The male protagonist of "The Sound of Music" has passed away! Aristocratic born handsome out of the sky, 90 years old also fascinated all sentient beings
author:British newspaper sister
On February 5, Eastern Time, Canadian-born actor Christopher Plummer Plummer died that night after accidentally slipping and hitting his head at his home in Connecticut, completing a 91-year long life.
One of Christopher's most well-known works is The Sound of Music. 56 years ago, he starred in the film Colonel Trapp, and collaborated with Julie Andrews to achieve a classic in the history of song and dance films.
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The older generation of European and American movie stars are all extremely beautiful and charming, and Christopher has naturally never dropped the chain. From stage to film, from musical to feature film, his career spans 80 years.
Turning over the story of 91 years, he is also as complex and wonderful as the roles he has played.
Christopher can be said to be a real nobleman. He was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1929 to a stock trader father and the granddaughter of Canada's first homegrown Prime Minister, John Abbott.
Shortly after his birth, his parents divorced, and his mother took him back to Montreal to join his mother's family. His father broke off contact with him after his divorce, and Christopher wrote about it in his 2008 memoir In Spite of Myself, and he and his father only met him twice later in his life.
As a beloved only child, Christopher learned to play the piano from an early age, and his initial plan was to become a professional player. But after starting school and getting exposed to theatrical performances, he developed a strong interest in playing others.
When a host once asked him why he was born in such a rich and prominent family, but he loved to work in a "grounded" performance, he replied: "Others are from frugality to luxury, but I am not, I just want to escape from them, from luxury to frugality, from rich to ratchet." ”
The nobleman who fell into the world began theatrical performances at school, and his early works included Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, the Shakespeare series, and later some musicals. But Christopher, who did whatever he wanted, was a little dismissive of the cabaret, because "it was easier to perform than to sing, so I stopped singing."
After graduating from high school, Christopher began touring with a low-budget theater company in Ottawa, and later went to Broadway to perform professional stage plays, and finally successfully received a film job.
With a noble origin, superior side face, charming temperament, rebellious bad boy's personality, such a golden collocation, how is the foreshadowing of the fire. But the noble prince is still his own way, his temper is quite impulsive, he does not like to expose, he does not give any face to unprofessional people, and his mouth is still quite poisonous: "I am not difficult to get along with, but I do not understand that I have a temper, I am completely impatient." ”
His patience ended up going to the film, and a very important partner, Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music.
The Sound of Music (1965) became a landmark work in the history of song and dance films. But many people don't know that Christopher, who has already decided not to act in song and dance dramas, when he received the script, belonged to the situation that the investors half pushed and half caught up with the horse.
He always believed that Colonel Trapp was a "walking dead-headed empty character" who played it very badly, but in order to fulfill his contractual obligations and respect for the heroine Julie, he tried his best to finish the role.
(The two sing "Something Good" in a moonlit courtyard)
Every song in "The Sound of Music" is acclaimed and acclaimed, and until now it is a must-sing song for many children learning vocal music.
Despite making such a film, Christopher later refused to talk about the film in many interview occasions, even in the 50th anniversary interview, or said, "I thought I would turn the page after the performance, how could I think it could be so hot for so many years?" ”
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Scolding, his friendship with Julie has become unforgettable for many people. In the decades after the end of the film, when the two were interviewed together or interviewed separately about this classic work and each other, they said that the two had actually fallen in love on the set, but neither of them had taken a step forward.
(Later, both of them started their own families and had families)
The intimacy of attending events when he was young, to the kisses and hugs when the white-haired man re-enacted film clips and collaborated on new plays, this spark lasted for more than fifty years and did not extinguish.
After Christopher's unexpected death, Julie quickly issued a mourning statement: "The world has lost a flawless actor, and I have lost a precious friend. I cherish the memories, humor, and joy of our collaboration over the years. ”
As Julie said, Christopher is a very good actor. In the last 20 years of his career, he has repeatedly climbed the peak, and he can control any role.
The Doctor in A Beautiful Mind:
Voiced for the adventurer in The Flying House:
In "Beginner", the 75-year-old man who came out after his wife's death:
That year, he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor with this film, breaking the record for the oldest award. When he went on stage to receive the award, he humorously ridiculed: "Dear you are only 2 years older than me, where have you been all these years?" ”
In this film, Christopher's performance can be described as superb, the 75-year-old uncle who came out after the death of his wife, at the end of his life, rediscovered himself and explored the determination of life, that spirit, very moving.
Later, Christopher also starred in the boss in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo":
In 2017, he was appointed to replace Kevin Spacey as Paul Getty of the Getty family in Money World.
At that time, the 88-year-old Christopher spent 2 days studying the script, and within 9 days, he entered the group to shoot his own part, whether it was business ability or professionalism, which shocked Hollywood.
In the "Sharp Blade Out of the Sheath", which was popular on the screen the year before, the role of the rich novelist who has insight into each family is also blessed by his performance, which makes the plot more suspenseful.
Asked why I'm still working at such an advanced age, Christopher replied, "In the last ten or twenty years, I feel like I've been born again every time I make a movie, so why not?" ”
If heaven also has a stage, then Christopher must have started to prepare new works, right?
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