There are those who consider that John Malkovich is the most egotistical actor of those who have passed through Hollywood. That of making a film titled "How to be John Malkovich" It sounded like absolute vainglory. Nor is he left behind the idea of writing and starring in another film titled "100 Years: The Movie You'll Never See" so that it can only be seen in a surreal premiere scheduled for November 18, 2115. Details that are very far-fetched in the ego.
But what better place to burn in bonfires of vanities than in the cinema, right, John?
Because John Malkovich always draws on a charismatic, almost sinister charm that transfers his characters with ease, as if it only required him to go on stage and change his costume to change his personality and make any of the characters he embodied believable. Virtue perhaps more innate than studied. But there is always more truth in what is natural than in what has been learned. And John knows that human beings contain everything. It is just a matter of searching deep inside for the role to play from the closest experiences or shared emotions.
Until November 18, 2115, the day in which I will be able to give an opinion with complete knowledge of the facts about his work, his most recommended films today could be the ones that I bring here, always regarding his strictly interpretive future...
Top 3 recommended films by John Malkovich
How to be John Malkovich
AVAILABLE HERE:The freak out was served. And it was not going to be for less. It is also true that to share the interpretative and plot freak, there is nothing better than surrounding yourself with good friends like John Cusack, Cameron Díaz or Charlie Shenn. And beyond the title, John Malkovich's appearances are rather punctual, tangential, as if to give meaning to the fascinating nonsense of access to the actor's mind to dive between drives, desires, manias and animosities.
Between lysergic, artificial stimulant, delirious, dreamlike and at the same time exciting in its magnetism to discover how you can become John Malkovich to do whatever we want with your mind and manipulate it to our whim. Because once the experiment was done with Malkovich, the idea could be extrapolated to our bosses, brothers-in-law and neighbors...
Craig Schwartz's life is coming to the end of a cycle. Craig is a street puppeteer with great talent, but he has the impression that his life is meaningless. New York has changed a lot and people don't pay much attention to it. He has been married for ten years to Lotte, who works in a pet store and is obsessed with her work. He manages to find work on the 7 floor of the Mertin-Flemmer building in Manhattan, where he finds a small door that allows him access to a secret hallway that sucks him in and allows him access to John Malkovich's brain.
Dangerous friendships
AVAILABLE HERE:Any character played by John Malkovich is dangerous per se. The point is that certain dangers attract us like cheese in stocks when hunger takes over reason. In his period scenery, at times we remember the unspeakable vices of Dorian Gray. Only this time everything is experienced without the possibility of amendment, without another soul capable of harboring all those darknesses that Dorian's painting contains. Thus everything is more savagely lascivious at a time when lasciviousness was almost the worst of sins...
France, XNUMXth century. The perverse and fascinating Marquise de Merteuil (Glenn Close) plans revenge on her last lover with the help of her old friend the Viscount de Valmont (John Malkovich), a seducer as amoral and depraved as she. A virtuous married woman, Madame de Tourvel (Michelle Pfeiffer), with whom Valmont falls in love, will find herself involved in the Marchioness's insidious machinations.
Seneca
AVAILABLE HERE:That John Malkovich plays one of the greatest Spanish thinkers in the history of humanity, what do you want me to tell you... it's very cool. The point is that the movie has a point of historical bibliography without any more boasting than merely spectacular ones, perhaps with a histrionic touch at times in the gesticulation. And at the same time, in its plot simplicity you consider that perhaps everything bio should be like this to get closer to the characters embodied by great actors. That should be enough. But of course, we are used to the epic and little open to considering the genius sitting in the toilet, where he was most human...
It is the year 65 AD in Rome, and the infamous Emperor Nero thrives on a mix of megalomania, paranoia, and physical violence. The famous philosopher Seneca has been Nero's mentor and close advisor since childhood, and was instrumental in his rise to power. Despite this, Nero tires of Seneca and uses a frustrated attempt on his life to falsely accuse Seneca of being complicit in the assassination attempt.
His generous gift to Seneca: he is free to commit suicide. Seneca accepts his fate and, like Socrates, wants to say goodbye to his followers with one last lesson in his philosophy of life. Afterwards, he plans to have her wrists cut to cement his place in history. That's exactly what happens, but Seneca dies painfully and slowly. An exsanguination that represents the end of all channels of thought.