Famous movie directors illustrated by Van Orton

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Van Orton is an incredibly talented artist that decided he is fed up with all of the posters looking the same. He took the challenge of shocking with a new way, and he did an tremendous job. He is using geometric patterns to create posters of famous movie directors, producers, and movies.Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Pharell, Kavinsky, Blade Runner, Robocop, Star Wars and many more have been transformed into geometric patterns that look absolutely cool.

You can gawk at his art on his website, follow his tweets, or like him on Facebook. If you are interested on seeing the steps he has been through creating these awesome posters, you can go on his behance page, where you can see how he achieved the end product. Or just humbly scroll down his Tumblr page, and see what this Turin, Italy based artist can do.

1. Stanley Kubrick

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Stanley Kubrick was born on 26 July 1928, in New York City, United States, and was considered intelligent since a young age, despite not performing so well in school. His father decided that maybe if he changed the scenery, he will somehow become more inclined to study courses that he was almost failing.

He was moved to Pasadena in 1940, to stay with his uncle Martin Perveler. Returning in 1941 to the Bronx so he could finish his last year of grammar school, his father realized that the trip didn’t do anything  to make young Stanley be more keen on learning things that he didn’t want to. Jack Kubrick, his father, thought that chess will be a game changer, so he started to introduce his son to the logical game. He was definitely right, because Stanley became quite passionate about chess, and it also helped him deal with the stress of making movies, and dealing with annoying and recalcitrant actors.

At 17 years old, he got an internship job at “Look Magazine” as an apprentice photographer, but decided to leap towards film making. His first endeavor into the land of creating movies was not that great. He divorced his high school sweet heart, and the movie, “Fear and Desire” got mixed reviews. Although the reviews were mixed,  Kubrick continued to make movies. In 1955 he created “Killer’s Kiss”, and right after, in 1956 came out “The Killing”. Soon, he caught the attention of Hollywood, and was set to direct Kirk Douglas in “Paths of Glory”.

He moved to the UK in 1961, where he started working on “Lolita”, which appeared in 1962. In 1968 Kubrick created a movie considered by  many as one of the best ever made, an instant cult classic, and set the tone for science fiction movies to come. Arthur C. Clarke’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” has propelled Kubrick into a world of fame and recognition amongst his peers. “A Clockwork Orange”, “The Shining” and “Full Metal Jacket” are amongst his gems of movies that I highly recommend taking a day, or two, to watch. While working on “A.I – Artificial Intelligence”, Kubrick tragically suffered a heart attack in his sleep. He died on March 7^th 1999.

2. Quentin Tarantino

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Quentin Jerome Tarantino, born on the 27^th of March 1963, in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, is a critically acclaimed writer and director, cinematographer, producer and actor. He started with “Reservoir Dogs”, which appeared in 1992 at the Sundance Film Festival – he immediately became a legend. In 1994, his new movie “Pulp Fiction” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the sought after Palm D’Or Award. “Pulp Fiction” is considered one of the best movies ever created, and tells the story of Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega, two hit men that have been tasked to retrieve a suit case that has been stolen from their employer.

Butch Coolidge, played by Bruce Willis, comes into play, the mob boss’ wife has a near death experience and all goes to hell. It is a must watch movie in my books, so if you haven’t seen it yet, and you have some spare time on your hand, approximately 160 minutes, go watch it, you won’t regret it!

After making “Kill Bill: Volume 1” in 2003, and “Kill Bill: Volume 2” in 2004, he started to polish his work on “Inglorious Basterds” – a movie that he postponed in 2000. After the success of 2009 “Inglorious Basterds” he took time to start working on his new hit movie “Django Unchained”. At the moment, he is known to work on two big movies that fans can’t wait for –  “The Hateful Eight”, and “ Kill Bill: Volume 3”. At the age of 51, he doesn’t seem to be stopping soon, and we don’t want to.

3. Steven Spielberg

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Steven Allan Spielberg is one of the most influential film personalities in our film history. He is world known as an incredible director, producer, and writer. He was born on December 18^th 1946. in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, and started his career in 1957 with “ Wagon Train” as an assistant editor.

Since then, he has amazed the world with movies such as “E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial”, “Back to the Future”, the Indiana Jones movies, “Jurassic Park”, “Saving Private Ryan”, “Catch me if you can” and many other marvelous cinematography pieces. At the moment he is working on 13 projects that span till’ 2016. To be honest, one of my favorite movies is “Schindler’s List”. He managed to tell the world the sorrow, and pain of discrimination, and how war can shape man.

What is your favorite director? Probably Van Orton hasn’t yet made a poster illustrating him. We would love to hear your thoughts regarding this subject, so please post in the comments section below.