Biography of legendary director John Watts
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In order to disarm a criminal, you have to think like a criminal, and in order to release a film about Spider-Man, you have to decorate your body with a tattoo of his portrait. This, of course, is not a scientific fact, however, the famous John Watts had it exactly this way. When he wanted to become a director of a film about a superhero, and favourably differ from the crowd of candidates for the director's chair, John tattooed on his chest image of the superhero.
Childhood and youth
The film genius was born on the morning of 28 June 1981 in an American town called Fountain, which is located in the state of Colorado. His mother was a homemaker and his father a doctor, he was born into a large family. Initially in the plans of the man was not a desire to connect his biography with the world of film art -While attending Fountain-Fort Carson High School John was very passionate about science and his dream was to become a chemical engineer in the future. The idea that he could please people with his creativity, visited his gifted head already in high school after the young man was impressed by watching a tragic comedy action film called "Ed Wood", directed by Tim Burton, and the main male role was played by the famous Johnny Depp. John shot his first films on his days off from school, together with his mates. He borrowed a camera for his work from his sister's husband.
When the young man grew up, and it was time to make a choice of further profession, John, without telling anyone, submitted his documents for admission to the University of Southern California and New York University. Thanks to the author's short animated film The gifted applicant won a scholarship to study at the Tisch School of Arts, which was a complete surprise to both John and his relatives.
After graduating with a degree, Watts worked on music videos for Death Cab For Cutie, The Thrills, The Rapture and TV On The Radio, test projects for television shows, and at that time he was also working on a number of music videos for the film industry. there were commercials for a channel called ESPN for the NY Lottery and the famous Sprite brand. A little later, John and his friends became the founders of a Brooklyn-based production company called Park Pictures. This company still exists today.
Director's filmography
A short film called "Clown" was born twelve years ago. It lasted only one minute, but was the result of the director working on "funny nonsense" in a production company he had set up. The film's plot was concocted based on a false trailer for a film that didn't exist. It was a joke invented in collaboration with Christopher D. Ford D. The video was about a man who was painfully transformed into an angry clown. John posted his creation on YouTube and captioned it as follows: "From the master of horror Eli Roth."
As John later admitted, he didn't realise Roth was so active on social media. A little while later, a call came from Eli, who said the following: "What kind of joke is this? I'm not preparing for the premiere of a new film! This is fake news." The guys were startled and said: "Please, you don't have to sue us!"and the maestro said: "What are you doing? This is a very cool video! Do you have a desire to turn your video into a whole film, do you have an idea for the viewer to witness the full-length version? I can help you and make it happen."
Literally in 7-10 days colleagues were able to raise funds and began writing the script for the thriller, which appeared in cinemas in 2014. "Police Car" came out almost immediately, and this film has been compared to Joel Coen's Just Blood.and the works of William Friedkin and Steven Spielberg. Watts always liked these directors very much. But the peculiarity of the film was not only that. It was filmed 5 minutes away from where the author grew up. In addition, it reflected a dream that he had constantly dreamed since childhood.
Watts' Personal Life
In his personal life, the director has everything going pretty well with a colleague in creative activity. The girl's name is Diane McGonigle. The woman is listed as an associate producer of a film called "Police Wheelbarrow." and producer of the television series Atlanta. Diane also participated in a short film called "To the Moon" and could boast of her role in the making of films such as "Clown" and "Save Yourself!" for which she was especially grateful.
Beloved are frequent visitors to social gatherings, various events, as well as festivals dedicated to film art.
But young people are not very fond of covering their outing on personal accounts in various social networks. For example, John has a page in the popular social network Instagram, but on it you can see, mostly photos of office moments. Although, very rarely among the pictures of the working process you can see pictures of your personal life. For example, John's fans were recently able to gorge themselves on a snapshot of the director's pet.
