Today I saw a somewhat sad news: Cooper Hoffman, the 17-year-old son of the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, will star in the latest era film of the well-known American director Paul Thomas Anderson, which will also become his debut work.
Paul Thomas Anderson won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1999 for The Corner of the Mind, and the first person in film history to win the Best Director Award at all three major European film festivals, Hoffman starred in "The Master", and the collaboration began in 1997's "Boogie Nights".
In 2007's "There Will Be Blood," actor Daniel Day-Lewis won the 80th Academy Award for Best Actor.
Because of the epidemic, the film only resumed work at the end of August, and earlier Reuters photos were also exposed, and the male protagonist of the film was Bradley Cooper,Who had been nominated for the Oscar eight times.
Another Cooper also appears in the stills, and the boy in the background car is.
Inheriting his father's trademark blond hair and figure, he was born in 2003 as an ignorant little boy at his funeral.
In 2014, he died of a drug overdose, and his father, Philip Seymour Hoffman, once crossed the stars of film history.
Winning 23 trophies including the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2005 for Capote, he perfectly interpreted the thick nasal and sharp voice characteristic of Truman Capote in real life, as well as the innate quirky drama.
At the 2014 British Academy Awards, Kate Blanchett presented her trophy to Hoffman.
At the 90th Academy Awards, Sam Rockwell also dedicated his award for Best Supporting Actor: "This is for my good friend Phil Hoffman."
In reality, Hoffman is stocky, always looks sleepy-eyed, has disheveled hair, likes to wear crumpled clothes, and is more like an unemployed actor than an Oscar winner.
He is indeed just one step away from unemployment: back in 1992, if it were not for The Appearance of Al Pacino's Smelling Woman, a man so talented and so ordinary, he would have worked in a delicatessen for the rest of his life.
Born in 1967 in the Rochester suburb of Fairport, New York, Hoffman's mother, Marilyn O'Connor, was a former elementary school teacher, his father Gordon Stowell Hoffman, who is of German descent and was an Xerox employee, and Hoffman had an older brother and two younger sisters.
Hoffman's parents divorced when he was nine years old, and four children lived with their mother. My mother later became a lawyer and eventually became a judge in the Family Court.
Hoffman's childhood hobbies were sports, especially wrestling and baseball. At the age of 12, when his mother took him to see Arthur Miller's stage play "My Sons", Hoffman was so fascinated that he developed a love for theater and regularly went to see the theater: "That experience completely changed me, it was a miracle for me." 」
Later, when he won the Oscar, he did not forget to thank his mother for giving him theatrical enlightenment in his speech.
At the age of 14, Hoffman had to give up sports due to a neck injury while wrestling, and he began to consider a career as an actor, and with the encouragement of his mother, he joined a drama club.
In high school, he starred in the play "The Death of a Salesman", which was on Broadway in 2013 and received a Tony Award nomination for him. Acting gradually became Hoffman's passion: "I liked the people there and since then I've decided that's what I want to do.
In college, he lived up to expectations and was accepted to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and earned a degree in theater.
And sister Emily at the graduation ceremony
When Hoffman was in school at New York University, he began to get addicted to alcohol and drugs, "I touched whatever I could, and I loved everything." The year he graduated at the age of 22, Hoffman thoroughly underwent treatment and remained sober for the next 23 years, saying: "If I don't quit drinking once and for all, I may drink myself to death." ”
1992 was Hoffman's worst time: "Not only could I not find a job as an actor, but I couldn't sustain the temporary non-acting job I managed to find." I worked as a waiter in a restaurant and as a lifeguard in a spa and was fired. ”
"Smelling Women" opened up his troubled career situation, Hoffman starred as the male protagonist Chris O'Donnell's preparatory classmate, and since then, he has never done a job that is not an acting.
"Without this work, there would be no me today, and this is the domino effect."
Hoffman is highly respected in both the film and theatre industries, and the media often lists him as one of the finest actors of his generation.
He's good at acting, but he doesn't see himself as a star, and he's always been grateful for his ordinary looks, at least because of that, his complex characters seem much more authentic.
His looks, when the male lead is too difficult, in 2002 "Love Liza" to find Oscar-born Kathy Bates to play his mother-in-law, only to raise $1 million.
The more pathetic and complex the characters are, the more Hoffman seems to like to rescue them from a world that is merely grotesque. Director Joel Schumacher (who directed Batman Forever, Killing Hour, Batman and Robin, Sniper Phone Booth, Phantom of the Opera, who died in June) once said, "The bad news is that he will never be a big star for $25 million, but the good news is that he will act well for the rest of his life." ”
He has starred in more than 50 works in his career, including his "Mission Impossible III" commercial blockbuster:
"Penalty for Gold":
The Hunger Games:
What really made him shine were the small characters with complex personalities, and Hoffman was also praised for portraying them as real, complex, and even compassionate.
The late rock critic, meanLister Bangs:
The phrase "we're uncool" in "Near Fame" is a stroke of genius when Hoffman was suffering from the flu and had to wear headphones to listen to the original voice of Lester Bangs in order to keep feeling.
Comrade shy and overweight boom microphone operator in "Unruly Nights":
A tabloid reporter who was retributed in Red Dragon.
Father Flynn in "Child Doubt" who fights with the devil and faith at the same time...
Friend Ethan Hawke said: "Phil is the unconventional movie star of this unconventional era, everyone around us is very good-looking, everyone has abs, and when you look at him and see him play a less dreamy but incredibly real character, you will understand his preciousness." 」 ”
Hoffman and his brothers, who have robbed their parents' jewelry stores, are also the last work of American director Sidney Lumet ("Twelve Angry Men", "Murder on the Orient Express", "Hot Day Afternoon", "The Great Judgment") before the death of "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead".
Hoffman was acutely aware early on that he was too outrageous to the academy's voters. "I'm sure people in big companies running Hollywood don't know what to do with people like me, but that's okay," he said. I think there are others who are interested in my work. ”
In order to play Capote, he prepared for four and a half months. "I read his books, listened to his voice, watched his videos on TV. Sometimes, being an actor is like being a detective, and you have to look for secrets that can unlock the character. But capote's character wasn't very good for my mental health, and I had to speak in a voice that my vocal cords would repel and had to stay in the role all day or my body would dump me at the first opportunity. ”
Crises always lurk beneath the surface of calm, looking for moments of weakness and then making a comeback.
In 2013, Hoffman collaborated with a long-time psychiatrist who died of cancer, causing a devastating blow, and he fell out with a group of friends at Alcoholics Anonymous. What started out as just a glass of two glasses of wine in 2013 led Hoffman to re-infected with drugs because of his dependence on prescription drugs, for which he underwent a 10-day rehabilitation.
But the effect was clearly not achieved. Months before the accident, Hoffman had separated from his family and moved into an apartment two blocks away.
In January 2014, Hoffman filmed "The Hunger Games" in Atlanta, and just as everyone was preparing to wait for the end of the shooting to be in rehabilitation, he was photographed drinking unconscious on the plane.
On the evening of Feb. 1, $1,200 in cash was taken from an ATM machine at a grocery store and handed over to two men, who police suspected had supplied him with drugs.
On February 2, as agreed, he was supposed to pick up his three children, but did not show up that day. Accompanied by Hoffman's assistant, Isabella Win-David, screenwriter friend David Bar Katz came to Hoffman's residence, opened the door, and saw the last thing he wanted to see: Hoffman was dead in the bathroom wearing shorts and a T-shirt.
In the afternoon, hundreds of people spontaneously came to the apartment downstairs to observe a moment of silence, and neighbors also told reporters that Hoffman himself was very kind and often took his children to appear in coffee shops in the community.
Hoffman's death was officially ruled an accident and the cause of death was "acute mixed drug poisoning."
Good friend Kate Blanchett visited for the first time, and did not forget to bring a large bag of gifts to comfort the young children, and the friendship was evident.
Life came to an abrupt end, how fragile.
We think that gifted people are the chosen ones, but we never think about the price it will take to hone this talent.
For gifted artists, this kind of torture is often doubled: if you want to achieve the standard in your heart, you need the process of hanging the beam and stabbing the stock; if you don't do well, you have to accept the torture of the heart, the sensitivity and sensitivity alternate, self-affirmation and self-denial exist at the same time, which side is the real self, I am afraid it is difficult to distinguish.
Without a handsome appearance and a tall figure, Hoffman has no corners to hide and slack, and his bones are full of conceit and insecurity, and even if he succeeds, he suffers from loss. He told The New York Times: "I love acting, but that love comes at a cost: for me, acting is painful, and the pain is because you know it's a beautiful thing." The desire is simple, but wanting to excel is definitely a torture. ”
In a way, with each new role, Hoffman gives away a part of his real soul, and the film ends, pulling away the orange, and this sense of emptiness inevitably suffocates, which is the devil's deal.
"Sometimes I'm making movies and people ask me if I'm having fun. I want to tell them the truth: no, absolutely not. There's no fun in the role at all, and it's only when I'm done and I feel like I've done a good job and people recognize it, that's when I'm happy, and I'm very happy. ”
Charlie Wilson's War
The optimistic person sees that half a glass of water is enough, and the pessimist laments the lost half a cup. The struggle was felt by the people around him, and the writer John le Carré met Hoffman while filming his last film, The Most Wanted Man, and he was struck by Hoffman's wisdom and talent, but also felt the burden he was carrying: "It's a painful and exhausting job that may eventually destroy him." The world was too bright for him to control. ”
In a will made in October 2004, Hoffman left his approximately $35 million fortune to his partner, Mimi O'Donnell, who had been dating for years and had three children, namely son Cooper and two daughters, Tallulah and Willa.
Mimi is a costume designer by background, serving as an artistic director at the Labyrinth Theatre Company on Off Broadway, which Hoffman co-founded with actor friend John Ortiz in the 1990s.
Neil in Creed says, "What happened in the past has happened." "In the most lonely and nameless time, Hoffman did not recur, but he easily rowed into the abyss when everything was dark and bright, which is probably the tragedy of fate."
On February 5, 2014, Broadway commemorated Hoffman's one-minute dimming of lights and observed a moment of silence to mourn Hoffman's departure.
On February 7, 2014, his funeral was held at Santa Ignatius Loyola's Church in Manhattan, attended by many of the stars who had worked with him. Playwright Eric Bogosian read a eulogy for the friend: "In this creative world, how high the standards set for oneself are ultimately up to the artist himself." Phil set his standards at the highest level, the level above the highest level. He pushed himself relentlessly, and his efforts redefined acting, He wanted to rock the world. ”
Three weeks after Hoffman's death, screenwriter friend David Bar Katz founded the American Screenwriters Foundation, which awards authors of an unproduced screenplay $45,000 a year in honor of Hoffman's contributions to the profession.
The past cannot be changed, but we still have the present and the future.
Your end point is the starting point for countless people, thank you for coming.
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