Heavenly Creatures Essay

Peter Jackson, director of Heavenly Creatures among many other films, was born October 21, 1961 in Pukerua Bay, North Island, New Zealand. He first started making films when he was eight years old when his mother bought him a super 8 movie camera because she noticed his interest in photography. In 1994, Jackson produced Heavenly Creatures which had 8 nominations and 17 wins in a number of different categories and helped start his career as a promising film director. Peter Jackson has many different trademarks and styles that he is known for when directing a movie. In Heavenly Creatures, his unique style and vision were present throughout the movie, as well as his sense of the fantastical and imagination. “The film is based very heavily in reality,
They earned their title as great directors through working together and their directing techniques and styles used in the majority of their films. “Combining thoughtful eccentricity, wry humor, arch irony, and often brutal violence, the films of the Coen brothers have become synonymous with a style of filmmaking that pays tribute to classic American movie genres -- especially film noir -- while sustaining a firmly postmodern feel” (Johnson). The Coen brothers are known for a number of different characteristics and strengths when directing their films. Ending their films with an open ended conclusion is one of their distinct directing styles, which is seen in their award winning film No Country for Old Men, the antagonist Chigurh walks off injured but the audience is unaware if he will get caught for his crimes or just walk away with no penalty. This frustrates many audience members, but is used to help make them think and is seen throughout several of their movies. Again in No Country for Old Men is seen their style of having a “uniform” look in some of the characters. Chigurh has a distinct haircut that makes him noticeable and helps define his cold blooded killer character, he is also a unique and great villain, which the Coen brothers employ in many of their films. Sudden outbursts of violence are distinguishing of Coen brother films and is evident throughout No Country for Old Men as Chigurh will kill anything in his path whether he needs to or not. Other strengths of their directing and film making include plot convergence of characters, cinematography, their casting, and dark comedy. No Country for Old Men had 92 nominations and 165 wins, and was the first movie the Coen brothers directed based on a novel, which was written by Cormac McCarthy. By the Coen’s choosing this novel to direct, “It is a sign of their willingness to give up some of their ironic detachment, to