He has a beautiful face, privileged physique and natural virility, never ostentatious.
He is friendly even when he seems angry and gives off good humor.
He didn't go through the Actor's Studio and I can't imagine him taking body language courses.
I don't know if he is an eminent actor, if he would make Shakespeare's characters believable and exciting, if his capacity is infinite to interpret multiple typologies.
I only know that he would always gladly pay for admission if he appeared on the screen.
And on that we must agree viewers of any type and condition, from all parts of the world.
His name is Harrison Ford and he just turned 80 years old.
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He wears them very well, there is no trace on his legendary mask that plastic surgery has experienced its wonders or its horrors with him.
And it is very likely (and desirable) that between Spielberg and Ford they will get mass audiences to return to abandoned movie theaters when the fifth installment of a legend with a cause called Indiana Jones is released.
He will no longer accompany him playing the unlikely father of his immense Sean Connery.
He already left for the other neighborhood.
And the cinema of actors and actresses is being left very alone with the disappearance of the greatest, extraordinary presences that have no replacement in the current Hollywood cinema, dedicated entirely to Marvel and other ostentatious nothings starring exclusively by noise and calculation, without the slightest notice that they have a bit of soul.
The camera has always been in love with this actor, who manages to convey his passion to the viewers.
And that love is essential to achieve star status.
There are male stars who could also make certain villains believable and exciting.
Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas and Bogart could be wicked if the script demanded it.
But I can not imagine Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Harrison Ford in possession of the dark side, without the public being continuously on his side, hoping that his adventures end well.
The different characters of Harrison Ford.
The history of cinema will have an eternal debt to Harrison Ford for having embodied such vitalistic and fun types as that archaeologist with a hat and a whip, as identifiable as rituals: Indiana Jones, and also Han Solo, that cynical and effective bastion that faces to the almighty empire.
How can an admiring smile not appear when you evoke in your memory these two indelible characters, heroes in the glorious tradition of adventure cinema?
But the Harrison Ford that has made me fall in love the most is not the one from those triumphant and memorable sagas.
I have been most moved by this actor in a masterpiece by Peter Weir called
Sole Witness
.
He plays John Book, an incurably urbane cop who must fit in with the Amish community for a while.
He arrives there badly injured after protecting an Amish boy who has witnessed the murder of a police officer at a train station, perpetrated by Book's corrupt colleagues and boss.
And we will witness a beautiful love story that can not have a happy ending between this cornered and dumbfounded man and the mother of the Amish child.
No one who has seen this thrilling, lyrical film noir will be able to forget the barn dance between Ford and the excellent Kelly McGillis.
I also find his portrayal of replicant hunter Rick Deckard in the riveting
Blade Runner
admirable .
He is bitter and very alone in this hallucinatory universe.
And he kills rebellious replicants again, in addition to further complicating his harsh existence by living a love story with one of them.
And discovering that these can be more suffering and human than the people who intend to exterminate them.
Ford is gloomy, hesitant and hallucinated in a very scary universe that also mesmerizes you.
Ridley Scott chats with Harrison Ford during the filming of 'Blade Runner'.
And he was the only draw in the pretentious yet forgettable sequel to Blade Runner.
Ford can be proud of what his presence in has meant.
cinema.
But it is very good that he is still active.
This gentleman will always have charm.
Because he has never been imposed.
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