About ten years old in the black and white photo, bowl cut and plaid shirt.
Is it Brad Pitt?
It's hard to imagine being in front of a future global sex symbol.
The actor who will be 59 years old on December 18 seems to have an ideal career behind him.
This is not the opinion of Adrien Dénouette and Thibaut Sève who return to his career in their documentary
La Revanche d'un blond.
The two directors to whom we already owe
Jim Carrey, America Unmasked
evoke the
“curse”
that has struck
“the most desired man in the world”
since his debut .
The actor seems to have sought all his life to forget his image of handsome.
“Did he embody anything other than a blond, glamorous character, whose beauty became a burden?
they wonder
.
To illustrate their theory, they show excerpts from films and interviews.
Thus, in 1988, Brad Pitt confides with a smile about his superficial label:
“I don't know how this debacle happened… But I'm sure it's a curse and I'm trying to get rid of it. »
A
"fatality"
that dates back to its beginnings.
Cinephile producer
Raised in the Protestant religion, the young Brad discovers the cinema around 10 years old.
His parents take him to see
Butch Cassidy and the Kid,
their son is fascinated by Robert Redford.
He leaves to conquer Hollywood and thanks to his impeccable plastic, lands small roles in commercials and soaps until he is propelled into the
Dallas
series .
But it is thanks to a commercial for jeans in which he appears bare-chested that he will obtain the role of the torrid hitchhiker in
Thelma and Louise
by Ridley Scott.
Hat on the head, an air of James Dean, he is already stunningly natural.
Subsequently,
And in the middle runs a river
, directed by his idol Robert Redford, and
Legend of the Fall
, by Edward Zwick, further reinforce this impression of authenticity.
"The less he speaks, the more credible he is"
and becomes
"glamorous"
according to Adrien Dénouette and Thibaut Sève.
In 1995, to play a policeman in the footsteps of a serial killer in David Fincher's
Seven
, Brad Pitt made himself ugly.
The same year he plays a madman under the direction of Terry Gilliam (
The Army of the Twelve Monkeys
) which will earn him the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor.
But no matter what he does, he is still as attractive as ever!
A credible producer
In 2000, he was voted the sexiest man on the planet for the second time.
"Be beautiful and shut up, such is the ransom of success"
, sum up the documentary filmmakers.
Listing the films where Brad Pitt tries to transform.
From the violent
Fight Club
by David Fincher taken from the novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk, shunned when it was released in 1999, to the recent and formidable
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
by Quentin Tarantino.
The actor turns into derision in the comedies and engages in a blockbuster,
Troy,
which he will regret.
He finally gained credibility as a producer from his first feature film,
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
, by Andrew Dominik.
A
“movie for cinephiles”
, assures Brad Pitt who imposes himself in this profession by his requirement (
Twelve Years a Slave
by Steve McQueen…).
His run-ins with the law following his separation from Angelina Jolie once again put him in the spotlight.
But, on the screen, he likes to interpret solitary characters like the astronaut propelled to the confines of the solar system of
Ad Astra
.
James Gray, who directs him in this space odyssey, aptly observes:
“Brad Pitt is a movie star with the charisma of a movie star, but he is not quite comfortable with it.”