Louis Feuilade : Born 2/19/1873. Lunel , France. Died 2/19/1873. (aged 52). Nice, France. Occupation: Film Director. Screenwriter.Film Producer. Journalist. Poet. Years Active:1905-1925. Known for Fantomas, Les Vampires , Judex. Spouse (s).: Jeanne -Leontine Jaujou. Louis Feuilade was a prolific and prominent French film director from the silent era between 1906 and 1924 he directed over 630 films. He is primarily known for the silent serials Fantomas, Les Vampires, and Judex. Early Life And Career: Feuilade was born in Lunel (Herault) to Barthelemy Feuilade, a modest wine merchant, and Marie Avesque. Just beyond adolescence, he showed a deep interest in literature and created numerous drama and vaudeville projects. His excessively academic poems were occasionally published in local newspapers, and he acquired a reputation for his articles devoted to bull fighting. At 12, he was sent by his parents to a Catholic seminary in Carcassonne, which he had attributed to his Gothic stylization in his later career. His biographer Francis Lacssin has suggested that the strange surrealist flashes of anarchy, which spark through the work of this pillar of society can only be explained as some sort of unconscious revolt to which he gave rein in his dreams, that is to say, in his films. He then began his compulsory military service in 1891 until 1895, when he married Jeanne -Leontine Jaujou on 10 /31/1895. After the deaths of his parents, he went to Paris in 1902, seeing literary success, but would suffer miserably for several years. At the beginning of 1905, he started to submit screenplays to Gaumont, and Gaumonts artistic director Alice Guy -Blanche both bought his scripts and invited Feuilade to direct them himself. Concerned about his financial difficulties and family to support , Feuilades declined the directing job in order to continue working as a journalist. At his suggestion Guy Blanche hired Etienne Arraud to direct Feuilades early screenplays at Gaumont But by 1906 he had gained enough confidence to start directing his own scripts, which were mostly comedies. In 1907 , Guy Blanche moved to the United States, and upon her suggestion Feuilade was made Artistic Director of Gaumont. He would work for Gaumont until 1918, while at the same time producing his own films, so that by 1925, the year of his death, he estimated that he had made around 800 films. (At the time he started in cinema, a film rarely lasted more than 10 minutes). He made films of all types:trick films, at the beginning, modeled on those of the great Melies, comedies, bourgeois dramas, historical or biblical dramas, mysteries and exotic adventures. ..But he showed his genius most clearly in his own unforgettable serial films. Serial Films and Fame:The Fantomas serial in 1913, was his first film masterpiece, the results of a long apprenticeship - during which the series with realistic ambitious, Life as it is, played a major role. It is also the first masterpiece in what the modern critic , from both a literary and a cinematographic point of view, would later call the fantastic realism or the social fantastic. He is credited with developing many of the thriller techniques used famously by Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock and others.
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