It is impossible to become a talented director or actor , they can only be born. What is the difference between the greatest directors of theater and cinema from ordinary people? Probably by the fact that they see and perceive the world around them in some individual format, and their paintings, first of all, bear the imprint of this perception.
Way to the cinema
In which families are talents born, and how do they come to the cinema? Each creative person has his own individual path into the world of art - someone is born in a family where a creative dynasty has been formed for many years, and someone comes to the cinema almost from the street. But success and recognition are achieved only by those who have something to say to the viewer and who cannot imagine their life without a movie.
The greatest directors of our time traveled their unique path in this art before reaching the summit of Olympus. For some, it was simple and straightforward, but someone had to fight with the system for the right to freely express their thoughts. But no system in the world can destroy the true talent that is given from above.
Creative dynasty
Nikita Sergeevich Mikhalkov was born in a creative family, which begins its history in the 15th century. His father, Sergei Mikhalkov, was a famous Soviet children's poet and author of the Anthem of the USSR, and his mother, Natalya Konchalovskaya , was an excellent talented writer. Nikita's childhood passed among the creative personalities with whom the house of this family was full.
But for some reason, Nikita Sergeyevich's parents decided to introduce him to the exact sciences and sent him to school with a mathematical bias. True, nothing good came of this - the child simply did not have the abilities to mathematical disciplines, the parents were forced to transfer Nikita to a regular high school.
A music school and a theater studio - this is where the soul of the future director and actor sought. There, he felt in his element and made great strides. After graduating from high school, Mikhalkov enters the famous Shchukin school, however, he is still unable to finish it. In the theater universities of that time, an unwritten law was said - a student should not act in films until after graduation. And just this is exactly what Nikita Sergeevich Mikhalkov was actively engaged in.
This fact is not particularly upset the future director, he enters the 2nd year of VGIK, which by then his older brother Andrei Konchalovsky is already finishing. And then there was military service and active participation in the amateur performances of the Kamchatka Navy.
Director and actor
The first film, which brought fame to the young director, was the film "One among strangers, a stranger among his own." The next ten years were especially successful in the career of Nikita Sergeevich. Almost every film he created received prestigious domestic and foreign awards, and the roles that the director played were very popular with the audience.
Almost every talented director has his own special, beloved actor, who becomes his mascot. Such a person for Mikhalkov was Oleg Menshikov. All films with his participation became masterpieces of domestic cinema, the audience eagerly awaited the release of new films.
American Oscar, Cannes Palm Branch - the greatest directors of the whole world dream of such prestigious awards. People's Artist of the Russian Federation Nikita Mikhalkov has in his piggy bank the most coveted awards from prestigious film academies.
Quentin Tarantino - movies about life
Such an extraordinary personality, like this American director, has both his fans and opponents. Well, who said that everyone should like a real artist?
Not graduated from high school, without a father and special attention from his mother - this is the life of a young man named Quentin Tarantino. Films, which subsequently bring him worldwide fame, were shot in many respects under the impression of stormy youth. From his youthful years, Quentin began to write scripts that he offered for sale, but this was not particularly successful.
It took him only three weeks to write the script for his first film, Reservoir Dogs. But the film "Pulp Fiction" became a real stylish and independent American film, after which they seriously started talking about Tarantino.
Quentin Tarantino has repeatedly been a member of the jury of the Cannes Film Festival, it seems that the world will see more than one creation of this original director.
Steven Spielberg
Films of this director became perhaps the most profitable and collected more than 8.5 billion dollars at the box office. Steven Spielberg is not only a talented director, but also a screenwriter and producer. Schindler's List, Indiana Jones, Saving Private Ryan - these films became classics of world cinema and brought the director many awards from the most prestigious film academies.
Well, it all started with a small camera donated by his father, on which Spielberg made his first short film about the war. It was with this childhood picture that the young Stephen’s path to cinema began.
Domestic talents
It is rare that the first film shot by a director immediately captures the hearts of a multimillion-dollar audience. But this is exactly what happened with the first tape of Eldar Ryazanov's “Carnival Night”. This film instantly became popular in the Soviet Union and has not lost its appeal in our time.
Now it is simply impossible to imagine domestic cinema without the work of this talented director. Films of Eldar Ryazanov are not just comedies, they are also thoughts about life, about its dark and bright sides, about love and devotion, about true friendship and betrayal. In the Soviet Union, it was only in the form of irony that one could express all that was boiling, and Ryazanov used it to convey his thoughts and feelings to the viewer.
The greatest directors of the past and our century - each of these talented people forever left his mark on the development of the art of cinema.