| 1 | Mike Leigh [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever OBE]] (20 February 1943) is a British film and theatre director. He also writes most of the things he directs, if "writes" is the word: his preferred process is start with a basic concept and then expand it through a lengthy period of improvisation and rehearsal in collaboration with the actors. |
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| 3 | !!Works by Mike Leigh with their own pages include: |
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| 5 | * ''Film/{{Naked|1993}}'' (1993) |
| 6 | * ''Film/SecretsAndLies'' (1996) |
| 7 | * ''Film/TopsyTurvy'' (1999) |
| 8 | * ''Film/VeraDrake'' (2004) |
| 9 | * ''Film/HappyGoLucky'' (2008) |
| 10 | * ''Film/AnotherYear'' (2010) |
| 11 | * ''Film/MrTurner'' (2014) |
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| 14 | !! Tropes Associated with Mike Leigh Work |
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| 16 | * SignatureStyle: His purpose with his movies is to "capture reality and present "emotional, subjective, intuitive, instinctive, and vulnerable films". |
| 17 | * SliceOfLife: Many of his films are rather slow-moving and decide to capture a moment of life with these characters rather than tell a story in a traditional way. |
| 18 | * SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: ''Film/HappyGoLucky'' appears to be an "anti-miserableist" film and his other films are presented with a fair amount of heart and human emotion. |
| 19 | * ThrowItIn: Basically how he and his actors make their films. |
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