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Aronofsky attended Harvard, where he studied both animation and live-action film. His senior thesis film, Supermarket Sweep (1990), starring Sean Gullete (the star of Pi), later became a National Student Academy Award Finalist. After Harvard, Aronofsky studied at the AFI, and earned an M.F.A. in directing. His AFI student film, Protozoa (1993) starred Lucy Liu. It has never been released, but according to aronofsky.net, it echoes many of his later themes, including addiction, listlessness and the search for some central meaning or truth - as the film puts it, simply "it." Protozoa ... marks the beginning of the partnership between Aronofsky and cinematographer Matthew Libatique.
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In 1996 Aronofsky began developing the concept for his first feature film π, a psychological sci-fi thriller. After the π script received positive reactions from friends, he began production. The film re-teamed Aronofsky with Sean Gullette, who played the lead. During production, Aronofsky and crew realized they didn't have enough money to complete the film. Associate Producer Scott Franklin came up with the idea to raise completion funds by asking every person they knew for $100. Later in production certain individuals put in more cash, which let Aronofsky complete the film.
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In Aronofsky's The Wrestler by , IGN UK UK, February 12, 2008 - Marisa Tomei has signed up to play a stripper in Darren Aronofsky's latest project The Wrestler, according to Variety. The film revolves around a
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While The Fighter is still in development, as of February 2008 Aronofsky is directing the similarly-titled The Wrestler, about professional wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson. Set in the 1980s, the film will tell the story of Robinson's decline, and eventual reentry into the pro wrestling scene. Filming is slated to begin in January 2008.[1]
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Aronofsky, the wunderkind auteur of two fervently admired indie hits, has a right to be defensive. His third and most ambitious film, The Fountain, was abandoned by its original star and forsaken by his studio before it even got made. Now headed to theaters as a smaller, fiscally chaster, and far more emotionally intense version of the script Aronofsky originally dreamed up, it’s already provoked a strong reaction among early audiences and critics—but not the kind he had intended. “It’s funny how the same people who complain that Hollywood never does anything different attack when you do,” he says.
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After making some short, student films which have not been released currently, Aronofsky started his feature career with the film Π (Greek letter Pi). Π might be described as a thriller of sorts, though it really defies traditional classification in its wonderful weirdness.
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