Ron Howard: Imagine Success

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🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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He has had one of the longest and most celebrated careers in Hollywood history, and it's still on overdrive. As a director, Ron Howard has worked in almost every genre. His films include Solo: A Star Wars Story, A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, Far and Away, Splash, and Cocoon. As an actor, he made his screen debut before the age of two, and then skyrocketed to fame at five, playing Opie on the Andy Griffith Show. As a teenager, he starred in the movie American Graffiti and the television show Happy Days, and then transitioned to directing, where he's made his mark ever since. Ron Howard explains here how and why he made the shift. He talks about embracing criticism, and he explains why he approaches his work as a collaborator rather than a lone wolf. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2020

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0:00.0	Hi this is Alice I have an audio riddle for you.
0:03.4	Listen to these two scenes filmed almost 60 years apart and see if you can figure out the
0:09.4	thread that connects them.
0:11.3	I was just standing there sort of looking in and she see me and she said,
0:17.0	oh you're Sheriff Taylor's little boy ain't ya?
0:21.0	And I said, yup, and she says how'd I like me some ice cream and I
0:26.3	says I'd like me some fine only I ain't got me no spending money and she says
0:31.3	when's my birthday and I says I wasn't rightly sure and she says
0:36.1	that maybe could be on the safe side she better give me my present now and she
0:40.6	did and boy I like her pretty fine.
0:44.0	Since when do you know how to fly?
0:46.0	A hundred and ninety years old?
0:50.0	You look great. The first was Opie, the inquisitive red-headed rock skipping little boy on the Andy Griffith show. The second was Han Solo,
1:07.2	Captain of the Millennium Falcon and co-pilot with Chubaca in the Star Wars prequel called Solo.
1:15.6	Opie Taylor and Han Solo.
1:20.4	Take a moment to think about it.
1:22.2	Do do do do do do do.
1:25.0	Okay, I know some of you got it.
1:28.0	For the rest of you, the link is Ron Howard.
1:32.0	When he was five years old he began playing Opie, one of the most
1:36.6	iconic TV characters of the 1960s. He went on to other big roles, but by his early 20s, Ronnie Howard, the actor, was morphing into Ron Howard, the director, a massively successful director at that.
1:52.0	His 25th feature film, the a massively successful director at that.
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