Danny Boyle is an Academy Award winning English film director known for gritty films that explore meaningful stories and social issues. Some of his most famous films include Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, and 127 Hours. Trainspotting, Boyle's favorite film, follows a group of friends in Scotland struggling with drugs and purpose. It was based on Irvine Welsh's novel and made on a small budget but found great commercial and critical success. Boyle's directing style focuses on meaningful dialogue and storytelling through careful editing rather than action scenes. He believes in maintaining a consistent tone throughout a film rather than trying different styles.

1. Academy Award winning
English film
director, producer and
screenwriter . Some of his famous films
include the Slumdog
Millionaire, Shallow Grave,28
Days later, 127 Hours and
Trainspotting
His first film inspiration
was „Apocalypse now‟
which is quire a realistic
and gritty film; that often
translates to Danny Boyles
films.

2. CAREER
Films
 Elephant
 Shallow Grave
 Trainspotting
 Twin Town
 A life less ordianry
 The Beach
 Vacuuming Completely Nude In
Paradise
 Strumpet
 28 Days Later
 Millions
 Sunshine
 28 Weeks Later
 Alien Love Triangle
 Slumdog Millionaire( His most
rewarded film)
 127 Hours
 Trance

3. TRAINSPOTTING
My favourite film directed by Danny Boyle is Trainspotting which follows the life of Ewan
McGregor‟s character Mark, who is living a meaningless life in Scotland and is facing
various issues relating to lower-working class young people in Britain at the time; such as
Drugs, Sexuality and life purpose. The film follows Mark and his friends and their day to
day lives and highlights the gritty things that adolescent brings to them. Mark and his friend
Spud are heroin addicts,; with their friends Tommy and Begbie(sociopath) they live life and
attempt to create something for themselves.
Produced by Andrew MacDonald based the film on Irvine Welsh‟s book of the same
name. The film shot in 1995 and has a budget of just $2.5 and brought in $72 million
internationally. The critical reception of the film was positive as the film garnered almost
universal praise from critics, due to how the film taps into youth subculture as well as
acting with freedom and expression.

4. STYLE OF DIRECTING
I have found that Danny Boyle rarely directs Action based films which feature a lot of violence; most of his films
include gritty meaningful story lines. For example 127 hours later portrays a man facing a life altering issue; this is
similar to Trainspotting and 28 Days later. All of his films are directed very well with meaningful dialogue and editing
being used to add to the story line and meaning of the film.
“A lesson I learned from A Life Less Ordinary was about changing a tone—I‟m not sure you can do that. We
changed the tone to a kind of Capra-esque tone, and whenever you do anything more “esque,” you‟re in trouble.
That would be one of my rules: No “esques.” Don‟t try to Coen-esque anything or Capra-esque anything or
Tarkovsky-esque anything, because you‟ll just get yourself in a lot of trouble. You have to find your own “esque”
and then stick to it.”- Danny Boyle. From this quotation you can tell a lot about Danny‟s style of directing as he
explains that tone is one of the most important things that a director has to follow.