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Director. Designer. Storyteller.

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Inspiration.

David Fincher is an American film and music video director known for his dark and stylish thrillers, such as one of the most chilling serial-killer thrillers ever Se7en, the cult-level and wildly graphic Fight Club, the most perfected cinematography ever witnessed in Panic Room, and most recently the slickly adorned, designed and styled The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo an English-language adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s novel of the same name. A highlight of his career of highlights is when Fincher received Academy Award nominations for Best Director for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and his film The Social Network, which also won him the Golden Globe and the BAFTA for Best Director.

Fincher lucked out at an early age in that none other than George Lucas lived in Fincher’s neighborhood. He went on to work for Lucas’ visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), where he quickly assembled such namely titles as Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi and Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom to this filmography. To this day the experience of having worked behind the camera before taking the director’s chair can be witnessed in Fincher’s perfectionism and superb competence in filmmaking.

David Fincher left ILM in 1984 to pursue his own career, directing music videos and tv-commercials and his career took off and reached an early climax towards the end of the 1980’s, working for clients that included Nike, Coca-Cola, AT&T and pop-superstars Madonna, George Michael, Billy Idol, Foreigner and Michael Jackson.

From title-sequences, to lighting, cinematography and editing, to the score and his precise attention to sound-design and art direction, David Fincher’s films are incredible acts of exacting control of the art forms many variables. A balancing act many cannot even fathom to attempt, never mind master. Please be sure to catch the instant classic The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo which is in theatres now.

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