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Alex Proyas
-Alex Proyas
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Proyas first established himself internationally as a sought-after
maker of music videos and commercials. He founded his own Sydney-based
production company, Meaningful Eye Contact, during his second year
of film school, and subsequently signed with Propaganda Films in
Los Angeles, then with U.K.-based Limelight Films, before re-signing
with Propaganda in 1990. His videos for such musical bands as INXS,
Crowded House, Fleetwood Mac, Joe Jackson, Rick Springfield, Cutting
Crew, Colin Hay and Yes, and commercials for Nike, Coca Cola, Pepsi,
American Express, Swatch, Nissan, Kleenex, Phipps, Castrol, TDK,
Hitachi, Verve, Philips and Dunlop, among others, have won numerous
awards all over the world. ....... Proyas'
breakthrough as a feature director was the 1994 film adaptation
of James O'Barr's cutting-edge punk comic-book novel The Crow. The
film, which was not only a commercial hit, was also a critical success
for its star, Brandon Lee, who achieved the posthumous status of
a legend in his own right for his haunting portrayal of a man who
returns from the dead to avenge his own murder. If
someone got a more recent bioagraphy of Alex Proyas or if you have
writen one and you want to put it on this page please fell free
to e-mail me.Thanks
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by Sebastien Johnson |
"To
me, the soul is really what makes us human. Is there a soul, and
is that where humanity comes from? As an individual we dress and
act in a certain way. But that's not truly who we are -- it is something
else, a spirit from somewhere else that makes us what we are. That
essence will go on and carry on past the physical life. I find it
very hard to believe that you die and the lights go out and that's
it. That's the most horrific concept of existence -- I can't accept
that." 