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Darren Aronofsky first secured a reputation as a brash, intelligent filmmaker with Pi, his 1998 feature directorial and screenwriting debut. A dizzying black and white odyssey, it told the story of a brilliant mathematician (Sean Gullette) driven by his conviction that higher mathematics can be used to unlock the secrets of the natural world. Claiming such disparate influences as Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, the visual and editing style of Japan's Shinya Tsukamoto (Tokyo Fist, Tetsuo), Terry Gilliam's Brazil, Rod Serling, Philip K. Dick, the chaos theory, and the Jewish Kabbalah, Pi was a journey into the surreal confines of the mind's inner space, one that garnered Aronofsky the 1998 Sundance Festival's Directing Award for Dramatic Competition.A self-described "Brooklyn hip-hop kid," Aronofsky was born in the borough on February 12, 1969. His upbringing was marked by his Jewish heritage (although in an interview he once disparagingly referred to himself as a "classically hypocritical high holiday Jew"), painting graffiti art on subway cars, and filmgoing in Times Square. An alumnus of the New York public school system, he attended Harvard, where he studied live action and animation and met future collaborator and Pi star Sean Gullette. He received international acclaim for his senior thesis film, Supermarket Sweep, which also starred Gullette, and went on to earn an MFA in Directing from the American Film Institute.After the critical success of Pi, which was made with ,000 borrowed from family and friends and what must have been half of New York City's abandoned computer equipment, Aronofsky embarked on his next major project. Titled Requiem for a Dream, it starred Jared Leto as a heroin addict intent on pawning his mother's beloved TV as part of a scheme that will allow him, his girlfriend (Jennifer Connelly), and his best friend (Marlon Wayans) to get rich. |
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