✔️ 2022-08-28 21:28:33 – Paris/France.
This Sunday, August 28, 2022 one of the most important directors in the international sphere turns 60, a creator who has had no qualms about tackling controversial issues and making innovative decisions in aesthetic terms, that is David Fincher and that is the opportunity to retrace his impressive career path.
Fincher was born in Denver, Colorado, USA on a day like today in 1962; as a teenager, he moved with his family to Oregon and graduated from Ashland High School, a when he already had many movies at home made with an 8mm (or Super 8) camera.
Thus, his budding passion for cinema led him to apply for a job in George Lucas' company, Industrial Light and Magic, upon graduation, and it was there that he began to participate in the produced a few films, in the field of special effects, and its first credits – not bad – was in 'Return of the Jedi' (1983)
Cinema and ascent
In the mid-1980s, he made his directorial debut with "The Beat Of The Live Drum" (1985), a musical film with live performances by singer Rick Springfield; it's not strange that pop sounds are common in Fincher's early filmography, since He devoted himself to shooting video clips for Madonna, Michael Jackson, Sting or Aerosmith, for almost 10 years.
Around this time, in 1992, his first directorial job for the big screen took place, with 'Alien 3'. In 1995, he directed "Seven", a film with which, with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, he was to achieve great worldwide success (and his first film which would become "cult"). From this moment, a golden age began for Fincher, in which he directed the films "The Game" (1977) and "Fight Club" ("Fight Club", 1999).
Prestige and more work
After making various titles such as 'Panic Room' (2002) or 'Zodiac' (2007), Fincher's work again receives worldwide recognition with 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"), a film he directed in 2008 and which earned him his first Oscar nomination as a director. Just two years later, Fincher was once again a contender for the Best Direction statuette thanks to 'The Social Network' ('The Social Network', 2010), a film for which he would receive stellar reviews.
After that, his next project was the adaptation of the thriller 'Millennium. The Men Who Didn't Love Women' (2011), the adaptation of a bestseller by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, and which ended up bearing the title (more commercial of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' It was only a few years later that he returned to shoot a thriller, adapting 'Gone Girl' ('Gone Girl', 2014), a story with Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike which was a adaptation of a novel written by Gillian Flynn.
Television and new formats
Attracted by television, he created the series 'Mindhunter' (2017-2019) in 2017, a program co-produced by Charlize Theron, set in the 1970s, about FBI criminal investigations through interviews with serial criminals. Of course, he had previously been the producer of another television series, Netflix's famous political show "House Of Cards" (2013-2018), for which he directed two episodes, and for one of them, it won an Emmy Award for Best Series. drama director.
Just two years ago, Fincher premiered (also on Netflix) the black-and-white film 'Mank' (2020), a drama about the relationship between Orson Welles and screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz during the production of 'Citizen Kane ', with Gary Oldman in the lead role. For this film, Fincher was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director (for the third time) and Best Picture.
Today, what is David Fincher up to? What is barely known is that he is in pre-production for the film 'The Killer', based on a comic (or graphic novel) by Alexis Nolent; however, television projects are not to be excluded.
TOP 5 MUSIC VIDEOS DIRECTED BY DAVID FINCHER
1.- “Love is strong”/ The Rolling Stones (1994)
2.- “Express yourself”/Madonna (1989)
3.- "Roll with it" / Steve Winwood (1988)
4.- “Straight Up” / Paula Abdul (1988)
5.- “Vogue”/Madonna (1990)
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