It's been a long time since I downloaded this movie, and I haven't had time to watch it. Today I asked my master [Do you watch a movie? 】He said 【Can I understand it? 】Because he had strongly recommended "The Sun Also Rises" to him before, he said it was ugly. I said I haven't seen it, so it should be fine. After watching it for a while, he said that he seemed to have watched it online. Then I started watching the movie quietly.
Know that American wrestling is a show. But this show was played by professional wrestlers who took their own lives.
Towards the end of the film, Randy, played by Mickey Rourke, is serving a customer at a meat stand in a supermarket, and there is such a scene: The
customer says, 'Where have I seen you? '
Randy: No.
Customer: Are you from the transport team?
Randy didn't speak.
Customer: Do you know XX?
Still did not speak.
Customer: Oh, I remember, 'sledgehammer crush'! You are Randy, Sledgehammer!
And then Randy broke his hand with the supermarket meat slicer or something [I don't know if he cut off his thumb]
and said I'm fuckin' quit, walking out of the supermarket and back in his RV , he wraps himself up and says 'Robin? Hi! Randy, Randy! 'He found himself.
He once thought he had found his daughter. But he was physically released by the seduction of a young woman in a bar and forgot to have dinner with his daughter.
When he went to his daughter Stephanie, Stephanie kept calling you a liar. Randy tried to explain. And Stephanie just said [I don't care]. Then Randy, who thought he had found his daughter, left in despair.
Maybe his daughter wasn't the one who made him feel completely detached from the world.
It's that stripper, Lom or Kahiti [the single mother who came out to strip for her son's education]. When Randy went to the nightclub to find her and said [Thank you, I got my daughter back (to the point, my memory is not that good)] and had [Love you Randy], Kasiti said [I'm not just a stripper Dancer, I'm still a single mother...] When Randy said [maybe I can change something] Kahidi said something to the effect that he's an asshole or something, ugh, I'll delete it after reading it, I regret it a little bit, but if I don't delete it, I can still write down the lines bit by bit.
When Randy finds out that he doesn't even get love from Cassidy, who he thinks might have feelings for him, he decides to go to the show for him and Bob, whom he had wrestled with 20 years ago. He has made up his mind. Maybe when a person feels that the whole world is about to abandon him, he will take the initiative to abandon the world.
When he was about to leave the house to go to the show, Cassidi, who was still dancing in striptease before, stopped her performance and ignored the people who called her back to continue the show, and drove all the way to ask the place of the show. When she asked Randy [what are you doing? Don't you know you have heart disease? 】Randy said 【It really hurts me here】He pointed at Cassidy when he said this. Cassidy said [I'm here. I'm really here] but I knew it was too late for Randy. His heart has been broken. Then he decided to go to his territory with the cheers.
Loved the look at the corner of the screen when Bob asked Randy if he was okay at the end, where the one he loved just stood was empty. Then, he chose the ultimate, and started the famous [Sledgehammer Crushing] at the pinnacle of his helpless brilliance.
OVER. The
movie is over.
Great movie.
It also reminded me of a lot of things, and many times, really, it was gone in an instant. When we wanted to catch it again, it was too late. Maybe especially in love. Sometimes, I really wonder, why does one of the people who are interested in each other always refuse? Does love really need the pursuit of art? Although when I saw Randy invited Cassidy to a bottle of wine and Cassidy turned it down twice and finally agreed, flirting can be really artistic at times. But, it's time to score. However, how many people can grasp the heat well?
Haha, I wrote so much nonsense again.
Well, it's good to come across a movie that makes me want to write something.
Have a good dream.
Hehe. Maybe you were already asleep.
00:05:56
2009.6.3
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Content: At the Golden Globe Awards ceremony in the United States, the 56-year-old Mickey Rourke won Best Actor for his almost autobiographical performance in The Wrestler. The sex icon of 1980s Hollywood ruined his acting career with his rebellious personality and eccentric temper; when he switched careers and returned to being a boxer, his handsome appearance was ruined beyond recognition. For more than ten years, Locke started as a supporting role and walked the road of return step by step, and "The Wrestler" finally allowed him to find himself in Hollywood again.
"It's a long way back," Mickey Rourke said at the 66th Golden Globe Awards ceremony. At this moment, he just won the best actor award for "The Wrestler". The film about an out-of-the-box wrestler trying to regain his in-ring glory is just a hint of the 56-year-old "bad boy" actor's ups and downs over the years. Mickey Rourke once had the glorious nickname "The Phoenix", and now he's literally risen from the ashes.
"The Wrestler" has a Mickey Rourke's heart. At the Venice Film Festival last year, "The Wrestler" won the Golden Lion Award, but Mickey Rourke, who was very vocal, missed out on the best actor. The chairman of the jury and the famous German director Wim Wenders also deeply regretted this, he commented: "There is a really heartbreaking performance in this film, and when I say heartbreak, you know me Talking about Mickey Rourke."
In fact, The Wrestler is not complete without Rourke. This book, written by Robert Siegel, editor of The Onion, was originally just a story of "Rocky in a straitjacket". Bull" and a series of Stallone films. And the fundamental element to revive this book is because the movie has a Mickey Rourke heart.
The protagonist of "The Wrestler" is Randy Sledgehammer Robinson, a pro-wrestler who once thrived in Madison Square Garden, who, in middle age, is reduced to playing in a shabby town or college gym . After a self-destructive exhibition match, Randy was taken to hospital and told he had to stop wrestling due to a heart problem. In addition, his life is also a mess, and his relationship with his daughter is increasingly estranged, and he has never been able to successfully maintain a relationship. After watching this film, people can't help but associate the protagonist in the film with Locke himself - a former Hollywood sexy idol, whose rebellious personality and eccentric temper affected his acting career, and his handsome appearance was destroyed after he changed his career as a boxer. Unrecognizable. Although "The Wrestler" wasn't written by Locke, it was the most autobiographical work of 2008.
"When I got the book, I felt very ordinary,"
Locke said without hesitation. To him, wrestling was nothing but a relative of the noble sport of boxing. "It's the sport I despise the most. My brothers used to watch it and thought it was all real, but I'm just a victim of it." I can't do this kind of contrived sports." After a long period of professional training, Locke's wrestling performance in the movie can be completely fake, and even the gesture of his hair tossing has the taste of a rough wrestler.
Before filming began, Rock insisted on rewriting all of his lines in the film, and director and producer Darren Aronofsky embraced him. So the character of Randy Robinson has a lot of dark moments and tragedies from Locke's life. "Aronofsky told me, 'If I'm working with you, then you have to listen to me. You can't help but Respect me. Don't embarrass me in front of the crew if you have a problem with me. Also, I don't have money for you.' This guy has some guts. I like this guy. He taught me some ground rules again. He I still listen to him about not going to nightclubs at night. He still insists that I do three months of training. After I looked at the wrestlers, I made a 'hum', and I found them from the Israeli army. I went from 195 lbs to 230 lbs in six months with a very strict instructor, and I've got big muscles."
"He was the Brad Pitt of the day"
"When you're alone At the time, only your dog can be with you." Rocky made a point of mentioning his 17-year-old Chihuahua bitch, Rocky, when he thanked him at the Golden Globes. He is serious. In an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, he said: "That year, my grandmother just died and my brother died, and it became the love of my life." During his more than fifty years of ups and downs , Locke has always been lonely and confused.
Locke sees himself in Randy's character, "Randy lives in shame. And this shame, and I live with it for five, six, seven, eight, nine...15 years. I caused it myself. I lost everything, my wife, my house, my friends and my reputation in the industry. I had to pay $500 a month in rent to live in an apartment with my dogs. No one Really know how down I am. A friend once gave me a few hundred dollars to buy something to eat. Sometimes I would call my ex and cry like a child to get her back. I was really lonely, And that life went on for many years.”
"The Wrestler" is not only about the terrifying hand-to-hand combat scenes, but also the desperate life that can't bear to look at, such as the lost soul in the supermarket, the dirty trailer, the estranged daughter, and the fall from the glory. Randy was the head of Madison Square Garden, but ended up being a fighter in the small-town high school gym. How close the story is to Locke's life. With a face of scars, protruding eyes, rough skin, and full of muscles, Locke gave the audience a glimpse of what Locke used to be in that instant. And his downfall is undoubtedly the most breathtaking story in Hollywood history.
The root of all problems may come down to Locke's tortured childhood. He was born in upstate New York in September 1952 to a family of Irish and French descent. At the age of 5, Locke's parents divorced and his mother married a police officer and took him to Miami. His stepfather often punches and kicks him. Every time Locke recalled this, he vented his anger on his mother.
"I don't have any contact with my mother now. I hated her for the rest of my life because of what she did. She turned her back and didn't fulfill her obligations to me and my brother. She made it all happen, and it continued. Ten years. It's easy to go crazy dealing with this feeling of being small and abandoned. After my brother died a few years ago, I completely refused to speak to her again. She is now diagnosed with Alzheimer's. There's not much to say, she doesn't remember what happened anyway." The young Locke's way of escaping his miserable family life was boxing. As a child, he trained at the Fifth Street Gym in Miami, where Muhammad Ali got his start. At 16, he fought middleweight champion Luis Rodriguez in the ring. However, two violent concussions ended his dream of becoming a professional boxer, and by chance, he broke into the showbiz.
One of Locke's friends at the University of Miami was directing a play based on Jean Genet's "Death Lab" when an actor just dropped out. Locke agreed to play the role and was quickly hooked. So he gave up boxing, borrowed $400 from his sister, and went to New York alone. While working part-time, he studied at a private performance school until he finally got his way. In one audition, he was praised by the famous playwright Elia Kazan, who said it was "the best audition I've seen in 30 years".
Mickey Rourke can still talk hype about those glorious days. Working with Kezan, Scorsese, and Pacino, he got enough attention to land him a small role in 1981's "Body Heat." A few minutes of screen appearances have given him more heavyweight roles, including in Barry Levinson's "Diner," Francis Ford Coppola's "Betta," and he's also in the splendid "Angel" Heart" opposite Robert De Niro. The most notorious one was with Kim Basinger in the 1986 porn blockbuster "Nine and a Half Weeks". Despite the bad reviews, it cemented his sex symbol and made him the hottest man of the time. "He was the Brad Pitt of that time, and he was better." The Guardian once commented.
"I'm not going to give up"
is when the career is in full swing and everything is about to fall apart. Acting is Locke's favorite, but it's also acting that makes him at a loss. "Nine and a Half Weeks" director Adrian Lane once said that if Mickey Rourke died after "Angel Heart" he would be another James Dean. In fact, he became very "tricky". He quarrelled with directors and producers, abused other actors (Tom Cruise was one of his targets), and made enemies everywhere in Hollywood. He squandered many opportunities that others would have seen as gold. When Dustin Hoffman called him for the role that Tom Cruise later played in "Rain Man," he forgot to call Hoffman back. He made one bad decision after another, turning down the role of Kevin Costner in "Untouchable", turning down roles in "Field Platoon" and "Silence of the Lambs", and years later, more Turned down the role of John Travolta in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.
When his personal and professional life couldn't get any worse, he made some trashy movies for money and finally lost the respect of others. So he decided to return to boxing. "It's something I want to do and have fun with. It's therapeutic for me, very pure. For acting, I lost all passion, desire and respect."
In 1991, Locke switched careers as a boxer. At the time, he was in good shape, winning eight straight, making $1 million a year, and just three games short of the lightweight title, until he pulled out due to neurological issues. In 1995, he suffered severe brain damage and had to quit boxing completely. By then, his face had undergone four cosmetic surgeries, reshaping his battered nose and once handsome cheekbones, and doctors had even cut off some of his ears to restore his face. .
In 1997, Rock returned to Hollywood. But at that time, he was in the embarrassing situation that there was no director willing to work with him and no movie to give him a role. In 1997, he started with a small role in "The Rainmaker" from director Coppola, and has starred in "Buffalo 66", "Once Upon a Time in Mexico", "Rage to the Rescue" and "Sin City" and other heavyweights. Although the works are all supporting roles, Locke finally came out of the abyss step by step.
When it came time for Locke to fully play the leading role, almost no one was willing to invest in "The Wrestler". In order for him to play the leading role, Aronofsky, the director who had directed "Requiem for a Dream", even gave up making an epic blockbuster with a large investment, and changed "The Wrestler" into a zero-investment film of independent films. Therefore, he dared to face Locke with his middle finger, and dared to ask this rebellious self-destructive genius to be obedient. In doing so, Aronofsky also moved and inspired Locke. "For years I sat and said to my dog, 'I can't go back, it's all over.' But I didn't fully accept the outcome and I wasn't going to give up."
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