What is the secret to the success of a Hollywood actor? What is decisive here? Personal talent? Simple luck and an elementary combination of circumstances? Or just a lot of money invested in promotion, and their competent use? The correct answer is that all of these factors matter. But the constituent parameters of this formula can vary appreciably.
Image of success
Even in Hollywood, he does not have very many competitors in terms of fame. The image of Brad Pitt has already managed to become a visible embodiment of dazzling success. Today it’s not so easy to imagine that his acting career at its very beginning was far from the most brilliant. Brad Pitt, whose filmography includes several dozen roles of the first plan in the most successful and grossing projects, managed in his youth to work as a driver, forwarding agent and a barker in a restaurant. And such a school of life was not worthless. She influenced the formation of character. When success comes to a person undeservedly, for a long time he does not linger.
Start
His professional career began with small roles in television series, in particular in Dallas. Supporting roles were successful for William Bradley Pitt (this is the real name of the actor) just brilliantly. And it did not go unnoticed. The main roles were not long in coming. "The Dark Side of the Sun" - many critics are inclined to believe that it is from this film that the actor Brad Pitt begins. His filmography by the beginning of work on these projects already numbered about a dozen episodic roles. But his undoubted acting talent unfolded in full only in this tape. Despite the difficult rolling fate of this film, actor Brad Pitt became after him widely known and in demand. Proposals for new roles began to come to him one after another.
Rapid take-off
After a successful debut, the actor got the opportunity to choose offers to participate in new projects. He worked a lot and selflessly. Films featuring Brad Pitt were released one by one. Throughout the nineties, a long string of ribbons come out with bright works by this actor. Many of them have long been reckoned with the universally recognized Hollywood classics. “Where the river flows”, “Thelma and Louise”, “Legends of Autumn”, “Interview with the Vampire” without the slightest doubt brought Brad Pitt to the category of Hollywood stars of the first magnitude.
In 1995, he was first nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress in the movie Twelve Monkeys. That year, it was limited only to the nomination. But later Brad Pitt, whose filmography includes many universally recognized masterpieces, will repeatedly become the owner of all kinds of top cinematic awards and other honorary regalia.
"Seven Years in Tibet"
Everyone has already become accustomed to the fact that the films where Brad Pitt starred are constantly at the forefront of public attention. But this tape, which was released in 1997, has a very special fate, judging by the degree of public resonance that it caused. In support of this, it is enough to cite the simple fact that Brad Pitt, who played the main role in this film, was awarded a lifelong ban on entry into China.
This film narration is based on real historical events. It is about the occupation of Tibet by China. Brad Pitt plays the role of the main character, a climber, who, by the will of historical circumstances, has been stuck in this alpine country for many years. At the same time, the historical events of the end of World War II are depicted in the film with a fairly high degree of reliability.
"Fight club"
This, of course, is one of the most striking and controversial films in the career of an actor. Brad Pitt, whose filmography by 1999, when the Fight Club was released, already had many conquered peaks, could afford such risky experiments. And he did not miscalculate. Today, over the years, no one doubts that this film has become a cult.
At the center of this striking paradoxical work is the image of a rebel and a subverter of the foundations of the existing social system of Tyler Durden. So much has been said and written about the images and meanings of this unusual film that a separate library can be assembled from critical articles about it. Most analysts willingly include it in a variety of ratings, which list the best films of all time and all the history of world cinema. In these honorary lists, Fight Club always appears at the top. Last but not least, this film owes its success to the brilliant acting work of Brad Pitt, who played the main role in it.
"Inglourious Basterds"
This actor is capable of being unexpected and never disappoints his fans. Quite often, a new film by Brad Pitt is unlike everything that the public is used to seeing earlier. The unexpected and vivid role of the fighter with the Nazis was played by the actor in the famous painting by Quentin Tarantino "Inglourious Basterds". This highly controversial work, based on alternative versions of world history events, allowed the director to create a whole gallery of memorable images. The artistic persuasiveness of the characters, one of which Brad Pitt brilliantly played, turned out to be much more important than the historical unreliability of the events of the plot basis. In this film, good fights evil with all possible and impossible means and wins in the final.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
This is one of the most unusual and unlike other films with the participation of Brad Pitt. The plot basis of it is one of the stories of Francis Scott Fitzgerald. The protagonist of this work is doomed to spend his life in reverse time sequence. He is born an old man and lives, gradually becoming younger, moving towards infancy.
With all the surrealism of the plot, he gives great scope for creativity to such a bright and unexpected actor, as Brad Pitt has established himself. He is not one of those creators who prefer to use the same techniques that were successfully found once, turning them into stamps. It is this feature of him that makes the audience look forward to the implementation of each new project in which Brad Pitt is involved. Films with his participation are not boring. And the public is rarely deceived in their expectations.
In the spotlight
Hollywood stars are usually very difficult to protect their privacy from the annoying public attention to its small details. Brad Pitt is no exception. The latest news and sensations about everything that has nothing to do with the world of cinematography, but is the actor’s private life, are actively circulating in the “yellow” segment of the media sphere.
The situation here is further complicated by the fact that in Hollywood it is usually difficult to draw a clear line between where private life ends and professional life begins. For a long time Pitt's friends were such famous actresses as Gwyneth Peltrow and Jennifer Aniston. But for about ten years now, Brad Pitt has been married to Angelina Jolie. They have six children, of whom three are adopted. In recent years, the actor leads a healthy sporting lifestyle and tries to avoid bad habits and obsessive attention to his person.
2014 award
At the beginning of this year, the name of Brad Pitt again became the focus of media attention. The actor played a cameo role in the recently released movie "12 Years a Slave" directed by Stevie McQueen. However, the award was received by him for a completely different reason. The fact is that Pitt was also the producer of this picture (therefore, in fact, he starred in it, as the director admitted). It was precisely for the production of this film that he was awarded the prestigious prize named after Darryl F. Zanuk.
The picture is an epic drama from the era of slavery in the southern United States. At the center of the story is the fate of a free black man kidnapped in the north and sold into slavery in New Orleans. The film received excellent reviews in the film press. Most critics praised both the level of directing and acting.
What should be expected in the near future from Brad Pitt to his many fans? The actor himself does not really like to talk about his creative plans. But there is no doubt that he will not remain without work.