There's a famous saying in Hollywood: Don't play against children or animals.
The reason is simple, both of them know the true meaning of performance, that is, one word: true. They or they don't pretend, any expression is from the heart, moody and sad, do whatever you want. Maybe it will ruin the whole film, but maybe it will bring an unexpected glimpse. From this point alone, it is difficult for adult actors to surpass.
So the audience likes to use words like aura, talent, and natural nature to describe child stars, and when such cute and childish and sincere faces are presented on the screen, no one can refuse their expression.
Unfortunately, no one can keep the innocence forever. Child stars always have to grow up. What will be the fate of children who grow up in Vanity Fair?
Hailey Joe Osmond, born in California in 1988, took over the Pizza Hut commercial at the age of four and appeared in front of the public.
He has a very unique pair of smiling eyes, happy like a hook moon, full of twists and turns, but it is a different look, and the big and round pupils are like ignorant deer, Chuchu pitiful.
His performance is undoubtedly impressive. The following year, Hailey appeared in "Forrest Gump", not a small role in soy sauce, but a childhood version of the protagonist, Forrest Gump.
With this film, Haley won the Young Star Award and the Young Artist Award that year, and began to be known.
That same year, he also played the great-grandson of Edward Asner in the TV series Thunder Alley.
Because of his remarkable comedic talent and perhaps his beautiful smiling eyes, Haley took on two more sitcoms after Thunder Alley, and then Norman Jevison chose him to play the lead role in the movie Mommy Is Crazy, working with French national treasure actor Gérard dePardieu and The Funny Black Actress in the United States, Ubi Goldberg.
Haley easily played the dramatic role, although it wasn't as easy as it was.
The play thus became Hayley's official masterpiece, and as the absolute protagonist, his clean and clean performance without any traces surprised everyone.
The scene where he plays magic in the film is so beautiful.
However, this was not Hayley's brightest moment.
In 1999, "The Sixth Sense", the favorite thriller suspense film voted by the American audience that year.
In every way, the film is too classic, and the reversal at the end brings together the power that the whole film has accumulated from the beginning, giving all the viewers (including myself) a first blow, so that so that so many people are almost out of breath.
Two years later, "Isle of Horror" obviously learned the essence, but that is an afterthought.
Back to "The Sixth Sense", the male protagonist of this film is a member of the Hollywood 20 million film club that year, Bruce Weasley. Mike, who plays him, is a well-known child psychologist, but he also has a case of failure that has never been cured, so he has a hidden disease in his heart.
Hayley's boy Cole is one of his patients, and Mike is particularly patient with him because of his similarities with the previous failure. Cole is not easily accessible, but Mike slowly gains his trust and learns a big secret. It turns out that Cole has a supernatural sixth sense and can see ghosts.
Here we will mention Haley's acting skills.
I can see the GHOST……
When he stared at the camera with tear-filled eyes and whispered this line with trembling lips, none of the audience outside the camera held their breath.
It's hard to say what this moment feels like. Horror, surprise, sympathy, pity, such emotions do not seem to be, but with a little bit.
As unbelievable as this is, Mike helps Cole accept the truth after confirming the truth.
But the story is far from over. As mentioned earlier, the final reversal is the big climax.
Only when you see the ending, do you know that although this film is marked with horror, the rhythm has always been soothing and melodious, and I understand where the lingering warmth and light sadness that permeate the whole film come from.
There are no spoilers here, but I have to say that Bruce, who has always shown the image of an action star, contributed an extremely difficult but measured performance to this film.
As for Haley.
A gifted child star, flawless and surprising.
These almighty praises also do not describe his well-textured performance in the film. At the beginning of the film, the high distrust and high fear of people in the world lead to the indifference and blandness of adults on his childish little face. When Mike entered his heart, the seemingly friendly relationship made him let go of the knot, but in the eyes of the other party, there was inevitably compassion.
In the film, two people, one big and one small, walk together on the boulevard, and the sun shines all over the body, making people relax at the same time, involuntarily tugging at their hearts.
The film received six Oscar nominations and two Golden Globe nominations, with Hailey among them. For his exquisite and transparent glass ball-like acting skills, he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
Although he lost in the end, he also gained the respect of his predecessor opponents, and the winner Michael Kane praised him: "When I knew you were nominated and saw your performance, I knew you would win." ”
After accumulating a stunning experience in "Attack on Pearl Harbor" and "Let Love Pass Out", Haley joined "Artificial Intelligence", a futuristic science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg, co-starring with Jude Law.
The background is set in the future of highly developed science and technology, robot manufacturing technology is at its peak, and advanced robots not only have a human appearance that can be chaotic, but also perceive their own existence.
Seems a bit of a Blade Runner meaning ha?
Machine awakening, human self-help, stream-of-consciousness, steampunk?
Slow down, stop!
"Artificial Intelligence" does not have the above, to say that there is also a little bit of touch, that is, the awakening of the machine, for love, in order to get the love of human beings.
Haley's story can be summed up in one sentence: The Little Robot Finds Its Mother.
Blonde, a gentle little boy with a pair of talking eyes, who will love and trust their parents as initiators after being started with the initial procedure. However, human feelings are fickle and difficult to understand, is it like a machine?
The little boy's torment in order to get his mother's love is unbearable, but the ending is really tear-jerking.
The little robot chose to sink to the bottom of the sea, and when he was awakened, it was already an era of human extinction and robot domination.
Did his love for his mother be extinguished? Under the wreckage of time and the teasing of fate?
Not really.
The kind robot virtualized the day of the little robot's reunion with his mother, and he finally found the dream in his heart for two thousand years: a mother who belonged to him completely, a mother's love without distractions.
It's no exaggeration to see that I've lost a whole pack of tissues here.
Haley was amazing.
Behind his meek smile is a hidden self-knowledge, sweetness and pain come at the same time, and he bears it wholeheartedly.
Who could have imagined that such a heavy feeling, a little boy would be a few words of light wind and clouds, a laugh, and then all of them would be put out?
I thought that "The Sixth Sense" was the limit, but I didn't expect that "Artificial Intelligence" was better.
For the film, Haley won the Saturn Award for Best Young Actor.
For a time, the whole world opened its arms to Haley.
In 2003, Haley co-starred with former award contender and appreciator, Michael Kane, in "The Second Hand Lion King", with another Hollywood superstar, Robert Dugal.
The story of the eccentric old man and the child is always full of fun, the two old men play very high, somehow, the child star is a little inferior.
In addition, I have to admit that with the passage of time, the appearance of little Hailey seems to be gradually moving towards loyalty and honesty, fortunately, the iconic crooked smiling eyes are still there.
Over the next few years, Haley seemed somewhat obscure, and perhaps because of that, he made a surprising decision.
In 2007, Haley entered the art performance class of New York University, and returned to the show business after three years of silence.
Unfortunately, when the time passes, it will not come back, and the so-called things and people are not, but so.
His acting career has not made great progress, and he has fallen into the strange circle of child stars who are difficult to become popular again after they become adults.
The little robot has been sleeping at the bottom of the sea for two thousand years, and after waking up, he still maintains his original intention, but he does not know, will the world in front of him be as open to him again as it was then?