Arts challange Research: Lawrence Bender

Now for my arts challenge plan of action I decided to research four producers that I am a big fan of their work, so here you have have it... my first of three is Lawrence bender. It is no secret that I am a big fan of Quentin Tarantino and Lawrence bender is the producer of many of some of my favourite films! if you want to know more about his work, I researched it on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004744/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr2 and I love all of his work especially Pulp Fiction which is probably my favorite film, I wanted to know more about him as a person and not just his work though, so I watched some interviews... My personal favourite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-jzwYVH0po I get this feeling he is really calm and controlled, he knows exactly what is going on and I think that is what producers need! most that he is calm, if he is a leader and people are looking to him he has to be in control!

Researching him was definitely useful for me.
I spent about 10 minutes reading about him, I found out he used to love ballet before an actor/producer. I then watched Reservoir dogs for 99 minutes and discovered Laurence bender actually plays the young cop in that film. I lover to learn that he has had a lot of small acting roles as well as being a producer. It showed me how people can multi role when it comes to film making. Reservoir dogs is so impressive as it was made from about a million pound budget and this was only possible because of a film called 'True Romance' which Quentin tarantino apparently wrote the script for, so even though Laurence Bender was not technically a part of True romance, I thought I would give it a watch anyway. You could say I got side tracked, but i suppose in a way it indirectly links back Laurence and anyway... it was a fantastic film and only took up another 120 minutes of my time.


I also watched the special features disk on Pulp Fiction, which i have never done before, it was interesting to see what was possible with 1 million and how the film is actually made. I realised while watching at and reading about Laurence and Quinten, that they must be really close, like really good friends. A director and a producer have to be so close, the director has to communicate his ideas to the producer so they have a shared vision and so the producer knows what he has got to say to potential funders in order to recive a decent budget.