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Joe Wright

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Joe Wright is an English film director. He is best known for Pride & Prejudice (2005), Atonement (2007), Anna Karenina (2012), and Darkest Hour (2017).

Wright always had an interest in the arts, especially painting. He would also make films on his Super 8 camera as well as spend time in the evenings acting in a drama club. He began his career working at his parents' puppet theatre. He also took classes at the Anna Scher Theatre School and acted professionally on stage and camera.
- IMDb mini biography by: Pedro Borges

Shots of characters' hands to show tension and emotion
Settings with different tones
Very long, complicated tracking shots that display many events
Some of the aesthetic and emotion of the UK rave scene are used as an influence on his work.

Directed 3 Oscar-nominated performances: Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, and Gary Oldman. Oldman won for his performance in Darkest Hour (2017).
His father, John, was age 65 when he was born.
In 2007, he became the youngest director in history to have a film open the Venice Film Festival, with "Atonement".
Called off his engagement to Rosamund Pike shortly before their wedding in June 2008. The "save the date" cards were already sent out.
Is Dyslexic and left school with no O-levels.

"Pride & Prejudice (2005) is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfillment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life".
Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new. I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.
To me, naturalism is the death of drama. Lee Strasberg came along and the Method f***ed everything up. I find people like Celia Johnson are my favorite actors. I was brought up on films like Brief Encounter (1945) and, for me, they expressed enormous truth. Marlon Brando does not have the monopoly on truth!
I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad. Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.
[on filming 'Anna Karenina'] If there was a scene in the book about love then it was in, and if it wasn't about love it was out. So if the audiences are interested in farming practices of the 1800s, they're going to be disappointed.

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