Interesting Director

When I watched some great movies, I didn’t really pay attention to the directors who made the movie. I just concentrated on the plots, characters, and the actors of the movie, but not the director. However, when I think about it, I think directors are the most important person in the movie industry because they actually compose and produce the “movie,” itself. Therefore, today I want to discuss the recent Oscar for Best Director winner, Danny Boyle, who filmed the Slumdog Millionaire.
Slumdog Millionaire was the “hit” in 2008 and 2009. Everyone was talking about it and the trailers came out every minute in the TV. In talk shows, they were talking about it and it was caught a massive attention when one single movie won eight our of ten Academy Awards it was nominated for, which includes the Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song (two songs were nominated and only one got award), losing only Best Sound Editing to The Dark Knight. This is the only film that ever won eight Academy Awards.
Even though I didn’t see this movie yet, I already feel like I know the plot because people were talking about it and on talk shows. I am very looking forward to watch this movie in the future. But the interesting part is that the director of this movie wasn’t really the “famous Hollywood blockbuster” director. Not many of people knew his films and this movie was a low budget movie, but a hit.
This article is from the “Spoutblog – A Daily News Review Blog” and it is an interview with Danny Boyle about his career and Slumdog Millionaire.
One of the interesting parts in the interview was when he talked about what he learned in India, while filming the movie. This passage stood out to be because it gave us the attitude of the director and what is most important when filming the movie.

“Did you learn anything about yourself making this film? I mean, being in India the whole time. What did you learn?

Yes. I think, that’s the most important thing you do learn. Is that you go there and you think you’re going to learn about Indian culture and all those kinds of things. And you do obviously because you do research to make sure it’s accurate and all that kind of stuff.

The biggest thing is that hippy thing they tell you that you’re going to learn something about yourself and you do and you learn. You learn that you cannot control everything. And it’s this destiny thing of course. But, in the West, we don’t really value, because we believe we can change our destiny by hard work, by application, by all these kind of things.

But there, it’s so vast and you’re so small, you’re so meaningless. You learn your place, really. That you have a place and that you have a role. It’s very interesting and it’s a humbling thing. Because your role might be as a film director or it might be as a barber. But, you learn a kind of acceptance really that in the great scheme of things, there’s you and you’re there and you’ve got to learn. And there’s great value in learning that.

And it helps you make the film, because it learns you to respect the place you’re in. And when you do that, you’re not trying to change it. You’re not trying to control it, make it… You’re opening yourself to it. And when you do that, this terrible hippy thing happens where it comes back to you and serendipity takes place. These things fall into your lap, these gifts…”

http://blog.spout.com/2008/09/13/danny-boyle-interview-slumdog-millionaire-toronto-2008/