The public should know Saul Zaentz as a kind, bespectacled, white-haired grandfather, without which

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Saul Zaentz, one of the most successful Hollywood film producers, has died at the age of 92 years. He had a streak as it has achieved no other producer of modern times. From Hanns-Georg Rodek
The public should know Saul Zaentz as a kind, bespectacled, white-haired grandfather, without which there is neither "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" or "Amadeus" or the "English Patient" tv choice awards 2011 is given - in short, as one of the most successful producers of sophisticated films. This is not surprising, because he only got into an age into the movie business, where others are already drawing a pension. But that's only half the story about Saul Zaentz. The young Saul had run away from home at 15 and had his bread earns peanuts for sale in the training camp of the St. Louis Cardinals, a baseball team. He tried his luck in casinos, fought in the war in North Africa, tried his hand at poultry and eventually joined - as a declared jazz fan - in the service of the music promoter Norman Granz and the small label Fantasy Records.
This brought him into contact with idols such as Duke Ellington, Gerry Mulligan and Dave Brubeck. In his mid-50 then left Zaentz the Flagstones already tv choice awards 2011 back in order to pursue a new field: the cinema. He had long ago bought the film rights to three novels, to which no producer dared to right: Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's tv choice awards 2011 Nest," Peter Matthiessen's "An arrow in the sky" and JRR Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings." And then began a streak as it has achieved no other producer of modern times. In "One tv choice awards 2011 Flew Over the Cuckoo's tv choice awards 2011 Nest" was followed by "The Lord of the Rings" (the trick early version) and on "Amadeus" and "The Mosquito Coast" and on "The tv choice awards 2011 Unbearable tv choice awards 2011 Lightness of Being" and finally "The English Patient". Overall Zaentz has produced only ten films, but the pocketed 22 Oscars and twelve other nominations. tv choice awards 2011 Almost all were based on the literary works that had not been selected Zaentz, because they had been best-sellers, but because they brought a reflection on the nature of man.
This is all the more impressive because Zaentz always operated independently of the major studios. "Studios are like flies," he used to say. "They eat honey and shit with the same enthusiasm." If Zaentz became enthusiastic about a project he brought the money, cut the film as he wanted and kept the rights. Above all, he made sure that no half measures has been made. Zaentz was a what the accountants going on at the forefront of today's studios: Risks. If necessary, he took on a mortgage on the Zaentz Film Center, be post-production studio in Berkeley, California. The "patient" should cost $ 35 million, and Zaentz had only eight million. 20th Century Fox withdrew because Zaentz wanted in no case the United Star Demi Moore in the Kristin-Scott-Thomas-role; Finally, he convinced Miramax to apply the remaining 27 million. But Zaentz also knew where his limits were. The money for JM Coetzee's "Waiting for the Barbarians" as he never got together.
Perhaps it was inevitable with Zaentz 'credo of staying independent, that he - was involved in more processes than any other - in terms of his few films