Sunday, October 17, 2010

Quadruple Threat : Ben Affleck

Ben Affleck was born in Berkeley, California, but moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts when his parents Christine Anne and Timothy Affleck got divorced in 1984. Ben wanted to be an actor ever since he could remember and his first acting experience was for a Burger King commercial, when he was on the PBS mini-series"The Voyage of the Mimi" (1984). Since Ben was tired of getting turned down for major movies and films, he decided to write and direct. He as only directed two movies Gone Baby Gone & 2010's The Town. Gone Baby Gone was nominated for over 25 awards and won 20 of them. The Town's first weekend in the theaters came out #1 with $23.8 million. Affleck's movies are mostly action so the shots would be a zoom shot or a pan, something that will capture the moment. He is in most of his movies that he directs, writes and produces, which makes it better, to see what he wants out of the film. Affleck attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, as well as the University of Vermont.

Ben Affleck Toronto Film Festival Interview

5 comments:

Ahmad Taha said...

i think that Ben Affleck is a excelent and unique direcor considering he was mostly and actor, but made his why up to directing, and i think his experience as an actor is what makes him a good director.

TJ Hairston said...

Nice choice I like Ben Affleck he's a good film director I here about him all the time his movies are terrific in my opinion he's one of those film directors that will go down in history as one of the greatest.

TJ Hairston said...

Nice choice I like Ben Affleck he's a good film director I here about him all the time his movies are terrific in my opinion he's one of those film directors that will go down in history as one of the greatest.

M said...

Gone Baby Gone is a really good movie and I want to see The Town soon.

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