John Boorman

John Boorman

  • Born: 1933-1-18
  • Birthplace: London
  • Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m)
  • Profession: director
  • Nationality: U.K
  • Representative Works: Point Blank, Excalibur, Deliverance, Hope and Glory, Panama Tailor
  • John Boorman (John Boorman) , born on January 18, 1933 in the suburbs of London, England, is a British director, screenwriter, and producer.
    In 1967, he directed his first Hollywood movie " Point Blank ". In 1970, he won the Best Director Award at the Cannes International Film Festival with " Leo the Last " . In 1973, he was nominated for an Oscar for best director with " Deliverance ". In 1981, the film " Excalibur " directed by him won the Best Artistic Contribution Award at the Cannes International Film Festival. In 1988, with " Hope and Glory " won the Oscar nomination for best director. In 1998, he won the Best Director Award at the Cannes International Film Festival with " General ". In 2004, won the British Academy Film Awards Lifetime Achievement Award .

    Character Evaluation

    John Boorman's film styles are flexible and diverse, rich in genres, and full of dreams. His series of works spanned the so-called "Swinging London", New Hollywood, European art films, the blockbuster era in the United States, the revival of British cinema in the 1980s, and his pioneering work on the Irish film industry. He integrated the uniqueness of his works into the trend of the times and industrial mechanism. In addition, his films have taken into account the British nationality and regional characteristics, the requirements of American commercial types, and even the attempts of continental European art films. There are successes, regardless of box office audiences or film festival awards; there are also failures and unsatisfactory ones. Works, but there is no mediocre work. It's just the difference in timing and critical angle   .
    John Boorman is a director with both fame and strength   . "Hope and Glory" directed by him is his own childhood memories. Although there is no clear storyline in the whole film, the audience can feel the battlefields of London when the Second World War just broke out through the rich and interesting descriptions. Atmosphere, humorous, joyful and delicate, it is a surprising war literary film   .
    Extended Reading
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    Zardoz quotes

    • Avalow: [addressing the populace of the Vortex] Death approaches! We are all mortal again! Now we can say 'yes' to death, but never again 'no'. Now, we must make our farewells: to each other, to the sun and moon, trees and sky, earth and rock, the landscape of our long waking-dream.

      [Avalow turns to Zed]

      Avalow: Zed - the Liberator - liberate me now, according to your promise!

      [Zed readily raises his pistol. Avalow stretches in anticipation. The seconds pass, but no shot rings out]

      Consuella: [urgently, to Zed, while focusing on Avalow] Do it! Do it!

      Zed: [slowly lowering his pistol] All that I was, is gone.

      [There is the bark of a shot, red spurts from Avalow's neck, and she collapses into the fountain's pool as the people moan in passion. Zed looks behind him - his fellow Exterminators have arrived]

    • [Zed confronts May in the weaving-house; she is partially hidden beneath a diaphanous patterned sheet]

      Zed: May? I want your help!

      May: You want to destroy us... the Tabernacle.

      Zed: I want the truth.

      May: You must give the truth, if you wish to receive it.

      Zed: I'm ready.

      [She flings the sheet up to enfold him beneath it with her]

      May: It'll burn you!

      Zed: Then burn me.