Ethan Hawke's passage through the cinema has for me that something of vital accompaniment. An actor who was always there, with echoes of generational harmony, in different films that fascinated me from when he was a kid until today. A particular esteem and admiration that brings him here today to pay him a small but due tribute.
We are talking about the typical actor marked by a differential physiognomy, a mix between Willem Dafoe and Daniel Day-Lewis; lowering the expressiveness from the grimace or the simple sinister smile of the first but equally endowed with an intense look like the second.
The usual typical actor that you associate with action genres or thrillers. With that security of being comfortable in a seat at the cinema or on the sofa with a good bag of popcorn, ready for anything to happen...
Top 3 Recommended Ethan Hawke Movies
Predestination
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:And it is that time travel has always been a fascinating argument for me. On this occasion, even with echoes of the fascinating book 22/11/63 Stephen King, not so much in its uchronic aspect but rather in the setting and the play of light and shadow that can be caused by going here and there between temporal vectors...
A bar as a nerve center from whose bar we learn the story, as if told from the legendary between shots of alcohol capable of arousing the necessary confusion between comings and goings. The plot advances between missions to save the world in the plane that corresponds to the future reality and the feeling of that time that we could amend what we experienced. Sophisticated but magnetic…
Science fiction thriller written and directed by the Spierig brothers that focuses on a Temporary Government Agent, played by Ethan Hawke, who must immerse himself in a series of time travels in order to ensure his continuity in the police force forever. and be able to prevent future murders. Now, in his last mission, the agent must recruit his young self, while he pursues a criminal that he has been looking for for a long time.
Regression
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Hawke's intensity in the role of the psychiatrist gives his character dark vertices that point to anything and give the plot greater suspense if possible. Together with Emma Watson they make a tandem that encapsulates lightness and depth in each dialogue, pointing to unfathomable spaces of the mind and the past as a whole shared between aggressor and victim. A labyrinth in which Emma does not allow herself to be guided to her salvation. Because you can never trust anyone.
Movie set in Minnesota in the 90s. There, a man is accused of having abused his daughter, but he claims he doesn't remember anything that happened. However, he admits his guilt despite not knowing for sure what happened.
To recover his memory, he has the help of a psychologist, who, little by little, manages to make him begin to remember the attack and, furthermore, when he recovers his memories, he blames someone else: a policeman who, according to him, participated in the abuse. However, the situation is not without controversy and the local media are considering the possibility that everything is an act committed by a satanic sect.
training day
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:The most strictly action movie of those selected for this space. Your typical rookie cop movie with a lot to learn. A recurring argument that, thanks to Denzel Washington and our Ethan, reaches new heights. We also add a plot capable of adding a few more twists and we end up with a movie that becomes short after living frantically aboard the police car.
Jake Hoyt, a young police officer with good intentions, believes he has finally achieved his long-awaited goal: to become a detective serving Alonzo Harris, a narcotics agent with more than 13 years of experience. In an environment clouded by crime, drug trafficking and cold-blooded murders, Hoyt will have to make himself respected by following in the footsteps of his superior, a man whose methods shake the barrier between legality and corruption, something that the young man Police seem unwilling to accept.
Other Ethan Hawke movies
strange way of life
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:A rarity of those that can go unnoticed but that has the intense aroma of small perfumes. A medium-length film in the hands of Almodóvar in search of new cinematographic forms in times of revolution of all kinds of content, including audiovisual...
En strange way of life, Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal will play a middle-aged cowboy duo: Jake and Silva. This short film is a western that begins with Silva crossing the desert to visit Sheriff Jake in the town of Bitter Creek. Just over two decades earlier, the two had worked together as gun-for-hire. Silva's intention to go to town to have a nice reunion with his old friend. However, Jake has a secret reason why he doesn't have to do with reliving memories of when they were coworkers.