Umdidiyeli nomqondisi Roger Corman inefilimu yazo zonke izizukulwane ezibuyela emuva cishe eminyakeni engama-70. Lokho kusho ukuthi abalandeli abathusayo abaneminyaka engu-21 nangaphezulu kungenzeka babone enye yamafilimu akhe. UMnu. Corman udlule emhlabeni ngoMeyi 9 eneminyaka engama-98.
“Wayephana, enenhliziyo evulekile futhi enomusa kubo bonke ababemazi. Ubaba ozinikele futhi ongenabugovu, ubethandwa kakhulu ngamadodakazi akhe,” kusho umndeni wakhe ku-Instagram. "Amafilimu akhe ayenezinguquko futhi e-iconoclastic, futhi athatha umoya wenkathi."
Umenzi wefilimu onekhono wazalelwa eDetroit Michigan ngo-1926. Ubuciko bokwenza amafilimu bashintsha isithakazelo sakhe kwezobunjiniyela. Ngakho-ke, maphakathi nawo-1950 waphendulela ukunaka kwakhe esikrinini esisiliva ngokuhlanganisa ifilimu I-Highway Dragnet e 1954.
Ngemva konyaka wayezothola ngemuva kwe-lens ukuze aqondise Izibhamu ezinhlanu West. Isakhiwo saleyo filimu sizwakala njengento ethile Spielberg or tarantino izokwenza namuhla kodwa ngesabelomali sezigidi zamadola: "Ngesikhathi seMpi Yombango, i-Confederacy ixolela izigebengu ezinhlanu futhi izithumele endaweni yase-Comanche ukuze zibuyise igolide leNhlangano elithathwe yi-Union futhi lithwebule ijazi le-Confederate."
Ukusuka lapho u-Corman wenza ama-Westerns ambalwa, kodwa-ke intshisekelo yakhe kumafilimu ama-monster yavela kuqala Isilo Esinamehlo Esigidi (1955) kanye Lawunqoba Umhlaba (1956). Ngo-1957 uqondise amafilimu ayisishiyagalolunye asukela ezicini zezidalwa (Ukuhlaselwa Kwezilo Zogwaja) kumadrama entsha exhaphazayo (Unodoli Omusha).
Ngama-60s ukugxila kwakhe kwaphendukela ikakhulukazi kumamuvi athusayo. Ezinye zezinto zakhe ezazidume kakhulu ngaleso sikhathi zazisekelwe emisebenzini ka-Edgar Allan Poe, Umgodi ne-Pendulum (1961), Igwababa (1961), kanye IMasque Yokufa Okubomvu (1963).
Phakathi neminyaka yawo-70 wenza ukukhiqiza okuningi kunokuqondisa. Wasekela inqwaba yamafilimu, yonke into kusukela kokusabisayo kuya kulokho okuzobizwa kanjalo indlu yokugaya namuhla. Enye yamafilimu akhe adumile kusukela kuleyo minyaka eyishumi kwaba Umjaho Wokufa 2000 (1975) kanye Ron Howard's isici sokuqala Yidla Uthuli Lwami (1976).
Emashumini eminyaka alandelayo, wanikeza iziqu eziningi. Uma uqashe i-a B-ifilimu endaweni yangakini yokuqashwa kwamavidiyo, kungenzeka uyena owakhiqiza.
Ngisho nanamuhla, ngemva kokudlula kwakhe emhlabeni, i-IMDb ibika ukuthi inamafilimu amabili ezayo kokuthunyelwe: Little Isitolo se-Halloween Horrors futhi ICrime City. Njengenganekwane yeqiniso yaseHollywood, usasebenza ngakolunye uhlangothi.
"Amafilimu akhe ayenezinguquko futhi e-iconoclastic, futhi athatha umoya weminyaka," kusho umndeni wakhe. “Lapho ebuzwa ukuthi angathanda ukukhunjulwa kanjani, wathi, ‘Ngangingumenzi wefilimu, lokho nje.’”
Lalela i-'Eye On Horror Podcast'
Lalela i-'Eye On Horror Podcast'
Kufanele ungene ngemvume ukuze ubhale amazwana Ngena ngemvume