Successful creative people owe much of their success to inspiration. For many Hollywood directors, actresses are such inspiration. Some go further and swear eternal love to their muses.
Scarlett Johansson and Woody Allen
In the summer film season 2014, two films will be released at once with the participation of Scarlett Johansson, “The First Avenger. Another War "from the Rousseau brothers and" Lucy "directed by Luc Besson. But the acting career of goldilocks Scarlett did not start with blockbusters, her popularity and fees began to grow after meeting with the director, who is called the "sad comedian." Woody Allen has been making films for half a century, but he is never completely satisfied with the result and does not consider his success in Hollywood deserved, despite the general recognition of viewers and film critics.
Woody Allen and Scarlett Johansson met in 2004 at the casting for the film Match Point. True to himself, Woody Allen falls in love with the actress before giving her the role. So it was with Scarlett. She struck him at the first meeting, with her striking appearance, sexuality and versatility of acting. Later, both the actress and the director repeatedly noted the coincidence of interests and outlook on life. After Match Point, which secured an Oscar nomination for Scarlett Johansson, Woody Allen wrote two more roles for the actress in his next films, Sensation and Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Their friendship to this day is nourished by deep mutual respect and admiration, which they do not hide in interviews and personal communication.
Uma Thurman and Quentin Tarantino
This spring, at the Cannes Film Festival, after 20 years of friendship and collaboration on the set, Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman first appeared in front of the cinema world as a couple. The news instantly became a sensation, especially after Tarantino admitted that he had been in love with Uma all these years, called her his muse and true inspiration.
Pulp Fiction was Tarantino's first film to which he invited Uma Thurman. She played the role of Mia Wallace, a longtime drug addict and wife of a gangster boss. A fresh look, innovative techniques, original use of genre clichés and dark humor made the film a cult classic and spawned many imitators. But no one has managed to compare with Tarantino in the ability to make a frank bloody spectacle attractive and funny. Uma Thurman wears a black wig in Pulp Fiction, and the camera operator seems to be in love with the actress, with her face and every movement in the famous dance with John Travolta.
After "Pulp Fiction" the paths of the actress and the director went their separate ways, but the projects in which they participated were not as successful as their first joint. That all changed in 2003 when they met again to create the first installment of the Kill Bill movie saga. The idea of a bloody tale about a bride obsessed with a thirst for revenge, Tarantino nurtured for several years, and then waited another year while Uma carried her third child and regained her shape after childbirth. But all the time and financial costs paid off and the film at the box office beat off the budget sixfold.
Linda Hamilton and James Cameron
Canadian James Cameron is called the favorite of fortune in the director's environment. He became famous overnight, immediately after the release of the first "Terminator". The plot of the film, based on a novice director's nightmare, in which a robot crawled after a woman, frightened and delighted fans of the genre. Spectators literally besieged cinemas. The role of Sarah Connor, the woman hunted by a metal killer, was played by the then little-known actress Linda Hamilton.
The Cameron-Hamilton tandem continued in films and in life. While they were together, the director created the second part of "Aliens" and began to realize his old dream - deep-sea diving, - made the film "Abyss" about an alien civilization at the bottom of the ocean, and began preparing the filming of "Titanic". But that was after, and in 1991 James Cameron released Terminator 2. Doomsday”, after which the names of Sarah Connor and John Connor became cult, and the very concept of“terminator”became a household name. For the second film, the director forced his wife to train for several months with the special forces who fought in the Middle East. These stresses and strains during filming undermined Linda Hamilton's health and ruined their marriage.
The current wife of James Cameron, actress Susie Amis, is also blonde. They met on the set of Titanic, where she played the granddaughter of Rose Dawson, and got married in 2000. Their marriage was crowned with the birth of three children and the creation of one of the pearls of the world film industry - the sci-fi cinematic utopia Avatar, which grossed a record box office and ushered in a new era in cinematography and computer graphics.
