From hating him to loving him. Something like this happened to me with a Bruce Willis that while he wore great hair in that series «Luz de luna» he was burdensome to me and after his alopecia he won me over to his cause with interpretations loaded with a kind of latent violence. Characters pure action or immersed in suggestive science fiction. This actor always fits perfectly to any role that he requires that extra transformation.
Because beyond his performances in various installments of "Crystal Jungle" there is something in Willis's films that arouses a feeling of morbid uneasiness. It will be partly because of sitting on your sofa while the characters have a thousand dirty tricks. But it is that Bruce Willis is always placed on the edge of the abyss so that he ends up making his ironic faces winks at wildlife, adventures, deep mysteries and even the paranormal...
Because as well as to shoot action movies, other actors like Brad Pitt o by Tom Cruise They provide that notion of the heartthrob trapped by circumstances, Bruce Willis explores deeper levels in each interpretation thanks to his gestures and his particular ways. Like the kind that reaches the last ring of hell only to come back bruised and not always victorious…
Top 3 Recommended Bruce Willis Movies
The sixth Sense
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:The best movie in terms of its twist ending. We all remember the child bedridden up to his ears explaining that sometimes he saw dead people. Without a doubt, a piece of paper for the kid. But the protagonist raised to the nth degree is Bruce Willis in his role as psychiatrist Malcolm Crowe.
During the course of the movie we see how the doctor is in charge of handling the case of the boy who claims to see dead people wherever he goes. In parallel we observe a personal life of the psychiatrist that seems to leak everywhere. His relationship with his wife is cold as ice, distant...
But everyone has a mission in life. And Dr. Crowe's is to save people who suffer from that "connection" with underworlds where lost souls wander only visible to their patients. Thus one cannot attend to other more personal plots. That's why his married life is a shadow of what it is, between absences, late dates and a relationship that suffers the wear and tear that anticipates Willis's own miseries.
The relationship between Cole, the boy, and his doctor becomes closer and closer. The boy's story is very similar to another patient that Crowe lost completely. And he doesn't want that to happen again. The psychiatrist's involvement ends up taking him to that other side where everything is possible. Good old Bruce Willis makes sure that everything develops with the naturalness of the disconcerting...
12 monkeys
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Brutal work of science fiction that was made for Bruce Willis in his role as sent to the past to try to fix the future in his own way. To the point that Brad Pitt, in his role as crazy daddy's boy, complements but does not limit his brilliance as a time traveler.
A film that despite its undoubted CiFi nature, with post-apocalyptic ancestry, projects us from a very recognizable world. Because that past is our time. Introducing that aspect of Cassandra syndrome that Willis suffers from, but which is really an access between planes to complete his mission, the adventure is assured and the tension is manifested in each scene.
The time machine of the future doesn't always work very well. And poor Willis stumbles through different times until he focuses the shot on days before the spread of a virus around the world. But many of the nuances of Willis' journey escape him and us. The organizers of his comings and goings know much more about the importance of modifying the past than the mere fact of the trips suppose. For them there is that valuable information that would trigger all the paradoxes about it.
In his tortuous jumps between the most dystopian today and yesterday about to be consumed by a virus, Bruce Willis makes everything believable, acceptable, disturbingly plausible. And then there is the intrastory closest to the character himself. Because Bruce Willis will find those who believe him in the past. And then the story will also go about a possible opportunity for his happiness among so much torture of back and forth.
The protégé
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Who could survive a catastrophic train accident without becoming a new folk hero? Well, Bruce Willis camouflaged in the skin of a gray, frustrated guy, a loser who will not stop being a loser because of the discovery of his great virtues.
Except that every hero has his villain made up as an implacable nemesis. That he is almost always closer than he thinks, lying in wait to strip the hero of his powers. Samuel L. Jackson is that antihero who looks like a friend. The question is what hole he is preparing for you.
Meanwhile, we enjoy the discovery of the hero who did not seek to be one. A guy who thinks of his powers as punishment but the sight of his son seems to give him a chance to reconcile with the world. That is where the protagonist makes heroism that survival of all, that desire to leave a mark and admiration in equal parts on their children. This is how Willis decides to draw on his powers to do good to his measure, in his own way.
In the end, another great turn where Willis embodies the confusion and frustration with sovereign mastery. Like an Ulysses who can never return home...
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