The first is impossible. The second was not until I premiered "X-Men" in 2000, when he was an adult. Halle Berry Storm played a character born in Africa and whose mutant powers controlled the weather. That should have pleased but I worried.
What has to do with Halle Berry Storm? What I saw was more like the actress had just emulated the burning sensuality of Storm. I know, I know: it's a performance. But after 16 years, and at least four dozen films, I start thinking that it is something else. This conflict has deepened with a personal crisis: my love for comic books hit my need movie stars.
The truth about Halle Berry in "X-Men" -and also applies to James Marsden, Famke Janssen and Anna Paquin became the truth of many actors involved in these productions: too many people in these characters and edges so that any actor (other than Hugh Jackman) to embody in a completely satisfactory manner.
We live in an age where the stars hit each other as happens in the silly "Captain America: Civil War": a film that comes to see Robert Downey Jr. against Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson or against Paul Rudd versus Jeremy Renner and against Don Cheadle. That also happens in the films "Avengers" in a lot of films about X-Men (including the recent "Revelation") and "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice".
And I can not say that these players are happy. Part of the conflict of "Civil War" is that infighting absorb it all. Their faces stoic long suggest that they have a miserable job and there are many stars as well. This is the case of Ben Affleck, Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence who play the superhero comics with the same enthusiasm that showed Bruce Willis in "The Sixth Sense". It seems that comics film franchises are where the big stars of the star system die.
And comic book movies have made it rain money to the studios, especially Disney, Warner Bros and Fox and despite how much I had fun with some of them, gender has perverted what it means to see certain actors in movies. When the character is more famous than the actor who plays him, how trademarks develop? often the prerogatives of comics do not fit the characteristics of movie stardom. It feels like they are in permanent conflict.
Chris Evans, for example, owes its fame to the work he has done with superheroes. Two lousy films "Fantastic Four" (2005 to 2007) he played Johnny Storm, the Human Torch, as if it were a quarterback who just won the Heisman Trophy. He may have studied the character, beyond the material that originated it, and give it a personality. If they saw in movies like "Cellular" 2004 is easy to see that accomplished something different in those papers.
But he was awarded Captain America, a man whose moral rectitude makes him a boring character. The main weapon of Evans used to be displayed arrogant and surprised, I could not believe he was a superhero. But every time there is less room for that kind of levity in the Avengers galaxy.
As is darker film of comics almost always destined to recreate the apocalypse least needs the magic of a star. Evans can not put anything more. He has to stay neutral because the brand is first. Marvel is the star.
The early approach of superhero movies that made Evans created an enabling environment for fun Robert Downey Jr. shattered in 2008, while playing to be Tony Stark in the three films "Iron Man". This actor Tony became a leader ironic for a band that did not yet exist. Of course, I was making films Robert Downey Jr.
However, a consequence of its exuberant interpretation is that he was no longer himself. In addition to plenty of appearances of Tony Stark and his two terms as Sherlock Holmes, he has hardly been able to do otherwise. However, when he made "Due Date" and "The Judge", he gelled acid sarcasm very well.
Almost 20 years ago, George Clooney had to fight the stench of being Batman. The same was torture for Michael Keaton who exorcised when he played a tormented actor for his role as a superhero in "Birdman". Now Batman is a good character. A Batman does not care who plays him. Is this the Christian Bale? ¿Ben Affleck? No matter who it is. Paraphrasing the recent Keaton's character: he remains Batman
Others, or his agents also want to get into that game. This fall, Benedict Cumberbatch stars in "Doctor Strange" with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Tilda Swinton. In August, Will Smith joins "Suicide Squad" with Jared Leto and Viola Davis, among others. "Batman v Superman" was a good start for Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg and Laurence Fishburne. We are no longer watching a film. Now we see a pack of 24 bottles of water purchased at Costco.
The success of the genre has changed the entire American film industry. Even the films derived from the classic tales of the Brothers Grimm feel like comic book movies. ?, A twisted sequel of 2012 had little support and brought back to Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth, with poor Jessica Chastain and Emily: If not, why "Winter's War The Huntsman" was recorded Blunt. The cast interacts joyless and Theron raises the pace when it appears, the trouble is that is lost for more than half of the film.
Instead of developing new stories for cannibalizing over the next 30 years, studies gambled on existing intellectual property as "Star Wars" and "Jurassic Park". Some sections of these franchises have liked very much and can not wait to see the next.
But I do not need a new "Ghostbusters". This version feels like Halloween. We now live in a perpetual state of antioriginalidad in which taste is dictated by a totalitarian recommendation algorithm. If you liked "Star Wars" well. Now you will be able to see it ... forever.
This is different from the old days of Jerry Bruckheimer when a group of guys got together to rob banks, fly planes or escape from prison, as happens in "Con Air" and "The Rock". The fun was guaranteed by the bizarre cast full of famous men. The cast was also the trick of "Ocean" saga of Steven Soderbergh, who joined George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon with absolute fame Julia Roberts to convert your tapes in a hilarious heist.
The "Fast and Furious" series has an influence notably Bruckheimer and movies, "Ocean". The plot revolves around the beach charm of Paul Walker, the strongman Vin Diesel charisma and appeal of any other State invited to play in the club actor. If it appears in these films, it is a star.
The infinite expansion of these prefabricated universes has its attributes. For example, in a scene from "Civil War" three black appear -Don Cheadle, Anthony Mackie and Chadwick Boseman- talking among themselves and there is no white. Boseman even have his own movie like Black Panther. After "Empire", what else is making Hollywood with black actors?
But is it enough? Superhero movies are deadlocked. Every good young actor who is absorbed by a superhero franchise or a saga of movies superexitosas loses its personality.
The world has discovered that Alden Ehrenreich will become the young Han Solo. His performance was the best of "Hail Caesar!" The Coen brothers, and managed to keep up with Cate Blanchett in "Blue Jasmine". It represents what critics describe as a "promising" actor.
And now, the promises end when you are locked into the franchise business comic. This does not mean that Ehrenreich not be able to do other roles. Jennifer Lawrence managed to balance his four films as Katniss Everdeen and her appearances in "X-Men" with his work with David O. Russell. But she is an exception. Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk, is another. And Hemsworth, too. But although film car racing, sailing boats stories with Ron Howard or Michael Mann hacker to hurt me say that I always see it as Thor.
George Clooney and Julia Roberts in 'Money Monster' Credit TriStar
Now, if we talk about a film like "Money Monster", there is nothing to do. In this project George Clooney and Julia Roberts are in their comfort zone. He plays the honeyed driver an investment program and it is his production. When an irate spectator takes the study hostage and things get tense, I loved hearing the sound of the voice of Roberts Clooney's ear.
She has done this since the late eighties: appears smiling, witty and never wrong when portrays women who tend to engage in money problems. It is an automatic version of itself and, unlike Downey, rarely bores us.
"Money Monster", directed by Jodie Foster, quickly becomes picturesque. It is not supposed that this film should be painful. However, even accidentally, it feels like a postcard from the decline of what was once the movie stardom. "Money Monster", recognizes that culture is moving away from movies like that. The characters played by Clooney and Roberts are not doing a romantic comedy. They are doing cable TV.
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