Danny Boyle
7 titles · american genre
Four Edinburgh flatmates find their new lodger dead with a suitcase of cash under the bed, and Shallow Grave watches them fail the test in about a week. Speed is the constant: cut fast, saturate the colour, keep a pop track running underneath. Trainspotting does it with heroin and 28 Days Later with an empty London, and even 127 Hours, which is one man pinned under a rock for five days, refuses to sit still.
Signature
- Kinetic cutting, saturated palettes and a driving needle-drop score.
- Ordinary people handed a windfall or a catastrophe and found out.
- Genre switched mid-film without warning.
- Physical endurance filmed close and unglamorously.
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Lineage
Earlier films these works draw on, and the films they went on to shape — each link checked to name a film that actually came first.