Catherine Hardwicke - a successful Hollywood director

Catherine Hardwicke is a successful Hollywood director and recently a producer, whose most famous work today is the first part of the legendary "Twilight Saga".

The beginning of a creative career

Work in the film industry Catherine began as a production designer. All the paintings in the creation of which took part Hardwicke ("Girl-Tank", "Tomstone", "Two Days in the Valley", "Three Kings", "Brothers Newton" and the canonical "Vanilla Sky") are distinguished by non-standard color solutions. A full-fledged debut, in which director Catherine Hardwicke acted as co-author of the script, was a dramatic film "Thirteen." By the way, the second screenwriter was the lead singer, also debutante in the big movie, Nikki Reed. Thirteen-year-old daughter of friends Hardwicke helped the director to transfer without distortion to the screen everything that an ordinary teenage girl feels and feels at that age. The film, illuminating the uneasy life of teenagers, was repeatedly nominated for the most prestigious film awards of the USA - Golden Globe and Oscar. The drama really helped to understand each other's adults and children, Catherine Hardwick received not only the recognition of industry experts, but also won an army of devoted fans.

On the eve of the

After the triumphant debut, the director shoots a biopic devoted to the subculture of skaters, "Kings of Dogtown." The picture tells about the formation of a new extreme sport. The foundation of the film was the events that really happened in the 70s, and the prototypes of the main characters are real people. In general, a movie about vanity, friendship and decency. In the center of the story, the main characters are young skateboard boys Tony, Stacy, Jay and Sid, who dream of winning the location of Skip's authoritative extreme. Heroes are prepared for the vicissitudes of fate, which will be a real test of the strength of the friendship of four children.

After the release of the rental of the bayopika, Catherine Hardwicke begins work on the adapted for the movie fragment of the biblical story "Divine Birth." The film was created by the order of the world famous film company New Line Cinema. The picture tells the story of Joseph and the Virgin Mary, beginning with their expulsion from Nazareth and ending with the advent of Bethlehem, where, as everyone knows, Jesus must be born.

Twilight (2008)

World glory and real popularity came to the director in 2008 after the big screen of the first part of "Twilight." This mystical romantic film in the genre of melodrama, created based on the work of Stephanie Meyer, is the most successful work of the director-woman in the history of the American film industry. In general, the world's fees exceeded $ 400 million. Despite the unsurpassed success of the first part, the next part - "New Moon" - was shot by another director (Chris Weitz). According to the official version, Catherine Hardwicke did not agree with the terms stated by the producers for the filming of the picture, so voluntarily refused to cooperate.

Interesting Facts

The film "Twilight" (2008) would not have been so without the direct involvement of Hardwicke. She personally supervised the casting casting, having managed to discern the potential of the actors Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner - today's youth idols. After the release of the movie in the rental of these artists instantly acquired the status of sex symbols. The director lost this fate, although the army of Hardwicke fans increased. The Youtube site is filled with a lot of amateur videos, in which the authors try to reproduce the shooting process of the saga, carefully copying the intonation and gestures of the female director.

Gothic version of a fairy tale

In 2011, the author of the first episode of the franchise "Twilight" began work on the adaptation of another story about people and wolves, gaining inspiration this time in the tales of the brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault. The viewer was presented with an interpretation of the eternal plot, taking into account the modern trends of fashion and time - this is what Kathryn Hardwicke created her picture. "Little Red Riding Hood" has a mystical and romantic atmosphere, the plot tells of the relationship between a human being and a werewolf - a supernatural being. For the boldness and originality of the director's decision, it is already possible to put a positive assessment for the film, the world has never seen such a Red Riding Hood.

Little Red Riding Hood is a lovely girl Valerie (actress Amanda Seyfried), wears a scarlet cloak, in the best traditions of Western European mythology, and tries to figure out the real werewolf in her environment. The situation is heating up after the arrival in the village of the experienced hunter of Father Solomon (actor Gary Oldman). The whole girl needs to urgently deal with the events in her personal life, the fact is that the beauty from early childhood is in love with the poor orphan tree-litterer Peter, and her parents predict her as the wife of the rich blacksmith Henry.

As a director and clip maker

Catherine Hardwicke, whose films do not leave indifferent young audience, as no one else knows the problems of teenagers and understands them. The documentary The Hunting Ground, released at the end of 2015 on the CNN channel, can be considered a proof of this fact. Cinema addresses the problem of violence in American colleges and campuses. The soundtrack to it is a clip from Lady Gaga, directed by Hardwicke. The main female role was played by the young actress Nikki Reed, but the singer did not appear in the video clip.

Among other things, the director is genuinely interested in various youth subcultures. Her gothic rock'n'roll picture "Light me" is an unpredictable, stylish thriller with a good soundtrack and an unexpected ending. When viewing the viewer necessarily receive and aesthetic pleasure from the gothic atmosphere of the film.