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Adrian Lyne
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Adrian Lyne is the king of stylized dramas and this entertaining film just adds to his legacy (Fatal Attraction, Jacob's Ladder and yes, Flashdance). A former director of commercials, Lyne loves to deconstruct the character's actions into tiny close-ups that when spliced together, make them appear all the more dramatic. Simple things like cutting a tomato becomes magnified for its impact. A doorknob turning becomes a major event. He can make these tiny details appear sexy, scary, or even mysterious, but these enhancements always add to the complexity of the character's texture.
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Adrian Lyne is to sins of the flesh what Martin Scorsese is to crimes of the Mob. A director who knows his strength, and pretty much sticks to it. To be tempted by one of Lyne's cinematic come-ons is to understand what it's like to be seduced into an illicit affair. It's nearly futile to resist his hot-button centerfolds. Jennifer Beals as the blue-collar stripteaser in Flashdance. Glenn Close as the Medusa-tressed career woman from hell in Fatal Attraction. Demi Moore as a nubile yuppie who succumbs to Robert Redford's offer of a million-dollar quickie in Indecent Proposal.
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The British-born director Adrian Lyne cut his teeth professionally in TV commercials and would later incorporate many of that genre's stylistic techniques into his films. In the 1980s he struck box-office gold with his masterful direction of several sexually-charged psychological dramas and continues to prove himself as a highly influential filmmaker. His stunning motion pictures include Flashdance, Nine 1/2 Weeks, Fatal Attraction, Jacob's Ladder, Indecent Proposal and Lolita. Interviewed actors who offer their insight into Levinson's work include Danny Aiello, Anne Archer, Jennifer Beals, Woody Harrelson, Jeremy Irons, Frank Langella and Tim Robbins.
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From All Movie Guide: British-born director Adrian Lyne "grew up" professionally in TV commercials, carrying over the quick-cut, hard-sell techniques of that specialized genre into his first film, Foxes (1980). Lyne went on to embrace the burgeoning "MTV" directorial school for his breakthrough feature, Flashdance (1983). His next project, 9 1/2 Weeks (1986), represented Lyne's first creative battle with the editing room. The director had one notion of what constituted "too much" in this erotic drama, the editors (backed by the producers) had another -- and the result was two separate release versions, one rated R, the other not rated at all. In Fatal Attraction (1987), his biggest box-office hit, Lyne favored the script's original ironic-twist ending, but preview audiences demanded that leading lady Glenn Close be punished for her psychotic behavior.
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The film's director, Adrian Lyne, should be congratulated for a certain perverted expertise. He and screenwriter Stephen Schiff have emptied Nabokov's novel of its lifeblood. The film bears few traces of the acerbic wit, humour, pathos, originality and daring that exemplified Nabokov's tome. While no one would expect or want a filmmaker to slavishly replicate an adapted work of fiction, the question then becomes: why bother remaking Lolita if only--à la Coles Notes--to follow the broadest strokes of the plot, and obliterate character and demolish the delectable irony?
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When Jeremy Irons arrived at the initial location, in Wilmington, North Carolina, Dominique Swain had been there a month, rehearsing with Adrian Lyne. Irons saw that they had bonded. He felt excluded. Lyne, Irons suspected, had determined that one of them would control Dominique and wanted to make sure it was he. "That's totally crazy," said Lyne when Irons broached the matter. "I never thought about it. It's just that I have to nurture her because she's never done it before."
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