Catherine Hardwicke - a successful Hollywood director

Catherine Hardwicke is a successful Hollywood director and recently a producer, whose most famous work today is the first part of the legendary "Twilight Saga".

The beginning of a creative career

The work in the film industry Catherine began asart director. All the paintings, in the creation of which took part Hardwicke ("Girl-Tank", "Tomstone", "Two Days in the Valley", "Three Kings", "Brothers Newton" and the canonical "Vanilla Sky") are distinguished by non-standard color solutions. A full-fledged debut, in which director Catherine Hardwicke acted as a co-author of the script, was the dramatic film "Thirteen." By the way, the second screenwriter was the main actor, also debutante in a big movie, Nikki Reed. Thirteen-year-old daughter of friends Hardwicke helped the director to transfer without distortion to the screen everything that an ordinary teenage girl feels and feels at that age. The film, illuminating the uneasy life of teenagers, was repeatedly nominated for the most prestigious film awards of the USA - Golden Globe and Oscar. Drama really helped to understand each other's adults and children, Catherine Hardwicke received not only the recognition of industry experts, but also won an army of devoted fans.

On the eve of the

After the triumphant debut, the director removesBaiopik, dedicated to the subculture of skaters, "Kings of Dogtown." The picture tells about the formation of a new extreme sport. The foundation of the film was the events that really happened in the 70s, and prototypes of the main characters are real people. In general, a movie about vanity, friendship and decency. In the center of the story, the main characters are the young guys-skaters Tony, Stacy, Jay and Sid, who dream of winning the location of Skip's authoritative extreme. Heroes are prepared for the vicissitudes of fate, which will be a real test for the strength of the friendship of four children.

After the release of the rental of the Bayopika, Catherine Hardwickebegins work on the adapted for the movie fragment of the biblical story "Divine Birth." The film was created by the order of the world famous film company New Line Cinema. The picture tells the story of Joseph and the Virgin Mary, beginning with their expulsion from Nazareth and ending with the coming to Bethlehem, where, as everyone knows, Jesus must be born.

Twilight (2008)

World fame and true popularity came todirector in 2008 after the release of the first part of "Twilight" on the big screen. This mystical romantic film in the genre of melodrama, based on the work of Stephanie Meyer, is the most successful work of a female director in the history of the American film industry. In general, the world's fees exceeded $ 400 million. Despite the unsurpassed success of the first part, the next part - "New Moon" - was shot by another director (Chris Weitz). According to the official version, Catherine Hardwicke did not agree with the terms announced by the producers for the filming of the picture, so voluntarily refused to cooperate.

Interesting Facts

The film "Twilight" (2008)) would not be so without the direct involvement of Hardwicke. She personally supervised the casting cast, having managed to discern the potential of actors Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner - today's youth idols. After the release of the movie in the rental of these artists instantly acquired the status of sex symbols. The director lost this fate, although the army of Hardwicke fans increased. The Youtube site is full of amateur videos, in which the authors try to reproduce the shooting process of the saga, carefully copying the intonation and gestures of the female director.

Gothic version of a fairy tale

In 2011, the author of the first episode of the franchise"Twilight" began work on the adaptation of another story about people and wolves, gaining inspiration this time in the tales of the brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault. The viewer was presented with an interpretation of the eternal story taking into account modern trends of fashion and time - this is what Catherine Hardwicke created her picture. "Little Red Riding Hood" has a mystical and romantic atmosphere, the plot tells of the relationship between a human being and a werewolf - a supernatural being. For the boldness and eccentricity of the director's decision, it is already possible to put a positive assessment for the film, the world has never seen such a Red Riding Hood.

Little Red Riding Hood - pretty girl Valerie (actressAmanda Seyfried) wears a scarlet cloak, in the best traditions of Western European mythology, and tries to figure out the real werewolf in his environment. The situation is heating up after the arrival in the village of the experienced hunter of Father Solomon (actor Gary Oldman). The whole girl needs to urgently deal with the events in her personal life, the fact is that the beauty from early childhood is in love with the poor orphan woodcutter Peter, and her parents predict her as the wife of the rich blacksmith Henry.

As a director and clip maker

Catherine Hardwicke, whose films do not leaveindifferent youth audience, as no one else knows the problems of teenagers and understands them. The documentary The Hunting Ground, released at the end of 2015 on the CNN channel, can be considered a proof of this fact. Cinema addresses the problem of violence in American colleges and campuses. The soundtrack to it is a clip from Lady Gaga, directed by Hardwicke. The main female role was played by the young actress Nikki Reed, but the singer did not appear in the video clip.

Among other things, the director sincerelyis interested in various youth subcultures. Her gothic rock'n'roll picture "Light me" is an unpredictable stylish thriller with a good soundtrack and an unexpected ending. When viewing the viewer necessarily receive and aesthetic pleasure from the gothic atmosphere of the film.