"Not yet played in the box." Actors Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman

An adventure drama comedy shot in 2007 by director Rob Rainer, The Bucket List is a very funny film, in fact, a mixture of the films “Invasion of the Barbarians” and “Knocking on Heaven”. In English, there is a good expression - kick the bucket, which translates as “stretch your legs”, “play in the box”, “die”, therefore, despite the liberties of the translation, the Russian rental name is chosen quite accurately. In the work of Rainer, “Until he played in the box,” actors Nicholson and Morgan Freeman demonstrate how to fulfill all your desires before the inevitable death, to die with a smile on his lips.

For the sake of the creators

Novice screenwriter Justin Zackham, who managed to demonstrate his talent as a screenwriter in the short film Caught at the Crime Scene and in Student Burn, admitted that he wrote the image of one of Chambers’s characters exclusively for the outstanding Morgan Freeman. And director Rob Rainer saw Jack Nicholson as the perfect embodiment of Cole's image.

The main trump card

For the success of a film project, including a commercial one, the creative tandem of leading actors is crucial. It is very difficult for Hollywood films to compete with independent European directors, who are practically not constrained by genre cliches. But in the movie “I have not played in the box”, the actors-performers of the main roles are the trump card. And not even their wonderful game, but the unique coexistence in the frame of two masters of the film industry with rich experience, not embarrassed by old age and unpretentious appearance, does not allow even the thought of falsity to be tolerated. The actors of the film “Until I Played in the Box”, without hesitating for a minute, agreed to have their hair cut specially for the convincing images of their characters.

Galvanic duet

The film “Has not yet played in the box”, the actors whose names stir the hearts of every movie lover, lifted to the highest level of cinema art. The duet of Freeman and Nicholson - cancer patients locked in the same room, is recognized by film critics as the main success of the picture. The terrible shaved bald head Nicholson, flaunting in a nightgown, fighting with a dropper, testing the ward toilet for strength, is a sight in itself, which is not a pity to spend 97 minutes of timing. Add a lot of black humor, a bit of fantasy from Freeman in the image of a diligent Christian - it turns out an excellent galvanic couple.

Summary

The film "Has not yet played in the box", the actors and the roles of which were selected each other with the participation of producer Alan Graysman, has a secondary plot.

The multimillionaire, the overbearing businessman Edward Cole (extravagant Jack Nicholson) and the ordinary car mechanic Carter Chambers (balanced Morgan Freeman) by the will of fate find themselves in the same hospital ward with the same not comforting diagnosis - cancer. According to the doctors, they did not have much time to live. But the heroes decide not to fall into despair. Carter, recalling his youth, tells a bedmate about a list of things he wanted to do in his life. Edward was instantly inspired by the idea and offers a new friend to realize his old dreams. Their adventures begin.

On the whole, the film “Until I Played in the Box” made the actors, whose photos adorn the poster of the picture, successful, despite the secondary plot.

Successful debut

For the stellar duet of actors, the comedy of director Rob Rainer was the debut of collaboration. Powerful Hollywood mastodons look professional on the screen with a capital letter. They did not filon in the film, obviously far from festival awards. Even those viewers who are well acquainted with the work of Jack and Morgan, will find for themselves a lot of new things in the creation of great actors of images. The hero of Freeman is wise with worldly experience and equanimous, Nicholson is a mocking, extravagant and does not mind hitting every female individual. Such transformations of performers, the viewer already had the happiness to see in other film projects. In Morgan Freeman 's paintings “The Shawshank Redemption”, “Seven”, “The Lucky Number of Slevin” and “Baby in a Million”, in Jack Nicholson's “Flying Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, “The Departed”, “It Doesn’t Better” and of course, in The Shining. Despite the impressive filmography, “Until I played in the box”, the actors will remember as a good example of cooperation.

Funny chips

In addition to playing an unsurpassed stellar duet, the creators will offer a lot of funny pieces that will surely distract the viewer from the banality and predictability of the narration (the heroes traditionally parachute, go wild on expensive super-fast cars, go on tour in Wonders of the World). Among the chips can be attributed to the special points of the character of Jack Nicholson, with which he has the opportunity, lying on his back, to watch TV, while just looking up. And the hero conquers Tibet for some unknown reason in a native Russian ear-flaps with a brilliant cockade of the Soviet armed forces. Morgan Freeman also has a lot of chips, the authors exaggerate his famous freckles, include an original photo of the artist in his youth in the biography of the character and shoot in one of the episodes of Alfonso - the actor’s son.

The actors turned the comedy of Bob Reiner “Until he played in a box” into a funny and sweet movie that is trying with all its might to reconcile a person with the inevitability of death. Yes, the story is not original, but the charge of optimism is quite powerful.