Ron Howard was five years old when he gave his film play in Anatole Litvak’s Hungarian revolution drama “The Journey” from 1959. A year later, the red-haired scamp was as Opie Taylor, the son of Mayberry, North Carolina, Sheriff Andy Taylor in “The Andy Griffith Show”, which turned him into the America Children’s Brother. TV viewers saw howard grew up in the 1960s, so they felt that they had a hint of skin in the game when he played the last high school graduate Steve Bolander in high school graduates George Lucas’ “American Graffiti”. Then he landed the role of Richie Cunningham in the ABC -sitcom “Happy Days” that he seemed to be a family at this point. Everyone wanted Howard.
However, if everyone was honest with themselves, it was difficult to see that Howard’s acting career lasted much longer than “happy days”. He had a limited range and could not shake his pipsqueak person. Fortunately, Howard had become uninterested in acting and had directed his eyes. Before he was occupied in “Happy Days”, he had enrolled California in the film school at the University of Southern. Actually, Howard almost returned to USC At the beginning of the “Happy Days” when the series was implemented due to evaluation fights.
While Howard put it on the sitcom until his contract had expired, he managed to guide a film while still shooting the show (“Grand Theft Auto” from 1977) and wasted no time with a full-time career as a filmmaker, As soon as he free was all “Happy Days” pompoms. This worked exceptionally well for him (he won the best director Oscar for “a beautiful world in 2002), but they could be surprised to find out that he leaned the opportunity to improve his craft by a single episode of” Happy Days ” directed.
Ron Howard concentrated on feature film making
As a Howard appeared The intelligent podcast With Jason Bateman, Arnett and Sean Hayes in 2020, he revealed that his interest in directing was triggered by his early days on the set of “The Andy Griffith Show”. As he told the trio:
“I was able to be part of this show and be part of this process to which the camera bullets belonged. At a certain point in time I was clear I am just fascinated.”
In the 1970s, Howard was experienced enough to understand the difference between the direction of a sequence of television and the remark “The Graduate”. He really wanted to try the latter, but he saw the way to Mike Nichol’s masterpiece, which was directed by the direction of traffic in a television sitcom. Howard was also respectful of The needs of his co-stars on “happy days”, And didn’t want to sling into a well -oiled machine. Jerry Paris was the helper in the series, and according to Howard, he knew better than any other, as the spectators asked from the show every week.
Howard’s patience paid off, and although he has never staged a classic at the “The Graduate” level, we have at least “EDTV” and that is no poverty!
