Cover of Steve McQueen's biography
Steve McQueen is the predecessor of The Prison Break (2005), steve McQueen is known as the number one tough guy in the history of Hollywood cinema in the United States! The first person in a Hollywood movie to perfectly combine the image of a brave hero with an unruly angry youth may be steve McQueen. When he first debuted, his untamed temperament was reminiscent of the prodigal son James Dean, who liked to speed the car, but the iron man on the screen was difficult to compare with Paul Newman.
Hollywood figures of the 1960s and 1970s (from left to right): Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Barbara Streisand, and Sidney Poitier
It may be related to the "colorful" life experience of Steve McQueen as a child, whose real name is Terence Steven McQueen, who was born in Montana, Missouri or Indiana, and has not yet been decided.
The stunt artist's father took his mother and son everywhere to beg for a living, but when Steve McQueen was only six months old, he left his wife and children and ran away, and has not been heard from since. Steve McQueen, on the other hand, was a "problem child" from an early age, having been arrested four times in large and small cases, and then had to be sent to a juvenile correctional institution to finish junior high school, including three escapes.
Photo of Steve McQueen's arrest for drunk driving in 1972
At the age of 15, he lied about his age to become a sailor, and after two years of adventure at sea, he went ashore to find a porn bar as a waiter, and then was called into the army, and often took the lead in the army and became a thorn in the eyes of the commander. After retiring from the army and trying a variety of physical occupations, he went to apply for drama school again, and out of three thousand people, he became one of the last seventy-two people to be admitted. After graduation, Steve McQueen spent a long time on Broadway, playing some dragon set roles until the TV series "Life and Death Hunt Wanted: Dead or Alive" that made him popular. Although he was ridiculed as an "orangutan face" during the audition, this "orangutan face" was so popular that the TV series also shot more than ninety episodes from 1958 to 1961.
Steve McQueen photo taken by Steve McQueen following James Dean's style
He soon caught the attention of Western director John Sturges, who invited him to play important roles in Battlefield Monsters/ Never So Few (1959) and Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai/Seven Heroes Of The Magnificent Seven (1960), based on Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai/Seven Samurai(1954). A series of ensuing war films allowed him to make a big splash, such as the unspeakable lieutenant of the sea in The Honeymoon Machine (1961), the unspeakable but beautiful lieutenant in Assault on Devil's Ridge/Bunker Bloody Battle Hell Is for Heroes (1962), and other films in which he became a soldier who raided the enemy line with a crime.
Male stars such as Steve McQueen (second from left) and Yut Bernner (right) James Cubburn (third from left) take a nap on the set of The Magnificent Seven (1960).
Although Steve McQueen was keen to play the role of the young and lively Chico in The Seven Dragons, the final director John Sturges had a German actor, Horst Buchholz, play the fleshy Mexican.
Eli Varach played Calvera, the leader of Mexican bandits, who later became a stage actor. At first, he showed some hesitation, because Calvera's role was relatively small, but he later found that even if he did not appear on the scene, other characters in the play would often mention him during the filming process.
The Great Escape (1963) american Blu-ray edition of the film
Soon, Steve McQueen began to become the top movie star, in 1963 John Sturges began to make a big production of "The Great Escape / Victory Escape / The Great Escape of the Third Concentration Camp" (1963), this prisoner of war escape movie in the huge production, the star cast is at its peak, Steve McQueen played by the American prisoner of war in the plight still insists on the pursuit of freedom, despite several tribulations but never give up, The indomitable spirit shown in the film also makes this character one of the most attractive screen images.
I believe that many Chinese born in the 1970s have seen a film about Allied prisoners of war during World War II, who used the opportunity to escape from a prisoner of war camp during World War II, "Victory Escape/ Victory Victory Victory" (1981), in which Sylvester Sylvester Stallone also played a supporting role.
Stills from the movie The Great Escape (1963).
This "Great Escape" is not the other "Great Escape", and audiences accustomed to watching the reunion ending may be very disappointed with Steve McQueen's film - the same story of the escape of prisoners of war in World War II, the prisoners of war in "The Great Escape" are more well prepared, more rigorous, longer, more twists and turns, and they also "triumphantly" escaped, but most of the escaped prisoners of war were eventually captured and then killed by the Nazis.
In the film, Steve McQueen plays the only American soldier in a prisoner-of-war camp who gets a motorcycle on the way to escape in an attempt to escape the Nazi pursuit and cross the Swiss border. After many shocks, the tough guy still failed, but his last motorcycle chase also became a classic.
Steve McQueen and later wife Ellie McGuaugh Ali MacGraw starred in Sam Pegginfa Sam Peckinpah's film Outlaws/ The Getaway (1972)
Although this film does not overly idealize and romanticize the story of ordinary people's pursuit of freedom, it is always faithful to reality in the calm rhythm, but it highlights the tragedy of these ordinary heroes, making people lament that people's perseverance and desire for freedom are the most powerful weapons in adversity. Although this acclaimed film did not win the Oscars, Steve McQueen unexpectedly won the best actor at the Moscow Film Festival, and also marked the foundation of his superstar status.
In addition to making hero films, Steve McQueen did not act in many literary films, and "Stranger's Love/Dry Wood Fire Love With the Proper Stranger" (1963) can be regarded as one of the best works, in which he played a young musician who helped a female clerk to have an abortion, and in the end, although nothing worked out, they fell in love for a long time, and the two eventually married. Soon he returns to the heroic films he is familiar with, and in "Revenge of the West/Nevada Smith," the prodigal son of the West (1966), he is alone to avenge the murderer of his parents.
Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman co-starred in the movie poster for the prison break movie Papillon Papillon (1973).
In 1968, he collaborated with the elusive Faye Dunaway on Thomas Crown Affair (1968), in which they wrestled with each other and the film was brilliant, and in 1999 Hollywood brought in Pierce Brosnan to remake the film. In 1972, he and his future wife, Ellie McGuo, Ali MacGraw starred in Sam Pekinpah's "The Getaway" directed by Sam Pekinpah, in which the two played the role of an outlaw duck who evaded the pursuit, in addition to the wonderful violent scenes, interspersed with the depiction of husband and wife, the helplessness of the desperate world is very touching.
The Barbilon/Alcatraz Pavillon (1973) film in which Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman co-starred in the prison escape film, in which the two are prisoners, steve McQueen plays the wrongful death row inmate, who yearns for freedom, and after more than a dozen failed escapes, he is still not discouraged, jumping into the sea again and again. Although he was already white-haired, he was still not discouraged, and finally escaped with a bag of coconut shells. In the film, a cadre of criminals is like a hemp, coupled with the majestic waves, the cliffs are thousands of feet, and the majestic momentum is reflected in the protagonist's indomitable will.
Steve McQueen and Paul Newman were filmed on location in The Towering Inferno (1974) in Burning Skyscrapers/Skyscrapers on Fire
"Babylon" was a great success, and steve McQueen's character did not fall into the face of adversity, and the heroic image can be said to be popular. The film has been hailed as "the greatest prison escape film in film history", and the heroic image of Steve McQueen has become an immortal classic.
Steve McQueen's production declined, but several films such as The Towering Inferno (1974), The Hunter/Hero/Tom Howe Horn (1980), and The Hunter (1980) remain impressive. In fact, Steve McQueen suffered from lung disease during this time, and although he firmly denied it, the news of his lung cancer had already spread.
But the fire captain and architect in "Burning Skyscrapers" are also friends and enemies, and Paul Newman and Steve McQueen on the screen are also at odds with each other - in 1969, Steve McQueen, who was scheduled to star in "Tiger and Panther Little Bully Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", was angry because the filmmakers refused to list his name before Paul Newman on the cast list.
Steve McQueen with Hollywood actress Natalie Wood
In "Burning Skyscrapers", Steve McQueen did not change his original intentions, requiring the same salary as Paul Newman, the same role, the same number of lines of lines (forcing the writer on vacation to rush back to the company to change the script all night), and to be in the first line of the cast list. The company had to adopt a compromise policy, labeling Paul Newman in the top right and Steve McQueen in the bottom left, so that Reading from right to left was Paul Newman first, and reading from left to right was Steve McQueen first, although the actual effect was that Paul Newman's name jumped into view first.
Fortunately, of all the films that were shot and released that year, "Burning Skyscraper" had the most outstanding commercial record. The film eventually grossed ten times the cost and is still one of the fifty highest-grossing films of all time.
Steve McQueen and his wife, Nelle Neile, shot a cover life feature for Life magazine in 1963
Steve McQueen himself said that if he hadn't become an actor, he would probably have become a street jerk. In the last year of his life, he also made two films in the face of lung cancer, and did not give up the struggle against fate until his death.
Steve McQueen has a fatal attraction to both male and female fans, and his perfect image is not only the object of women's sex, but also the object of American men's boasting, not only that, Steve McQueen is also a selfish sex conqueror. He often mediated among a bunch of actresses as the embodiment of free sex, and some even pointed out that Steve McQueen's attitude toward sex was too arrogant and always needed an audience. However, Steve McQueen did not die of venereal disease, and in 1980 Steve McQueen died of lung cancer at the age of 50.
A rare group photo of Steve McQueen and Master Bruce Lee
When Steve McQueen was young, he studied Shaolin boxing under the famous Bruce Lee, who was not yet famous and still starred in the American TV series "The Green Hornet" (1966).
In a book called Steve McQueen: King of Cool—Tales of a Lurid Life, Steve McQueen once said of the book's author, "I used to think Paul Newman was arrogant. When I finally laid him flat on the bed, I taught him who a man is. Among them, Steve McQueen's comments about Paul Newman have led many people to speculate that Paul Newman and Steve McQueen were gay before they died. But Paul Newman hasn't had any intimate relationships with any male celebrity since his relationship with James Dean and Marlon Brando.