Georges Méliès

导演, 演员, 制片人, 编剧, 剪辑师

1861年12月8日 — 1938年1月21日 (76 years)
Georges Méliès (December 8, 1861 - January 21, 1938), full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. One of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, tracking shots, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his work, Méliès pioneered effects that would define cinematic special effects for decades to come.  A prolific innovator in the use of special effects, Méliès accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896, a method of creating seamless disappearing and/or appearing effects used throughout both films and television for decades to come.  Because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality through cinematography, Méliès is sometimes referred to as the first "Cinemagician".

Two of his best-known films are A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904). Both stories involve strange, surreal voyages, somewhat in the style of Jules Verne, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films, though their approach is closer to fantasy. Méliès was also an early pioneer of horror cinema, which can be traced back to his Le Manoir du diable (1896).

In early 1909 Méliès stopped making films to protest Thomas Edison's Motion Pictures Parents Company monopoly, and presided over the first meeting of the International Filmmakers Congress in Paris.  Further financial hardships created by his opposition to Edison and diminishing influence, Méliès disappeared from public life. By the mid-1920s he made a meager living as a candy and toy salesma in Paris, with the assistance of funds collected by other filmmakers.  Although he was recognized for his contributions in cinema, Méliès spent most of his later years in poverty before being accepted into La Maison du Retraite du Cinéma, the film industry's retirement home in Orly.

知名作品

  • 月球旅行记
    月球旅行记1902
  • 天文学家之梦
    天文学家之梦1898
  • The House of the Devil
    The House of the Devil1896
  • Four Heads Are Better Than One
    Four Heads Are Better Than One1898
  • An Impossible Voyage
    An Impossible Voyage1904
  • The India Rubber Head
    The India Rubber Head1901
  • The Infernal Cauldron
    The Infernal Cauldron1903
  • The One-Man Band
    The One-Man Band1900
  • The Black Imp
    The Black Imp1905
  • A Nightmare
    A Nightmare1896
  • The Conjuring of a Woman at the House of Robert Houdin
    The Conjuring of a Woman at the House of Robert Houdin1896
  • 恶魔房客
    恶魔房客1909
  • The Kingdom of the Fairies
    The Kingdom of the Fairies1903
  • 蓝胡子
    蓝胡子1901
  • 管弦乐队队员
    管弦乐队队员1903
  • 灰姑娘
    灰姑娘1899
  • A Terrible Night
    A Terrible Night1896
  • 圣女贞德
    圣女贞德1900
  • 生活地图
    生活地图1905
  • The Devil's Castle
    The Devil's Castle1897

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