Neil Jordan
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Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish film director, screenwriter, novelist and short-story writer.
His first book, Night in Tunisia, won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979.
He won an Academy Award (Best Original Screenplay) for The Crying Game (1992).
He has also won three Irish Film and Television Awards, as well as the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival for The Butcher Boy (1997).Jordan also created The Borgias (2011 TV series) for Showtime.
Early life
Jordan was born in Sligo, the son of Angela (née O'Brien), a painter, and Michael Jordan, a professor. He was educated at St. Paul's College, Raheny. Later, Jordan attended University College Dublin, where he studied Irish history and English literature. He graduated in 1972 with a BA in History. He became involved in student theatre there, where he met Jim Sheridan, who also was later to become an important Irish film director. Of his religious background, Jordan said in a 1999 Salon interview: "I was brought up a Catholic and was quite religious at one stage in my life, when I was young. But it left me with no scars whatever; it just sort of vanished." He said about his current beliefs that "God is the greatest imaginary being of all time. Along with Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, the invention of God is probably the greatest creation of human thought."
Personal life
Jordan has five children: Anna and Sarah from his marriage to solicitor Vivienne Shields; Dashiel and Daniel from his current marriage to Brenda Rawn, and Ben, from a relationship with architect Mary Donohoe.
Jordan lives in Dalkey, Dublin.
In 1996, Neil Jordan was honoured with receiving the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
He has received many honorary doctorates, most notably from Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, and Queen's University Belfast.
In 2009, he signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after he was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl.
In 2018, he has donated his archives to the National Library of Ireland. Jordan's donation included TV and film scripts, production files, notebooks, storyboards and personal correspondence with artists and political figures.
Career
Neil Jordan began his work with the Irish television network, RTÉ. Wanderly Wagon, a children's fantasy book, was included in his storyline.
Jordan was hired as a "creative associate" in 1981, when John Boorman was filming Excalibur in Ireland. A year later, Boorman was executive producer on Jordan's first feature Angel, a story of a musician caught up in the Troubles played by Stephen Rea, who has appeared in almost half of Jordan's films to date. He produced films in England throughout the 1980s that earned him fame, including The Company of Wolves and Mona Lisa, both made in England. The Company of Wolves, a dark and sexually based on short stories by Angela Carter, became a cult favorite.
Jordan has a narcotic body of work, ranging from mainstream hits like Interview with the Vampire to commercial flops like We're No Angels to a variety of more personal, low-budget arthouse photos. He was also the driving force behind the cable TV series The Borgias.
Unconventional sexual relationships are a recurring theme in Jordan's work, and he often finds a sympathetic side to characters that audiences would traditionally regard as deviant or downright revolting. For example, his film The Miracle followed two characters who were trying to escape a strong, incestuous attraction. The Vampire's interview, as well as the Anne Rice book it was based on, was based on an intensely personal relationship between two undead men who murder humans nightly (although they never have sex, they are obviously lovers of a kind), as well as another less complicated vampire woman who is eternally trapped in the body of a small child. Despite being depicted in an appealing yet villainous manner, Lestat (Tom Cruise) and his companion Louis (Brad Pitt) and child vampire Claudia (Kirsten Dunst) are meant to capture the audience's sympathy despite their predatory nature. Two people (Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore) act in a love affair that comes to an end as it begins, with both not wanting it to end.
In addition to Jordan's films' unique sexuality, he often refers to Northern Ireland's Troubles. Both the Crying Game and Breakfast on Pluto worry about a transgender person (played by Jaye Davidson and Cillian Murphy, respectively), and both worry about The Troubles, which also include frequent Jordan leading man Stephen Rea. Both films, on the other hand, are very different, with Crying Game being a realistic thriller/romance and Breakfast on Pluto being a much more episodic, stylized, grimly comic biography. In addition, Jordan will tell tales about children or young people, such as The Miracle and The Butcher Boy. Although his photographs are most grounded in reality, he does occasionally direct more advanced or dreamlike films, such as The Company of Wolves, High Spirits, Interview with the Vampire, and In Dreams.
Jordan's early pictures brought him to Hollywood, where he produced High Spirits and We're No Angels; both were critical and financial disasters. He later returned home to make the more personal The Crying Game, which had been nominated for six Academy Awards. Best Original Screenplay for the film was chosen by the Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay. Its unexpected popularity brought him right back to American studio filmmaking, where he produced Interview with the Vampire. Jodie Foster played Jodie Foster in the crime drama The Brave One.
During Neil Gaiman's appearance on Today Show that January 27, 2009, Neil Jordan will be filming his Newbery Medal-winning book The Graveyard Book. Jordan wrote and directed Ondine, the 2009 Irish-made film starring Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda-Curuuu. He also produced Byzantium, an adaptation of the vampire film starring Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, and Jonny Lee Miller.
In 2011, Jordan's next film, Broken Dreams, would have stars Ben Kingsley and John Hurt.
Greta (2018), starring Isabelle Huppert and Chloe Moretz, was his film director.
Riviera Neil Jordan's scripts were disapproved by others, owing to his scripts being reworked by others. He said he had no idea who rewrote these episodes. "They were changed, to my great surprise and profound surprise. Several sexual scenes were introduced into the story as well as a lot of expository dialogue. In the best terms possible, I protested in the best way possible."