Movie Director Nora Ephron

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D.O.B: 19th May 1941 
Death: 26th June 2012 
From: New York City 
Spouses: Dan Greenburg (Divorced), Carl Bernstein (Divorced) and Nicholas Pileggi (until she died)
Children: Jacob Bernstein and Max Bernstein 
Best Known for: When Harry met Sally, This is My life, You've Got Mail and Julie & Julia


Awards:
Won a BAFTA for best original screen play When Harry Met Sally (1990)
Won Golden Apple Award in 2009 
Won Icon Award in 2009 
Won Muse Award in 1992
Won Best Movie by a Woman for Julie & Julia (2009) 
Won Crystal Award in 1994
Won Ian McLellan Hunter Award in 2003

My favourite movies of her: (what can I say I'm a sucker for romance movies)

1. When Harry Met Sally (she wrote it - but still a great cheesy movie)


6.5 IMDB
Tom Hanks as Joe Fox
Meg Ryan as Kathleen Kelly
Synopsis of movie: 
Two strangers connect and fall in love over the internet without ever meeting but what they don't know is that they already have met in real life and they hate each other.



6.8 IMDB
Tom Hanks as Sam Baldwin
Meg Ryan as Annie Reed
Ross Malinger as Jonah Baldwin
Synopsis of movie: 
A young boy calls a radio talk show hoping to find a woman for his man. In the end hundreds of women en up falling in love with Sam (Tom Hanks) and want to meet him. Annie (Meg Ryan) is one of the women who send Sam a letter which then makes them meet and fall in love. 




7.0 IMDB 
Meryl Streep as Julia Child 
Amy Adams as Julie Powell 
Stanley Tucci as Paul Child 
Chris Messina as Eric Powell 
Synopsis of movie: 
It is based on a true story. It is about the beginning of Julia Childs cooking career and Julie Powell sets herself a challenge to cook all of Childs recipes from her first book in one year.



                              

  • To become a writer you have to distance yourself from everything 
  • look at everything around you 
  • there is no sad or bad story - everything you experience can be created into a great story 
  • doesn't matter if you are a great screenwriter; you never truly know about the business
  •  until your screenplay is being filmed 
  • doens't matter how good the script is; if the actors are bad then the movie is bad
How has Ephrons directing inspired me?

I love the way in which she directs. In most of her movies we see the both sides of the story (the females and the males) which is something different. 

I like the warm colours that most of her movies have; the brown colour shows the romance and the drama between the characters. My scene is dramatic (instead of romantic) but I still want to use warm/dark colours. So their faces have a warm colour but the rest is more dark.  

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