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"I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die."
"I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed."
"A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate"
"To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?"
"I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence."
"I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth."
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Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton
| Quotes By: Christopher Hampton |
| Writer: Christopher Hampton |
- Born: Jan 26, 1946 in Fayal, Azores
- Occupation: Writer, Director, Cinematographer
- Active: '80s-2000s
- Major Genres: Drama
- Career Highlights: Dangerous Liaisons, Carrington, The Wolf at the Door
- First Major Screen Credit: A Doll's House (1973)
Biography
One of Great Britain's most esteemed contemporary playwrights, Chris Hampton is best known in film for his Oscar-winning screenplays for Dangerous Liasons (1988), which he adapted from his own play, and his Academy Award nominated script for Atonement (2007), adapted from Ian McEwan's acclaimed novel. Hampton was born to British parents in the Azores. He was an 18-year-old student at Oxford when he had his first play produced. He earned his reputation for excellence while working as the resident dramatist at the Royal Court in London between 1968 and 1970. While there, he proved himself equally adept at adapting classic literature into plays as well as writing his own. His stage adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' Les Liaisons Dangereuses brought him international acclaim. The young playwright's first screenplay was an adaptation of Ibsen's A Doll's House (1973). Hampton would not write another screenplay until he co-wrote Geschicten aus dern Weiner Wald/Tales From the Vienna Wood with Maximillian Schell (1979). In 1986, Hampton tried his hand at directing with the made-for-TV movie Hotel du Lac. Back in theater, Hampton earned acclaim for the libretto for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation of Billy Wilder's classic film Sunset Boulevard (1950). ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide| Filmography: Christopher Hampton |
| Wikipedia: Christopher Hampton |
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| Born | Christopher James Hampton January 26, 1946 Fayal, Azores, Portugal |
| Spouse(s) | Laura d Holesch' (1971-) |
Christopher James Hampton CBE, FRSL (born January 26, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning British playwright, screen writer and film director. He is best known for his play based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and the film version Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and also more recently for writing the nominated screenplay for the film adaptation of Ian McEwan's Atonement.
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Personal life
Hampton was born in Faial, Azores, to British parents Dorothy Patience (née Herrington) and Bernard Patrick Hampton, a marine telecommunications engineer for Cable & Wireless.[1][2] His father's job which led the family to subsequently settle in Aden and Alexandria in Egypt and later Hong Kong and Zanzibar. The Suez Crisis in 1956 necessitated that the family flee under cover of darkness, leaving their possessions behind.
After a prep school at Reigate, Hampton went to the independent boarding school Lancing College at the age of 13, where he won house colours for boxing and distinguished himself as a sergeant in the CCF. Fellow dramatist David Hare was a school contemporary.
In 1964 he went to New College, Oxford, as Sacher Scholar, to study German and French and graduated with a starred First Class Degree in 1968.[3]
Career
Hampton became involved in the theatre while at Oxford University where OUDS performed his play When Did You Last See My Mother, about adolescent homosexuality, reflecting his own experiences at Lancing.[1] Hampton sent the work to the play agent Peggy Ramsay, who interested William Gaskill in it.[1] The play was performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London, and that production soon transferred to the Comedy Theatre, resulting in Hampton, in 1966, becoming the youngest writer to have a play performed in the West End in the modern era.[1] From 1968-70 he worked as the Resident Dramatist at the Royal Court Theatre, and also as the company's literary manager.[1]
Hampton won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1988 for the screen adaptation of his play Dangerous Liaisons. He was nominated again in 2007 for adapting Ian McEwan's novel Atonement.
Hampton forthcoming project is the translation into English of Michael Kunze & Sylvester Levay's Austrian musical Rebecca based on Daphne du Maurier's book which is scheduled to premiere in 2009 in Canada, and then move to Broadway in 2010.
Plays
- 1964 - When Did You Last See My Mother?
- 1967 - Total Eclipse
- 1969 - The Philanthropist
- 1974 - Savages
- 1975 - Treats
- 1984 - Tales From Hollywood
- 1991 - White Chameleon
- 2002 - The Talking Cure
Musicals (Book & Lyrics)
- 1993 - Sunset Boulevard with Don Black (Book & Lyrics), for Andrew Lloyd Webber
- 2001 & 2004 - Dracula, The Musical with Don Black (Book & Lyrics), for Frank Wildhorn
- 2010 - Rebecca (musical) (Book & Lyrics, translated from German)
Adaptations
- 1977 - Tales from the Vienna Woods, Ödön von Horváth
- 1982 - The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. from the novella by George Steiner
- 1983 - Tartuffe, Molière
- 1985 - Les Liaisons Dangereuses from the novel by Choderlos de Laclos for the Royal Shakespeare Company
- 1993 - Sunset Boulevard for Andrew Lloyd Webber
- 2001 & 2004 - Dracula, The Musical for Frank Wildhorn
- 2006 - Embers[3] from the novel by Sándor Márai
Filmography
- 1973 - A Doll's House (screenwriter) starring Claire Bloom
- 1979 - Tales from the Vienna Woods (screenwriter; directed by Maximilian Schell)
- 1981 - The History Man (screenwriter) for the BBC
- 1983 - Beyond the Limit (screenwriter)
- 1984 - The Honorary Consul (screenwriter) based on a novel by Graham Greene starring Michael Caine and Richard Gere
- 1986 - The Wolf at the Door (screenwriter)
- 1986 - Hotel du Lac (screenwriter/director, from the novel by Anita Brookner)
- 1986 - The Good Father (screenwriter) based on a novel by Peter Prince
- 1986 - Arriving Tuesday (producer)
- 1988 - Dangerous Liaisons (play author/screenwriter/ co-producer) directed by Stephen Frears and starring John Malkovich, Glenn Close, Michelle Pfeiffer and Uma Thurman.
- 1989 - Cookie (screenwriter)
- 1989 - Tales from Hollywood for BBC
- 1989 - The Ginger Tree for BBC
- 1995 - Carrington (screenwriter/director)
- 1995 - Total Eclipse (play author/ screenwriter/ actor: The Judge) directed by Agnieszka Holland, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and David Thewlis
- 1996 - Mary Reilly (screenwriter) based on the Valerie Martin novel about Dr. Jekyll's housemaid, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Julia Roberts and John Malkovich
- 1996 - The Secret Agent (1996 film) (screenwriter/ director) based on a Joseph Conrad novel, starring Gérard Depardieu, Bob Hoskins and Patricia Arquette
- 2002 - The Quiet American (screenwriter)
- 2003 - Imagining Argentina (screenwriter/ director)
- 2007 - Atonement (screenwriter)
- 2008 - Tokyo Rose (screenwriter) in development Frank Darabont to direct.
- 2009 - Cheri (screenwriter)
- 2009 - Sunset Boulevard (original material)
Translations
- The Seagull
- Uncle Vanya
- Hedda Gabler
- Don Juan by Molière
- 1973 - A Doll's House
- 1996 - Art by Yasmina Reza
- 1998 - Enemy of the People"
- 2000 - Conversations After a Burial by Yasmina Reza
- 2008 - God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza
- 2010 - Rebecca (musical) by Michael Kunze
Librettos
- 2005 - Waiting for the Barbarians, music by Philip Glass
- 2007 - Appomattox, music by Philip Glass
References
- ^ a b c d e John O'Mahony "Worlds of his own", The Guardian, 21 April 2001. Retrieved on 9 August 2008.
- ^ Christopher Hampton Biography (1946-)
- ^ a b Michael Coveney Hampton "A talent to adapt", The Guardian, 4 March 2006. Retrieved on 9 August 2008.
Bibliography
- Massimo Verzella, “Embers di Christopher Hampton e la traduzione della malinconia”, Paragrafo, II (2006), pp. 69-82
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