Line #33 Creator/DannyBoyle


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3	Daniel Francis "Danny" Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is an English-Irish filmmaker.
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5	As a teenager, Boyle was planning on joining the Catholic Priesthood, but a priest persuaded him to seek a different vocation. He began his career as a director first in the theatre, but then moved on to television and ultimately film.
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7	His films have been, to put it mildly, diverse. He's done sci-fi, zombie horror, a kids movie, crime drama, Bollywood-inspired drama, and not easily definable works as well. He's also one of few successful filmmakers to have two movies with a character diving into a toilet.
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9	Despite having a very broad range of styles, Boyle's use of music in his films and his dynamic cinematography have been recurring elements, alongside dabbling in MagicalRealism from time to time. He has a few [[ProductionPosse repeat collaborators]] in Creator/EwanMcGregor (who appeared in his first three films[[note]]They fell out after [=McGregor=] was axed from ''The Beach'' and felt he had been treated unfairly and betrayed, and they didn't speak again until they reconciled in 2013 after apologising to each other, resulting in their first film together in 20 years being ''T2: Trainspotting''[[/note]]) alongside Creator/CillianMurphy, screenwriter Creator/AlexGarland, and composer John Murphy, whom he worked with on both ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'' and ''{{Film/Sunshine}}''.
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11	He's also known for fairly animated and interesting DVD commentaries, usually accompanied by the film's screenwriter (though not always).
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13	He also directed the manic opening ceremony for the 2012 Summer UsefulNotes/OlympicGames in UsefulNotes/{{London}}, which famously included a bit in which Film/JamesBond (Creator/DanielCraig) accompanies [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethII Queen Elizabeth]] herself at the ceremony, which ends with both of them (well, stuntmen) parachuting into the stadium.
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15	Not to be confused with fellow director [[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1876813/ Danny J. Boyle]], nor Canadian hockey player [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Boyle_%28ice_hockey%29 Dan Boyle]].
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18	!! His filmography includes:
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20	* ''Film/ShallowGrave'' - 1994
21	* ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'' - 1996
22	* ''Film/ALifeLessOrdinary'' - 1997
23	* ''Film/TheBeach'' - 2000
24	* ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'' - 2002. Later spawned a sequel in 2007 titled ''Film/TwentyEightWeeksLater'', which Boyle served as executive producer but not as director due to his commitments in directing ''Film/{{Sunshine}}''.
25	* ''Film/{{Millions}}'' - 2004
26	* ''Film/{{Sunshine}}'' - 2007
27	* ''Film/SlumdogMillionaire'' - 2008. He won the Best Director UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for his efforts.
28	* ''Film/OneHundredAndTwentySevenHours'' - 2010
29	* ''Theatre/{{Frankenstein\|2011}}'' - 2011. Stage adaptation starring Creator/JonnyLeeMiller and Creator/BenedictCumberbatch.
30	* ''Film/{{Trance}}'' - 2013
31	* ''Film/SteveJobs'' - 2015
32	* ''Film/T2Trainspotting'' - 2017. A sequel to ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}''.
33	* ''Series/{{Trust}}'' - 2018
34	* ''Film/{{Yesterday\|2019}}'' - 2019
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37	!! Tropes Associated With Boyle's work
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39	* BlackComedy: Usually done in his films, particularly the ''Trainspotting'' films.
40	* GenreRoulette: He's done dark comedies, horror films, sci-fi, heartwarming dramas, biopics and crime films and done each in a different way.
41	* HumansAreFlawed / HumansAreSpecial
42	* ShadesOfConflict: Most films would head towards GrayAndGreyMorality
43	* SignatureStyle: Averted. Danny Boyle is known for not exactly having a style and creating a film very differently with each and every project he is a part of.
44	* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Danny Boyle himself said that he is more optimistic on just about everything, whereas his films he usually go in different directions.Films he has directed like Shallow Grave lie more on the cynical end but some of his later films like ''Steve Jobs'' and ''Yesterday'' fall closer to the idealistic side.
45	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He was set to write and direct the 25th ''Film/JamesBond'' film (which would become ''Film/NoTimeToDie'') but left the project six months later in August 2018, due to CreativeDifferences. He said a few months later that the experience had completely soured him on doing any more major blockbusters and he'd be sticking purely with his own work.

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