"Let us not take for granted what the earth has given us, just as I will not take tonight's honor for granted."
--Leonardo DiCaprio
When "Titanic" chose the male lead, the crew found a group of young handsome men, including Matthew McConaughey and Chris O'Donna, and of course, Leonardo DiCaprio, for the director to choose.
Titanic
Matthew McConaughey
Chris O'Donnell
Leonardo
Cameron didn't like Leonardo at first, feeling that the 22-year-old was masculine enough: "He looks too thin, doesn't look like a male protagonist, and doesn't look pretty enough." ”
It was only considering that the psychotic teenager he played in "A Different Sky" and the high school athlete who was addicted to heroin in "The Edge Diary" were both very weighty that this interview was born.
"A Different Sky"
The Edge Diary
Something strange happened, and Cameron found that all the female employees had run over, including the accountant and the secretary.
He asked Leonardo to sit by the window and carefully observe the effect of the sunlight on his face.
The young actor became a handsome luminous body that captivated the whole room.
Immediately, Cameron said: "I began to realize that he might indeed be extraordinary. ”
Stranger things are in the back.
After the meeting, Cameron arranged for Winslet to fly in from England to confront DiCaprio.
Leonardo and Winslet
Leonardo became famous for many years, was nominated for an Oscar at the age of 19, and his stardom in Hollywood was very good, and it was inevitable that he would be a bit arrogant.
When Cameron handed him a script, Leonardo said, "I never do the lines. ”
Cameron shook his hand, thanked him for coming, turned and left.
Leonardo and Cameron
"Wait," said Leonardo, "you mean I don't think about me if I don't have a line?" ”
Cameron said yes.
He reluctantly agreed to play a play with Winslet.
He shrank into the rehearsal room, lit a cigarette, and casually glanced at the script.
Then half-lying on the couch, he turned to face Winslet.
As soon as Cameron shouted, DiCaprio turned jack.
"He's suddenly the guy you see in the movie," Cameron said, "and his performance is so wonderful." He was the man I wrote about. And you can see Kate's response and see how he inspires her performance. It's a momentary tacit understanding, an instant character creation. ”
The scene ended, as suddenly as it began, and DiCaprio immediately collapsed back on the couch.
After this shot, Winslet whispered to Cameron, "Even if you don't invite me, you must ask him." ”
"Titanic" later became a global hit, and Leonardo set up thousands of pets in one, setting off a human frenzy everywhere he went.
But popular idols are not Oscar's dish.
At that time, film critics recognized that they wanted to take the film emperor and rely on a beautiful face? No way.
You have to make me feel your awe for movies and your research on acting.
A man surrounded by money and beautiful women who wants to win an Oscar is also naïve.
In this way, the Success is also the Titan, and the defeat is also the Titan.
This sparkling actor was included in the category of box office stars by the Oscars.
Leonardo was certainly not convinced.
He wants to win an Oscar, he can't do Dustin Hoffman or Sean Pan, and he has to try to show the old men: old and undead, who says I can't act, let's walk and see!
What is the Oscar Jury?
Mysterious that it is called a mystery, comparable to the Skeleton Society, racing over Keb.
They don't make it public, they don't show their faces, and their names, phone numbers, and house numbers are almost unknown.
In 2012, the US media conducted an in-depth investigation, and it was said that the average age of these judges was 62 years old, and a large part of them were veteran filmmakers at the level of "lifetime achievement".
Have long since stopped caring who is handsome and not handsome, let them chase the stars like us? Oh, boy, you are still a pattern.
From 1983 to 2016, he spent almost 23 years proving his acting skills to the jury.
Based on the fact that Oscar likes "perverts" and tends to be an actor who "suffers" for the role or plays a "sick human", leonardo's choice of roles is all bitter.
The judge likes the sadistic and labor-intensive role, he acted in "The Aviator", but unfortunately the acting skills are too strong, and the Oscar is no longer willing to be further recognized except for a nomination;
The judge likes the role of split personality, he acted in "Forbidden Island", but the producer temporarily postponed the file, making him become cannon fodder for the Oscars;
The judges like simple and crisis-like performances, he acted in "Revolutionary Road", and the result was nominated for a male supporting actor, but still found nothing;
The judges like high-IQ brain-burning men, he acted in "Inception", but the film was directly ignored by the academics;
The judges liked the adaptation of famous books, he acted in "The Great Gatsby", but was still empty-handed when nominated;
The judges like biography, he acted in "Hoover" and "Django in Liberation", and he hated that every close-up shot said "I will act" on his face, but he was repeatedly rejected by the Oscar "Best Actor".
Hoover
Django the Liberated
The judges like breakthrough acting skills, he acted in 2013's "The Wolf of Wall Street", deliberately blessed, naked and selling, opening his mouth is rude.
But in the eyes of the jury, it was still too impetuous and too young.
In the face of repeated furrowing, roaring, and punching, Leonardo played the human struggle, and in the end, he became a bitter force.
He is an extroverted actor who loves extreme passion, high explosiveness, and ups and downs.
However, this road to black will not change Oscar's judgment.
They just think: sure enough, they will only act like this.
It wasn't until 2015's The Revenant that he had a different kind of weather.
He no longer opens up and closes, and even abandons external, stereotyped things, such as lines, and fully engages in the role.
Don't resist, don't set, the character wants him to be, he is like, fate should be like, he will appear.
So he was beaten by bears, ate tree roots, ate animal offal, burrowed into horse carcasses for warmth, used fire to heal himself, fell off a cliff...
The film has abused him, but it has also stimulated the peak of his acting skills.
For example, when he could not move, he watched his son being killed and dragged to be buried alive, and he did not interpret emotions by fighting, roaring, frowning, etc., only eyes, only through eyes, to express strong anger, pain, struggle, despair, unwillingness, hatred...
For example, after the revenge was completed, he lay down by the ice river and watched his wife's phantom disappear, without any words or movements, just watching, that kind of shrinkage, emptiness and dazedness, had already jumped on the screen.
Director Iñárritu not only appreciated, but also said gratefully: "He is performing with his soul!" ”
For this reason, Leonardo won the 88th Academy Award for Best Actor.
22 years, it is simply half a life, this half of his life he has been with Oscar to death, repeated defeats, repeated defeats.
Fortunately, he has always persevered, did not give up his self-breakthrough, and at the age of 43, he finally got what he wanted.
When Julian Moore stood on the podium and said Leonardo DiCaprio's name, fans around the world boiled over.
Yes, he waited, and so did we.
What we are waiting for is that an idol version of the inspirational story of "hard work will eventually succeed" has been completed;
What he waited for was that he could finally say: Actually, I am not an idol, I am an actor.