Biopics are also a popular genre in historical films. Not only can you borrow the east wind of the prototype, but also have ready-made historical materials to excavate. But the biopic is not easy to shoot, and whether it can restore the prototype has become an evaluation criterion. There are not many movies that can be "shaped like gods", and Big Wet chose ten good biographical movies to show everyone.
10. My week with Monroe
Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), a young British teenager who has just entered the society, despite his family's opposition, devotes himself with enthusiasm to the film career he loves, hoping to break through the world. The first opportunity he got to follow the group was the third assistant director of the new film "Dragon Play Phoenix", directed and starring his idol Lawrence Oliver (Kenneth Branagh). The film featured the then-world-famous American actress Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), whose job was to co-ordinate the crew's chores. After filming began, there was a fierce conflict between Monroe and Lawrence Oliver due to different performance methods, resulting in the crew's progress far behind expectations. Colin was in charge of mediating, and he began to have frequent contact with Monroe. Unconsciously, Colin found himself deeply attracted to Monroe's charm...
9. Mrs. Perón
After a one-night stand between Evita (Madonna Madonna) and a singer who was popular in Argentina at the time, she used this as a springboard to embark on her journey to Buenos Aires. This beautiful girl is The future famous Lady Perón. However, 15-year-old Evita has nothing, she is abandoned in a strange city, and her only capital is her beauty. Evita squeezed into the upper class and became a socialite among celebrity men. Along with this, she achieved good results in entering the entertainment industry. She became a celebrity and met Colonel Perón (Jonathan Jonathan Pryce) at a charity party, and the two fell in love.
Evita has since officially entered the political arena. She became a helper to Perón's political career and has always advocated for the benefit of the poor. The world of politics is changing, and Evita has gradually found a way to achieve her political ideals, and has worked hard for this life to become the "first lady" in the hearts of the Argentine people.
8. Wilde
Wilde (Stephen Fry) has been widely involved in poetry, drama, fairy tales, fiction, and literary criticism throughout his life, he talks humorously, his works are full of sharp edges, british Prime Minister Churchill once said that the person who is most willing to talk about long talk in the next life is Wilde. In London at that time, almost every wilde play achieved sensational effect on the stage, and the limelight was unparalleled.
Wilde's literary career, however, was later completely ruined, all because of an encounter with Earl Douglas Bosse (Jude Law Jude Law), who not only went to prison for "sodomy" and was tarnished by his reputation, but everything in the family was auctioned off, and his wife had to leave the country with her two sons and change their surnames.
7. Gandhi's biography
This film chronicles the epic legendary life of Mahatma Gandhi in India. In 1893, at the age of 24, Gandhi (Ben Kingsley) was invited to South Africa to work as a lawyer, determined to lead a non-violent and uncooperative protest against Indian immigrants, and was imprisoned for it. After his release from prison, Gandhi returned to his homeland, established a high monk's ashram in the Sambalang area, and joined the Indian independence movement led by the Congress Party to promote the concept of non-violent and non-cooperative struggle. Gandhi was imprisoned four times during the movement; through his tireless efforts and under the leadership of the Congress Party, India's independence was finally on the agenda, and Gandhi traveled to London in 1931 to attend a round table on independence. However, with the approach of independence, the religious contradictions between Muslims and Hindu peoples in India have become increasingly prominent, and Gandhi's concept of non-violent non-cooperation has faced more serious new challenges...
6. The Queen
In 1997, Princess Diana died in a car accident, and the whole country was devastated, but the British royal family took an attitude of evasion and alienation. This indifference infuriated many British people. Anti-royal sentiment among the population was quite high, and the emergency situation plunged the royal family into a serious crisis. However, King Elizabeth (Helen Mirren) does not come out to stabilize the people,but hides with her family in the holiday palace. Tony Blair (Mike Sheen) has just become prime minister, and in the face of the difficult situation, it is necessary to find measures to balance the interests of all parties as soon as possible, so that the royal family can get out of the crisis of trust, and the queen can re-repair her relations with the people and establish her own authority in it.
5. The theory of all things
Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) and Jane (Felicity Jones) meet at a dance, and the two meet for the first time and have a good conversation. After that, Hawking boldly invited Jane to the ball, and the two took this as an opportunity to fall in love.
Unfortunately, a coma made Hawking diagnosed with a rare amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the doctor confessed that he only had two years to live, hawking was tormented by the disease fell into depression, but Jane did not abandon him, on the contrary, after several twists and turns, the two stepped into the palace of marriage, Jane also gave birth to a lively and lovely child for Hawking. Hawking's body quickly weakened, and at the same time, he achieved one achievement after another in academic research. In order to take care of Hawking, Jane willingly became the "woman behind him", but this also became the first crack in the happy marriage between the two.
4. Flying Tycoon
Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) was born in Houston, Texas, and at the age of 18, he inherited the fortune of his father's Texas oil well and moved to Hollywood with a movie dream. In 1926 he bought control of 125 theaters, spent millions of dollars on the live-action air combat epic film Hell's Angels, and became a famous producer; in 1939, he joined Universal Airlines, where he quickly turned the company around, working with the U.S. military during World War II to preside over the invention and improvement of the Blue Spruce aircraft.
Howard Hughes' career success coincides with depression and mental obsessive-compulsive disorder; his love life is full of twists and turns, and Katharine Hepburn (Cate Blanchett) and Ava Gardner (Kate Beckinsale) leave him, leaving him devastated.
3. Milk
In 1970, Milk (Sean Penn), a small businessman who has a successful career but a bumpy emotional life, stumbles upon a young and handsome man, Scott Smith (James Franco James Franco), and the two quickly fall in love, and Milk has since begun to realize his true sexual orientation. Soon they moved to Castro Street in San Francisco to run a photographic equipment store. With the publicization of the two lovers' relationship, the small shop gradually became a gathering place for comrades, and finally expanded to the entire neighborhood.
However, comrades were still not accepted by the public at that time, and they were still treated unfairly. Feeling this, Milk decided to enter politics and ran for city inspector, single-handedly pushing the government to improve the situation of his comrades. Millk, who had been defeated repeatedly, was eventually successful, but he was also rebuked and attacked by conservative forces...
2, rose life
Known as the "Little Lark", the French national treasure singer Edit Piaf (Marion Cotillard), she has a legendary life. Piaf's childhood was turbulent, first abandoned by her mother, then sent by her father to a brothel to be raised by her grandmother, and then forcibly taken away to live with the circus after her father retired from the army. After that, Piaf followed her father to sell art for a living, and the street first cried and became a bar singer girl.
Piaf, who officially debuted on stage, successfully became a charming star with a singing voice, singing many popular songs. However, her emotions are repeatedly frustrated, especially with boxer Marcel (Jean-Pierre Martins). She deteriorated in her later years and eventually died of liver cancer.
1. Chaplin
Biographer George travels to Switzerland to interview Robert Downey Jr, who tells his story... In 1894, in England, the young Chaplin had begun to save the scene for the extra's mother, but the poor life of the lost led to the separation of the Chaplin brothers, and the mother was also hospitalized for madness. In 1903, Chaplin was introduced by his brother to a British theater company to start his acting career, and soon he made a name for himself and was invited by the American studio, in the United States, Chaplin was exposed to the fantastic art of cinema, and used his aura to gain fame and fortune with the help of the medium of film. Chaplin could not forget his origins, and after taking control of the production rights, he insisted on adding a critical spirit to his films, and was therefore labeled a red hat and caused many troubles. The illustrious filmmaker, who has endured political repression, the departure of his lovers, success and loss, is dying of old age, and he watches his films in the theater and bursts into tears.