Biography of David Cronenberg

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March 16, 1943
David Paul Cronenberg film director and screenwriter, was born on March 16, 1943 in Toronto (Ontario, Canada). Its disturbing films exploring different types of nightmares, hitting viewers with a style very personal view. Initially David Cronenberg is dedicated to literary studies and photography before debuting as a Director in several short films (such as "Transfer" of 1966). After signing two works of avant-garde and experimental, since 1976 has established itself as one of the greatest masters of contemporary fantasy film. Enrolled at the University of Toronto, Cronenberg takes advantage of his main interests-reading and science-and begins to write a science fiction story that staggering number then forwards to the specialized press. When he graduated, in 1967, in English language and literature (after changing faculty), has already released two short films: the aforementioned "transference" and "From the Drain". In 1969 in 35 mm "Stereo", that will inspire you to "Scanners", and the following year it was the turn of "Crimes of the Future". Starts at this time a brief television career ended in 1976, where he specialized in directing of some tv show.
After a trip to Europe, Cronenberg realized in 1974 his first feature film: "shivers" a film definitely outrageous, especially for the mindset and the average taste that dominates in those years, so much so that the film deserves a parliamentary question. With time, however, the Director's style does not seem to lose the features exhibited in origin. Cronenberg's cinema is a cinema "difficult, full of violence and horror and that brings to light issues such as those related to identity denied, in relation to a company crisis from the clutter and doubt pervasive." Fundamental theme of almost all of Cronenberg's films is the obsession with "mutation of the body". Let us mention, for example, in addition to those enumerated above, movies like "Rabid" (1976), "Brood, the brood (1979); "Scanners" (1980); "The dead zone" (1983); "The fly" (1986); "Dead ringers" (1988). Fascinated by what lurks within the body, just from the physical and organic, the artist emphasizes in his works of visionary everything generally good taste of society considers creepy, filtering the fabulous material through the most diverse human obsessions.
Someone argued that the underlying philosophical and David Cronenberg's film Twilight's childhood trauma of the slow death of father died from cancer. Since that event onwards, his unconscious would elaborate obsessions about mutations and aberrations of the body. Regardless of plausibility or otherwise of such an influence on the work of Cronenberg, has always existed on the part of Canadian filmmaker a passionate love for cinema and literature of science fiction and horror. In an interview with a critic said: "I think the people making movies is drawn from fantasy films because of the creativity and ingenuity that they involve". On another occasion, urged to describe his relationship with the cinema, said: "I once dreamt that I was watching a movie, and the movie provoked in me a rapid aging. The same film I was infected, I was broadcasting a disease that caused the aging; the screen becomes a mirror in which I haven't seen me grow old. I woke up in terror. That's what I'm really talking about is something more than any small virus". Among his later works: "eXistenZ" (1999), "room" (2000), "Spider" (2002), "A history of violence" (2005). Cronenberg has never worked with big budgets, but the chance is not missed. At first his name was considered by George Lucas as a possible Director of "return of the Jedi (then assigned to Richard Marquand).
The Canadian Director also worked for about a year at the movie "total recall" but to some disagreements with the producer Dino de Laurentiis left the project; a different version of the same movie will be created by Paul Verhoeven. At the end of the years ' 90, Cronenberg was announced as Director of the sequel to the film "Basic Instinct" (Paul Verhoeven), but even that did not go through.
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