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Timur Bekmambetov

Timur Bekmambetov Biography

Film director

Timur Bekmambetov is a celebrated film director from Russia, born on June 25, 1961. He has made a significant impact on the film industry with his distinctive storytelling and innovative approach to genre-blending. Bekmambetov is best known for his science fiction and action films, including 'Night Watch', 'Day Watch', 'Wanted', 'Abduction', and 'Extraction'.

Timur Bekmambetov is a celebrated film director from Russia, born on June 25, 1961. He has made a significant impact on the film industry with his distinctive storytelling and innovative approach to genre-blending. Bekmambetov is best known for his science fiction and action films, including 'Night Watch', 'Day Watch', 'Wanted', 'Abduction', and 'Extraction'.

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“Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very organic.”

Ideas Different Stories Direct Profession Different Ideas

Author:Timur Bekmambetov

“I also have experience working with American producer Roger Corman who knows a lot of secrets in making movies look bigger than their budget.”

Knows Looks Secret Bigger Producers Budgets Roger

Author:Timur Bekmambetov

“The film language is still in development and the traditional dialogue is the biggest problem because nobody knows how to interpret it in 3D world.”

Knows World Stills Problem Film Language Know How Development Dialogue Traditional Nobody Knows

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“I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.”

Thinking World Important Character Fantasy Technique Grounded Relatable Great Character Fantasy Worlds

Author:Timur Bekmambetov

“Vampire have their own understanding what freedom is because they just live much longer and they feel they are a superior race and they have their own understanding and their understanding represents the understanding of some people, that - who has the power of course has to rule the world.”

People World Feels Courses Understanding Race Superiors Vampire Just Live

Author:Timur Bekmambetov

“We are smart and powerful enough to change our world as we need.”

World Needs Enough Powerful Smart Our World

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“You can play with the reality and the 3D is a tool to play with it.”

Play Reality Tools

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“Night Watch itself is a very Russian movie. Its impossible to imagine this kind of movie somewhere else: a movie with a depressing ending, a lot of inexplicable storylines, strange characters. Its a Russian reflection of American film culture.”

Kind Character Film Night Culture Watches Imagine Impossible Strange Reflection Depressing Somewhere Else Inexplicable Storyline American Film

Author:Timur Bekmambetov

“If you know exactly what your character knows, its a drama.”

Ifs Knows Character Drama

Author:Timur Bekmambetov

“From the beginning [of the film The Darkest Hour], [aliens] it's a metaphor for the foreigners and from the beginning of the movie, American boys feel themselves like aliens here or they feel like Russians are aliens. There's misunderstanding or miscommunication. Then when the real aliens appear, together they have to fight to survive.”

Feels Real Together Film Fighting Hours Boys Metaphor Aliens Misunderstanding Foreigners Darkest Hour Miscommunication

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“The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.”

Character Actors Hours Creative Involved Sympathetic Darkest Hour Famous Actor

Author:Timur Bekmambetov

“Moscow has an energy. Which is important. The city and the people all have an energy. It's quite different from what everybody knows in Los Angeles, but it has an energy. People have an energy.”

People Knows Important Different Energy Cities Los Angeles Moscow

Author:Timur Bekmambetov

“Russian directors, we are shooting the same streets. The same things. Tom Jacobson has a fresh eye and found very interesting and very cool locations and angles and characters.”

Character Eye Found Interesting Streets Directors Shooting Toms Location Angle Very Interesting Very Cool

Author:Timur Bekmambetov

“The unique idea of [The Darkest Time] movie is because in usual if you are in darkness, you are scared. But this movie is the opposite. In darkness, you are okay.”

Ifs Ideas Darkness Unique Okay Opposites Scared Usual Darkest Times

Author:Timur Bekmambetov

“Its a big problem for American movies that all their movies are produced to be global.”

Problem Bigs Big Problems American Movie

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About the Author

Born: June 25, 1961
Known for: Film director
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