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In 2003, he directed his first English-language film, the thriller &#8220;Inside Job,&#8221; which turned out to be such a disaster that it nearly ended his career.<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-content\" class=\"article-content\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"in-app-read-wrapper js-in-app-read\" data-ios-store-url=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/app\/id351184863\" data-android-store-url=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.allocine.androidapp\">\n            <span class=\"txt\">Read in the App<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n<p class=\"bo-p\">Themes of violence and masculinity, often portrayed as a self-destructive impulse; the loneliness of taciturn heroes; obsession; inevitable fate; and a criminal underworld depicted as almost mythological. Over his 30-year career, Nicolas Winding Refn&#8217;s filmmaking has evolved from raw realism to a highly stylized form characterized by neon lights, silences, slow-motion, and electronic music, where each frame is a graphic composition. Influenced by Kenneth Anger, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and genre cinema, Refn&#8217;s aesthetic has made him as much a figure of admiration as controversy.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"bo-h2\">&#8220;Pusher,&#8221; An Explosive Beginning<\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"bo-p\">His debut film, &#8220;Pusher,&#8221; made a strong impact. Shot in Copenhagen on a shoestring budget with handheld cameras, it chronicles a week in the life of a small-time drug dealer caught in a debt spiral. It also introduced Mads Mikkelsen in his first cinematic role, setting the stage for a stellar career.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"bo-p\">Three years later, he released &#8220;Bleeder,&#8221; a portrayal of a video store clerk obsessed with movies and surrounded by violence. In 2003, he ventured into English-language films with &#8220;Inside Job,&#8221; a thriller starring John Turturro. The film was a commercial disaster, putting his production company in dire straits and forcing him to make &#8220;Pusher II&#8221; and &#8220;Pusher 3&#8221; consecutively to settle his debts. Yet, he managed to create two darker and more ambitious sequels.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"bo-h2\">&#8220;It was a very difficult, very self-destructive period in my life&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"bo-p\">Years later, even after his acclaimed &#8220;Bronson&#8221; had introduced the phenomenal Tom Hardy to a broader audience, the wounds from the failure of his first English-language film remained fresh. Refn opened up about this period in a 2010 interview with <span class=\"bo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Screenarchy<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"bo-p\"><i>&#8220;It was a very tough, very self-destructive, dark, and nihilistic period in my life. It was a film I had been trying to make for a long time, and by the time I got the five weeks I needed to shoot it, I was just fed up. I wasn&#8217;t happy with some of the casting choices I had been forced to make. I think it&#8217;s a flawed film, but maybe it&#8217;s those flaws that make it interesting in retrospect.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"bo-p\"><i>This film was a crucial turning point in my career. I went bankrupt after making it and had a lot of debts, so it was definitely a pivotal moment because I went back to make the Pusher trilogy and became a better filmmaker. And I made Bronson.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"bo-h2\">&#8220;It was a bad film, too expensive, that lost a lot of money&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"bo-p\">In 2013, speaking to <span class=\"bo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ThePlaylist<\/span> at the Marrakech International Film Festival, Refn elaborated further on his earlier comments. He explained that the failure of the film taught him a valuable lesson about the nature of budgets in the film industry.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"bo-p\"><i>&#8220;It taught me not to forget the value of my own film, its market value. That film was not&#8230; I lost everything, and it was a very valuable lesson because we live in a world where money is essential, but thanks to the digital revolution, accessibility has completely changed: you can now do things very cheaply, you can shoot a film with an iPhone.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"bo-p\"><i>But if you want to work on a specific project, you still need funding: you can have all the creativity you want, but if you make a film that costs $100 million, you need to make a certain type of film that must bring in $400 million. That means you can&#8217;t compromise on your artistic approach, but it&#8217;s commonly understood that such films need to have a broader appeal; there&#8217;s a form of self-censorship, because it&#8217;s now considered an investment.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"bo-p\"><i>However, if you make a film that costs $2.5 million, the stakes aren&#8217;t as high, so you&#8217;re not subject to the same creative constraints. I prefer the creative process and the freedom it offers, but it means I have to make films that aren&#8217;t too expensive.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"bo-p\"><i>The more you invest, the greater the responsibility to make it profitable. The ABCs of cinema are A: make great films and make lots of money, which we all aspire to. B: make a great film that doesn&#8217;t lose money\u2014you can have a whole career like that&#8230; Or you make a terrible film that makes a lot of money, but without the thrill of creativity. 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