Because it’s not just Trainspotting et Slumdog Millionaire In life (and fortunately): What are Danny Boyle’s best unloved films?
The highly anticipated cinema release 28 years later is an opportunity to return to Danny Boyle’s career, filmmaker to say the least divisive. There are the fans of his cinema, those who hate everything he may have lay, and those who are cruelly torn between his eclectic works with variable qualities.
Needless to talk about yet another time of his best known films, as Trainspotting, Beach, 28 days later or Millionaire slumdog. Let’s focus on his surprising and improbable nuggetswho will not all have been able to convince their audience when they left, but that the editorial staff wanted to defend Bec and nails, because all the tastes are in nature.
A less ordinary life
- Sortie : 1997
- Duration: 1h43
To measure how much Small murders with friends et Trainspotting propelled Danny Boyle, it must be remembered that the Fox studio had offered to realize Alien, the resurrection. He refused because of the magnitude of such an armored production of visual effects and preferred to continue playing dirty kids with his faithful acolytes, actor Ewan McGregor, screenwriter John Hodge and producer Andrew Macdonald. The pretext: A romantic luggish comedy.
A less ordinary life Begins in paradise with two mediocre angels and in shit since all the love stories that they are responsible for creating end badly. If they want to keep their place, they must succeed in the impossible: Unite a loser and a rich kid’s kid. And it starts very well when the poor boy, fired after was replaced by a cleaning robot, decides to kidnap her since she is her boss’s daughter. And she is delighted to help her manage the ransom, just to take revenge on her loved ones.
Danny Boyle has lost feathers in history. The original script was ultra-violent and took place in Europe, but everything was a bit softened to try to capture the American public. And The failure of the film, which picked up at the box officeserved him as a first lesson before Beach. A less ordinary life A lot of problems, like almost all the first films outside the comfort zone of filmmakers who have gone to conquer new territories.
But he also has All the attributes of Danny Boyle’s cinema : this immoderate taste (and not necessarily of good taste) for deviations and tone breaks; This drive for stylistic and musical road trips; This appetite for mixed violence and naivety. There is romance, musical, kidnapping and fantastic in this endless sort of brothel where angels are beaten up, and where love can only speak through clichés which are treated in the first or third degree from one scene to another.
And just for the numbers of Cameron Diaz, perfect in false puff and real hard to cook, and Holly Hunter, great in punching ball falling from the sky, A less ordinary life Certainly deserves to be reassessed.
Trance
- Sortie : 2013
- Duration: 1h41
The concept of Trance had something exciting from the start, in the manner ofA smart Hitchcockian thriller and devious : A auctioneer (James McAvoy) helps thugs to steal a precious table, before receiving a blow on the head that makes him amnesiac. Problem, he is the only one who is hidden the work of art. To wake up her memories, a hypnotist (Rosario Dawson) tries to enter her mind … Unless she implements lies.
It is clear that with this story written by Joe Ahearne and John Hodge, whose drawers would display double or even triple funds, Danny Boyle wanted to do his own Inception. His taste for improbable angles, the pissing colors and other remarkable visual experimentation effects are ideal when the layers of dreams, reconstructions and surrealism intertwine and also cut themselves abruptly. From his introduction to the camera, which encourages the spectator to dive into this overloaded universe, Trance asserts itself as a saturation film ; A narrative saturation and the senses that has exasperated a lot at the exit.
It must be admitted that the whole is regularly lost in its turnarounds and its slight self-satisfaction, but there is also The almost-suicidal madness of its directorwho has fun like a kid with this pretext and psychoanalytic base to break it and rebuild it. By sawing or recolving the dimensions between them, Danny Boyle returns to the base of the cinematographic medium like a big nagtesting the limits of ideas associations by editing. Indigestible but fun.
Steve Jobs
- Sortie : 2016
- Duration: 2h02
At the time, Steve Jobs was above all arrested compared to his screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, who attacked another great figure of Tech 6 years after the triumph of The Social Network. In this regard, he necessarily has a little disappointed: not only is he very far from the virtuosity of the instantaneous classic produced by David Fincher, but he does not adopt the same structure at all. The film is less a biopic than the study of a success-Story in three acts and three key moments, before the launch of three products.
Neither the concept nor the overloaded writing of dialogues really correspond to Danny Boyle and his flights. And yet, the duo manages to capture something from his time, or rather of his new icons. Finally, the feature film is less the spiritual continuation of The Social Network than its derivative. One took the pretext of man to criticize technology. The other takes the pretext of technology to criticize manvery alone behind behind the scenes of the mega-presentations of which he has become the figurehead.
The result is sometimes a little numb, but His sense of rehearsal and his dialogue tunnels manage to transcribe the ambiguity of this character. And two years after the consensual telefilm led by Ashton Kutcher, Michael Fassbender is much more convincing. Without trying to mimic his model, he reveals both his faults and his almost creepy intelligence. A perfect antidote to the myth of the almost Christian self-entrepreneur who has continued to gain popularity since the death of Jobs.
T2 Trainspotting
- Sortie : 2017
- Duration: 1h57
In the wake of Jurassic World and others Star Wars 7, Trainspotting 2 Was it only a nostalgic and vain declination of a first opus that has become cult? The question strongly divided in 2017, for a film which clearly assumes to be a comment on this same question. On the one hand, Danny Boyle clearly makes this improbable suite a film of trendy friends “Friends from before”, and hang-out movie where we hang out with the characters in the vestiges of their past “glory”.
It is precisely this emptiness, ultimately full of tenderness, that Danny Boyle captures through his Fofolle camera and a demented photograph, which give an unreal and vibrant dimension to the sadness of the pubs and streets of Edinburgh. Although there are always substances here and there, Trainspotting 2 is above all the film of the descenta melancholy stroll for a group that has never managed to get out of their twenties.
Boyle looks straight in the eyes of this stagnation, while the story goes to 100 an hour, between travel and flashbacks of fantasized life. How can we still curl up in the memories of Brit Pop when times have changed, and the United Kingdom has just validated Brexit? Although the protagonists are far from formulating an overly explicit discourse on the world around them, they reflect the abandonment and despair of the time. If South Park made a nostalgic “member berries” (Member Berries), it is this highly contemporary addiction that the heroes cling Trainspotting 2.
Yesterday
- Sortie : 2019
- Duration: 1h56
Released in 2019 and written by Richard Curtis (Four weddings and a burial, Love at first sight in Notting Hillor Love Actually that he himself realized) Yesterday was surprising Danny Boyle fans. Much wiser in its form and much more tender in its words that most of the director’s films, this romantic comedy whose hero reclaims the talent of the Beatles after the whole earth suddenly forgot their existence, may have the main fault that she could have been made by a little anyone.
However, you needed someone who masters his art to make this high -ended Bluette of Beatlemania (and we know that when we use the unsurpassable music of the Beatles in a film, it becomes almost too easy to create emotion) Something more interesting than that.
Of this (better) redist Jean-Philippe From Laurent Tuel who saw Fabrice Luchini waking up in a world where Johnny Hallyday had disappeared from the Memoirs, Danny Boyle draws not only A formidably effective comedy carried by the charisma and the touching vulnerability of Himesh Patel, but also A fable full of melancholy on nostalgialoneliness and musical creation.
The declaration of love continues to the Beatles which infused the whole film could have made certain scenes very heavy, like that where Ed Sheeran must admit well defeated by the sublime compositions of Lennon-McCartney, or worse, that where Jack visits a very alive John Lennonand yet … the second degree is constantly there to make embarrassment, without canceling the sincerity of these disarming moments.
Finally, Danny Boyle’s best risk taking may have not been to do Danny Boyle, for Concentrate (for once) on the talent of other artists. In this case, that of the immense Beatles.
