When it comes to old drama bones, if it is in a Hollywood movie, then the first person who immediately jumps into Yunfan's mind must be Morgan Freeman. When Yun Fan first met him, like many people, he was in the IMDB rating and "The Godfather" movie "The Shawshank Redemption", with a unique magnetic voice, a slightly vicissitudes of melancholy eyes, and an approachable smile. The audience was immediately attracted to Morgan Freeman and wanted to listen to the story he told, which felt like a kind black big brother (uncle) telling you.
The Shawshank Redemption has become the number one in IMDB
It can be said that Morgan Freeman was born with the trait of quietly attracting the attention of others. Unfortunately, he was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor in the year of "The Shawshank Redemption", and if he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, the probability of success should be much higher. Combined with his 2005 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Million Dollar Baby. Two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor will take it a step further in its historical standing.
Stills from The Shawshank Redemption
Morgan Freeman's acting skills have long been highly recognized by many famous Hollywood directors, including Clint Eastwood, and one is widely regarded as his ability to play and integrate into any role, with the acting talent and personal charm of a powerful actor.
Morgan Freeman, Old Man, Kobe Bryant
Morgan Freeman's classic characters are mostly wise, tenacious, broad, and a little bit of black humor, and some of the dark-bellied loyal elders are the ones he does best and is the most successful of all his characters.
<h1>God appreciates food and eats When he was a teenager, he had a talent for acting</h1>
Morgan Freeman played the lead role in a school play at the age of 8. He won the Interstate Drama Competition at the age of 12 and performed radio plays in Nashville in high school. As a teenager, he showed a high talent for acting. It also has to do with his experience— his father was a shaver in Memphis, Tennessee, and his mother was a nurse's assistant and cleaner. Born on June 1, 1937, Freeman was the fourth child and elder of the family. Because of his family's poverty, most of his teenage years were memories of the large family's frequent moves for their livelihood and the endless quarrels of his parents forced to make ends meet, and he could only experience inner struggles and pain. Such a family life, which seems to have nothing to do with the performing arts, became the source of the wisdom of the market and the style of "extra precocious and seeing through the world" in his future performances.
In 1955, Morgan Freeman declined a scholarship to some of Jackson State University's plays and chose to become a mechanic in the U.S. Air Force (after his sexual harassment incident broke out, public opinion believed that he joined the army because the Air Force was more likely to girls). After retiring from the army in 1959, he went to Los Angeles Community College to study theater. After that, he had an illegitimate son, Alfonso Freeman.
<h1>Stage experience in middle age is honed</h1>
In 1967, Morgan Freeman made his debut in the black broadway version of the cabaret "I Love the Red Lady", and since then he has performed various types of plays on Broadway and on stages outside Of Broadway, from musicals to modern theaters to classical Shakespeare plays, and has created many roles.
After making a name for himself on Broadway, Morgan Freeman switched to television in 1971, and from 1971 to 1976 he starred as Mr. Good Reading on PBS's children's show for six years, although he starred in his first film, Who Says I Can't Drive a Rainbow. Although Morgan Freeman's work was sporadically seen in large and small screens throughout the 1970s, the roles he played lacked connotation, did not have shock, and did not have too prominent results. At this time, he was actually a bit like the time when Stephen Chow hosted the children's program "430 Shuttle" on TVB in Hong Kong.
<h1>Turn to movies and make a name for themselves</h1>
The transformation took place in 1987, when he played an underworld villain in Legends of Flower Street, and with his superb and solid acting skills, he received double nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award that year. This successful shift also allowed him to shift all his energy from film.
"Legend of Flower Street" received double nominations
In 1989, Morgan Freeman participated in the filming of the classic film "Driving for Miss Daisy", playing the loyal, honest, kind and brave old driver. That earned him a Golden Globe and a National Film Critics Award, and a second Academy Award nomination.
At this time, Morgan Freeman laid down his theme interpretation style, because his appearance is more baptized and tempered by the years, so he interprets more of a wide, deep, and storyd middle-aged and elderly black figure.
<h1>Rave reviews in the 90s</h1>
After entering the 90s, Morgan Freeman ushered in a period of explosion.
In Unforgivable (1992), Morgan Freeman played an upright, brave, and strong veteran Western gunner; the film was the first film in Hollywood "Old Man" Clint Eastwood to successfully "rush to Austria" (winning the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director at the same time), and also kicked off the good collaboration between Old Man and Morgan Freeman.
Unforgivable
Later, in Seven Deadly Sins (1995), Morgan Freeman succeeded in portraying the sober, calm, tangled, distressed old detective. Brad Pitt plays the role of a young and energetic cop. The excellent interpretation of Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt's "One Ice and One Fire", coupled with Kevin Spacey's god-level acting skills, makes the final shot of "Seven Deadly Sins" one of the most tense shots in film and television.
Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt "One Ice, One Fire"
Morgan Freeman is a master at shaping the emotions of small expressions and eyes, and the final shot is brad Pitt raising a gun several times to shoot Kevin Spacey's character, and the emotion of being on the verge of loss of control and collapse between the back and forth is completely played by Pitt. At this time, Morgan Freeman was calm and entangled, trying to stop Pete but a little unbearable, so from his eyes, the corners of his mouth, including the final swallowing of saliva, his entanglements are explained, which can be called textbook acting.
It is one of the most tense shots in film and television
Later, we will focus on "The Shawshank Redemption" (1994), which made Morgan Freeman nominated for the Academy Award for the third time, and this film has always been at the top of the IMDB list (United States) and Douban (China) list, although it was lost to "Forrest Gump" that year, but because of this, it is also considered by most people to be one of the "biggest pearls" of the Academy Awards, comparable to the defeat of "Citizen Kane" that year.
One of the "biggest pearls" of the Academy Awards
It was through this film that the vast majority of viewers came to know Morgan Freeman. In the film, he uses his super high level of acting skills to create a tangled character image who is full of hope for freedom but because he is discouraged by reality, he thinks that he knows reality deeply enough that he does not dare to have hope. It is precisely because this is incomparably the same as us in reality, so that the audience generally resonates, so it can be deeply rooted in people's hearts.
"Hope is a very dangerous thing!"
In The Shawshank Redemption, Morgan Freeman was overwhelmed by the unparalleled line basics honed through years of comedy, and his deep voice seemed to capture people's hearts as soon as it came out, so there was always his monologue in the film: "So, the day before the completion, the commuters of '49 sat in a pile at ten o'clock in the morning, drinking cold beer." The most ruthless prison officer in The History of Shawshank Prison invited guests... This king is also generous. The sun shines on the shoulders, as if it were a free man. It's like repairing your own roof. We are as free as the Creator. In Morgan Freeman's magnetic, warm monologue, it seems as if everything is so beautiful, and those people seem to be free and happy people, repairing their roofs and drinking cold beer.
Classic cinematic footage
<h1>Reached its peak in the 2000s</h1>
Many people may simply think that Morgan Freeman became famous because he hitched a ride on many classic movies. In fact, good movies and good actors complement each other. Morgan Freeman's criteria for selecting films are also very high, not to mention the literary, that is, most of the commercial films he participated in also have a good reputation and box office. For example, in 2003, he and Jim Carrey collaborated on "Fake Tenjin", which at one point almost made everyone believe that this was what Tenjin looked like, without any sense of violation at all. The film topped the North American box office in its first week of release, and the sequel became the week's box office champion again after its release in 2007.
Successfully shaped the image of the Black God
In 2005, Morgan Freeman's acting skills finally bore fruit – he and Clint Eastwood collaborated again, winning the 77th Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his film "Million Dollar Baby".
Finally got the award
In the film, Morgan Freeman uses his unique way to interpret the entanglement of forgiveness and let go of the difficult human choices, vividly telling the persistence and surprise of an elderly boxer who has entered the twilight of his twilight years when he returns to the boxing ring, which is very touching.
Later, in 2009, Morgan Freeman once again collaborated with the old man on the biographical film "Success in Man", this time playing the famous black president of South Africa, Mandela. Whether in terms of temperament or character image, Morgan Freeman has drawn closer to and paid tribute to real historical figures to the greatest extent, and used his superb acting skills to show Mandela's deeds and personality charm.
In November 2010, Morgan Freeman received the American Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award, the 39th filmmaker to receive the award, and on August 24, 2017, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 24th Screen Actors Guild Awards.
<h1>The 2010s facing accusations</h1>
Morgan Freeman's private life did not start from the beginning, he had two marriages, in 1979, he divorced Jenna, ending a 12-year marriage life; in 1984, he Wasa Collie Lee Mirna fell in love and entered the marriage hall, but after 26 years of married life, he announced his divorce in 2010. Today, Morgan Freeman is back to single life.
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On May 24, 2018, CNN's exclusive report put Morgan Freeman in the quagmire of scandal, and she was accused of sexual harassment by multiple women. As soon as this news came out, there was an uproar among audiences in many countries, and people said that it was difficult to accept.
Morgan Freeman is mired in scandal
At this time his public image and acting career were deeply affected, and in the words of Morgan Freeman, eighty years of life were destroyed in the blink of an eye. Whether this is true or not, his good image in everyone's mind is already in jeopardy, and he is in the predicament of a life that is not safe at a later stage.
But in any case, the classic image he plays in the movie, the various contributions he makes to Hollywood movies, is indeed the work of an "old" drama bone.