The film "Legends of Autumn", reviews of which you will find in this article, is a drama by Edward Zwick. The picture was released in 1994. The main roles in it were played by Anthony Hopkins, Brad Pitt, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond. In the article, we will talk about the plot of the tape, the cast, reviews of film critics.
Plot
The Autumn Legends picture, which you will read about in an article, begins in Montana, where retired colonel William Ludlow lives with his wife and three sons. When he served in the army, he participated in the genocide of the indigenous population. Now he understands the injustice of everything that happened, because of this he left the service, settling with his family in the outskirts, far from big cities.
With them lives an Indian nicknamed One Beat, as well as the Decker family, who raise a half-breed daughter. Isabelle, the second wife of the colonel, leaves for the Old World, and all young children are raised by his father. Tristan constantly spends time with Blow, loves to be in the forest, learns to hunt.
The director of Autumn Legends, Edward Zwick, also describes Samuel's youngest son, who goes to study in another city and returns with his bride, Suzanne.
War in europe
The World War in Europe begins, the eldest and younger sons believe that they are obliged to fight for England, but their dad is against. However, all three sons are leaving for war. Tristan sets off to protect Samuel, and Susanna is waiting for the bridegroom to return at the colonel’s house.
In the war, Alfred is injured in the leg, and Samuel dies in front of Tristan. According to the Indian ritual, Tristan carves the heart of his brother to bring him to his homeland. Having completed the ritual, he goes to take revenge - he kills the German machine gunners and robs them of scalps.
Alfred returns to America, where he brings Samuel's heart for funeral. Tristan wanders around the world, heavily surviving the death of his brother. Alfred admits to Suzanne that she has long loved her, offering to marry him, but the girl refuses.
The Return of Tristan
When Tristan returns to TriStar Pictures in the Legends of Autumn, it becomes clear that Susanna is not indifferent to him. They begin to live together. Alfred is unable to come to terms with this and leaves. Tristan is still worried about the death of his brother. Therefore, he again leaves to roam around the world, Susanna claims that she will remain waiting for him at home.
Sailing to different continents and countries, he sends Susanne a bracelet of gold, and soon a farewell letter comes from him with an advice to marry another.
For a girl, this becomes a real tragedy, the hero of Hopkins is partially paralyzed, he practically does not move. Suzanne agrees to the proposal of Alfred, who made a career as a cattleman, and then became a congressman. They are playing a wedding. Politics and business connect him with the O'Banyon brothers, bootleggers and gangsters.
Meanwhile, Tristan returns home again, it seems that his longing has receded. He arrives with the hotel. Including for the daughter of Decker Isabelle, with whom they are married. They have a daughter and a son.
When the “dry law” comes in America, Tristan begins to engage in the underground trade in alcohol. As a result, a conflict occurs between him and the O'Banyon brothers. A policeman who collaborated with the brothers accidentally kills Isabelle. Tristan half to death beats the culprit.
Revenge
For an attack on a representative of the law, he is sent to prison for 30 days. There he matures a plan of sophisticated revenge.
Meanwhile, Susanna comes to his prison, who declares that she can not imagine her life without him. Tristan does not reciprocate, urging her to go home, to return to Alfred. Unable to survive this failure, the girl commits suicide.
When Tristan goes free, he kills the perpetrators of the death of his wife and one of the gangster brothers.
Then the sheriff arrives at the colonel’s house along with the second O'Banyon to deal with Tristan. But during the shootout, both die. In addition, Alfred comes to the aid of his brother. In the finale of the picture, an elderly father forgives Alfred, and Tristan persuades his older brother to take care of his children.
In the finals, viewers will find out that Tristan lived a long life. He died in an unequal battle with a bear.
Anthony Hopkins
The head of the family in the film "Legends of Autumn" is played by the famous British actor Anthony Hopkins. His character's name is Colonel William Ludlow. It is not easy for him to raise and raise three sons, each of whom goes his own way through life.
Hopkins was born in the Welsh town of Margama in 1937. In the movie, he made his debut in 1967, the drama of Lindsay Anderson's "White Bus". The following year, fame came to him when, in the historical drama Anthony Harvey's “Lion in the Winter,” he played Prince Richard.
He has performed several dozens of prominent film roles; four times he was nominated for an Oscar. In 1992, he received this award for his leading role in the thriller Jonathan Demmy “Silence of the Lambs.” He appeared in the image of a maniac Hannibal Lecter. Three more nominations they didn’t win the victory - it was James Ivory’s melodrama The Rest of the Day, Oliver Stone’s biographical drama Nixon, Steven Spielberg’s historical drama Amistad (in this film he claimed victory in the Best Supporting Actor nomination).
Among Hopkins' latest works, his fans remember the Darren Aronofsky catastrophe film Noah, the detective thriller Afonso Poiart Psychics, and the comedic action thriller Taika Waititi Tor: Ragnarok.
Julia Ormond
In the reviews of the film "Legends of Autumn", many highly value the actress Julia Ormond's game. She played the role of Susanna.
Ormond is an Englishwoman, in 1965 she was born in the town of Epsom. For the first time appeared on the big screen in the 93rd in the drama to Peter Greenaway, "Child of Macon." She began her career in Hollywood with the adventure movie Jerry Zucker “The First Knight” and the comedy Sidney Pollack “Sabrina”.
Among her high-profile and successful acting work, one should note the roles in the biographical drama Stephen Soderbergh "Che", the fantastic drama by David Fincher entitled "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," the biographical drama of Simon Curtis "7 Days and Nights with Marilyn."
Ormond has been filming a lot for television. In her track record, she participated in the series CSI: Crime Scene New York, Law and Order, Mad Men, East Witch Witches, television films Young Ekaterina, Stalin, where she played Nadia Alliluyeva.
Aidan Quinn
In the film "Legends of Autumn", the actor appeared in the image of Alfred Ludlow. This is an American artist who was born in Chicago in 1959. He grew up in a family of Irish immigrants.
He made his film debut in 1985 in the comedy melodrama Susan Zeidelman "Desperate for Susan." His participation in Hector Babenko’s drama “Game in the Lord’s Fields”, Kenneth Branagh’s science fiction drama Frankenstein Mary Shelley, Rodrigo Garcia’s drama Nine Lives, Jimmy Hayard’s western “John Hex” and dramatic thriller Haume Serra “Unknown” should also be noted.
Like Ormond, Quinn plays a lot in television series, for example, in the projects Law and Order: Special Corps, White Collar, and Elementary.
Brad Pitt
Another star actor who starred in the film "Legends of Autumn", according to reviews, he played his role very successfully, this is American Brad Pitt. He was born in 1963 in the town of Shawnee, Oklahoma. His first film role is an episode in Roger Donaldson’s dramatic action movie No Exit.
In 1995, he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Role in Terry Gilliam ’s 12 Monkeys Fantastic Thriller. Brad Pitt was nominated for an Oscar five times, but won only once. In 2014, he received a statuette as one of the producers of the historical drama Steve McQueen's “12 Years of Slavery”.
Prior to that, in 2009, he claimed victory by playing the main role in David Fincher’s science fiction drama “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, and in 2012 he could not win the main prize after the role of Billy Bean in Bennett Miller’s biographical drama “The Man Who Changed Everything” .
In 1996, he claimed another Oscar in the nomination for Best Supporting Actor in the film 12 Monkeys.
Reviews
In reviews of Legends of Autumn, film critics did not come to a consensus. Basically, they gave the film low ratings, and some even insistently advised against going to it at all.
At the same time, film academics included the tape in three nominations, however, they all turned out to be secondary - for the work of the artist, cameraman and sound engineers. As a result, the film received an Oscar, the work of cameraman John Toll, who shot the magnificent landscapes of Montana and large-scale battle scenes at different times of the year, was evaluated.
It is worth noting that this film is an adaptation of the book "Legends of Autumn". Reviews of Jim Harrison's novel were enthusiastic. So the film was shot on fertile literary material.
In reviews of the film Legends of Autumn (1994), viewers and critics note emotional pressure and epic breathing. The director was able to brilliantly tell a saga about the Ludlow family.