What counterattack did the new Oscar actor Brandon Fisher play?

Author of this article: Li Xiaotian

If someone said a year ago, next year's Oscar winner was Brandon Fisher. It is estimated that the vast majority of people feel crazy.

Brandon Fisher? That buddy who has played "Tarzan" and "The Mummy"? He hasn't acted in anything for more than ten years, why is he? Besides, he hadn't been nominated for any awards before this? Such a person can actually win an Oscar?

As it turned out, it really was him, Brandon Fisher.

Once popular, and then once fell to the bottom for many years no one knows. As a result, as soon as he rose up, he actually soared into the sky. Brandon Fisher's life script is probably Hollywood's favorite inspirational story.

In the early years, "Tarzan" and "The Mummy" put Brandon Fisher on the top of Hollywood. Handsome and stylish, he should be hot when he looks at it. Moreover, the popular starring "Crash" also made him smell the Oscar, and the Oscar for Best Picture smoothly cut "Brokeback Mountain" under the horse. However, when everyone was expecting his new work, he accidentally disappeared. It was not until these two years that he debuted again, and mentioned in the interview that he disappeared because he was sexually assaulted by the big guy of the Golden Globe Organizing Committee, and then banned him. It's not that he doesn't want to act in movies, but he can't get calls from film dealers anymore. The sinister extent of Hollywood can be seen. In addition, the injuries left by the shooting of action movies in his early years are also tormenting him. In this way, more than ten years have passed. During this time, he also experienced the death of his mother. A series of bad things caused him to suffer from depression and physical changes.

When he opted for a comeback, his figure had become quite bloated. And it is precisely this feeling of bloat that has attracted the attention of "Black Swan" director Darren Aronofsky, who directly selected him to play the film that he has long wanted to shoot but has never been able to find a suitable actor, that is, "Whale".

And then we saw miracles. saw Brandon Fisher unexpectedly win the Oscar. I also saw that after Darren Aronofsky put Natalie Portman on the Oscar podium, he once again sent another actor to the top of the Oscar.

So, what kind of story does "Whale", which won the Oscar and Best Makeup, tell?

Some have compared "Whale" to "Manchester by the Sea" because they both tell a sad story, a sad and dull theme, a topic about abandonment. Moreover, both films bring a young actor who has not won an award before to the top of the Oscar. Brandon Fisher did not win before winning the award, and Cassie Affleck also remained silent before winning the award.

In this comparison, there is really a little similarity, but the story is completely different.

"Manchester by the Sea" tells the story of a father who, due to his negligence, accidentally knocked down a candlestick after drinking, resulting in a fire in his home and one of his children burned alive. Since then, the man has fallen into a deep sadness and despair, he chooses to give up on himself, sink into poverty, live lovelessly, live like the walking dead, mourn and mourn.

The story of "Manchester by the Sea" is relatively simple, and more relies on acting skills to support the direction of the story. The story of "Whale" is relatively complicated, and the test of acting skills is not as good as the former, which is why Brandon Fisher's award is not as indisputable as Cassie Affleck.

Don't rely on acting, the rest depends on the plot. In fact, "Instantaneous Universe" also relies on the changeability of the script to show the different aspects of the character, rather than simply showing the complexity of the character, Michelle Yeoh has no acting skills at all. Although most of the scenes in "Whale" take place in a house, if the story line is lengthened, it is not simple, and several characters have their own stories behind them, which is worth playing.

Charlie, a man played by Brandon Fisher, abandoned his family and daughter for his love 9 years ago. At that time, my daughter was only 8 years old. Since then, Charlie has not seen his daughter again, and will only pay the mother and daughter living expenses every month.

The ex-wife grew up with her daughter, which was not easy and had a very difficult life. To add insult to injury, the daughter became more and more disobedient, and gradually became a problem girl who did not obey discipline, which made her mother and school exhausted. The ex-wife feels that the root of all the bane stems from Charlie's abandonment of his wife and son, and that his disregard for the children is all his fault.

And the love that Charlie pursues is a homosexuality. His lover is an American Alan. Allen's homosexual behavior humiliated his conservative Chinese family, so he insisted on throwing him out of the house and never asking him whether he was alive or dead.

Allen, who was kicked out of his home, was devastated, and after a while, he chose to commit suicide.

For Charlie, he chose to abandon his wife and daughter for Allen, thinking that he would live happily with Allen. But I never expected that Allen chose to commit suicide.

Charlie made a choice for love, but did not expect that this choice would ruin two families. Your own family is torn apart, as is your lover's family. And the lover died, and he didn't catch anything.

Did Charlie make the wrong choice?

Charlie fell into despair.

He felt unloveable, no longer caring for life, no longer cherishing the individual. The result of sinking is to eat himself into a big fat man of more than 500 pounds, and even the most basic life is in trouble, until he is on the verge of death.

The above is the background of the story of "Whale".

What "Whale" really wants to tell is the story of the last five days of Charlie's life. The whole film tells the story of the people and things that happened to him and around him in the past five days.

In 5 days, he actually contacted 5 people. One of them is a delivery boy, and more often than not, they talk through a window. When the delivery man really saw Charlie's appearance, he chose to despise and flee. The influence of this person on Charlie can be ignored. As for those students who taught online, they were vague shadows, and they were nothing.

The remaining 4 people are the most important people in the last moments of Charlie's life.

One of them was Liz, a volunteer who volunteered to come to Charlie's door. She knew that Charlie had no money, so she chose not to send him to the hospital, but just to accompany him, so that he could have dignity in the last moments of his life and try to stay happy, and die a relatively less tragic death.

However, Liz is not a simple volunteer. She is the sister of Charlie's dead lover, Ellen, and his sister-in-law, and she came to care for Charlie, largely because of her brother Alan. When Alan was kicked out of the house, Liz was the only one who still kept in touch with her brother, and the only one who was still taking care of him. When her brother died, she transferred her brother's to Charlie to take care of Charlie on her own duty.

In Liz's body, you can fully see the brilliance of human nature. The performance of Chinese actor Zhou Hong, who plays Liz, is also quite eye-catching, and he has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Almost all the touching moments in the whole film are basically contributed by Zhou Hong. She played the image of a Chinese woman with simple, generous, generous, benevolent qualities, which is moving.

There is also Charlie's daughter Ellie. After being abandoned by Charlie for 9 years, she suddenly contacted her and came to visit her father impatiently every day. A big reason is that Ellie is on the verge of being expelled, and the school needs her to catch up with a new paper, and only if she is passed, can she continue to go to school. Charlie promised to help Ellie write the paper.

What's more, Charlie earned $100,000 through online classes. Originally, he could have used it to improve his living conditions and take care of his bloated body, but he didn't, and instead put all the money into Ellie's account. After Ellie came to see Charlie, she also had the problem of confirming the whereabouts of the 100,000 cash.

Ellie has a heart for Charlie to abandon her, and she can't let go, so when she faces Charlie, she has always picked her nose and raised her eyes, all kinds of unaccustomed looks, and maintains a problematic style.

There is also one, Charlie's ex-wife. The ex-wife's role is not too much, the role is to supplement, through her mouth, it can be regarded as helping everyone clarify the dispute between the two in the early years, and also clarify the situation of their daughter Ellie.

The last person Charlie faced in his life was Thomas, a missionary who accidentally broke into his home. Thomas was struggling to get himself on a plane that day, when Thomas accidentally broke into his home. Then, as a missionary, Thomas realized that he was able to break into Charlie's house, and it must have been God's revelation to help Charlie. So, Thomas kept coming to Charlie's house, bent on preaching to Charlie, and bent on giving Charlie's so-called help.

As a result, Thomas is also a man with a story. In his church, he was tired of the pastor's hypocritical missionary skills, thinking that standing on a street corner and handing out leaflets to passers-by would be a missionary and a help. Later, he took the initiative to go into his family to preach, but was reprimanded by the pastor. In a fit of anger, he swept the church's money and ran away, a total of more than 2,000 yuan.

Thomas took the money and wandered aimlessly, only to accidentally break into Charlie's house. Then he desperately wants to prove himself through Charlie. So, again and again, he broke into Charlie's house. Despite Liz's repeated rebukes, Charlie repeatedly stated that he did not need to be preached, and Ellie did not like him.

Thomas persisted in vain until he ran out of stolen money and it was time for the mountains to run out. Finally, under Ellie's pressure, she finally couldn't hold back, crying bitterly, and at a loss.

As a result, Ellie recorded Thomas's words and sent them to his mom and his church. His mother quickly forgave him, saying that it was only 2,000 yuan, and his son's health and safety were the most important thing, don't wander outside, and go home quickly.

Thus, "Whale" also came to an end. Although no one knows that Ellie is helping him or fixing him by sending the video of Thomas back to his family and church. In short, Thomas can go home with a good result. For Charlie, he saw the same result, seeing Ellie help others. Charlie firmly believes that Ellie is not a bad boy and has always been the best and brightest child in his mind.

In Charlie's eyes, no matter what Ellie becomes, in his opinion, Ellie is still innocent at the age of eight.

In the end, Charlie saw her transformation and growth in front of Ellie, and then left this world with confidence, dragged her heavy shell, soared up, and merged into heaven.

After talking about the 5 people Charlie met in the last 5 days of his life, he returned to Charlie. Although he looks fat, in his eyes, Charlie always has a pair of gentle eyes, looking at Ellie kindly, looking at Liz, and also looking at Thomas. No matter how Ellie and his ex-wife treated him, they always looked at them tenderly, and then treated them gently.

Charlie knows that he is a person who makes a wrong choice, and he has lived in hatred for a long time, and he has lived in self-blame for a long time. In the last moments of his life, he was left with only one concern for his daughter, and he was bent on leaving a sum of money for him.

People are dying, but they are still thinking about others, and they care for the people they think are most important with the last tenderness. Charlie is really a sad and gentle person, which makes people suffocate and careful.

Charlie did something wrong, but he just wanted to pursue his love, and did not harshly offend anyone, nor did he calculate anyone. It's just that his choice has caused harm to others. But this was not his intention, he was also remorseful and remorseful, and eventually died on this complex.

In short, a sad person, a sad story.

As for Brandon Fisher, it's hard to say how good his acting skills are, because dragging a thick fake belly, his movements are not free, and his facial expressions cannot be fully displayed, so how else can he show his acting skills? The only thing to say is that his eyes are really gentle and show a strong acting state. There is nothing wrong with being able to win an Oscar, after all, the other people nominated for the same list are not acting well.

As for "Whale", you can still watch it, it's not particularly good, but it's always not bad.