In today's cinema we find several examples of common director-actor tandems. Without a doubt, mutual knowledge results in the best bill for the movies and even, who knows, in reducing costs. Tim Burton has Johnny Deep, Scorsese features DiCaprio many times. AND David Fincher It is the fortunate director who always finds Brad Pitt ready to play the protagonists of his films.
It is clear that the scripts on which Fincher directs have some capital notoriety for their protagonists and thus the shine of the actor or actress on duty is assured. It is almost always about plots where a character stands out above all else. Something like essential anthropocentrism for the viewer to mimic, empathize and even inhabit the skin of the protagonist to move through the plot with the same uncertainties, concerns and emotions.
David Fincher's Top 3 Recommended Movies
Fight club
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:To the sound of "Where to go my mind" by The Pixies, Fincher picks up the novel from Chuck Palahniuk and elevates it to the category of paradigmatic work of the current individual. A citizen immersed in the society of supposed well-being that sometimes turns to complete alienation. Edward Norton is Brad Pitt and Brad Pitt can be Edward Norton if Norton gets a lot of balls. In short, they are both Tyler Durden ...
The perfect identity game to target that ideal of the person we would like to be in certain moments when nothing fits us. Especially in cases of the most vindictive and merciless impossible longing, what moral and social good prevents us from being. That is why everything is focused on a violence that is born from disenchantment, from the sum of frustrations, from the tension and demands of today's world. Tyler Durden the loser (Edward Norton's grin makes it even easier) and Tyler Durden who comes out of all his self-destructive fantasies undefeated. Until everything explodes from the strange implosion.
It all starts on a plane trip, when Tyler, the gray office worker, meets a charismatic soap salesman who holds a very particular theory: perfectionism is a thing for weak people; Only self-destruction makes life worth living. Both then decide to found a secret fighting club, where they can vent their frustrations and anger, which will have overwhelming success.
The game
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:A fascinating film with a masterful Michael Douglas. One of those films that breaks the deck in terms of plot twists. Because although the issue points to an awareness of the viewer about the trompe l'oeil erected on Douglas, things can turn in the most unexpected way. A psychological game of mirrors that alternately composes certainties and labyrinths while the action unfolds breathlessly.
Billionaire Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) has everything a man could want. But Conrad (Sean Penn), his wayward brother, is still able to find a birthday present that might surprise him: joining a leisure club capable of tailoring unique adventures and hobbies.
One cannot extend further into the plot of this story without aiming at the final resolution, so I will leave it now so that, if you have not seen this 1997 film yet (after a few years it may all be), enjoy it. cute.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:In this idea of life as an equivocal approach, to which he already pointed Quino When he said that we should start out old and end in a runaway orgasm, Brad Pitt manages to materialize it with his imperturbable becoming, with the assumption that he is going against the current and that the martyrdom is even greater. Because peak moments, in lives intertwined by mere moments of plenitude, can always be idealized while waiting for second chances. But in the case of Benjamin and Daisy, everything happened to be forgotten, to assume even tougher defeats than those granted by natural transit in this world.
In this fantastic staging that ends up reaching transcendental notions, Benjamin Button manages to make us believe that his Apollonian gifts are a curse from which to extract another vision of life where the fears of death that mark us, directly or subliminally between each frame of our days, are nothing more than an anticipation of the same nothingness that is being born and moments before not existing.
Life is that blessing that occurs from a spark that ignites everything and that breath that takes the light forever. Benjamin Button accompanies us for a while and then lets us go with that unforgettable grin, as if conveying the confidence that death is not such a big deal. Or even that after our last heartbeat he can expect something that he will long for forever because he already knew it before reaching the world.