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To be able to work with the greatest film director of all time is definitely an actor's luck.
If, twice, such luck comes to the same actor, what would it be like?
Harrison Ford is one of the lucky ones: Han Solo and Indiana Jones, the Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark series.
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.
Three sentences can directly become the title of his memoirs.
Harrison Ford has also worked with Francis Coppola twice, in The Conversation and Apocalypse Now.
Become the only one to gather the three directors.
With the huge success of 7 Star Wars and 4 Raiders of the Lost Ark, Harrison Ford's global film grossed more than $6 billion last year, becoming the number one actor in the history of American cinema.
In fact, Harrison Ford did not become famous too early, he was 35 years old when he starred in the first Star Wars film in 1977, and it was purely accidental that he could receive this role.
Harrison Ford was born in Chicago, his mom was a voice actor and his dad was an advertising manager. When he was in school, his physical education and homework were very ordinary.
He dropped out of college in 1964 and went to Los Angeles to become an actor because he couldn't do anything else (i failure inall other fields).
He then signed up for Columbia Pictures to participate in the company's Rising Star Program, earning $150 a week. But the first audition, the studio guy said, kid, you're hopeless in this line, you don't look like a movie star at all.
Harrison acted in a number of movies and TV series in the 60s, and he was a small character with no lines or no sense of existence. He said that I didn't even know the name of the film company when I first started, but I learned one thing: Only by increasing the value of my work can I earn a better income and earn respect.
With little opportunity for development, with his wife and two sons waiting to be fed, Harrison borrowed carpentry books from the library to teach himself, became a professional carpenter, specialized in home decoration, and slowly became one of the best joiners in the area.
Unexpectedly, being a carpenter not only fed himself, but also opened a new door to his career! After the success of Godfather 1, the big director Coppola asked him to help expand the office, and then gave him the opportunity to make a cameo in the film.
Because of the desire to use newcomers to play Han solo, in 1977's Star Wars, Lucas initially just hired Harrison to teleprompter for other actors. Unexpectedly, the originally selected male protagonist temporarily withdrew, and under the recommendation of Spielberg, Lucas finally selected him a few weeks before the film began.
The first Star Wars broke the box office record for a movie and became the most successful series of films in history.
Four more years later, in 1981, Harrison filmed Raiders of the Lost Ark, a Lucas producer and Steven Spielberg. The film was a huge success, nominated for 12 Oscars and eventually won 5 awards (Best Art Direction, Best Editing, Best Sound Recording, Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Editing).
Archaeologist Indiana Jones became the second masterpiece of his career, and was ranked second in the "Greatest Heroic Character of All Time" by the American Film Academy, and Han Solo was only ranked 14th.
Being an action actor means injury is indispensable.
While filming the film in 1968, the vehicle he was driving lost control and Harrison had a scar on his chin.
During the filming of Raiders of the Lost Ark 1, Harrison himself ran back and forth on the suspension bridge to test whether it was secure.
Spielberg said: What else can I say, he is indiana Jones himself.
In 1984, while filming Raiders of the Lost Ark 2: Legend of the Magic Palace, Harrison suffered a back injury and underwent intervertebral disc surgery using papaya enzyme, which was still experimental.
During the treatment, the crew used a stand-in to shoot; after returning to the crew, the action scenes still came by themselves. He said: This is an action movie, if I don't go on my own, then what else is there for me here?
In 15 years of Star Wars: episode vii - the force awakens, Grandpa Ford broke his ankle while filming.
The most wronged is "The Fugitive" in 93, the whole filming process was not injured, and when the special trailer was finally filmed, Grandpa Ford's knee ligament was torn
Being stereotyped also means that it is difficult to transform.
Harrison said that when the first Star Wars movie was released in 1977, I already knew that the beginning and the end of my career were here.
In 1985, harrison was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Witness. In 1993, "Outlaw" was nominated for a Golden Globe Award again.
Grandpa Ford is also very suitable for playing president. In "Air Force One" and "Patriot Games", they both played the role of the president of the United States
However, since the 1990s, Harrison has acted in a number of films that have been less successful at the word-of-mouth and box office, with only 2000's "What lies beneath" grossing $290 million worldwide.
He said that now American movies have been overscaled, young people in their 20s have become the main consumer force, many movies look like video games, I am not a nostalgic person, but I still like to watch a good story.
Although the character of Han Solo was sacrificed in The Force Awakens, last February, when asked if he would appear in some form in the eighth Star Wars movie, Grandpa Ford said: "In space, anything is possible in space."
I've always felt that harrison, who plays a big hero on the screen, longs for freedom in private.
Harrison is a pilot with a pilot's license for helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. In the '60s, he studied flying in Wisconsin, but couldn't afford $15 an hour; by the '90s, he bought a second-hand Gulfstream II and asked a pilot to fly it for him.
One day he suddenly thought, if I drive it myself, it will be more fun! So Harrison, 52, began learning to fly.
Harrison has flown helicopters several times to participate in emergency rescue operations to rescue backpackers in distress near his home. He said, "I just love the feeling of walking in the clouds."
Harrison, who won the Golden Globe Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2002 and the Walk of Fame in 2003, has never won an Oscar for himself, he said, i think i 'll be ok.
But isn't it, we are all in heaven, who will remember the Oscars on the shores of Daming Lake?
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