Danny Boyle is a director of many talents. His movie genres range from drama, Sci-fi and horror to many more. While his themes and influences differ from movie to movie his artistic style or his visual tropes as Philip Kemp puts it are a frenetic camera, skewed framing and overheated colours. Boyle’s debut into the Sci-fi genre came in 2007 as Sunshine. In a race to jumpstart a weakening sun with a bomb the size of Manhattan Island, Sunshine’s themes are about the alienation of Mankind and human morality as an individual. The main influences behind Sunshine were 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien and Tarkovsky’s Solaris.” There are three huge, titanic, space movies which if you ever make a film like this you cannot avoid.” Boyle. In 1996 Boyle added to his Crime genre with Trainspotting, a life vs. lifestyle motif. Renton, the primary actor, slowly comes to realize that best points of his drug addicted lifestyle don’t equal the lowest points of the average citizenry around him. Several pop culture artists indirectly had an influence in Trainspotting. Pulp Fiction had an overall influence in the film, several scenes throughout had obvious relations to various artists and movies. While James Bond can be seen in certain areas of the movie, The Beatles are predominant, depicted with the four friends and also as they cross the road looking just like the shot of The Beatles as they cross Abby Road.

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“Danny Boyle.” Film. Peter Sciretta. 20 July 2007. Web. 17 April 2010. http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/07/20/interview-sunshine-director-danny-boyle/