5 debut operas that catapulted the careers of their directors

It is always said that beginnings are hard, especially in a sector as changing as the film industry. Film directing carries responsibility for a final product, which in many cases due to lack of experience has obvious flaws that cause frustration, sad dropouts or a career that never ends up taking off. A good first feature is already difficult and what is really difficult is that it is excellent. A good interpretation, for example, saves individual work but the realization only rewards the final result. On the contrary, there are cases in which young (and not so young) directors stomp in the sector with their first project. This year we have seen it in the Oscar nominations with Florian Zeller and The Father or through Emerald Fennell and A Promising Young Woman. Without being something totally paradigmatic, there have been the first proposals in the history of cinema that marked the beginning of a dazzling filmography. “12 men without mercy” It is not only a great premiere, but it is also one of the best films in the history of the movie theater. Its director, Sidney Lumet made his debut on celluloid after an intense stage directing chapters of different television series. The film chronicles a jury’s decision on a seemingly easy murder case. The characters evolve through their relationship with the case, their idiosyncrasies and the desire they have to finish with this judicial process to go home. Luckily, one of them played by Henry Fonda will cast doubt on each of the arguments of the other members of the jury. “Citizen Kane” The movie of the cinephile lists.Orson Welles’s debut feature is at the top of any list of the best films in the history of cinema. The story of Charles Foster Kane would only be the first stone of a meteoric career. At just 27 years old, Welles directed a play that changed the foundations of cinema. The typical idol with whom it is not good to compare oneself, when one resorts to age as an excuse for not having succeeded yet. “Amores perros” Iñarritu and his Mexican Pulp Fiction. Amores Perros is not that well regarded worldwide, but together with Ciudad de Dios it is possibly the best Latin American film in history. From here, Iñarritu’s idyll with the Oscars was rarely broken. Clear examples of this are 21 grams, Birdman or The Revenant. “Reservoir Dogs” The beginning of the director par excellence of current pop culture. Before the arrival of his masterpiece Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino already stood out in Hollywood thanks to this film that Harvey Keitel financed, luckily for everyone. a consecrated actor and then occupying the great chair is even more so. Ben Affleck surprised everyone with this story about the disappearance of a girl that starts from a novel by the writer of Mystic River, Dennis Lehane. The industry began to take Affleck seriously from here (and he already had an Oscar for the script of The Indomitable Will Hunting). Several projects later came Argo and the Oscar for best film.