According to Taymor, this anachronistic structure was created so as to emphasise the timelessness of the violence on show in the film, to suggest that violence is universal to all humanity, at all times ; " Costume, paraphernalia, horses or chariots or cars ; these represent the essence of a character, as opposed to placing it in a specific time.

Originally, the film was to end as Taymor's 1994 production had, with the implication that Lucius is going to kill Aaron's baby, but during production of the film, actor Angus Macfadyen, who played Lucius, convinced Taymor that Lucius was an honourable man and wouldn't go back on his word.

In 1970 Taymor was enrolled in Oberlin College in Ohio, but she sought experience with Joseph Chaikin's Open Theatre and other companies and studied through correspondence.

In June 2006, Taymor directed the opera Grendel for the Los Angeles Opera, starring Eric Owens, which was also presented as part of the Summer 2006 Lincoln Center Festival in New York City.

Taymor was the 2010 Commencement speaker for her alma mater, Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio.

Directed by Julie Taymor, the film was a critical triumph and Angus delivered a solid performance, but with mediocre box office results.

He was by his own admission particularly interested in directing either Frida or View from the Top, however in case of the former, the movie's producer and star Salma Hayek wanted a female director so the job went to Julie Taymor while in the case of the latter, the film's producers as well as its star Gwyneth Paltrow didn't like Dragojević's ironic take on the screenplay and Bruno Barreto got the job instead.

Julie Taymor ( born December 15, 1952 ) is an American director of theater, opera and film.

* Julie Taymor ( born 1952 ), an American director of theatre, opera and film

* The Tempest ( 2010 film ), a 2010 Julie Taymor film

** The Lion King – Elton John and Hans Zimmer ( music ), Tim Rice and Julie Taymor ( lyrics ), Lebo M, Mark Mancina and Jay Rifkin ( music & lyrics )

* Grendel ( opera ), an opera composed by Elliot Goldenthal and directed by Julie Taymor

Artists chosen recently have included ceramist, naturalist, painter and printer Walter Anderson ; sculptor and teacher Dr. Selma Burke ; architect Frank Lloyd Wright ; illustrator and author Charles Santore ; ceramist Josefina Aguilar and designer / director Julie Taymor.

* First female to win Best Direction of a Musical: Julie Taymor for The Lion King in 1998.

The most widely seen version of the play is the 1999 film adaptation, directed by Julie Taymor, under the title Titus, starring Anthony Hopkins as Titus, Jessica Lange as Tamora, Harry Lennix as Aaron ( reprising his role from Taymor's theatrical production in 1994 ) and Laura Fraser as Lavinia.

" At the end of the film, young Lucius takes the baby and walks out of Rome, a symbol which Taymor feels represents a tentative hope for the future.

Lisa S. Starks reads the film as a revisionist horror movie and feels that Taymor is herself part of the process of twentieth century re-evaluation of the play ; " in adapting a play that has traditionally evoked critical condemnation, Taymor calls into question that judgement, thereby opening up the possibility for new readings and considerations of the play within the Shakespeare canon.

* In the 2007 film, Across the Universe, directed by Julie Taymor, most characters are named after lyrics in Beatles songs.

A version of the song performed by Bono ( of the band U2 ) can be seen in the 2007 Beatles-inspired musical movie, Across the Universe, directed by Julie Taymor.

His work has also been formally experimental, and influenced a wide range of theatre practitioners including Julie Taymor.

Innovatory puppeteers such as Tony Sarg, Waldo Lanchester, John Wright, Bil Baird, Joan Baixas, Sergei Obratsov, Philipe Genty, Peter Schumann, Dattatreya Aralikatte, Jim Henson, Dadi Pudumjee, and Julie Taymor have also continued to develop the forms and content of puppetry, so that the phrase ' puppet theatre ' is no longer limited to traditional forms of marionettes, glove, or rod puppets.

Her character is " Amanda Reese, the high-strung and larger-than-life director behind a problem-plagued Broadway version of Icarus ", loosely modeled after Spider-Man director, Julie Taymor.

* 1998: The Lion King – Book by Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi ; lyrics by Tim Rice ; music by Elton John ; additional music / lyrics by Lebo M, Mark Mancina, Jay Rifkin, Julie Taymor, and Hans Zimmer.

After graduating High School at 16, Taymor went to Paris to study with L ' École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq.

While in Paris, Taymor worked with masks for the first time and immersed herself in film, especially the work of Fellini and Kurosawa.

In 1973, Taymor attended a summer program of the American Society for Eastern Arts in Seattle.

This would prove to have a great effect on Taymor in later years.

Taymor graduated from Oberlin College with a major in mythology and folklore and Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1974.

After college, Taymor used a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study pre-Bunraku puppetry on Awaji Island, Japan, to learn more about experimental theatre, puppetry and visually oriented theatre.

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.