Sec-character. One of the most popular contemporary actors: with a fabulous charm and inevitable charisma. A successful producer whose film won an Oscar in 2014. Architect. Family man. Angelina Jolie's husband. If not for the last point, perhaps the question would arise - who is this? And that means Brad Pitt has a lot ahead of him.
Few of today's actors who are on the edge of generations - not middle-aged, but still not quite senior - have succeeded and still manage to build their careers as flawlessly as Brad Pitt.
The birth of a sex symbol
For reasons beyond the actor's control, his first film "The Dark Side of the Sun" (1988) was released only ten years later, but it is obvious that even then the choice of the role by the actor was made not according to the principle "to light up and wake up famous and cool", but according to quality criteria: theme + script + interesting director. His choice is also worthy of respect, which was clearly not made for financial gain - a fairly important detail for a young artist in Los Angeles.
The main criterion in choosing a role was the author's statement. Over the years, it became obvious that for Pitt this is the main criterion in his work: the statement that the director and producer put into the film, and the statement that he personally can make, having played this or that role: regardless of whether it is a commercial project or an auteur cinematography. The artist surprisingly manages to maintain a balance between one and the other.
Fortune - the first big role - found William Bradley Pitt exactly when he gained experience working on a movie set and graduated from acting courses.
And the very beginning of Brad Pitt's career was banal - with small episodes, roles in TV shows, including long-playing and iconic for the American audience: "Freddy's Nightmares" (1988 - 1990), "Joe Bob's Open Air Cinema" (TV series, 1987 - 1995), "Thirty-something" (TV series, 1987 - 1991), "Jump Street, 21" (TV series, 1987 - 1991), "The New Hollywood Squares" (TV series, 1986 - 1989), "Growing problems "(TV series, 1985 - 1992)," Dallas "(TV series, 1978 - 1991)," Another World "(TV series, 1964 - 1999).
Despite the fact that the film "The Dark Side of the Sun", due to the war in Yugoslavia, where part of the footage remained, did not appear on the screens on time, the actor did not have any downtime. There were roles in the films: "Race in a circle" (1990), "Die young" (TV, 1990), "Painting" (TV, 1990), "Reducing the class" (1989), "Tales from the crypt" (TV series, 1989 - 1996) and Happy Together (1989). But only three years after his first big job, where he played the role of a young man with a rare disease, who crossed the line of his own life for a short moment of happiness to live and love under the Sun, Pitt was lucky to play a small - only three episodes - but very important for his career role in the film "Thelma and Louise" (1991), bypassing the then unknown George Clooney, who auditioned for the same role five times.
"I am one of those people who are hated at the genetic level."
It was after the film "Thelma and Louise", after the role of Jay Dee and the famous sex scene with Gina Davis, that the world recognized that Brad Pitt, who is still one of the sexiest men in the world. And it was after this film that his progressive and loyal career growth began. He, of course, did not manage to avoid roles in passing films, but frankly there weren't any bad ones even among them.
The only way he could, through trial and error, was looking for directors to work with. Yes, it didn’t work out with Ralph Bakshi and his role in Parallel World (1992), as well as with director Tom Di Chillo and his film Johnny Suede (1991), but then there was a meeting with the great filmmaker Robert Redford, in whose film “Where the river flows”(1992), Pitt played in such a way that the most critical spiteful critics, who from the very beginning strive to label him as a dim-witted handsome handsome man, were defeated.
There were always enough such spiteful critics and they were calculated easily, because they loved, without further ado, rhyme in their articles Brad and delirium, Pitt and drink.
Brad Pitt continued to work with Redford and their joint filmography was enriched with two more works: "California" and "True Love". Apparently, communication with Redford, and a kind of study with him, gave Pitt a lot, not only as an actor. His subsequent and highly successful experience as a producer also stems from those years - his time with Robert Redford.
“Once I called my grandfather:“We've seen your movie here,”said my grandfather. "Which one, grandfather?" - I said. And he shouted to my grandmother: "Hey, Betty, what was the name of that movie, from which I puke the day before yesterday?"
Human stories, actor and directors
Is it possible to say that the actor Brad Pitt has his own special handwriting? Most probably not. And not only because he, as a truly wise artist, tries to diversify his career and not get stuck in any role: a romantic and dangerous lover, a brutal hero or a sharp-natured eccentric. He is truly a true actor. But there is still something that cannot, perhaps, be called a handwriting - it is rather a small touch that is present in almost all the images he created: he plays most of the roles, bringing in them - somewhere more, somewhere only slightly perceptible - irony.
Over the years, Brad Pitt had fewer and fewer passages - they practically disappeared. Absolutely. In every film, whether it is the lead role, as in "Legends of Autumn" (1994), "Seven" (1995), or "Meet Joe Black" (1998), or supporting roles in a star team - "Seven Years in Tibet "(1997)," Fight Club "(1999)," Ocean's Friends "(2001, 2004, 2007) - the actor is impeccably different. And it is precisely with this difference that he conquers an increasing number of admirers among men and women all over the world: very young, mature and whitened with gray hair.
"If I had supernatural powers, I would turn back time - this is what I would do."
Brad Pitt's filmography includes works for almost any viewer: for those who may fall in love with him in "Three" (2004) or in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" (2005), for those who may not approve of his work in " Mexican "(2001) or" Burn After Reading "(2008), and certainly for those who will not tire of admiring the nuances of his performance in" The Mysterious Story of Benjamin Button "(2008). And all these fans can critically, or on the contrary enthusiastically, treat his work in both Inglourious Basterds (2009) and World War Z (2013).
Having gained over the years both experience and a manic flair for film history, Brad Pitt stopped making mistakes in his choice. Probably also because he works with the best and impeccable: the Coen brothers, Andrew Dominick, Steve McQueen, Terrence Malick, Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese and David Fincher.
For almost thirty years of his life in cinema, Brad Pitt has played more than 60 roles. It is clear that this is not the limit and the list will be replenished, especially since he has clearly not yet passed his acting peak: his peak is somewhere nearby, on the way, and there is hope in the coming years to see Brad in a role that will reveal him as he deserves it.
It is believed that this script is already being written. Screenplay for Brad Pitt.
