Friend Edward Norton is that blank canvas waiting for his best recreation. A type capable of the most surprising mimicry from an initially bland appearance. In fact, in some of his most relevant films he starts out as a gray office guy who little by little we discover in his most fascinating transformation.
And it is that not only of gallants type Brad Pitt cinema is needed. In fact, someone like Edward Norton is more than necessary for an easier approach to the character from his average appearance, from which only he is capable of exploiting unfathomable registers for many other actors.
Thrillers or comedies, adventures or mystery, fantasies or crude realism. Everything goes into the magician's trunk, where Norton keeps his costumes tailored to the finest detail. One of those actors for whom it is worth paying a ticket for purists of interpretation and for simple movie fans.
Top 3 Recommended Edward Norton Movies
Fight club
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Well, Pitt destroys any scene he goes through. But in this film everything is sustained thanks to the balance between the gray office type that Norton embodies and the power of him on the other side of his deranged imagination that takes the reins in the hands of Pitt.
The soundtrack with that "Where is my mind" by the Pixies loads the accelerated course towards self-destruction with dramatic epic. From the "encounter" between the two characters we approach an end of the world that begins with oneself.
Norton's self-destruction has a touch of strange hedonism, of surrender to violence as the only way to not be devoured by the accelerated pace of a world that ignores and ignores him. As everything flows towards perdition, the character becomes bigger. Like a villain turned superhero of everyday life in the face of boredom and the nihilistic feeling that little is worth it.
The ilusionist
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:In the wonderful Comes from the end of the XNUMXth century, the illusionist Eisenheim is on everyone's lips for his magic shows that border on the most dramatic spiritism. The magician convinces everyone that he is capable of attracting people on stage who already inhabit the other world.
His most sought-after guest character is the mysterious Sophie, whose murder still raises suspicions that even point to Eisenheim himself. Beyond the final trick, the glorious effect for which every illusionist would dedicate his own life, the film focuses on Norton a tension that does not take you away from the screen.
Because doubts are sown and Eisenheim can be as sinister at times as always insightful. Maybe the killer is in the room. And both Eisenheim, Sophie's eternal lover for years since he met her, even her fiancé, may be the perpetrators of such a crime. Except that a magician always has the advantage when it comes to convincing everyone that the truth can come from the blackest magic.
American History X
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:When American cinema looks at its navel, it charges any social circumstance of the necessary importance to point to insurmountable moral balances. In this film there are certain similarities with "El gran Torino" by Eastwood as far as the treatment of racism in the deep United States is concerned. No one comes out unscathed and each one bears the burden of his guilt. Always aiming, yes, at a possible reconciliation, although it may be late...
Derek just went to prison for murdering two black people who wanted to steal his van. After spending many years in prison, he no longer has the same skinhead ideas as he used to and returns to reinsert himself into society as one more. He has always been a role model for his little brother and Derek wants that to change. He is no longer a skinhead and he doesn't want his brother to go down the same path...
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