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Danny Boyle

In this revelatory career-length biography produced through many hours of interviews with Danny Boyle he talks frankly about the secrets behind the opening ceremony as well as the struggles joys and incredible perseverance needed to direct such well-loved films as Trainspotting" "Slumdog Millionaire" "28 Days Later" and "Shallow Grave". Throughout his career Danny Boyle has shown that he has an incredible knack of capturing the spirit of the times be they are the nineties drug scene the aspirations of noughties Indian slum-dwellers or the things that make British people proud of their nation today from the NHS to the internet. Starting out life in a Catholic working-class family in Lancashire in 1956 Boyle has proved himself a talented maverick who has fought to maintain his integrity
against the odds."
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In this revelatory career-length biography produced through many hours of interviews with Danny Boyle he talks frankly about the secrets behind the opening ceremony as well as the struggles joys & incredible perseverance needed to direct such well-loved films as Trainspotting" " Slumdog Millionaire" "28 Days Later" & " Shallow Grave". Throughout his career Danny Boyle has shown that he has an incredible knack of capturing the spirit of the times be they are the nineties drug scene the aspirations of noughties Indian slum-dwellers or the things that make British people proud of their nation today from the NHS to the internet. Starting out life in a Catholic working-class family in Lancashire in 1956 Boyle has proved himself a talented maverick who has fought to maintain his integrity against the odds."

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