The film earned Richard Burton his seventh Oscar nomination in 1978, and that year's Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.
After watching it, I really want to say, this is a purely dazzling film. The whole film is supported by his lines and narration. I can't imagine a second person playing his psychiatrist. role will be.
At first I saw that he became ill due to alcoholism in the mid-1970s, which seriously affected his actions, and sometimes he even had to do his best to shoot scenes of sitting or lying down, I was surprised, how can such a "non-professional" act well Woolen cloth?
However, after watching this film, I realized that he can really use his voice and eyes to just sit there and use his voice and eyes to act like an old man after completely ruining his face and body.
The lines and narrations are so thoroughly implemented, and the content is so dark and obscure, I am afraid that just memorizing the lines can torture people crazy, let alone use such lines and narrations to support the whole film.
Watching him get deeper and deeper in the process of exploring and analyzing the cause of the horse-loving teenager, and finally digging out his terrifying thought of using self-abuse and self-sacrifice to heal and save people, I really felt that he Go crazy, and sink yourself into it.
And at the end of the film, his long self-confession, watching and listening, felt a sense of oppression and suffocation under the pressure of a boulder.
His old face, deep wrinkles, drooping eyelids, subtle expressions, trembling hands, light green eyes, slightly zoomed irises, I have a strange association, his pupils stare like a dark abyss Attract people standing on the edge of the cliff, tempt them, and arouse their urge to jump down.
One of the features of his acting is that his tears never flow out when he needs to cry silently, and there is no such thing as overflowing the eyes and falling out in the blink of an eye. A layer of bright light makes people wonder if this is a mean performance of tears.
I just doubted whether he would cry like a rain of tears. However, without tears, he can interpret the pain and despair of the characters to the core.
Coupled with the soundtrack at the end, I couldn't help but shudder.
I have to say that Burton is very suitable for such a literary film that shows his lines and acting skills. It is a pity that he ran to Europe in a rage after his sixth Oscar failure in 1970, to shoot those that were incompatible with his style and temperament. Foreign language films, breaking the jar and breaking the act.
If he could honestly make a few more British literary films, would he have to wait until 1977 for his seventh nomination? What a waste of time and talent.
He felt that the Oscar failure in "Annie's Thousand Days" in 1970 was too exciting for him. After that, not only did he start randomly selecting films, he went to the Eastern camp under the Iron Curtain of the Cold War, he also began to drink wildly and broke up with Taylor. , This situation continued until the second divorce in 1976. I have to say that a person's obsession is really the root of death.
However, it seems that it is precisely because of his dark and destructive emotions and characteristics that he is suitable to play such a character with a deep and complex personality. If there is no such prerequisite, if it is purely based on acting skills, it will still owe some heat in the end.
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