# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-de-palma
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:03:48.515Z

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description: "He wanted to be the American Godard but became Hollywood's most unrepentant Hitchcock disciple instead — splitting audiences for fifty years with films that are either hypnotic genre exercises or exploitative trash, depending who's watching."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born September 11, 1940, De Palma broke through with early cult oddities like Greetings (1968) and Hi, Mom! (1970) before Stephen King's Carrie (1976) announced him as a young director who could make suspense sing. The next decade built his reputation as both craftsman and provocateur: Dressed to Kill (1980) lifted whole sequences from Hitchcock, Blow Out (1981) reworked Antonioni's Blowup, and Scarface (1983) — his remake of the 1932 Hawks original — became a cult monument despite its savagery. The Untouchables (1987) and Mission: Impossible (1996) brought him mainstream commercial wins, but critics stayed split: Ebert and Kael defended the formal brilliance; others saw only the blood and sex. Noah Baumbach's 2015 documentary let De Palma explain himself at length, though by then his style had long since calcified into signature.