Friday 9 November 2007

David Fincher


David Fincher is an American born director who was raised in California. He has directed music videos, adverts for television and films. He was a founding member of Propaganda Films in 1986.

In particular he has directed some extremely succesful films such as Fight Club (1999), Se7en (1995) and Panic Room (2002). David has noticable directed mainly thrillers or films that have thriller aspects to them, which suggests that he has a strong interest in that genre.

He has been quoted as saying "I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me, I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about Jaws is the fact that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again." [source: http://www.imdb.com] which is probably why the films he directs are so gripping, that aspect of wanting to draw the audience in so far that they are forever changed by seeing that film. He has also mainly directed films which are very realistic - i.e they could happen in every day life.
For example:
Panic Room - is about a woman and her daughter who have their house broken into so hide in the safest room in their house their 'panic room' but the burgulars want something that is inside that room, the most valuable thing in the house.
Se7en - is about two homocide detectives and a serial killer.
Zodiac - is about a serial killer in San Francisco.

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