Taylor Hackford
4 titles · american classical
Ray Charles goes blind as a child, watches his brother drown, and builds a career out of refusing to be managed, and Ray hands the whole film to Jamie Foxx to carry. The work is built around a lead performance with something to prove. Bound by Honor follows three relatives across three decades of East Los Angeles and prison; The Devil's Advocate lets Al Pacino run a Manhattan law firm as Satan and does not ask him to hold back.
Signature
- Films constructed around one large central performance.
- Biography and period detail handled conventionally and well.
- Long timespans covered across decades.
- Music used as structure, not decoration.
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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.