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Source/Hour Movie (ID: hizddy)
Today, to give you an hour of excitement, talk about the legend of Hollywood's top fox spirit.
She is the sexiest actress in Spain.
Eye-catching eyes, sexy lips, angular silhouettes.
Her beauty has a wild and uninhibited nature, which is unique in the world film world.
Her name was Penelope Cruz.
Few people can hold her beauty.
Even the Hollywood gods are overwhelmed.
Matt Damon, Nicholas Cage, Tom Cruise, Matthew McConaughey..... After filming with her, I was fascinated by the fans.
Even if you break up with the current one, you must be with her under the pressure of public opinion.
It is also for this reason that she is known as "the strongest three on the surface" and "Hollywood fox spirit".
If you think she's just a vase with a good intention, you're dead wrong.
The most infuriating thing is that there is no more beautiful soul than you, and works harder than you.
What does it mean?
In a word: she is the most powerful faction in Spain's artistic achievements.
Cannes, Venice film queen, Oscar actress, she is all in the pocket.
It's only a matter of time before the Grand Slams are.
Seeing this, you may not be able to help but ask, there are so many gossip objects, which is true love?
With so many awards, how many pounds of acting skills are there?
In order to reveal the mystery, Uncle Pickpocket will start today, the first half of the life of this "Hollywood's top fox spirit".
Born actor
Some people are destined to become actors.
Take Penelope Cruz, for example.
She was born in April 1974 in Madrid, Spain.
Her personality is very similar to her hometown temperament - bold, enthusiastic, unrestrained.
For reasons of personality, she has always dared to think and dare to do and fight for what she likes.
For example, her parents originally wanted to train her as a dancer.
But when she was a child, after accidentally watching the movie "Tie Me, Tie Me", she was obsessed with acting.
The film is about the sadistic love affair between a reckless orphan and a actress.
When she was only 16 years old, she was shocked by this beautiful and eerie narrative method, which then inspired her heart to be an actress.
In order to realize her dream of being an actress, she fought quite hard.
What if I was born in an ordinary person's home and have no connections or resources?
With her enthusiasm, she called a local brokerage company to compete for an audition.
Although the company rejected her no less than three times on the grounds that she was "too young".
But in her dictionary, the word was never abandoned so easily.
Continue to learn dance during the day and go home at night to contemplate the performance.
Finally, in 1989, her persistence dawned.
In a talent contest, she stood out from 300 girls with her outstanding appearance and temperament, and began to shoot MVs and TV series.
Years later, her agent recalled that draft:
"Of all the children, she is the most unique, as impressive as magic."
In the eyes of uncle pickpocket, her magic is a warm, unrestrained character.
Because this kind of personality, placed in the performance, means imagination and unfettered shaping space.
It can be said that these two qualities made her step into the film circle and achieve her status in the future.
Her famous work "Ham, Ham" is a literary and artistic film with a broken scale.
As a teenager, she broke the moral shackles with her naked flesh.
By interpreting the chaotic relationship between men and women, people reflect on the nature of love.
The film caused a sensation at that year's Venice Film Festival and eventually won the Best Picture Award.
Participating in a film for the first time can shine on the international stage.
Overnight, the world noticed this talented girl who dared to think and do it, including Hollywood.
Hollywood's top fox spirit
With her film debut, she became a darling of the Spanish film industry after becoming a hit.
It can be said that in the local literary and art films released in 1992-1998, her shadow can basically be seen.
It is particularly noteworthy that at the 66th Academy Awards, the film she starred in, "Lover of Four Thousand Gold", defeated "Farewell to the King" and won the Best Foreign Language Film Award.
At this time, Hollywood officially extended an olive branch to her.
Since the late 1990s, she has focused her work on the United States.
The titles of "Hollywood's top fox spirit" and "the strongest three on the surface" also began to circulate from this time.
Uncle Pickpocket summed up the next, her gossip object, there are such a few people.
The first gossip object: Matt Damon.
In 1999, the two played a couple in the movie "Horse".
At that time, Matt Damon was still in love with Winona Red.
As a result, after the film was made, the male protagonist immediately broke up and talked to Penelope Cruz about the underground affair.
The second object of the scandal: Nicholas Cage.
In 2000, the two co-produced the film "War Lover".
At that time, Kai Ge, who was in the middle of the day, could not resist the exotic style of Fanghua.
After the film was finished, I divorced my wife.
The third object of the scandal: Tom Cruise.
They met while filming Vanilla Sky.
However, it wasn't long before Atango divorced Nicole Kidman.
At that time, the media scolded Brother Tang for being blinded by the fox essence, abandoning the original match, and having no conscience. The fox in the media's mouth is Penelope Cruz.
This relationship was very noisy at the time, but Brother Tang completely ignored public opinion and talked with her for 3 years.
To what extent is her scandal exaggerated?
It's almost a movie to capture a male god.
Why are these men so obsessed with her?
In the view of the pickpocket, her wild and uninhibited wild beauty and free and free style of doing things are in strong contrast with the mainstream Hollywood aesthetic actresses such as Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron at that time.
This contrast, scarce and mysterious in Hollywood, makes male gods salivate.
However, her lace news came to an abrupt end in 2010.
That year, she married the Spanish actor Javier Baden and married a pair of children.
She was controversial in Hollywood because of the scandal.
For the matter of feelings, the uncle does not make an evaluation, and the truth is only known by the parties themselves.
What Uncle Pickpocket wants to say is that Penelope Cruz, who has just come to Hollywood, is not a vase that only hypes gossip.
On the contrary, she entered several American films in Hollywood, and the quality was very good.
For example, in "Midnight in Barcelona", she played a passionate, poignant, hysterical female painter who frantically probed the boundaries of male and female emotions.
Her acting style is very different from that of Hollywood actors.
The lust and wild beauty that came from European art films overshadowed the widow's limelight.
It was also because of this film that she beat Amy Adams and won the 81st Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Notably, she was the first Spanish actress to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Her on-screen charm not only overshadowed her widowed sister.
Even in the movie "Nine", with Nicole Kidman and Marion Godia on the same stage, I have not lost.
In the film, she magnifies her unpredictable sense of exoticity to the extreme. Every dance detail is interpreted as a fatal temptation.
Since then, she has officially become an Oscar regular.
Almodóvar's muse
After winning the Oscar, her popularity soared like a rocket.
Not only luxury endorsements flocked to her, but all kinds of Hollywood blockbusters also wanted to ask her to show her face.
Her most eye-catching achievement in the field of commercial films is the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series.
In the fourth film, she plays a pirate leader who lies and does not blink, and there are many funny scenes with Depp fighting wits and courage.
Starring in commercial blockbusters made her famous and became an international superstar.
But don't forget, she is an actress who debuted in large-scale European literary films.
Until now, she is still concerned about literary films, especially those in her hometown of Spain.
Speaking of which, it is necessary to mention her film mentor, Pedro Almodóvar.
Almodóvar is the most controversial, bold and interesting Spanish director in the world of cinema.
His works focus on the propositions of lust, religion, and violence, and are quite controversial.
Why say that Almodóvar was her film mentor?
Because when she was a child, it was inspired by the director's films that she had the idea of becoming an actor.
The bold and sharp expressions in Almodóvar's shots subtly affect her aesthetics.
Therefore, not long after her debut, she found Almodóvar to cooperate in the movie "Living Color".
Up to now, the two have cooperated on 8 films, becoming one of the strongest partners in the Spanish film industry and even the world film industry.
Between the cooperation too frequent, there is media speculation that they may be a couple.
But in the eyes of uncle pickpockets, the two are more like close friends who appreciate each other and achieve each other.
Specifically, Almodóvar has crowned her on the international film queen throne.
And she also contributed a vivid and unforgettable female image in the other's lens.
Uncle Pickpocket simply said two, which is a masterpiece of the partner.
The first was called "The Return", a film released in 2006.
She plays a working-class woman who has suffered a lot from her life and still does her best to protect her daughter.
It is hard to imagine that she, who is known for her sexy specialty, can use such simple and even a little vulgar lines and limbs to show the greatness of a mother after unloading her heavy colors.
The New York Times once praised without hesitation:
"After playing this character, Cruz can write her name at the top of any performance list today."
This film brought her the first Cannes film queen trophy.
The second is called "Parallel Mother", which is released this year.
With this film, she became the new Queen of the Venice Film Festival.
This time, Penelope Cruz starred as a single mother with an unexpected pregnancy.
By documenting her fertility process, the film combines the greatness of women with the historical pains of Spain, and tells people the importance of reconciliation with life and with history.
Looking back at the first half of her life, you will find that there is an obvious contradiction in her, and Hollywood has designed a soul-sucking position for her, but she is not willing to just make a vase.
She ignores the advantages of holding beautiful crimes, but instead uses European literary and artistic films to explore and present the different aspects of women.
Speaking up for women of different identities and classes is what she has been doing.
These female characters may be in the mire or struggling tenaciously, but they always shine with awesome tenacity.
This concern for women in the world and doubts about social issues is also a tacit understanding that she and Almodóvar have formed over the years.
Therefore, compared to the rumors of what fox essence and little three, Uncle Pickpocket prefers to call her a female artist.
In recent years, she has collaborated with ascetic directors such as Asha Farhati ("A Parting"), Mariano Cohen ("Outstanding Citizen"), and Olivier Assayas ("Cleaning").
The works to be screened next year are all art films focusing on women's issues.
In the post-epidemic era, there are really not many actresses like her who are willing to calm down and make literary and artistic films.
This side shows that her artistic ambitions are far more than just queens.
Uncle Pickpocket sincerely hopes that she can continue to interpret more women with realistic roots and social topics.
Thus enriching the meaning of female characters, and even women's films, on the world screen.