The famous French film star Jean-Paul Belmondo.
According to the foreign media "Hollywood Reporter" reported on September 6, the famous French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo died at the age of 88. According to the agent, he died peacefully at home in Paris.
In his 65-year screen career, Belmondo starred in more than 80 films, the screen evergreen had a serious stroke in 2001, unable to speak for 6 months, but after his condition improved, he also starred in the 2009 film "Men and Dogs", a face with a gully still with childlike naughtiness and innocence. In 2016, Belmondo received the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival. In an interview with the film magazine Premiere that same year, the then 85-year-old Belmondo reflected on his career: "I have the privilege of being one of the actors immersed in all genres, from exquisite New Wave films to hilarious comedies. I really don't regret it. ”
Obsessed with boxing benefits the performance
He was one of the initial investors of Paris Saint-Germain Football Club
Jean-Paul Belmondo was born on 9 April 1933 in the affluent district of Neuilly-sur-Seine, northwest of Paris, but the family soon moved to the left bank of Paris, where the literary atmosphere was strong. Belmondo's mother was a painter and his father was a famous sculptor, whose sculptures have been exhibited in places such as the Louvre Gardens and the Paris Opera. As a child, belmondo recalls, his father took him to the Louvre every Sunday to see paintings and sculptures, "but for a child like me who was clearly more interested in the circus, this cultural feast was indeed too sumptuous and somewhat indigestible." ”
Born into an artistic family, Belmondo was more intoxicated with "savage physique" in his youth, enjoyed cycling and football, and was said to be a good goalkeeper. (When Paris Saint-Germain was born in 1970, Belmondo was one of the team's co-founders.) As a teenager, Belmondo was obsessed with boxing, playing nine amateur games after graduating from high school, winning four wins, drawing one and losing four. After serving in the French army stationed in Algeria, Belmondo followed his parents' advice and was admitted to the Paris Conservatory of Music and Drama in 1953 and studied theater performance, but boxing was still his favorite, and it was this "craft" that made him shine on the big screen in the future, both against gangsters and nazis.
Stills from the film "The King of Kings". Belmondo plays a French boxing coach during World War II.
During his time at school, Belmondo was one of the most gifted but unable to sit on the bench, and the hormone-fueled venting of much of his energy was spent on love, alcohol, and street outrage with friends. This also led to the fact that when he graduated in 1956, the college criticized him and refused to award graduation honors, and his response to this treatment was a bright smile and a middle finger. Belmondo began to get involved in the film industry in the same year after graduation, starring in most of the literary films, he was tough in appearance, but his appearance was not dominant, but fortunately, the casual style of mixing and stinginess was very pleasing to the audience, especially French women.
After starring in "Exhausted", he became a new wave darling
In the face of famous directors still dare to "go crazy"
In 1959, the then unknown director Jean-Luc Godard had a brilliant vision, and he personally invited Belmondo to star in "Exhausted", but Belmondo thought that the bald director did not look like a good person than himself, but under the persuasion of his wife, he pushed open the door of Godard's hotel room, thus performing the most famous "golden wind and jade dew encounter" of the French new wave.
Stills from Exhausted. Belmondo plays the male protagonist Michelle.
It is this "Exhaustion", which does not even have a script, that has played a fierce role in promoting the development of French cinema and even world cinema with a trendy cinematic approach that is not falling behind. In the film, Belmondo plays the male protagonist Michelle, a freewheeling villain, whose first scene is smoking a cigarette while reading pornographic newspapers, and then steals cars, shoots policemen, and takes money from his female partner... When he finally died under the gun of the police, he left a very multi-meaning last words: "This is really hateful." Belmondo rose to fame with the film's existential theme of "everything is accidental, arbitrary, and without a cause and purpose", and he rose to fame.
Stills from Pierrot the Mad. Belmondo plays the male protagonist Ferdinand.
In 1965, the duo collaborated on the film Pierrot the Madman, in which Belmondo played the male protagonist Ferdinand, who prayed for a beautiful world but was full of despair of the ideal reality, smearing his cheeks with blue oil paint, and in a loud explosion, the spirit flesh was destroyed. Belmondo once again uses precise acting skills to add strength and thickness to this "film full of ambiguity, hopelessness, disintegration and alienation".
Throughout the 1960s, the on-screen belmondo became the favorite of a large number of new wave directors such as Melville ("Eyeliner"), Truffaut ("The Marriage Deception"), Chabrol and Lelouch ("My Ideal Type"), and Belmondo, the big-screen anti-order and anti-hero image spokesperson, was hailed by the film industry as "a charming hybrid of Dean and Bogart", and he has become a big star of idol and acting school. But Belmondo sometimes faced famous directors on the set, still retaining his street nature. For example, director Melville, who has worked with Belmondo three times in a row, once became too harsh on the crew members, causing Belmondo to be mad on the spot, he rushed up and ripped off the director's glasses and hat, "If you don't have these pretentious glasses and hats, what are you?" You're a toad. ”
Is the "brother" of the French film industry in the 1980s
Starring in "King of Kings" has been introduced in China
Beginning in the early 1970s, Belmondo's play path became broader, gradually turning to commercial films, becoming a prolific action and comedy star, according to Vanity Fair magazine, he starred in 14 films in Paris alone averaged more than 650,000 viewers, and until the mid-1980s, he was still one of the highest-grossing stars in France after starring in more than 70 films. In the early 1980s, a famous French magazine did precision statistics, and as a result, among the twenty most popular French stars, the top of the list was Belmondo, and Alain Deron, who was "born Yu, He Shengliang", ranked fifteenth! In 1983, the French "Film" weekly selected the best actor of the year, and the first place was still Belmondo!
Alain Delon and Belmondo.
In 1982, the comedy "King of Kings" starring Belmondo was released in France (the film was imported into China), in which he played a French boxing coach Georges during World War II, who not only led his disciples to the Olympic championship, but also humiliated Hitler in various ways, such as making Hitler's sister fall in love, this tall, hard and funny image further confirmed Belmondo's "King of Kings" brand in the European film industry.
Compared with the handsomeness of his contemporary rival Alain Deron, the cold and even slightly rough appearance has become a major symbol of Belmondo, and even he once laughed at himself, "The revolution of 'Exhausted' is to find a bad male protagonist." But he may not realize that he has opened an acting channel for actors like Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman.
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