![]() ![]() When they kidnap the beloved Shih Tzu of mafioso Charlie Costello (Woody Harrelson), they’re forced to go on the lam, taking Marty with them. Billy’s involved in a dog kidnapping racket with an old quaker, Hans Kieslowski (Christopher Walken). Marty (Colin Farrell), an alcoholic Irish writer residing in LA, decides his next screenplay will be called ‘Seven Psychopaths.’ His wild, loyal friend, Billy Bickle (Sam Rockwell) is eager to help him write it. In essence, his work helps us see the good in everyone. Audiences flock to experience them in the cinema, in the knowledge they’re guaranteed laughs, heart, realistic characters, gunfights, the best of Irish humour, white rabbits and a message. A McDonagh movie is never without its chasm of wisdom.Īkin to Tarantino, he’s one of few auteurs whose movies are a festival unto themselves. In similarity with Bob Dylan, he holds the ability to embroider important messages into enthralling genre pieces. His concerns stretch from guilt to racism to loneliness. This expression functions to encourage a discussion and resolution of these issues in society at-large. Fundamentally, he communicates the raw pain of the human experience. His writing addresses deep, relatable issues, at the same time as entertaining audiences with laugh-out-loud dialogue. In spite of their perfunctory cinematography, each of McDonagh’s movies are tragi-comic masterpieces in their own right. Dramatists Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter have also left an impression on him. He names Sam Peckinpah, Akira Kurosawa and Sergio Leone as among his favourite directors. Since then, he’s gone on to write and direct four acclaimed features. Despite it being his first cinematic effort, the short garnered him an Academy Award. In 2004, he achieved this ambition with Six Shooter. Though McDonagh persists as one of Ireland and Britain’s greatest living playwrights, he confesses he holds a “respect for the whole history of films and a slight disrespect for theatre.” His plays feel cinematic and he always desired to break into the film industry. His blood-spattered dramas, such as The Beauty Queen of Leenane, are chiefly set on or off the west coast of Ireland (his parents’ birthplace). ![]() London Irishman Martin McDonagh began his career in the mid-‘90s as a playwright – an enfant terrible of the inflammatory ‘In-yer-face theatre’ movement. “All my work shares a balance between black comedy and sad, despairing melancholy.” ![]()
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