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I'M Not Scared

Jeffrey Rivet

"I'M NOT SCARED"

DIRECTOR:

Gabriel Salvatores:

Salvatores, A Writer, actor, and director. Born on July 30th, 1950 In naples. He moved to Milan and started his career as a theatre director in 1972. For most of the 70's and the 80's he directed everything that was shown at Elf's Theater. His popularity among italians was growing immensely. His style of directing was classified as Avant Garde or "cutting edge". A style that i think he has continued to use today.

As a director his career consist of 14 major productions and his big break through wasn't until 1989, when he directed the "Marrakech Express" . From there he directed several other hits such as "Turne" (1990), "Mediterreaneo" (1991), "Denti"(2000), "Amnesia"(2002), and of course "I'm not Scared"(2003).

As a Writer, he wrote 6 out of the 14 movies that he directed. And they all did very well in the box office.

he has won several awards and has been nominated several times as well, including his oscar for best foreign film "Mediterreaneo", he has written and directed his way into the hearts of many people and after watching "I'm not scared" i consider him one of my favorite directors of today.

"I'm not scared" Won 2 awards (the silver ribbon and david of the youth) and was nominated for 3 other awards (David, Bodil, and the golden berlin bear) the movie is based of the bestseller novel from Niccolo Ammaniti published in 2001. It seems odd that Salvatores would direct such a movie because his movies often deal with themes of disillusionment, escape from reality, Utopian ideologies, and generational identity.

The articles About salvatores directing this film suggest that in many ways Salvatores film recalls Carlo Carlie's "flight of the Innocent" which also is about a kidnapping of a child. Flight of the Innocent suffered from visual and sentimental overkill while in "I'm not scared" the emotions struggle to emerge, less due to salvatores aesthetics than to his...