Adam88 Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 Idag såg jag American Beauty för andra gången i mitt liv och upptäckte att den nog faktsikt inte är århundradets sämsta film som jag nog från början tyckte... Tvärtom istället! Den är ett praktexemplar på hur amerikansk film ska vara, inte bara dessa trista o likadana actionfilmer som producers i ett... Den var värd sin fem oscars och jag är glad att jag gav den en andra chans.. Nu till sak! Alan Ball har skrivit manus till filmen... Var har han tagit vägen? Någon mer storfilm efter American Beauty? (eller innan?) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Hållquist Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 Han koncentrerar sig framst pa att skriva pjaser. Har iaf for mig att jag last det nagonstans. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Hållquist Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 The screenwriter and co-producer of American Beauty, Alan Ball earned almost overnight acclaim and recognition for his screenplay for the film, which won a Best Original Screenplay Oscar and Golden Globe, as well as numerous other honors. Ball's success was a long time coming; much of the frustration and anger felt by American Beauty's protagonist, Lester Burnham, was inspired by the screenwriter's own dissatisfaction with his years spent working as a television writer and producer. Born in Atlanta in 1957 and raised in the neighboring community of Marietta, Ball studied Theatre with an emphasis on acting and playwriting at Florida State University. After graduating, he moved to New York, where he became a noted playwright. Among the plays he penned were The Amazing Adventures of Tense Guy, Your Mother's Butt, Made for a Woman, and Five Women Wearing the Same Dress; when the latter premiered in 1993 at the Manhattan Class Company, it featured Allison Janney, with whom Ball would later work on American Beauty. After moving to Hollywood, Ball began working on the TV sitcom Grace Under Fire, and then became a writer and eventually an executive co-producer for the sitcom Cybill for three seasons. While working in television, he channeled his frustration into the script for American Beauty, which was eventually picked up by DreamWorks. Working closely with director Sam Mendes, Ball was given a remarkable degree of control over his screenplay, and American Beauty premiered in 1999 to ecstatic reviews and a host of award nominations. A cynical but ultimately redemptive story about a man's mid-life crisis and journey to rediscover his passion for living, it reflected Ball's own outlook, which he has described as "equal parts brutally cynical and achingly romantic." The film earned a number of international awards, including Oscars for Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor (for Kevin Spacey), Best Director, and Best Picture. When his latest ABC sitcom, Oh, Grow Up, died a quick death in the fall of 1999 just as Beauty began to take off, Ball was determined to escape the language and content constraints of network TV. Fending off many other offers, the writer-producer chose to align himself with HBO's immensely successful original programming department to release Six Feet Under in June of 2001. Inspired in part by Tony Richardson's 1965 satire The Loved One, the hour-long series focused on a family of morticians brought together by the untimely death of their father and featured Ball's now-trademark mix of ironic situations with sardonic dialogue. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomasz1985 Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 Kolla på imdb.com 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montef Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 Jag läste nånstans att han skrev ett manus där Tom Hanks skulle spela en bög polisman. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam88 Posted May 17, 2005 Author Share Posted May 17, 2005 Tack för hjälpen alla... :) Jag hittade detta på den där sidan: Alan Ball (III) (Director, Charley (1965) (TV)) Alan Ball (II) (Miscellaneous Crew, Yellow Submarine (1968)) Alan Ball (IV) (Actor, "I Love 1970's" (2000)) Alan Ball (VI) (Guest, "A Question of Sport" (1970)) Och så American Beauty då... :P Hade! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljudfjollan Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 öh? Hur kan filmen gå från att vara världens sämsta till världens bästa? Du måste akta dig för fultjack - det ger otrevliga biverkningar i hjärnan. Filmen är ju grymt bra - alla som inte tycket det borde bestraffas! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam88 Posted May 19, 2005 Author Share Posted May 19, 2005 [citat=ljudfjollan]öh? Hur kan filmen gå från att vara världens sämsta till världens bästa? citat] Jag var nog helt enkelt inte tillräckligt mogen för att förstå den när jag såg den första gången (vilket var ett tag sedan)... ;) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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