Pierre Morel

Pierre Morel ( born May 12, 1964 in France ) is a French film director and cinematographer. He became known for with the film 96 Hours fame, who set a record with a box office of about 9.5 million U.S. dollars on the first day of its publication in the United States. Never before had recorded so much money on its launch day a film on Super Bowl weekend. The film became even beyond the world a surprise success, was brought alongside the USA and in Germany for about a year after the first publication in France in the cinemas and not, as is usual after such a long time, only released directly to DVD.

Professional career

Since 1992, Morel works as a cameraman for the film ( both as Director of Photography as well as Steadicam operator), since 2004 he has also completed three films as a director. A special feature of his way of working is that it often even served as a director on the camera. Since his directorial success with 96 Hours Morel perceived as pure cinematographer no more orders and fully concentrates on his directing projects.

After his stage inserts in Ghettogangz - Hell before Paris, 96 hours and From Paris with Love he was last associated among other things with a remake of Dune and a film adaptation of the board game Ouija, rose from the former project but, having already the script had made fashion, and had to leave the precedence in zweiterem McG. Currently, the sequel moves from 96 hours to their production, was busy with the preparation of Morel already in 2009.

Style

Pierre Morel's directorial works are characterized mainly by fast, but clean each other about moving cuts and a very stylized, to be joined thereto camera work that lives by cold colors and movement in particular. He stands out but still of modern aesthetics that set loose by camera rather hectic and special confusion, since his films through speed, but not by leaps, feign confusion about the speed, live. The camera moves in his films are generally clean and far from a stressed loose aesthetics. The stunning effect is created only by the interaction of the rates of assembly and camera movements, without thereby still specially set to jump cuts and camera shake. Occasionally Morel also works with excessive speeds that can play his material in wide camera shots faster ( eg in the intro of Ghettogangz ). Also retouching footage to increase the stylization of the images is to notice from time to time. Overall, his productions act in an extraordinary degree digitally palpable. Unlike movies, where is set constant for loose camera, moreover is striking in Morel that he targeted the effects described or action bound uses. Especially in 96 Hours affects the style only with escalating contentious drama more and more as described here.

With his technique succeeded Morel even the then already 54 or 55 -year-old Liam Neeson so agile to set the scene, that this in 96 Hours is a whole lot physically highly expressive close combat scenes in stunning fast motion sequences completed without great on a stuntman to have been instructed. Neeson refuses stunts as from, but looks close combat scenes are not as such, and was inspired by Morel to peak performance. The scenes were choreographed with a strong focus on fast combat movements, filmed accordingly and the individual movements of a struggle assembled together in a strikingly rapid flow of movement. This innovative style, which was often perceived by the public as very action-packed and fast-paced and it seems relatively handmade simultaneously, ie does not require the help of lurid computer effects, the film became a surprise hit.

Kathrin Lang from the editors of moviesection.de described Morels style, in a critique to From Paris with Love, with also universally very apt words: " The symbiosis of great tracking shots, a magnificent section and a first-class image design brings you stunning action scenes show that the French thriller given the right setting for his daring story. "

Family

Little is known about Morel's private life, as he is rather reluctant interviews, which has to do with the fact that he does not like to look at the cards in his work. He has two children.

Filmography (selection)

Direction

  • 2004: Ghettogangz - The hell is Paris ( Banlieue 13)
  • 2008: 96 Hours ( Taken )
  • 2010: From Paris with Love

Camera

  • 2000: Taxi Taxi (Steadicam operator)
  • 2002: The Transporter
  • 2003: Something's Gotta Give ( cameraman on location Paris)
  • 2004: The American (L' américain ) (Steadicam operator)
  • 2005: Transporter 2 (Steadicam operator)
  • 2005: Unleashed - Unleashed
  • 2006: Love and Other Disasters
  • 2007: Was
  • 2007: Taxi 4
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