John Guillermin died last September 27 because of cardiovascular failure in Topanga (California). The British director was one of the outstanding figures, although controversial, in the golden age of cinema, bringing behind titles like Death on the Nile , Shaft in Africa , The Blue Max , The Towering Inferno or version of King Kong starring Jessica Lange .
Trained in France and British pilot in the Second World War, joined Guillermin audiovisual documentary hand, but not his talent glimpsed until Hollywood gave him the opportunity. After small pieces of it in Two on the Tiles (1951), Miss Robin Hood (1952), His Excellency sabreur (1952) and Paper Gallows (1955) presented his first work with charisma, Town on Trial (1957). Clarifying the appellant natured character of John Mills, with malevolent edges Guillermin landed on celluloid a new way of approaching the implicit rotation of the lead roles. A contemporary character beginning at a time of significant changes .
Guillermin these heinous directors was too critical as to accommodate a film crew around him. A cold man, too aggressive, who did not care the least the esteem of his cast just to make the best of each other . However, he had on his side the genius of a filmmaker innovated with subjective camera angle and follow-ups in-hand , capturing one of the best performances of the diegetic in progress. I was the double of Montgomery (1958), The Great Adventure of Tarzan ( 1959) or The Robbery Bank of England (1960) were not works of great weight, emphasizing the stubborn work of the director, but without fair reception. Perhaps his personality hurtful accompaniment to perpetrate a failed gyro works. With to the last breath (1960), had his private home in the film noir , but, like the rest of his films it did not quite meet his film torments.
Tratanto playing various genres, but without getting to capture his controversial passion in any of them, spent 14 years until, after presenting The Blue Max , which almost autobiographical recounting of his experience as a pilot, The Bridge at Remagen and Condor , ejericicios martial sample, august planes around the atmosphere enclosing war movements, or Shaft in Africa , is Guillermin He exalted with The Towering Inferno ( The Towering Inferno ), where he mixed the suspense with interpersonal relationships in an extreme situation, under a visual structure groundbreaking at the time.
The picture was always his forte, not the script. And that could prove the version of King Kong where he entrusted the leadership to a young Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange . The result, says Ralph E. Winters in his memoirs, deserved congratulations. However, at present, the film is seen from a perspective where false fidelity to the original and remarkable nonsense, despite the willingness of Lange, plunged the piece again in the frenzy of the visual.
British director he had one bullet in the chamber, before throwing stones on their own roof with Sheena, Queen of the Jungle and King Kong 2 . Death in the Nile marked the last firework at a race in which his difficult way to work and possible confusion, as to the choice of a narrative is concerned, They weighed a technique, though brilliant frustrated director.
Like any genius who seeks to innovate, solitude did not mean a drink in her wit, but he fell into a recurring exercise of contempt for the neighbor. Concern about getting in front of their peers, to seek different ways without finding them, have been embodied in a filmography with more shadows than light but with traces of talent Guillermin was unable to control and therefore explode. visual power, obstinacy and a great sense of narcissism encumbraron a man who, at 89 years, and despite not having enjoyed a fair valuation, a piece of vintage film takes.
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