Qianjiang Evening News hourly news reporter Wang Jiajia
On September 6, local time, Jean-Paul Belmondo, a French film star who starred in "Pierrot the Mad", "Exhausted", "Women are Women", "King of Kings", "This is Love" and other films, died at the age of 88.
Jean-Paul Belmondo was born on 9 April 1933 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, and his acting career is a microcosm of French cinema, his image represents the typical face of the Frenchman, and he has also been called "the ugliest beautiful man in France".
Jean-Paul Belmondo's father was a sculptor and his mother was a painter. As a teenager, he was passionate about sports and was particularly fascinated by boxing. I once fantasized about being a boxer in the future, so that today, decades later, when I think of boxing, my eyes will light up and I will sigh and say: "Ah, boxing, how good if I were Ray Hugh Robinson or Muhammad Ali!" ”
Later, his interest in the arts grew, and he was admitted to the Music and Drama School for specialized studies. After graduating from the school with honors in 1956, he toured various places with local amateur theater troupes. In the same year, he began to venture into the film industry and successfully starred in the "New Wave" film Exhausted (aka "Respite") produced by the modernist director Jean Luc Godard.
Belmondo is arguably one of France's best-known male film stars, with an acting career spanning 50 years. In the 1960s, Belmondo redefined the beauty of male stardom: masculinity, even a little evil.
His trademark crooked nose, stout body and smirky smile all led the way among the young French of the time.
Belmondo acted in more than 80 films during his lifetime and worked closely with french directors, from Truffaut and Godard to Claude LeLouch.
In 1958, after participating in some theatrical stage performances, Belmondo was given the role of Marcel Carnote's les Tricheurs, a small but impressive role, from which he was given the role of Godard's Exhausted.
Belmondo plays a vanity-loving, car-addicted car thief whose girlfriend is an American girl (Jane Siebo) who is just as crazy as him.
The somewhat nihilistic began to flee after shooting a policeman, and in the end, he himself was shot.
It was a revolutionary film in which Godard reconstructed the art of cinema with a variety of bold filming techniques. Some people say that since then, the movie, everything is different.
After the huge success of "Exhausted", Belmondo also became a hot A-list actor.
Later, he collaborated with Jean-Pierre Melville on Léon Morin ( prêtre (1961), Moderato cantabile (1960) with Peter Brooke , and Pierrot le fou (1965) with Godard.
In 1988, Belmondo won the César Award (an Oscar in France) for Claude Lelouch's film The Lion Sam, his last major success.
In 2016, the Venice Film Festival awarded him the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in recognition of his outstanding contributions.
After the news of the death of Jean-Paul Belmont, French President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Castell and others mourned him.
French President Emmanuel Macron said he would always be great. Jean-Paul Belmondo is a national treasure, personable, constantly laughing, loud voice, quick body, heroic majesty, familiar figure, tireless daredevil and language magician. He's made his character in 80 movies, and in him, we've all found ourselves.
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