Paul Verhoeven

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Paul Verhoeven (Dutch) is a Dutch director and screenwriter who has worked in the Netherlands, France, and the United States. [p>uvr vs. (n)] born 18 July 1938] is a Dutch filmmaker and screenwriter who has worked in the Netherlands, France, and the United States. Both his drama and science fiction films feature graphic violence and sexual content as a feature of his satire and comedy.

Verhoeven, a film director who appeared in his native Netherlands, received acclaim for his television series Floris, but starring frequent collaborator Rutger Hauer, this film was his breakthrough (1973). The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, and later received the award for Best Dutch Film of the Century at the Netherlands Film Festival. Verhoeven produced several hit Dutch films, including the period drama Keetje Tippel (1975), the war film Soldier of Orange (1977), and the psychological thriller The Fourth Man (1983).

Verhoeven directed science fiction films like RoboCop (1990), Starship Troopers (1997), and Hollow Man (1992), as well as the erotic thriller Basic Instinct (1992).

He returned to Europe later in 2006, making the Dutch war film Black Book (2006), French psychological thriller Elle (2016), and the French religious drama Benedetta (2021), all receiving high praise. Both Black Book and Elle were nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, and Elle was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film and César Award for Best Film. In 2008, the Dutch people voted Black Book as the best Dutch film ever made. In comparison, he received the Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Picture and Worst Director for Showgirls (1995); he is one of the few people to have accepted their Golden Raspberry awards in person, and he was the first individual to attend the ceremony. At its first theatrical debut, Showgirls was a flop in the home video market, but the group later became a cult classic. There are nine Academy Award nominations for Verhoeven's films in total, mainly for editing and effects.

Early life

Paul Verhoeven was born in Amsterdam on July 18, 1938, the son of a schoolteacher, Wim Verhoeven, and a hat maker, Nel van Schaardenburg. His family lived in the village of Slikkerveer for a while.

In 1943, the family moved to The Hague, the German headquarters in the Netherlands during World War II. The Verhoeven house was located near a German military base with V1- and V2-rocket launchers, and Allied forces had bombed it repeatedly. When bombs fell on a street crossing, their neighbors were struck and Verhoeven's parents were almost killed. Verhoeven recalled images of violence, exploding houses, dead bodies on the street, and continuing danger in this period. He saw the war as an exciting adventure as a small child and has compared himself to Bill Rowan of Hope and Glory (1987).

The father of Verhoeven became the head teacher at the Van Heutszschool in The Hague, and Paul attended this school. With the school's film projector, the two students watched informative films at home. After the freedom of cinemas, Verhoeven and his father enjoyed American films, including The Crimson Pirate (1952).

Verhoeven and his father attended The War of the Worlds (1953). Verhoeven was a fan of Dutch comedian Dick Bos. Dick Bos is a private detective who fights crime with jujutsu. Verhoeven loved comic drawing; he created The Killer, a character in a lengthy tale of revenge. Frankenstein and the Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom series were two other works of fiction he adored.

Verhoeven attended Haganum, a public secondary school in The Hague. He began studying at Leiden University in 1955 and went back to Leiden University later in life. He earned his doctorate (MSc) in Mathematics and Physics, with a double major.

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Career

For the 60th anniversary of his students' bodies, Verhoeven made his first film Één hagedeaul ("One Lizard Too Many" (One Lizard Too Many). Verhoeven took classes at the Netherlands Film Academy in his last years at university. He made three other short films after this: Nothing Special (1961), The Hitchhikers (1962), and Let's Have a Dance (1963).

Verhoeven hasn't used his mathematics and physics degrees in a career in film, preferring instead to invest his energies in a film career. He joined the Royal Dutch Navy as a conscript after his studies. He made the documentary Het Korps Mariniers ("The Marine Corps"), which received the French 'Golden Sun' award for military films.

Verhoeven married Martine Tours in 1967, with whom he has two children, Claudia (b. ). Helen (b. 1972), and Helen (b. (c) 1974.

Verhoeven, a Navy veteran, moved to Dutch television when he retired. He made a film about Anton Mussert named Mussert (1968). Rutger Hauer was starring Rutger Hauer in the title role in 1969 television series Floris, his first major success. The idea of Floris was inspired by foreign films such as Ivanhoe and Thierry La Fronde.

Business Is Business, Verhoeven's first feature film was released in 1971, but it was not well received. He was his first national success with Turkish Delight, starring Rutger Hauer and Monique van de Ven, which was starring Rutger Hauer and Monique van de Ven. This film, based on a bestseller Dutch author Jan Wolkers' book, tells the compelling love story of an artist and a young liberal girl from a conservative background. In 1974, the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1999, the film received a Golden Calf for Best Dutch Film of the Century. Hauer and van de Ven appeared in Katie Tippel's 1975 film, but it did not have the same success as Turkish Delight's.

Verhoeven based his name and achieved international success with his Golden Globe-nominated film Soldier of Orange, starring Rutger Hauer and Jeroen Krabbé. Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema wrote the film, which was based on a true story about the Dutch resistance in World War II. For the best foreign-language film ever made, the Soldier of Orange received the 1979 Los Angeles Film Critics Award. In 1980, it was also selected for a Golden Globe.

Verhoeven made the film Spetters with Renée Soutendijk and Rutger Hauer in 1980. The movie is often compared to Saturday Night Fever, but in this case, explicit violence and homosexuality are present in the film, as well as homosexuality, which are often seen as the director's trademarks. The Fourth Man (1983) by Verhoeven is a horror film starring Jeroen Krabbé and Renée Soutendijk. It was written by Gerard Soeteman from a book by Dutch writer Gerard Reve, and Verhoeven's last Dutch film production before the 2006 film Black Book was published.

Verhoeven was praised by the Seattle Times when he said he "apparently appears to be a one-man Dutch movie business." Verhoeven, "a hussy bee whose films poll the festival circuit," according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Gerard Soeteman wrote the script for Verhoeven's first English-language film, Flesh and Blood (1985), starring Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Verhoeven migrated to Hollywood to explore a number of filmmaking opportunities. He made a significant change in style by directing big-budget, violent, special effects-heavy hits RoboCop and Total Recall, the latter of which received an Academy Special Achievement Award: RoboCop for Sound Effects Editing, and Total Recall for Visual Effects.

Verhoeven matched those triumphs with the equally ferocious and invigitive Basic Instinct (1992), an erotic thriller. The film, which was the ninth highest grossing film of the year, was a return to Verhoeven's interests in Turkish Delight and The Fourth Man. Sharon Stone's character appears in a police interrogation, where she uncrosses her legs briefly revealing her vulva (she does not wear underwear underneath her skirt). For Film Editing and Original Music, the film received two Academy Award nominations.

Verhoeven worked on a historical epic based on the Crusades that would have starred Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film first appeared in 1993, but the studio behind the film (Carolco) has since withdrew funds for the project a year later. Verhoeven will continue to talk about the film from the 1990s.

Verhoeven's next film was the poorly received, NC-17-rated Showgirls (1995), about a stripper in Las Vegas who is attempting to make a living as a showgirl. Verhoeven became the first director to accept his award in person after seven Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Film and Worst Director. The film's sequel was a hit on the home video industry, grossing more than $100 million from video rentals and becoming one of MGM's top 20 all-time bestsellers.

Making Starship Troopers (1997), loosely based on Robert A. Heinlein's book Basic Instinct and Showgirls Verhoeven's earlier films, Verhoeven returned to the science fiction genre, emphasizing the graphic violence and special effects tropes that had defined his earlier films. Each film received an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

Verhoeven returned to the Netherlands for the shooting of a new film after nearly 20 years of being in the United States. Verhoeven created Black Book (2006), together with his screenwriter Gerard Soeteman. The director's return of a hero was lauded by the host of the Netherlands Film Festival with the phrase "the return of a hero." At this festival, Black Book received six Golden Calves, including Best Director. There was a lot of anticipation about a new book when it was postponed due to financial constraints. The Beast of Bataan had been announced, but when the Black Book shooting was announced, the other film was not realized.

In 2007, Verhoeven was knighted in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.

Verhoeven has been involved with a number of ventures since Black Book, but no proposals have been realized in the first decade after his return. Other writers, including The Paperboy, were involved in some of those titles, including The Paperboy. Verhoeven, however, went beyond Black Book by directing Elle, a French film based on Philippe Djian's book. Elle was selected for the Official Competition at the Cannes International Film Festival, where it received rave reviews.

Verhoeven was announced in December 2016 that it would be the president of the jury for the 67th Berlin International Film Festival, which is set to take place in February 2017.

Benedetta, his upcoming French film, was set to begin filming in August of the same year. It's a biographical film about Benedetta Carlini, portrayed by Elle co-star Virginie Efira, and it's an extension of Judith C. Brown's non-fiction book Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy. Charlotte Rampling was confirmed to play a key supporting role in May 2018. In competition for the Palme d'Or, the film premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

Verhoeven is currently shooting his next film, which reunites him with RoboCop screenwriter Edward Neumeier. Young Sinner, a violent political thriller set in Washington, D.C., is about a "new recruiter" who works for a powerful senator [and] is pulled into a web of international intrigue and danger."

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