When one challenges fate

Clifford 2021-12-08 08:01:46

I heard that Paul Newman is dead.
I don’t feel much about him. He is vaguely depressed and handsome in several old black and white films. The
only movie I have watched seriously is "The True Colors of Money".
Objectively speaking, this movie is very good and the story tells quite well.
Since I also watched "Twelve Angry Men" that night, I fell silent in my excitement and anxiety.
If this movie is taken out separately, it is still a pretty good movie.

What are you talking about?
Speaking of a cold, sophisticated pool player,
he found a young, simple genius. He took him to gamble around and taught him dirty experience. The young man is a chess piece in his hand and a cash cow.
Then what?
In front of youth, in front of genius, when he had to face his own decay,
a passion burst out in his heart: he wanted to challenge this young man, challenge life,
he knew he was no longer at his peak, but he Can't help it.
The young man has gone bad. He has become colder, older and more sleek
than him. He has also changed quietly. He has become warm and proud. When the cue returns to his hands, he seems to have found the loss of the past. Dignity.
When one is facing one's own destiny, when one initiates a challenge,
this kind of behavior has the value of surpassing victory or defeat.
In the last shot, the genius played by Tom Cruise looked at him contemptuously,
while he arrogantly lifted a ball, smiled slightly, his eyes full of pride, he looked at the young man in front of him playfully,
slowly Say: "I'm back!"

Youth is really not quantity, but quality.
A young man can begin to decay, and such young people can be seen in any era.
And a person who has passed away can win his golden age again.

That shot, then Paul Newman moved me.
He acted very well.
When he first debuted, Tom Cruise had a youthful and aggressive brutality and arrogance,
and he had a familiar elegance, a kind of cold city, and a kind of authority that could not be said.
But the people sealed by this iceberg slowly melted. A whole movie is the length of the melting iceberg.
You see him warm up little by little and slide to the other pole little by little. It’s not good.
But a complete person, a person full of human touch.

Because of this movie, we must also remember this great actor:
Paul Newman.

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The Color of Money quotes

  • Carmen: You win one more game, you're gonna be humping your fist for a long time. Got that, Vincent?

  • Eddie Felson: Pool excellence is *not* about excellent pool.