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Watching "Interstellar Exploration" the night before, there is a plot in which an elderly astronaut accompanies Brad Pitt's Roy on a mission to outer space, the role is not much, only a small halfway, I also tried to recognize it, only to remember that it was Donald Sutherland, who had written a character draft about him the year before. Born in 1935, Donald Sutherland is 84 years old, counting his age. Years have made a person's face charitable, but in fact, this face has played a variety of alternative roles.
Stills from Interstellar Quest
In 2009, the British newspaper The Guardian published an article that combed through 10 actors who had never been nominated for an Oscar but were extremely good. Examples include the icon-level Marilyn Monroe (Passion on Fire), Gary Oldman (The Dark Tide), Martin Sheen (Apocalypse Now), Christopher Plummer (Cirena), and our protagonist today, Donald Sutherland (The Assassination of Kennedy). Sutherland asks indignantly, opening with the first sentence, "Is it because he's Canadian?" ”
Monroe is a thing of the past, Martin Sheen is now mainly active in television circles, Gary Oldman was nominated for Best Actor in 2012 for "The Pot Maker, The Tailor, the Soldier, the Spy", and Christopher Plummer seemed to have a new life after entering the 80s, winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor twice ("The Last Stop", "Beginner"). Sutherland, who was five or six years younger than Plummer, had to wait for years until he reached 80. However, Sutherland, who is known for his personality and whose characters are mostly on the edge of being different, may not be so concerned about the affirmation of the little golden man more often.
Stills from The Hunger Games 3
For the younger generation, Donald Sutherland's classic and famous screen images are old enough to be as recognizable as his son Kiefer Sutherland, who became popular for his role in 24 Hours. But if you look back at the films that Sutherland has starred in and the directors he has worked with, you will find that he is perhaps one of the few actors left today who has intersected with those who can be called great films, as if he were a living fossil of the golden age of cinema intertwined with radicalism, sentimentality, depravity, heterochromia and resistance. Perhaps, what has passed away is always nostalgic, but sutherland is most familiar with the image of the president in the commercial blockbuster "The Hunger Games" series.
Stills from Army Field Hospital
"Army Field Hospital" (1970), "Casanova" (1976), "Nineteen00" (1976), in the works of Robert Altman, Fellini, and Bertoluch, these three major directors are extremely superb performances, which is enough to make Sutherland famous in history. The 70s are the era of his protagonists.
In the early 1980s, he still starred in films such as Robert Redford's The Ordinary Man (1980) and French New Wave director Louis Mahler's Two Lights and Big Stupid Thief (1984), but the works of this period did not become his representative works as talking points. By the 1990s, Sutherland had gradually disappeared into many supporting roles, and even in the perfect and remarkable debut of ten minutes in "The Assassination of Kennedy" (1991), it was difficult to reproduce the glory of his time.
As a young Man, Sutherland's slightly bulging eyes gave this face a bit of intimidating power, like the characters who came out of Hitchcock's films. His debut work, Castle of the Living Corpse (1965), fits well with this image, and in the future, whether he plays a villain or a decent character, his appearance will always trigger a tense, disturbing dramatic tension. When he was young, Sutherland once asked her mother if she was handsome, and her mother hesitated for a moment or said very bluntly: "Donald, to tell the truth, no." But your face has a very rich personality. ”
Stills from "Nineteen00"
Zhizi Moruomu, "personality" is the most accurate summary of Sutherland's performance, although he has a very cult face, and indeed appears in many cult films, but the various types of roles he presents are definitely not defined by a label or a certain routine. He can be the cynical military doctor "Hawkeye" in "Army Field Hospital", or attila, a fascist who is full of evil in "Nineteen00", or a very just and charming private detective in "Flower Street Murder", or an absurd generation of lovers in "Casanova"...
Stills from Casanova
What the mother never guessed was that the son she was really not handsome in her mouth was not only a screen symbol of the 70s, but also a sexy symbol of that era. The bed scene intertwined with horror in "Venice Doubt", the decadent carnal indulgence in "Casanova", the unbridled flirtatious skills in "Army Field Hospital", Sutherland interpreted the slogan of the "sexual liberation" movement with his performance: "Make love, don't fight!" ”
Stills from Willow Lane
Sutherland had three most important f's in his life, Fellini, Jane Fonda, and his third wife, Francine Lache. Fellini created a quirky and classic screen image for him, Francine became his longest-lasting companion, and actress Jane Fonda and anti-war female fighter Jane Fonda were the most memorable episodes of his life.
Today, some people still lament that in the 1971 thriller "Willow Lane Fangcao", Jane Fonda and Sutherland's only few minutes but the heart-warming rivalry is the real love. In front of Jane Fonda, who has a strong talent, Sutherland's acting skills were compared, and Jane Fonda won the Oscar for Best Actress in the coming year. Sutherland described his three-year relationship with Jane Fonda as a fiery union, and he became a political follower of hers, speaking out against the Vietnam War, making countervailing films, and extending the position of Army Field Hospital into real-world action.
Before the Vietnam War was over, Sutherland broke up with Jane Fonda, and he was heartbroken. A few years later, the United States was defeated, finally ending a 20-year-long meaningless battle. More than a decade later, Mr. X, played by Sutherland in The Assassination of Kennedy, secretly reveals an ulterior motive to prosecutor Jim Garrison, which also mentions the conspiracy behind the Vietnam War.
Stills from "Big Shots"
Sutherland's resume has nearly 200 works, many of which have been awarded or nominated for Oscars, and he always misses them. Is it really because he's Canadian?
Chinese the most familiar Canadians, in addition to Dr. Bethune and cross-talk actor Dashan, I am afraid that Donald Sutherland will be counted. This star, who has always been ignored by Hollywood, has become a "big name" in China. However, the story behind the scenes is that Feng Xiaogang wanted to invite a real American celebrity to star, and the ideal candidate was Marlon Brando, but for various reasons, he failed to make the trip.
Fast forward to 1989, when Sutherland collaborated with Marlon Brando on a film about apartheid in South Africa, Bloodstained Season. During the promotion of the film, Sutherland praised Brando in an interview, "He is a genius, not only as an actor, but also as a person..."
Poster of "Black Gold Family"
"They decided to give me the Honor Award because I've been an actor for 65 years." After receiving the Announcement of the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award, Sutherland said this in an interview. No matter how many surprises he revealed in his words, it could not hide the essence of Sutherland's lack of expectations for oscars. "I've never been nominated for an Oscar, and I never thought I might be nominated," he said. Sometimes I dream, but because it's not real, I haven't been disappointed. ”
Ten years ago, on an occasion Sutherland quoted a line from the American drama "The Black Gold Family" in which he starred: "I put my life in your hands so that you can safely take it to the grave." He talked about death and said that he would think about it every day, because at his age, all the friends around him died one by one.
Ten years later, the 82-year-old Sutherland will more or less see the Lifetime Achievement Award as a consolation award for a long time, although he excitedly says that "it represents everything", but the regret of finding that the pasta at dinner has cooled after a long phone call seems to be closer to his most intimate feelings.
He was accompanied by his wife, Francine Lache, who had three children named after Nicolas Roiger, director of "The Ordinary Man," Robert Redford, and French director Frédéric Rosif, who regarded his wife Lachte as a muse. Sutherland responded to his love of movies with a fan-like enthusiasm.
Looking back at Sutherland's large and small screen images, it is already full of brilliance, in fact, a small golden man can not add more brilliance. However, for the Oscars, who can really resist it?