Back in 2014, Matthew. When McConaughey won the 86th Academy Awards, he said he had to have three necessities every day to survive: the people he admired, god; the things he looked forward to, namely his family; and the goal he desperately pursued: his hero.
But who is the hero in the heart of this seemingly Tough American movie emperor?
Once, the fifteen-year-old Texan teenager thought about it for a long time, and finally got the answer, and the object of this life that will never be possible is "me in ten years."
Twenty-five and thirty-five years later, matthew McConaughey, now fifty-one, in the process of writing his personal memoir, Green Light, found an age-old notebook that was written during the filming of his first Hollywood work, richard McConaughey. Linklet's 1992 "Young Mania."
The notes listed ten of his life plans, such as becoming a qualified father, learning to take risks, etc., each of which he had unconsciously completed, except for the fourth point of "Chase my best self", which still maintained the current style, which means that even if he has picked up the little golden man in the highest hall of the movie, he still has to catch up with himself ten years later.
It may be said that Matthew is not one of the most elected actors or artists, in addition to the appearance of masculine and bright, he does not feel that he was born with superior self-confidence, intelligence, family background, nor did he have the careful cultivation of his parents from childhood to adulthood, and he was muddy until he graduated from college, before giving up applying for law school, trembling and deciding to study film with his father's permission.
In other words, he is an ordinary child in an ordinary family, trying to understand the world, groping for his own direction, although not rebellious, nor well-behaved, but always has his own set of independent thinking, rather than blindly following the flow.
As a newborn calf with no connections in Hollywood, he can only work hard to enter the core from the road of hand models and commercials, and finally meets his nobleman Don in the bar where he has worked for two years. Phillips, the casting director of "Young And Crazy".
Thus, the futuristic film emperor played one of the most impressive roles years later: Woodson, a twenty-two-year-old still tinkering in high school. Richard Linklet saw Matthew's overall look at the first look and asked, "This character isn't you, is it?" Matthew simply replied, "No, but I know who he is."
Peach-colored trousers, a combed haircut, a black panther tattoo, a figure-eight beard, and a cigarette with two fingers between his fingers, the director smiled and nodded, and then handed woodson to him.
"Good, good, good."
Those three words, "These are the first three words I've said in the movie." My character only had three acts in this film, and I ended up shooting this film for three weeks."
The first line spoken on the first night of work in his life gave him a green light for his acting career, but unexpectedly, the news of his father's sudden death from heart disease came, and the roller coaster instantly pulled him from heaven to hell, like a cruel coming-of-age ceremony.
In the face of everything uncontrollable in life, Matthew gradually learned to obey the fate of personnel, after all, after the master led the door does not mean that the future will be smooth, with relevant experience does not necessarily need to go all out.
Even with his fame and fortune, he is still the temperamental person who will throw himself into the Amazon because of a dream, live in a camping trailer for three years of nomadic life, know how to be bold to become his due role, and he begins to find the pace of life in Hollywood's ups and downs.
During the 2002 doomsday disaster film Doomsday, Matthew spent two months preparing the character of American Dragon Slayer Captain Van Dan, who drew up a dragon slayer training program for himself in the summer, such as:
Every morning when you wake up, you have to get a double agave. Because if you want to defeat the dragon, the first step is to become a dragon, let the internal organs fire, you can create a flame-like breath, agave is the most powerful assistant.
Every morning barefoot runs barefoot in the desert for a distance of about eight kilometers. He believed that the dragon slayer's heels must be strong, plus he must have the same hard skin as the dragon.
Every day, he stood on the roof of a barn about four stories high to overcome his fear of heights. The dragon slayer must not be afraid of heights, so he needs to stand on the edge of the roof to try to maintain his heart rate.
Challenge the cows every night before falling asleep, just knock them down to mean you're strong enough.
As a result, apart from the fact that the goal of double agave was actually achieved and exceeded the standard, the bull was knocked out of the concussion, the foot grew a difficult blister, and not a day was really within a meter of the edge of the roof.
Even so, he still had to leave on schedule, and the next four months of long filming were all in the miserable winter of Ireland. After the killing, the madness of the dragon slayer never degenerated from his body, and he bought a one-way ticket to Mali in West Africa because of a dream again.
There, Matthew, who still retains a dark bald head, a large beard and a perfect physique, falsely claims to be a wrestler, but he does not expect the wrestling champion in the local village to challenge, and he can only fight hard, gritting his teeth and fighting back. A moment before leaving, he understood from the guide that he had already won the moment when he decided to act.
"It's not about winning or losing, what matters is that you accept the challenge."
The rewards of travel are often richer than acting, which becomes the direction of his future life, whether it is becoming a father, a husband, or an actor who really acts for himself.
When he told his father that he was going to go to film school, his father only gave him one piece of advice, "Don't be a jerk"; many years later, when he cried and told his wife that he didn't want to take on romantic comedies again, he also got the same sentence, she said, if you decide to change your face, you will stick to the end together, "Don't be a jerk".
The price of tearing off the label is to accept forgetting before the familiar face of the public can be erased. Matthew calculated his savings and refused all romantic comedy offers with an iron heart, and spent nearly two years in Hollywood.
Finally, in 2011, "Obscene Justice" became a turning point in his road to the film emperor, and opportunities such as "Dance Club" and "Dirt" sprung up for him; in the middle, there was Martin. The key to persuading Scorsese's Wolf of Wall Street was that the key to the success of the stockbroker's work was cocaine and prostitutes.
"Scorsese let me perform freely, and Dicapio played with me. And that humming melody, that's what I do before every shoot, and it keeps me at my own pace."
At the same time, "The Medicine Club", which has been in preparation for nearly two decades but has been painstaking, has ignited the interest of the only director, Jean Mark Wally, after many discussions, and filming has begun in 2012, but only four and nine million US dollars, far less than the target of seven million.
The two men were overwhelmed and faced the challenge without hesitation, not even having the wrong conditions, and quickly completed the shooting in less than a month. The year was followed by an offer he couldn't refuse: HBO's mini-series Detective Inferno, although the creative team had hoped he would play Woody Allen. Harrison's character, he sees only the greatest detective, Rosethin. Cole.
As a result, it has achieved a perfect performance in the eyes of critics around the world, and has also pushed itself to the peak that most actors dream of.
Richard Linklet once said that people always underestimate Matthew's willpower to carry it through, that he is quite good at going from A to B to C, always planning, and brave enough, bold enough, cheeky enough to put it into practice.
Perhaps more because Matthew is accustomed to constantly reminding himself that the role in front of him may be the last character to be performed in this life, so he is wholehearted, so he has no reservations, and what he really does on this road is to be loyal to himself and learn to live.
Now, when he promoted "Green Lantern", he revealed his next move, and he was seriously considering running for governor of Texas, who expected it?
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