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John Caprika
John Caprika was an American film and TV director who throughout his lifetime has become renowned for his extremely low-success movies and TV series made between 1974 and 2007. In 2000, he was named, "one of the worst filmmakers of the modern ear," by the American Film Institute, as a result of several disastrous attempts at movie-making throughout his career. Caprika has also been branded as 'a liar' after receiving allegations that his kids' films were far more inappropriate than advertised.

Early Life and Education
John Caprika was born on 19th February 1949 in El Paso, Texas to parents Fernando Caprika and Linda Morris. His father ran his own car tyre business in El Paso, he immigrated from Cadiz in Spain in October 1936 to The United States because of the violence brought about by the Spanish civil war. After settling in El Paso he met Linda Morris, who at the time worked at a local bar, and the two married in 1940. Between 1941 and 1950, the couple had nine children, with Caprika being the second youngest, before the youngest, Timothy Caprika.

As early as the age of nine, Caprika exhibited an avid love for films. However, this obsession meant that he often became distracted from his early education due to seldom revising. At 'Cortez Middle School', he studied Film and Media studies along with English, Mathematics, art and geography, failing all apart from attaining a C-grade in Film Studies. He attended the Florida Memorial college at the age of 18, majoring in film. Despite his continuing love for cinema, he performed badly at college and therefore dropped out after the first seven months. In his autobiography, Caprika commented, "I hated that college with a passion, I just couldn't seem to grasp anything that I was supposed to be learning."

Career
In 1969, at the age of 20, Caprika moved to New York city after living with his parents for two years. The aim of this endeavour was to become embroiled in the film industry. His first job here was at 'Jefferson's picture house', a small independent picture house on the outskirts of the city where he served on the cinema's popcorn stand. In 1972, he was mistakenly identified as director George Lucas and was told by a agent that he liked 'his' idea for 'Star Wars' and was given a grand sum of USD$11 Million that was supposed to eventually be spent on 'A new hope'. Caprika believed that he was simply granted this money out of thin air, but was completely oblivious to the fact that it was supposed to be for the use of George Lucas.

John Caprika spent the entirety of 1973 attempting to invent movie ideas and during this period he lost approximately $1.5 million of his original granted budget as a result of fraud. In January 1974, he released his first motion picture, 'I love you in many, many ways'- an alleged romantic comedy following the story of two Irish teenage boys who are imprisoned for being homosexual. An overwhelming majority of the film is spend in a dungeon where the two lovers continue to share affection until they are beheaded. The film received overall negative reviews with critics claiming it was, "an extremely tedious and dull movie with absolutely no entertainment at all." Receiving a mere $67,500 at the box office, Caprika concluded that it was ultimately a foolish attempt due to the fact that he had wasted $1 million of producing the film.

1975 saw another attempt, this time however, the idea of a documentary was put forward. this consisted of Caprika visiting Vietnam and documenting the war between the North and the South of the country. Confident that this would be a success, he and his film crew landed in Saigon, but after the first week of filming, the idea was abandoned after the lead camera man, Tony Bobbins, was shot in the head by a North Vietnamese sniper since the large film camera closely resembled a rocket launcher. A further $1 million was wasted on this trip, which was considered even more of a waste due to the fact that it ultimately amounted to nothing.

John Caprika's attempts were briefly placed on hold when in 1976, Lucasfilms discovered that he was not in fact George Lucas and the remaining $7.5 million was taken back. Desperate to carry on his work in the industry, Caprika scraped together the almost $55,000 remaining box office money from 'I love you in many, many ways' and decided to make one last attempt at producing a film, but this time it would be extremely low budget.

In 1978, after two years of casting actors who were willing to be paid little, his film crew headed to Brazil to shoot 'Fergal the arsonist'. The immense action depicted in the film's trailer surprisingly generated some anticipation for the upcoming movie, however upon release, many were utterly disappointed. Once again, Caprika proved that he had a very limited imagination and 'Fergal the arsonist' was said to be 'over-the-top' and 'monotonous'. The plot consists of Fergal O'Hare, an Irish arsonist who after spending 15 years in prison travels to the Amazon rainforest with the intention to burn trees. However, upon arrival he initiates an inner morale conflict on whether to burn the forest or not. A succession of arguing with himself quickly ensued, for an hour and fifteen minutes, but at the end regardless of his previous opinions, he burns the entire forest to the ground. Subsequently Caprika was sued for burning down fourteen wildlife preserves during the making of the film, debt he never ended up paying off.

Although and absolute disaster, 'Fergal the arsonist' did generate great anticipation before its release, therefore with many fans watching it at cinemas, but not enjoying it in the slightest, Caprika received a gross $1.25 million at the box office.

Between 1980 and 1994, John Caprika directed a further nine movies, all of which were total disasters. Some of these included, 'A great day out' and 'the bratty kid'. Consequently, he retired in 1995, exhausted from years of criticism. After six years living in a cabin in the mountains of Colorado, he decided to re-entre the industry, feeling that his six years of isolation provided him with the inspiration he needed to receive success.

In 2002, he released, 'The very lonely polar bear', which was in essence a protest on climate change, but this it did not even remotely resemble this premise and the movie ended up following the story of a depressed polar bear that derives comfort out of massacring an entire colony of penguins. Unsurprisingly, the film was hated widely and grossed a feeble $90,000 at the box office. After this disaster, Caprika decided to enter the kids' film industry and in 2005 released the TV show 'Toys' island'. Despite its appearance as a universally rated show, it included some extremely inappropriate scenes which involved gore, nudity and bad language as well as occasional drug use. His company 'Caprika studios' were bombarded with over 11,000 complaints from parents and because of this, all copies of 'Toy's island' were removed from sales.

John Caprika's final attempt at film making came in mid 2007 with another documentary, this time a historical one called, 'The battle of Hastings from the eyes of a slug.' Very few bothered to watch this as a result of Caprika's awful reputation, but those who did simply stated that, 'It only provided a dull and very limited and inaccurate view of events'. Caprika retired shortly after.

Later life and death
After retiring in 2007, Caprika moved back to Texas and settled in Austin, where he lived in a large house that was purchased with the money left over from his career. In 2008, he received an official complaint from the Irish government because of his negative representation of Irish people and culture in five of his movies, including 'Fergal the arsonist'. He later was sentenced three years in prison after evidence was put forward that he drove a truck into a zoo, killing several animals, whilst heavily intoxicated.

After being released in 2011, he attempted to publish his autobiography 'life of Caprika', but was rejected by eight different publishers due to being 'offensive', 'racist' and 'boring'. From 2012 in Austin, Texas he became a cocaine and cannabis dealer, this earned him a small fortune, after being involved in the joint sale of 50 KG of cocaine across the Mexican-American border. He was shot twice by Texas state troopers after resisting arrest when police stormed his warehouse on April 22nd 2015 however still managed to escape. All of his associates were either killed or arrested. He was found lying dead on the side of the road leading out from Texas by police two days later, having succumbed to his injuries.