In 1905, Stockholm, Sweden, gave birth to one of the most unique goddesses in the history of cinema, Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo, whose original name was Greta Lovisa Gstaffson, was born into a poor working-class family in Stockholm, Sweden, and grew up shy. When her father died at the age of 14, she was forced to leave school to work in department stores and model for advertising; after being favored by director Stiller in 1922, Stiller gave her the name "Greta Garbo", and Garbo applied for a scholarship to the Swedish Acting School, and began her screen career.
When he was young, Garbo's life was not good, Sweden in Northern Europe was already cold, and starvation and freezing were common for Garbo. The father died early, the mother favored the son, the family was poor, perhaps the childhood was too miserable, and even if garbo grew up to live a rich life after becoming famous, there was often an indelible melancholy and sadness in his eyes.
In 1926, the silent film "Riptide" began filming, but the finalized heroine fell ill and the director had to change, so Garbo got the opportunity to star in her first Hollywood film, "Riptide". Director Stiller gives full play to his talents, the face of Garbo on the screen is sometimes mysterious and seductive, sometimes beautiful and elegant, very stylish, and the same period of actors squeezing eyebrows and making exaggerated performances are different, Garbo basically only relies on silent eye performance to let the audience perceive her emotions. At that time, American audiences had never seen such a mysterious actor, and Garbo's exoticism instantly ignited the heat of the audience, and people frantically bought tickets to enter the cinema to enjoy her unique beauty.
Later, the rise of sound films, in 1930, Garbo starred in her first sound film "Anna Christie", people have always been known for their mysterious voice is extremely curious about the voice of Garbo, the company's advertising slogan for its promotion is "Garbo speaks", so people flocked to the theater to wait for more than twenty minutes, Garbo appeared, "Give me a glass of whiskey, mixed with some ginger soda" The sentence came out, the audience laughed, people commented that her voice was like a piano like red wine, very in line with her mysterious personality.
In 1931, she starred in the spy film Matahali, in which she played a female spy from a foreign country. The film is based on the story of Marta Harley, a real spy who swept the world during World War I.
In the film, Greta Garbo successfully interprets black as a woman's classic, three-dimensionally presents her complex mentality, and in the exotic dance, the heroine makes the man fascinated, and is even willing to show the charm of her conspiracy and rebellion on the screen.
The appearance of the big back can be described as amazing, the hair is all combed to the back of the head, revealing a smooth and full forehead, a clean face, you can intuitively feel that her face can be described as a ghost, there is no trace of incongruity, both male fortitude, but also feminine femininity.
In 1933, in the movie "The Queen of Sweden", Garbo played the charismatic queen Christine. Garbo appeared on the screen for the first time in men's clothing, and the audience did not feel obtrusive at all, and the temperamental and neutral Garbo wore men's clothes no less than any man.
The dynamic Garbo looks more charming, her point-to-point performance has been praised by film critics, at the end of the film, the lover died of an injury, Garbo's face was full of sadness, confused and helpless like a little girl looked up at the sky, and then looked around, how to go in the future? She walked slowly toward the bow of the ship, looking expressionlessly into the distance, the wind blowing her hair, the camera slowly advancing, garbo's eyes with sadness, loneliness, confusion, determination and determination, the camera was frozen in this scene. This is the first "zero degree performance" in the history of film.
In the 1930s, Greta Garbo's influence reached its peak in Hollywood, and many stars regarded her as an idol, but despite this, countless glories added to garbo were still incompatible with those stars, she was lonely and eccentric, and kept her privacy very well, even the filmmakers did not know her phone number, and garbo on the screen practiced her mystery to the end, perhaps because of her personality, prematurely perceived the warmth and coldness of society, and the sadness of childhood could not be erased after becoming famous.
In 1941, Garbo chose to take the film after filming "Two-Faced Woman", and in 1954, in order to commemorate her film and television achievements, the Oscar specially set up a special award for her, the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Honorary Award, but she did not accept the award.
He died of pneumonia in New York on April 15, 1990, at the age of 84. In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Greta Garbo as the fifth greatest actress of a century.
Her acting career is only a dozen years, compared with the decades of performances of other actresses of the same period, Garbo's screen performance is very short, but she is like a shining meteor from people's hearts to leave endless reverie, although short but eternal.
A famous film critic once described her as the goddess of Nordic airborne Hollywood, and the gods inhabited her azure eyes.
Garbo's eyes are sometimes melancholy and sometimes indifferent, as if he is looking at the world that ordinary people can't see, his head is raised, his mouth is flicked, and his eyes are arrogant, which is a kind of beauty overlooking all sentient beings. Her curved eyebrows, wide brow bones, thin lips, and cool face have long been the model of Hollywood makeup in the last century.
Hollywood has spent a long time looking for another "Garbo", but to no avail, people know that Greta Garbo is unique.