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great actor John Houston a very creative film-director Pancho Cordoba

+ had a lengthy film career as writer, director and actor
+ was nominated for an Oscar 10 times for his film and best director
+ directed on the screen's most popular stars of the era, and successfully


by Hector

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John Huston was one of those great directors who had a lengthy career in various areas of filmmaking, and that it was very good, because although much of its heyday was as an elder, but offered creative innovations.

Also, honored to work with the biggest stars of the moment, but also surprised many when he played the principal consumers own career and image of the famous, turning on the screen and in what many considered a big risk did very well at the box office such as when expressed as a vague and dirty Humphrey Bogart, the star of the moment in the film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", or hand trembled in directing Marlon Brando in the role of a homosexual in " golden reflection of your eyes "by Liz Taylor. Even one of the few who experimented with good results in various genres.

The August 28, 1987 died in Rhode Island and was born in Nevada, Missouri on August 5, 1906. The film director who claimed that he chose the actors for what they did, but what they could do for him, "... and then try to guide you through the role as discreetly as possible, without letting him see that as a director I myself am acting all the roles ...".

was his own writer of almost 40 a little less than 50 films he directed, but also participated in many of them, and participated as an actor in 40 films from 1929 to 1987.

was nominated for the top prize world an Oscar 10 times, but only won twice, for best director and best screenwriter in the third nomination he received in 1948 for "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and before he had been nominated for best screenplay written specifically for films with "Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet "and then" Sergeant York. "

Humphrey Bogart in "Treasure of the Sierra Madre"

Then followed the Oscar nominations for "The Asphalt Jungle," "The African Queen" with Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn , then by "Moulin Rouge", then by "The Cardinal", then by "The Man Who Would Be King" and finally "The Prizzi family honor" with Jack Nicholson, Angelica Huston, Robert Loggia, Kathleen Turner, Bruce Willis. But

received worldwide critical acclaim for films like "Moby Dick" with Gregory Peck, as well as "The Maltese Falcon," "The Red Badge of Courage," "Beat the Devil", "The Misfits" with festivals and won several international awards.

And even a movie about a boxer "Fat City" (Fat City) on a fighter in decline, with which he ventured into a fanciful legend. But when asked why a tape of a boxer, he touched the heart and began with their memories of when in real life was a boxer and said it was pretty good. But it was also trooper in Mexico! As well as a storyteller, a painter who came to present their work on the streets of Paris and London.

But it was also a good self-critical, because it had started in the film as a writer in a time rife with refried issues in the thirties and agree that had no success. Then he retired and returned and had changed the cinematic trends, what had been a failure now hailed him and hire him again and then came the best time of their productive life in film, and that was when he directed and wrote "The Maltese Falcon," which was released in 1941 and is considered the best of his career .

But personally I believe that in his career again presented a situation which he narrated, as though directed films that ended up being nominated for an Oscar as best director and best screenwriter, some felt that was on the decline and attributed it to his great age.

But it was the opposite, because now you can watch video tapes these nine films that were nominated Oscar and you will see that at least half of them deserved the Oscar, because they are of good quality, especially compared with those other films that year had been awarded the Oscar in various categories.

attacked him in his time from various points to such an extent that one of his outstanding films and liked in other countries, "Moby Dick" in the United States was heavily criticized because Huston was a Gregory Peck who hated God in that tape, and Huston claimed that the author of the story of Moby Dick, Herman Melville hated God, and as people saw as a very straight to actor Gregory Peck, involved a novel fiction with reality and the tape was demonized. And even criticized him for the killing of whales that are highlighted in the film, and did not believe that only some of the 20 whales shown, were real, because many of them were giant wooden frames covered with latex and steel. And now, you can see this tape and see that it is a good version of the song.

scene from "The Maltese Falcon"


But John Huston, like many other directors and writers, they came to affect his career pretty cut scenes that someone does finally in movies, it almost always is to make it better, but that others come to believe that the director "is being sold" more and more, when in fact others are imposed on what the views or wishes the director or screenwriter. And life became bitterly review the cuts in his films "The Barbarian and the Geisha" and "Sinful Davey".

only had 3 children with 5 wives, Celeste Shat from 1972 to 1977, but divorced. With Ricki Soma from 1950 to 1969 and had 2 children who have died. Evelyn Keyes was married from 1946 to 1950 and had a son. With Lesley Black from 1937 to 1945 and divorced and Dorothy Harvey from 1925 to 1933 and they divorced. It was definitely

a very creative and diverse filmmaker.

until Sunday. My email: hmef@msn.com