In 2012, one of the most prominent films in the history of cinema was released. The three-hour blockbuster impressed the audience with a stellar cast and a unique plastic make-up that radically changed the familiar images of favorite actors. The adaptation of the novel by the British writer D. Mitchell caused controversy among critics and undeservedly failed at the world box office, although in Russia the tape was considered the record holder for attendance.
The story of reincarnation of the soul
The film “Cloud Atlas”, which made a lot of noise, whose actors turned into complex characters through complex makeup, told a surprisingly beautiful story about reincarnation. The writers worked for two years, taking into account all the wishes of the author of the book and combining six short stories with a separate storyline into a single whole.
The complex literary composition was successfully transferred to the big screen, and, as they said on the sidelines of the cinema, the editor for the brilliant work relied on the well-deserved Oscar. Before amazed viewers, he presented with a real kaleidoscope a large-scale “Cloud Atlas”. Actors, changing beyond recognition, moved from one era to another, emphasizing the main idea of the film about the transmigration of souls.
Six parallel stories
The amazing directorial triumvirate of Tom Tykver, Andy and Lana Wachowski, who worked in the same team, did not take the chronology of the novel as a basis, choosing an intricate path with a demonstration of six stories moving in parallel. Submitting to the general concept, all the short stories were shot in different styles corresponding to the era - from past centuries to the distant futuristic future. In closely intertwined stories forming a single epic drama, stars of the first magnitude participated.
An experiment in the world of cinema
The actors of the film “Cloud Atlas” played in an elegantly set experiment film, in which the main idea that everything in our life is interconnected is traced. Each character appearing repeatedly depicts different reincarnations of one soul. The tape interprets current human stories as a chain of actions whose origins come from past times and affect our future.
In the film, which is a life mosaic, he played an amazing cast. The make-up artists admitted that they did not always understand who they were dealing with on the set, and only in the final shots it became clear who played whom.
Cloud Atlas: actors and roles, photo
All the actors can be called real heroes, because sitting for several hours, waiting for the end of complex makeup for the sake of a small episode, was incredibly difficult.
Tom Hanks, along with his characters, lived a five-century-long journey, telling the story of a single human soul that went from a killer to a hero who gave hope to all of humanity. Critics once again emphasized his stunning acting data, which allowed him to transform and masterfully convey to the audience all the emotions that raged inside such different characters.
The character of Tom tells the whole complicated story to his grandchildren, located on a planet farthest from Earth. Frighteningly, Hanks gets used to every image, conveying the correction of the human soul, which is described so much in Cloud Atlas. Actors, whose stunning game was celebrated by everyone, showed their artistic talents, representing completely different characters in different time periods.
The aristocratic Hugh Grant is in the epic a real villain, whose dark inside does not change with different eras. A handsome man with delicate facial features was even glad to get rid of the usual image of an indiscriminate lover of women in the Cloud Atlas, on which makeup masters, as they say, “came off” to the fullest.
The incredible Halle Berry, whose characters are charming and expressive, inspires and sacrifices herself. She even turns into a one-eyed professor, in which you can not recognize a Hollywood favorite.
Scale Epic
In the history of German cinema, the most expensive epic film "Cloud Atlas" has become the most expensive. Actors and roles for them were most carefully selected by directors who wanted to decorate an unusual picture with serious stars. Unfortunately, the film, difficult for perception, in the world box office failed, without recouping the investment of $ 100 million. The directors went the independent way, not guided by Hollywood cliches and high ratings, but nonetheless, the showing of a large-scale tape became a bright event in the world of cinema.
The clever and deep film “Cloud Atlas”, whose actors successfully coped with the task entrusted to them, tells us that what is happening in the world depends on us. Our rash or deliberate actions, hasty or verified decisions affect not only the present, but also the future. And the main thing is not to destroy the natural balance so as not to end up on a distant planet.