1. Darren Aronofsky
By Jessie R. Evans
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2. Youth
Darren Aronofsky was born
in Brooklyn, New York on
February 12th 1969.
After graduating high
school he attended Harvard
University where he
majored in Social
Anthropology and took
animation and live action
film courses.
He considered
pursuing a career in
animation after
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3. Early Aronofsky’s first
feature film “Pi” was
Work produced in 1997,
funded entirely by
$100 dollar donations
from friends and
family. It had an
initial budget of
$60,000 and ended up
making $3, 221,152.
He was paid
$50,000 dollars for
his next film,
“Requiem for a
Dream”, which he
produced on a
budget of 3.5
million dollars. The
picture went on to
earn over 7 million
in the box office.
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4. Sundance Film Festival - Best First Screenplay
Awards
& Independent Spirit Awards - Best Film
Honors Scream Awards - Best Director
Venice Film Festival - Golden Lion
London Critics Circle Award - Best Film
San Francisco Film Critics Circle -Best Director
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5. Techniques
The majority of & Style
Darren
Aronofsky’s films
belong to the
psychological
thriller or a
unique
surrealistic genre.
Some of his works such as
“Black Swan” and “Requiem
for a Dream” are shown
through camerawork that puts
the audience right in the
middle of situations they can
hardly bare to watch.
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6. Monday, May 21, 2012

7. “If you want to be a filmmaker, the best
Quotes thing you can bring to the world is your
own story. And there is something that is
From the very personal to you and something that
you have your own singular connection to
Director that if it really is important to you, there
are people all over the planet that will
relate to it. So, the mistakes happens
when you try to figure out what everyone
“...to make a good film you really likes because the only thing you can be
gotta fight and work hard, so to do sure of is what you like. And the reality is
that for something you don't believe what you like ends up being what a lot of
in ... I'm not gonna do that.” people like because we are all going
through a very similar story.”
“Yeah, it's important to respect your audience.
Audiences are pretty sophisticated and smart. We've all
seen so many movies and we know how they all work
out. It's nice to allow people to talk about things
afterwards and not just be hand-fed stuff.”
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