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Stuart Gordon
Life Time
11 August 1947 - 24 March 2020
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Stuart Gordon was born in Chicago on August 11, 1947. While in high school, he spent six months working as a commercial illustrating labels for Coca-Cola bottles. After graduating from high school, he entered the University of Madison of Wisconsin. Finishing his last year of university, he became famous for his scandalous production of the fairy tale “Peter Pan”. The interpretation of the play was more than defiant: he made Peter Pan a real hippie in the play, Tinker Bell a homosexual, and the trip
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Stuart Gordon was born in Chicago on August 11, 1947. While in high school, he spent six months working as a commercial illustrating labels for Coca-Cola bottles. After graduating from high school, he entered the University of Madison of Wisconsin.
Finishing his last year of university, he became famous for his scandalous production of the fairy tale “Peter Pan”. The interpretation of the play was more than defiant: he made Peter Pan a real hippie in the play, Tinker Bell a homosexual, and the trip to Neverland itself was only a hallucination from the drug LSD. The experiment ended badly - Stewart was arrested and expelled from the university.
After such a fiasco, Stewart returned to his hometown and organized the Organic Theatre. There he continued to create his revolutionary creations, shocking the theatrical audience to faint with the performances “The Handkerchief!”, “Doctor Weirdness”, “Bloody Bess”.
In 1985, Gordon in twenty days shot his debut film “Reanimator”, based on the story of Lovecraft. Then he creates two horror films “Outside” and “Dolls”.
In 1989, Stewart, apparently, wanted to move away from horror and shocking, and he directed a quite nice kind comedy “Honey, I shrunk the children.”
In the 90s, the audience watched the post-apocalyptic film “Robot Jox”, the adaptation of Edgar Poe “The Well and the Pendulum”, the picture “Bastion” and two horror films “Dentist” and “Freak in the Castle”.
The last works of the director – “Dagon”, “King of the Ants”,
"Lucky Edmond" "The Ambush," "The Embodiment of Fear."