Not every child star has to become McCulligan, River Phoenix, or a waste of talent, or die of youth, and not every child star’s light will disappear in an instant, and he has not invested prematurely. In the complicated Vanity Fair of Hollywood, a group of people who care about him have been guarding this seed. In order to let people no longer call him "Dance Boy", but more of him as a real actor, he chose a more down-to-earth and arduous road. It is difficult to redefine a person, although now, He still has to talk about "Billy Elliott" constantly in various interviews. After seeing his new film, various film critics still exclaimed that "Billy Elliott" has grown up, but as long as someone has actually watched him The people who starred in several movies later, a little bit rational, no one would deny that his explosiveness and sharpness in those movies far exceeded their expectations and imagination. Sometimes, we are not ignorant, but we voluntarily give up the ability to redefine a person. We lock old concepts in our minds and always spy on others through a layer of glass. The conclusions we draw are naturally absurd or even absurd. Ridiculous.
The world treats Jamie Bell far less seriously than he treats movies. Even when it comes to his later development, more people just stay at the two things he joined in "King Kong" and "Flag of Father". Moreover, these two things The films all point to the big directors of major productions. In fact, even if I watched these two films seriously before, I would definitely not remember his existence. Even this impression has not appeared in Green Day’s "Weak Me Up When Sep. Ends". "His appearance in the MV is direct and profound. Because in Jamie Bell’s criteria for choosing a movie, he first considers collaborating with those directors or actors. Whenever he talks about "King Kong", he will first talk about how independent Peter Jackson is, even if he makes a blockbuster movie. It is also a kind of Independent Soul. He regards this opportunity to cooperate with excellent directors and actors as a kind of wealth. But these two films did not bring him any real gains, at best, he had such a glorious stroke on the resume, because the roles he played in these two films were more or less ignored. , There is no personality, no luminous point, "King Kong" is absolutely excellent in portraying the theme rhythm and the atmosphere of the scene, but the personality of each character is like a plane, without edges and corners and no prominent, even the most important role is like this. What's more, it was his humble little seaman, and in the "Father's Banner" cooperating with Eastwood, they only gave him 10 intermittent minutes to disappear. So when we put too much attention on these big productions, what we can see is only the surface, that Ballet Boy is growing in mediocrity, he will immediately fade out of people’s sight...
but Is this really the case? When we looked aside from the surface and really explored its core, we discovered that the truly shining part has been silently extending. His growth is written in those independent and special little stories, and those stories are like himself. As we walked, when we threaded these scattered beads into a line, the trajectory of his growth was clearly presented in front of us.
As early as 2002, after he became famous, he returned to the original point. He played a minor soldier in a very humble World War I horror film "Deathwatch". The open little face, a somewhat dull look, even the aura in Billy Elliott was smoothed by rain and dirt. After all, in the field of dance he is good at, he can impress the audience with half passion and half aura, but when he is determined to When embarking on the road of the movie, that kind of youthfulness and cowardice are inevitable, and in 2004's "Undertow", he began to try to play a somewhat rebellious and withdrawn boy image, although this movie seems to me It was strange and flat, but there were some clues in his gradually maturing face. From the boy who caused trouble in the first half to the brother who later took on the responsibility of protecting the younger brother, he gave us a gentle transition. And what I really want to say is "My own way", this small-cost black comedy in 2005, accommodated many big names such as Leif Vannes, among the three young actors who took the lead, including in the same year for "The Thumb Sucking "People" won the Berlin actor Lou Taylor Pucci and "World War" Tom Cruise's son Justin Chatwin, of course, the protagonist is Jamie Bell, I really noticed Jamie is this This movie, if what he gave me before was only such a misty impression, then this movie is the medium that really allows me to make his image concrete. In this movie, the lonely teenager he played witnessed his friend's suicide, but he chose an indifferent attitude. When he walked out of his friend's house, he simply said to the mother of the deceased: Goodbye Mrs. Johnson. The initial indifference occurred as a series of incidents interlaced, and finally awakened. Jamie's every level is very precise. At the end of the film, a montage with the same perspective as his friend's suicide at the beginning appears until the girl opens the door. Jamie's The crash and explosion, the powerful impact shocked me deeply. This movie is like a watershed for me, drawing a clear line between his identity as a child star and a real actor. At the time of making this movie, he should be only 18 years old.
In the same year as the screenwriter of "Dear Wendy" by Lars von Trier, he gained not only the opportunity to cooperate with the two Dogma 95 leaders in Denmark, but also the addition of such a unique experience to his resume. The role of an American teenager who wrote a love letter to his pistol, a Loser, his desire, his inner contradiction, his stubbornness, and his poor self-esteem were shown to the audience in a few eyes. Although Lars von Trier has never set foot on the United States because of his fear of flying by plane, the kind of human conflict in his writings may occur in all places in the world, and the setting of such a scene is better than " "Dogtown" has a few more walls. The foreign critics are very annoyed because of him repeatedly moving this situation to the United States, so they did not give this "Dear Wendy" much good face. , But to be honest, does the substance he wants to discuss really have that much to do with the United States? I don’t think this panic is because Trier has really penetrated the film wrapped in some people’s hearts. In short, there is still an unfinished chapter in the American trilogy, and his revolution is still going on.
While "Dear Wendy" was still on tour at the Berlin Film Festival, Jamie encountered another turning point in his life. Up to now, I just want to say, thank Dear Wendy for letting David, the director of "Young Adam" Mackenzie noticed Jamie, thanked "Hallam Foe", and finally gave Jamie Bell a chance to perform in full focus. Without "Hallam Foe", for him, he still lacks such a well-deserved personal show. Most of the independent films in which he participated are mainly multi-threaded narratives. It is a rare time in his resume that a film with such a vigorous effort to narrate around a most central character is when he entered his 20s. This role gave him another leap. He gave up dancing since he became famous at the age of 14. He vowed not to appear on the screen as Dance Boy again, so we never saw a dancer named Jamie Bell again. He chose to grow step by step, using the standards of a film actor to demand himself. It can be said that these clear years show his efforts. Up to now, he is only 22 years old.
I can only describe his performance as wonderful. Although he is young, he is good at extremely internalized performances. The superficial things were washed away when he was a teenager. Hallam Foe is like a character tailored for him. This boy who is on the verge of maturity is autistic and anxious. He needs a way to get rid of the impact of his mother’s death, and a way to find him. A breakthrough for his growth, and the story surrounding him is largely a fairy tale. The whole film presents a semi-dream and semi-real atmosphere in the soundtrack and the use of light. The protagonist is a small living in a tree. The boy in the wooden house, because he is not good at communicating with the outside world, he chose to keep his hatred and sorrow in his heart and locked it in his diary. He chose to use a binoculars to spy on other people’s world, when he saw the one with the same length as his mother. When he was a girl, he was in two complicated states of guilt and longing. This mental state of half being Oedipus and half yearning to be loved is completely different from Louis Mahler's "Curiosity", but it also has some similarities. , Because in "Curiosity", the boy just reached adolescence in a state of ignorance, his love for his mother finally evolved into Make Love is just a way for him to grow up, after this baptism, he will really grow up But Hallam Foe also needs a way. After this fairy-tale baptism, he finally strode under the neon lights, the background was blurred, and his smile gradually bloomed, which also showed that he had crossed the psychological threshold. , Gradually matures, but in the contrast of the former's realism, Hallam Foe is more like a freehand drawing. And the director hopes to discuss in depth what is true love, the subtle relationship between people, and how people interact with the devil in their hearts through the things that happen to the boy himself and the surroundings and the people encountered by Hallam Foe. Struggle and so on, these large-scale issues. Because in a sense, everyone has a more or less sense of loss, just like the girl he loves Kate, she is also a lost soul, she is looking for love that is not overnight, but maybe she I don’t know the meaning of love as much as Hallam.
It can be said that Hallam Foe aimed the camera completely at Jamie, close shots and close shots, his every little movement, horrified eyes, his primitive purity with a kind of unyielding wildness, he drew eyeliner, sneaking behind his mother. His earrings and her dress just wanted to keep the feeling of love around him. His ecstasy when he peeped at the girl on the clock tower. Although this peeping is a bit sick, you really see Jamie’s expression and When he looked in his eyes, it was indeed the purest desire that he showed. This desire has nothing to do with sex. He just vented his desire for love in this way. There was a scene where a girl danced in front of him. He began to tease him. He couldn't stand the torment of double emotion and interrupted her. When Hallam couldn't get rid of this contradiction, Make Love was just a way for him to get psychological satisfaction. Finally, the girl learned about his past and put on his mother's clothes. He burst into tears. That night, he just gently hugged the girl in his mother's dress. The next few minutes were really happy for Hallam. At that time, a child-like smile appeared on his face, and Kate snuggled him on the roof with a binoculars to peer into other people's lives. It’s just the arrival of Hallam’s father and stepmother that once again broke this dreamy beauty. He cursed the stepmother, just because he still didn’t let go of the grievances in his heart. In the end, the stepmother only left one sentence: Do you feel like you're f .. King Mummy? He drew a grimace and put on the toy with the weasel head angrily and threw his stepmother into the river. Perhaps it was no longer a grudge against the stepmother, but he needed a chance to vent, and he suddenly awakened after he walked out of the river bank. It also announced that he finally got rid of the shackles of this long-term trouble, what the future is like, just like Jamie himself said, he believes that this boy will defeat the demon that entangles himself, and he will go well. I don’t know how to describe the impression of Hallam Foe, nor can I describe Jamie’s performance. I just saw a more three-dimensional profile in him. Hallam Foe’s catharsis is also Jamie Bell’s catharsis. If Said that this movie has a strong air current. The creator of this air current should be Jamie Bell. He made it impossible for us to take our eyes off the screen for half a second. He made this boy both cute and pitiful, and extremely rich. Contagious, his performance is like a magnet that attracts us to understand the next story. And I fell completely because of this performance.
Jamie is not a particularly outstanding actor. He even wears a pair of worn-out Converse sneakers no matter what the public place. He has a hunchback, a short stature, big hobbit-like ears, one that will never grow up. The child's face will be submerged even in the crowd, and his own character is exactly the opposite of the many characters he plays, humorous, casual, and open. But when he faced the camera, that explosive force burst out of his thin body and poured out to the audience. In fact, he has already got rid of the shackles of Billy Elliott, but the world is so dull that he is unconscious. When he took the shot of Hallam Foe, he said that he finally got a role for others to call him Creepy Guy. He felt that this name was better than Dance. Boy many times, this is not Hallam Foe's desire, but Jamie Bell's desire. This young man determined to wander on the road of growth, people have more choices to bless silently behind him. But maybe you are willing to follow him like me...continue to wander...
PS: If you miss the original sound of Hallam Foe, it is really a big loss. Stop staring at Juno's original soundtrack. Hallam Foe is a much better soundtrack than it is. It selects the works of many artists and bands under the Domino label. If I were to choose the three songs to describe the movie, I think I would choose Here on My Own from UNPOL, If you Can Read Your Mind from Clinic, and of course, the theme Hallam Foe Dandeline written by Franz Ferdinand for the movie. Blow.....
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Thanks to qlchl for uploading the original soundtrack, haha^_^ Let's share it~~ Expect to expire later~~
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