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      • Joseph Wright (born 25 August 1972) is an English film director. His motion pictures include adaptations of Pride & Prejudice (2005), Atonement (2007), Anna Karenina (2012), and Cyrano (2021), the action thriller Hanna (2011), the Peter Pan origin story Pan (2015) and Darkest Hour (2017).
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    Joseph Wright (born 25 August 1972) is an English film director. His motion pictures include adaptations of Pride & Prejudice (2005), Atonement (2007), Anna Karenina (2012), and Cyrano (2021), the action thriller Hanna (2011), the Peter Pan origin story Pan (2015) [ 1 ] and Darkest Hour (2017).

  4. britishheritage.com › art-culture › joe-wrightJoe Wright on his Winston Churchill biopic, Darkest Hour

    • Joe Wright's Early Beginnings
    • Winston Churchill Had A Funny Side
    • One of Churchill's Finest Speeches
    • Gary Oldman's Performance
    • Churchill's Relationship with America
    • Churchill's Legacy

    “I’m the child of immigrants,” the director says. “I’ve always been fascinated by where we ended up and I guess I’ve tried to understand the culture and country in which I was born. To understand where I am.” Wright's parents came from South Africa to London, where they founded the Little Angel puppet theatre in Islington in 1959. “And it's been op...

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    When asked to repeat his favorite Churchill joke, the very articulate Wright pauses, momentarily stumped. He even stammers a bit, until, almost sheepishly, he owns up to it. “Well, to be honest, it's when the lady at the party said to him, ‘Winston, you’re drunk!’ And he said, ‘Yes, Madam, and you are ugly, but in the morning I shall be sober.’” Cr...

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    He is referring to the “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” speech of June 4, 1940. Delivered right after the Dunkirk evacuation, it was one of the three famed speeches during his first month as Prime Minister. These orations are at the heart of both the movie and Churchill's legacy. “It's an enormous privilege to film them. You know, in any book of the...

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    Oldman's delivery of the famous speeches is extraordinary. “There were no recordings of Churchill's speeches to Parliament,” observes Michael F. Bishop, executive director of the International Churchill Society. “The recordings that exist were done by Churchill much later and lack the power and drama that his fellow MPs experienced and described. G...

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    Americans might take special notice of Churchill openly pleading with the States to join the fight. If Britain falls, he hopes “the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.” “He said privately many times that his one goal, his one trump card, was to pull America into war. Everything he did wa...

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    Even Wright's favorite Churchill quote reflects this for him. Unlike the joke, he knows it instantly: If you’re going through hell, keep going. “So many of his quotes are about keeping yourself up when things are hard. I think he experienced life as being quite hard a lot of the time, so I think he needed to write those lines for himself.” That lin...

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  5. www.focusfeatures.com › article › celebrating_joeWhy Joe Wright Is Such an Epic Filmmaker - Focus Features

    Jul 12, 2017 · In Darkest Hour, Joe Wright brings to life an extraordinary historical moment, when Winston Churchill (played by Academy Award nominee Gary Oldman) must decide whether to pursue a peace treaty with Germany or stand up to the growing Nazi threat.

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  7. www.townandcountrymag.com › leisure › arts-andJoe Wright Interview About Darkest Hour and Winston Churchill

    Nov 22, 2017 · Joe Wright’s latest film might be called Darkest Hour, but the drama, which follows Winston Churchill during the first days of World War II and opens November 22, is one of the brightest...

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  8. www.independent.co.uk › arts-entertainment › filmsDarkest Hour director Joe Wright shares candid thoughts on ...

    • The Soloist (2009) Robert Downey Jr and Joe Wright on the set of ‘The Soloist in LA, 2009 (Rex) (Rex Features) “I had a breakdown after making Atonement.
    • Hanna (2011) Saoirse Ronan’s second film with Wright came about because of her insistence he direct it (Rex) (Rex Features) “Hanna was nice. It was Saoirse Ronan’s idea.
    • Anna Karenina (2012) Wright describes ‘Anna Karenina’ as an “experiment’ (Rex) (Rex Features) “Anna Karenina was an opportunity to work with [screenwriter] Tom Stoppard.
    • Pan (2015) Hugh Jackman and Levi Morgan in the critically-mauled ‘Pan’ (Rex) (Rex Features) “Oh, how long have you got? Pan was a really interesting and super-expensive experiment.

  9. thecritic.co.uk › issues › march-2022Joe Wright: Auteur of awfulness | Alexander Larman | The ...

    Wright is still a relatively young man, not yet 50, and has been making films since his thirties. Beginning with a glum and dull take on Pride and Prejudice in 2005, he has managed to make two categories of motion picture: the overrated and the dismal.

  10. www.rogerebert.com › interviews › a-song-was-only-aA Song Was Only A Breath Away: Joe Wright on Cyrano - Roger Ebert

    Feb 22, 2022 · He is who he is. And he brings that with him, like any great leading man. But there was something incredibly powerful about watching him fulfill a career-long dream, to play a romantic lead.