher agreed after much thought, but the film about seven days of the life of two detectives, pursuing a serial killer, took off. The film became the triumph of Fincher, box office more than ten times higher than the funds spent. In the center of the story, John Doe, a serial killer, punishes his victims for the deadly sins that are mentioned in the Bible. The film was not damaged even by the absence of the traditional happy end, so beloved by the Americans. The name of the director David Fincher became known to every movie audience.
In 1997, David Fincher, whose "Game" is classic an example of a thriller film, shot Michael Douglas inleading role. The picture, as it were, continued the line of the previous plot about the serial killer. The character of Michael Douglas does not kill anyone, but he risks dying in a game devised by the devil himself. Nicholas Van Orton, a successful man who has everything, does not have only spiritual support in life, is predisposed to death. His father committed suicide at the age of 48, and Nicholas 48 years old must be fulfilled the other day, and he too feels an irresistible desire to go to the next world.
The loudest and controversial film project Fincheris considered the film "Fight Club", filmed by the director in 1999 at the film studio "20th Century Fox." The main role was played by Brad Pitt, with whom David had already made friends. The hero of the film Tyler Durden opposes himself to society and leads an irreconcilable fight with him, often with illegal methods. In this character, the director also helps, including his full satirical talent. As a result, Fincher was accused of promoting violence and destructive vandalism. Negative criticism of the film has affected the home rental and partly at the cinema in theaters. And again there was a small dispute with the managers of the studio, who claimed the director in excess of the budget amount. Nevertheless, in general, "Fight Club" found its viewer, and later the situation with video cassettes also leveled, their sales grew.
Disputes with the financial building of the film studio "20th centuryFox finally got fed up with Fincher, and his next film, the thriller called The Fear Room with Judy Foster in the title role, he decided to shoot at another studio, but in strict accordance with the budget, which earned the commendation of the accountants, but The viewer, accustomed to the scope of special effects, did not want to put up with the gray reality of the new picture. "However, the discontent continued until the moment when the screen did not include footage made by the audience. with the use of computer technology.Everyone liked the travel of the movie camera through the walls or penetration through the keyhole.The heroine of the film fits well into the new style of the picture and was one with the events taking place in the room.
In early 2007, a new film appeared on the screens"Zodiac", shot by David Fincher on the basis of real events that took place in San Francisco in the late sixties. The picture tells of a serial killer, nicknamed Zodiac, a calculating and ruthless criminal who committed about forty murders in 12 years. The case was extremely confusing, the police could not attack the trail of the Zodiac, although he did not hide much. In addition, the murderer after every attack sent a kind of report on his actions in the newspapers. Fincher, driven by professional interest, spent a year and a half in the archives, trying to figure out every murder. However, he was unable to learn anything new, and in the end the director made a film based on the most famous facts.
Then David Fincher began production of the film"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," which premiered in December 2008. The main roles in the film, which is a film adaptation of the eponymous story of Scott Fitzgerald, was performed by Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. The hero of the film Benjamin Button is getting younger every year, his biological clock has become unusable and now he lives life on the contrary, does not age, but becomes young. Again, the newest computer technologies were used in the production, and since actors similar to Brad Pitt were not easy to find, his face was superimposed on all doubles, and there were several dozen of them. David Fincher coped with the task, he helped the experience clip maker, because once such focussing director made with the characters in the commercials that tell about popcorn. The film collected an unprecedented number of awards and nominations, the Oscars alone were 13-ти.
Currently, David Fincher, filmographywhich already contains about 20 paintings, is preparing to shoot new film projects. The director has his own, unique style. His manner of making films can be compared to the literary style of the American writer William Faulkner, who, starting the narrative, immediately paves a whole network of plot branches, and in whatever branch the reader enters, he will necessarily be in the center of events. So does Fincher - the director weaves the web, and the actors do not suspect this, they just do their work, and then it turns out that this work is like a thin lace, woven from the subtlest storyline. This is the true art of the true artist, which is David Fincher, the director of God.
