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John Milius - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography

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Born April 11, 1944, St. Louis, Missouri, USA - American screenwriter, filmmaker and producer of Hollywood movies. Milius started his film career at the university. His first film won a prize at the student works festival.
His first independent film work was the 1967 film Marcello, I'm So Bored. True, the film went unnoticed against the background of the larger works of that period, and Milius for some time stopped being a director, leaving for screenwriters. He wrote scripts for such famous films as The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972, starring Paul Newman), The Magnum Pistol with Clint Eastwood (1973), Jeremiah Johnson with Robert Redford (1972) .
In 1973, Milius returned to directing and directed a film about John Dillinger, one of the most famous American gangsters of the 1930s, Dillinger .
Milius has now found his niche in cinema. He made films, the characters of which were in extremely extreme conditions, no matter whether it was a war or a gangster shootout. The plot of his directorial work from that time and forever became the so-called "borderline situations" that reveal the essence of a person, his cruelty, thirst to survive, fear of death. Milius went on to write for such famous films as The Wind and the Lion (1975) with Sean Connery and Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola (1979) .
With the onset of the conservative era of Reagan, the finest hour of Milius, known for his far-right views and ardent anti-communism, came. He directs his most famous films - "Conan the Barbarian" with Arnold Schwarzenegger (1982) and "Red Dawn" with Patrick Swayze (1984) .
The film "Conan the Barbarian" was a free adaptation of the works of Robert Howard about the barbarian Conan, who supposedly lived fifteen thousand years ago on Earth. The film was shot in the spirit of the Nietzschean cult of the strong personality, which gave rise to Soviet propaganda to accuse Milius of sympathies with Adolf Hitler. In part, Milius himself gave reasons for such criticism. Wendy Leigh in the biography of A. Schwarzenegger writes that Milius came to meetings with producers with a Mussolini statuette, and on the set the assistant director greeted him with a Nazi greeting. The film grossed $ 100 million in the States alone. The film "Red Dawn" is the most famous example of the anti-Soviet action movie of the 80s. The tape tells the story of the invasion of the United States by the joint Soviet-Cuban army and the struggle against the invaders of a small group of young Americans who created the Wolverine partisan detachment in the mountains .
In 1991, Milius released the film "The Flight of the Intruder", the hero of which, a pilot of the American Navy, decided to end the Vietnam War in his own way: by equipping his plane with bombs and going to bomb Hanoi. In subsequent years, Milius, who was tired of criticism in his address for the cruel and ambiguous plots of his films, moved away from active directing and started working on scripts again, mainly about the threat to the United States from the post-Soviet space. In 2011, the video game Homefront was released from a script by John Milius. The plot in general terms repeats "Red Dawn": the United States collapsed and captured by the Korean army, and the main character organizes a miniature resistance squad, which heroically kills all enemies, including internal ones (the so-called "survivalists").


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