for this "Dallas Buyers Club" adapted from a true story, Matthew McConaughey lost weight frantically, eventually losing 50 pounds (about 23 kg), almost beyond recognition. Although it sounds like disrespect for the actors' hard work, Hollywood has always appreciated the method of torturing oneself (being thin, gaining weight, playing terminally ill or real characters), and more generously opened its arms to returnees who have lost their way— -Matthew McConaughey will definitely get an Oscar nomination this year. Dare to bet?
Matthew McConaughey-if you don't know who he is-Hollywood's most famous male vase, female star conqueror, Texas Eros, his long prey (I mean in the movie ) The list includes Sarah Jessica Parker, Kate Hudson, Jennifer Lopez, Judy Foster, etc.
He is completely shaped according to women's sexual fantasies-a man who can give them tears and super sex at the same time, a wild man who will eventually be tamed. "Wedding Expert", "Dating and Dragging Ten Days Manual", "Golden Rushing Enemy"-Matthew McConaughey appeared again and again with frivolous playfulness and spoiled dullness, which is a crime against film art. Of course, he also brought this "stupid show-off" into an action movie. As a result, the 130 million investment "Sahara" became a legend in the history of Hollywood failure.
43-year-old Matthew McConaughey wasted his best time easily. In those years, he received almost as much contempt as jealousy.
So that we once forgotten that the first days of his career even worked with a series of masters-Stephen Spielberg ("Broken Rage"), Robert Zammicis ("Time Contact") , Even the muse of John Sayles ("Fatal Insignia") and Richard Linklater ("Young and Frivolous"). He had at least a chance to be another Brad Pitt and was listed among the Oscar nominees at least once. However, he chose to be a grinning male version of Catherine Heigl.
Suddenly, he changed his appearance.
In Fred King’s crazy and evil noir movie "Killer Joe" last year, McConaughey’s surly performance scared people into restlessness; "Lincoln Lawyer"; then Soderberg’s "Magic Mike", While everyone else only cared about "show meat", McConaughey gave this vulgar romantic drama the real soul; perhaps the most amazing thing is that the crime film "Newsboy" soaked in the humid and sultry south of the United States, McConaughey gave his life. In a serious same-sex SM sex; as well as "Sludge", which won praise at the Cannes Film Festival last year, a modern version of "The Adventures of Huck Finn", he became the mysterious idol who opened the boy's adult ceremony, the most The infatuated prodigal son.
This is not counting the unreleased works-Martin Scorsese's Olympic bidding hit "The Wolf of Wall Street" at the end of the year; Christopher Nolan's sci-fi giant "Interstellar Space" to be released next year.
What's wrong? Has the vase been cleansed?
I bet you would never dare to stare at his eyes and ask this question-if you happen to have seen the episode in "Killer Joe" where he blows up Gina Gesson with fried chicken-of course, if you are lucky enough, he Maybe they will come up with a godfather-like style and say "I admire your honesty." Just as boasting: even in the little chicken movie, I am also a man among men.
In Marbury, California in the afternoon, the sun is shining directly down. Not knowing if it was a trick, Matthew McConaughey deliberately sat in the shadows, making him look calm and his thin cheeks more like stone carvings. He wore a simple white T-shirt and a military green jacket from his menswear brand JKL (meaning "Just keep livin"). He outlined beautiful muscle curves, not as exaggerated as the big screen, but still made every woman want to touch it. A handful.
McConaughey threw a box of chewing tobacco on the table and whispered "How wonderful life is with alcohol." The sluggish and vague accent of the Texan sounds as smooth as honey, slightly calming the overly aggressive aura he exudes-this appearance is as dramatic as in the movie.
Matthew McConaughey began to tell his own story, and everything started in 1993.
At that time, he had just graduated from the Department of Film Directing at the University of Texas, and had nothing to do all day long. On a Thursday night, McConaughey took his girlfriend to the bar at the Hyatt Regency Austin for free drinks. He met a guy sitting in the corner who called himself Don Philip, and it was said that he was a producer. Four hours later, they went out drunk. Tang asked, "Have you ever acted in a play?" McConaughey replied, "Hey, I did a Merlot commercial." Then Tang threw a script with various handwritten annotations on it. There is a character named Dave Woodson, and he said some super awesome lines. For example, "This is why I like high school girls, brothers, no matter how old I am, they will always be this age."
Yes, this movie is Richard Linklater's "Youth and Frolic".
In 1996, he starred in Joe Schumacher's "Moment of Killing". "Big Bang" McConaughey described, "I became popular in just one weekend." The final box office of the film reached 180 million U.S. dollars.
It seems like an afterthought to say this now, but after that, Matthew McConaughey did make the wrong choice. Although the director is big enough, the roles in Spielberg's "Broken Rage" and Zammicis's "Time and Time Contact" do not match his personal charm. Then came Linklater's gangster film "Newton Boys", Ron Howard's "Ed TV" (and the "Trumen World" theme crash is its biggest tragedy), and the World War II submarine film "U-571". His perfect upward curve came to an abrupt end because of the rush of movies. "I rarely reject others because I don't have much capital like this." He explained.
It wasn't until Matthew McConaughey's collaboration with Jennifer Lopez that "The Wedding Planner" saved his decline. After that, he became a veritable "romantic comedy prince", and his box office performance has soared from tens of millions all the way to "Dating Ten Days Manual" directly exceeding 100 million.
At the beginning, Matthew McConaughey defended himself generously-at least not as embarrassed as Ben Affleck. Please stop mentioning "Mandarin Duck Kidnapper" or complain that handsome actors are always ignored in acting. ——“Romantic comedies are not easy from many angles: they have to stay up and down, and this can easily be ruined. I have made some of these movies and I enjoy them. They give a lot of money. , And it’s quite interesting. Well, to put it another way, the truth is that I made action movies, crime movies, and then "Wedding Expert." I thought at the time, this time let’s be different and lighter. Later …Shit, the movie has been sold for a lot of money, and these guys are endless.” To be precise, Matthew McConaughey can probably make $8 million from each romantic comedy. Well, at least this part of him is honest.
As a pragmatist, McConaughey began to enthusiastically explain his views on romantic comedies, like an unbelievable philosopher. "I take comedy very seriously. Although the characters in the movie seem to just run around: together, break up, chase her, get her, and then the movie ends, men will always be the hostages in these stories. But you must Learn to maintain dignity. In some stories, men would kneel on the ground and begging women to change their minds. I don’t like them. Anyway, he should come forward and say, "Oh, I messed up." Returning to her is just one of the options. "
Now, finally Turning to that question again-why did the vase man suddenly choose to devote himself to an art film?
Maybe it's because he likes to read the bad reviews given to him in a masochistic manner. "I still have a sense of humor for myself." McConaughey said, "I asked them to take all the comments. Some I think,'This person just doesn't like me', but some I can't help but admire it. Seeing it, I would write it like this if I were to!"
" McConaughey deliberately fell silent for two years after being criticized and scolded in "The Ghost of Ex-Girlfriends". Then there was the rebirth initiated by "Lincoln Lawyer"-"McConaissance!" The media praised in surprise.
McConaughey downplayed this: "I didn't deliberately pursue anything, I just fell silent for a year or two, and then films like "Killer Joe" and "Newsboy" came to me. Of course, I really wanted to find something new. Challenge. Finding some characters that I am physically afraid of stimulates my creativity. I don’t know or not sure how I will act, but I will try recklessly, believing that I will reach the state of being one with the characters.”
Maybe fate is so unfair. When an actress who is trapped in a fixed role becomes old and eclipsed, people abandon her; but men become more and more fragrant like wine, 40 years old seems to be just the beginning of the second life of an actor.
So, actor McConaughey has a long way to go-I know you want to hear McConaughey confess his bad film career, please, he won't-"I'm not sure if I will still make a romantic comedy, now , I have to bear with it for a while-especially when someone comes to the door with a huge check."
Last year, he married the Brazilian model Camilla Alves, who has been in love for many years. He has three sons under his knees. A perfect mess. He will not return to the old path because of lack of money, will he?
"A few days ago, a friend of mine said to me, Matthew, you are now in the'comma' stage of your life. Every time you think you want to stop, every time you think you have finally reached the end of the seemingly endless street. when, always a way out, you have every pause is only temporary, not a destination. "his voice sometimes low and sometimes loud, like a pastor is preaching," then, I think he was right! "
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