From his golden retirement at the foot of the Lakers track, Jack Nicholson still shows off the extraordinary vitality that he always conferred on his characters. Interpretations that appear in the already distant and psychedelic 70s until well into the XNUMXst century. An unparalleled career in current Hollywood stardom in which it is difficult to opt for one film or another.
Nicholson was and is all the distorting mirrors, the antiheroes, the histrionics, the exaggeration and even the madness. And he has come out unscathed decade after decade. Returning faithfully as if nothing had happened to that first row in the old Los Angeles Staples Center. It must not be easy to share a seat with a guy who has just completely unhinged you in the cinema, or who has won you over with his unique ability to empathize with the strange, with the psychopathic, with the absolute divergence from acting stereotypes of faces kind and incomparable deeds.
But it can be so necessary by Tom Cruise like Jack Nicholson. Because without the characters of some, the others would not make sense. Anyway… returning completely to this endearing grandfather of celluloid, we select the best of the best…
Top 3 Recommended Movies by Jack Nicholson
The Shining
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:In the apotheosis of his career, Jack Nicholson brought out the worst of the worst of his physiognomy to delve into the worst follies imagined by the prolific Stephen King.
It was seen coming. That little getaway to a "cozy hotel", with its hundreds of rooms and its endless carpeted corridors, located in the middle of a frozen forest, with its terrifying hiss of the polar currents, pointed to tragedy. Even more so with a Jack Nicholson who already had his flaws since he capitalized on "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
And although the couple formed by Jack and Wendy sounded like a Christmas story, things soon go wrong when the creative block of the husband and writer ends up transforming into a paranoia that mixes evil possession, telluric influences and extrasensory access to sinister planes where the setting plays. perfectly to compose that claustrophobic and "labyrinthine" whole in which Kubrick enjoyed like a pig in a puddle.
I could not miss Stephen King in this of horrors because this novel was his third story. And although later we also find a lot of fantasy that points to other narrative vertices, this first period was all horrors that we all enjoyed with that insane taste for going on a walk towards madness and death to try to get out unscathed.
And yes, this movie also has its OST that seems to have come straight from hell. Listen, listen:
Better impossible
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Sometimes Yankee cinema seems determined to bring out the good side of everything. As if the American dream could extend even over the worst nightmares in pursuit of an imaginary with its empty slogans. In this case, mental illness in its most everyday facet cannot be disguised as something nice without resulting in precisely that, a vain attempt to obscure realities.
Unless the film is played by Jack Nicholson in his role as a past genius. Because his sympathy is strange, like a bud that he can break through the other pole at any moment. And then the sympathy surprises us from the strange, in Nicholson's elusive look and his temperamental reactions to the slightest change in the plan that his mind conceives to continue calmly with his life between suffocating routines.
The curious thing is that beyond the crisscrossed cables of Nicholson's character, where his gaze does not reach, which seems to traverse everything towards nothing, we are offered an unsuspected glimpse of humanity. Perhaps his smiles are not the most frank, but what Nicholson's character ends up undertaking can finally give meaning to his life. Although in the end he is unable to enjoy it.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:One of those mythical titles that is worth seeing. When a movie or a book grows old with its furious validity despite the obvious changes in the sociological paradigm, it is because they point to the transcendent. And I don't mean grand arguments or fancy ideas. The transcendent can be what conceives some explanation also to the everyday. Because the big questions concern above all the little things.
The psychiatric hospital in which Randle (Jack) ends up beating up is being conformed like that family where each one looks for his place or is pushed to it by neglect or surrender. Everyone is crazy or absolutely lucid as they look into a world where everything happens under even more insane premises.
With flashes of acid humor, very seventies, the plot takes us down very different paths: from fast-paced action dotted with anti-heroes, anti-adventures and anti-everything to an introspection about reason and madness.