He came from the Mende tribe as did Margai and conflicts existed between northern tribes, the Krios and the Mendes.

Ball was also keen ; having seen Cabaret, he was impressed with Mendes ' " keen visual sense " and thought he did not make obvious choices.

Mendes did use a hand-held camera for the scene in which Col. Fitts beats Ricky.

The scene took four takes ; two by the second unit did not satisfy Mendes, so he shot the scene himself.

He trialled several versions of the opening ; the first edit included bookend scenes in which Jane and Ricky are convicted of Lester's murder, but Mendes excised these in the last week of editing because he felt they made the film lose its mystery, and because they did not fit with the theme of redemption that had emerged during production.

Instead, Mendes asked Fred Elmes, who turned the job down because he did not like the script.

When Mendes returned, he explained that the characters did not care if they were seen.

" DreamWorks did not want to test screen the film ; according to Mendes, the studio was pleased with it, but he insisted on one where he could question the audience afterward.

Jackson said Mendes ' theatrical roots rarely showed, and that the " most remarkable " aspect was that Spacey's performance did not overshadow the film.

Peter did not provide for his youngest son and namesake, Peter ( 1275 – 25 August 1296 ), who married Constanca Mendes de Silva, daughter of Soeiro Mendes Petite, governor of Santarém in Portugal.

From this negligence it happened that in Cândido Mendes de Almeida's Atlas of the Empire of Brazil ( 1868 ), a model of its time, the Acre River and its principal tributaries did not appear, being completely unknown to geographers.

It has been twinned with Vila do Bispo, Portugal since 1 October 1993 in recognition of the fact that it was Fernão Mendes Pinto a Portuguese who claimed to be the first European to set foot on Japan and did so on Tanegashima in 1543.

Though originally planned to be directed by Sam Mendes, this did not come to fruition and Andrei Belgrader was instead hired.

He came from the Mende tribe as did Margai and conflicts existed between northern tribes, the Krios and the Mendes.

After the success of the revolution he did not assume power at first, entrusting the posts of President of the Republic and President of the Council of Ministers ( Prime Minister ) to José Mendes Cabeçadas, the leader of the revolution in Lisbon.

* Warwick's " I Say a Little Prayer " did not appear on the Billboard Easy Listening chart although two instrumental versions of the song were Easy Listening chart items in 1968: the first by Sérgio Mendes at # 21 in the spring of 1968 while that fall Julius Wechter and the Baja Marimba Band took " I Say a Little Prayer " to # 10 Easy Listening.

Mendes said, " I wanted that not just because it was funny ... but because I didn't want it to seem rehearsed.

Conrad Hall was not the first choice for director of photography ; Mendes believed he was " too old and too experienced " to want the job, and he had been told that Hall was difficult to work with.

Mendes does not want to have children and has described marriage as " a very archaic kinda thing.

Before Eva Mendes got her big break, she sold ‘ Hot Dog on a Stick ’ at Glendale Galleria Mall in California.

Mendes is " big into Transcendental Meditation.

Skinner has worked with directors that include Mike Leigh, Trevor Nunn, Tim Burton and Sam Mendes, but she remembers one particular director, Alan Ayckbourn, when she started out: " He was a great influence for me as he pushed me so hard, but every director you work with has a big influence in some way, they really push you .”

In 2010, he was the executive producer and star of The Other Guys, a buddy cop film, which also has an ensemble cast which consists of Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Michael Keaton, Steve Coogan, Ray Stevenson, Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson.

In the 2005 feature film romantic comedy, Hitch, starring Will Smith, his and Eva Mendes ' characters take a jet ski to the island and explore the building.

Other contemporary British film directors include Paul W. S. Anderson, Andrea Arnold, Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Danny Boyle, Terence Davies, Mike Figgis, Terry Gilliam, Tom Hooper, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Sam Mendes, Alan Parker, Sally Potter, Lynne Ramsay, Guy Ritchie, Michael Winterbottom, Edgar Wright, Joe Wright and Matthew Vaughn.

American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball.

American Beauty marked acclaimed theater director Mendes ' film debut ; courted after his successful productions of the musicals Oliver!

During editing, Mendes made several changes that gave the film a less cynical tone.

Mendes called American Beauty a rites of passage film about imprisonment and escape from imprisonment.

Mendes said that Ricky's staring into Lester's dead eyes is " the culmination of the theme " of the film: that beauty is found where it is least expected.

Beth Swofford of the Creative Artists Agency arranged meetings for Mendes with studio figures in Los Angeles to see if film direction was a possibility.

Mendes came across American Beauty in a pile of eight scripts at Swofford's house, and knew immediately that it was the one he wanted to make ; early in his career, he had been inspired by how the film Paris, Texas ( 1984 ) presented contemporary America as a mythic landscape and he saw the same theme in American Beauty, as well as parallels with his own childhood.

In June 1998, DreamWorks confirmed that it had contracted Mendes to direct the film.

During the film, Lester's physique improves from flabby to toned ; Spacey worked out during filming to improve his body, but because Mendes shot the scenes out of chronological order, Spacey varied postures to portray the stages.

To prepare, Mendes provided Bentley with a video camera, telling the actor to film what Ricky would.

Mendes made sure to establish the line of sight early on in the film to make the audience feel a sense of familiarity with the shot.

Mendes and an assistant edited the film for ten days between the appointments.

Mendes realized during editing that the film was different to the one he had envisioned.

Instead, Mendes was drawn to the emotion and darkness ; he began to use the score and shots he had intended to discard to craft the film along these lines.

Mendes spent more time re-cutting the first ten minutes than the rest of the film taken together.

Mendes believed the trial drew focus away from the characters and turned the film " into an episode of NYPD Blue ".

He and Mendes argued, but Ball was more accepting after Mendes cut the sequences completely ; Ball felt that without the scenes the film was more optimistic and had evolved into something that " for all its darkness had a really romantic heart ".

Mendes was directing Cruise's then-wife Nicole Kidman in the play The Blue Room during pre-production on American Beauty, and had already storyboarded the whole film.

Hall was involved for one month during pre-production ; his ideas for lighting the film began with his first reading of the script, and further passes allowed him to refine his approach before meeting Mendes.