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“The Clown” is the most controversial movie this year. It took off the best film of the Venice Film Festival – this is the first time that “Superhero Movie” has been recognized by the three major European film festivals; it defeated_src=”https://img.huxiucdn.com/article/content/201911/12/075636345997.jpg?imageView2/2/w/1000/format/jpg/interlace/1/q/85″ data-w=” 1080″ data-h=”583″>
Jackun Phoenix received the “Clown” when the conditions were: “I just want to play a complex, fleshy gray field role, and Not a black and white cartoon villain.”
The following is about how Jacques went all the way to the “clown”:
He was born in a hippie family. When he was 8 years old, he appeared on TV with his brother Revan Phoenix. When he was young, he lived under his brother’s reputation and spent many years digesting his brother’s early sorrow. To realize his expectations of himself;
After many times, when he was looking at the limelight, he retired from sight; when someone thought he was going to enter the falling track, he showed strong calm…
originally not surnamed Phoenix
Jackun family, originally not named Phoenix (Phoenix, meaning phoenix nirvana). This is the name of his parents who changed their mind after leaving the cult. I hope that the family can start a new life from then on.
The cult organization his parents had joined was called “The Son of God”, and when they joined, the organization looked normal.
1972Members of the Son of God dance at the party.
But then, “The Son of God” is notorious for using color temptation to recruit members, children and other scandals.
Not once called Jacques
In the name of the name, the Phoenix family is very free to do whatever they want.
Jackun’s four brothers and sisters are called river (River), rain(Rain), Free (Liberty), Summer (Summer).
Jackun feels that his name is incompatible with everyone. He also wants to have a name related to nature. He went to Dad to discuss. At that time, his father was licking the leaves in the yard.
A few minutes later, his name becomes the leaf (Leaf).
Children’s time, whether on television or in a TV series, Jacques has been using the name Leaf. This name has been used in adulthood.
The misguided idealist
1In 991, the older brother Ruifan, who was famous earlier than Jake Kun, said in an interview that he lost his virginity when he was 4 years old. At that time, this explosive news suffocated the public’s appetite. The black history of the cults of the Phoenix family is also nailed to this.
But recently, Jie Kun clarified his brother’s words: “He teased the media to play. Those annoying problems made him stunned. If he didn’t say the answer that a reporter wanted to hear, they would never give up. .”
The propaganda poster of the Son of God, it is a great thing to preach sexual intercourse with the organization leader.
In the eyes of Jacques, his parents are an idealist: “They believe that they have found a group of people with common beliefs and values. You have to know what the United States was like at the time, short In a few short years, one president and several civil rights leaders were assassinated. This is frustrating, right?”
In 1977, Jacques’s parents received a letter from a leader introducing a new method of recruiting members, “Flirting Fishing”: attracting new members in a manner similar to prostitution.
“I remember my parents’ reaction: Go to fucking, we won’t do it.” Jacques said.
After witnessing fishing, the whole family changed to vegetarian diet
After escaping from the cult organization, the family returned to the United States by boat.
On board, Jacques spent his 3rd birthday. At the hospitality of the crew, he ate the first cake in his life and had his first toy. But what made him remember the most is that he first saw the scene of fishing:
“One day, a group of flying fish jumped out of the sea by our boat. Our family ran to the deck and saw that fishermen pulled the fish from the fishing rod and slammed it to the wall of the ship. Big nails.”
The baby in the picture is Jacques. When in Venezuela, the family lived by the sea and the fish was their main food. Jacques said that the fishing scene he witnessed reminded him that the fish he had eaten were also tortured and killed in the same cruel way.
After disembarking in the United States, the family became all vegetarians.
After becoming famous, the five children of the Phoenix family boarded the cover of the vegetarian magazine.
The childhood of a busy life
In the years of “The Son of God”, Jacques’ parents would take the children on the street and sing hymns to passers-by.
After returning home, the talents of children became an important source of income for the family. Dad can’t work because of a back injury. His brother, Ruifan, took the initiative to take up the burden of raising a family. He wrote songs at a young age; Jie Kun showed his talents on the break dance.
Fenix’s children have a musical instrument.
“Three-year-old” old child career
These children who can sing and dance will first shoot advertisements, run dragons, and later become actors.
Jikun in Hitchcock Suspense Story Collection
In the Hitchcock Suspense Story Collection, Jacques played a wealthy child. After witnessing a murder, he did not call the police, but used this to extort the murderer.
After growing up, many of the roles that Jiekun played were more or less dark.
He seems to be intuitively sensitive to the dark side of human nature, and he can always play a melancholy, fragile, violent, anxious, vulnerable, and mysterious figure.
When taking photos for the magazine, Jie Kun was pretending to be cut off by his brother Ruifan.
“This kid can be really fierce”
When I was 10 years old, when I starred in “Street Street Blues,” Jacques felt the power of performance for the first time.
In that scene, Jacques would defend his father at the police station. He first slapped the opposite lawyer, and when others came up to want to subdue him, he groaned and hysterically.
“I remember that after the director called ‘stop’, all the actors reacted ‘Oh, the child is really fierce’.” Jacques said, “At that moment, I felt my whole body creaking. I will never forget that feeling. Just like drinking and smoking for the first time, I opened my body in an unprecedented way, feeling ecstatic.”
Jackun in “Street Street Blues”
The reporters also learned about Jie Kun’s fierceness. In their opinion, this child is eccentric and lively.
An article in the Orlando Sentinel newspaper wrote: “In the interview, Lif (Jackun) can’t stand still, he I kept shaking back and forth in the chair, sometimes half of my body was pulled out of the chair. Halfway through the interview, he ran to play the electric skateboard for a while, then the whole person was flat on the ground, and carefully observed a small Beetle.”
Ruifan (right) and Keanu Reeves played a pair of fallen streets in “My Own Idaho” Male donkey. His last fate also coincided with the end of the film.
People say that Ruifan has the temperament of an angel. As a vegetarian, he once ran out of the restaurant tears because his girlfriend ordered seafood. In each interview, he is not in a hurry to talk about movies, but always loves to talk about environmental protection.
For Jiekun, his brother, Ruifan, is also an angel who saved his life.
Occasionally, Ruifan will also do something about “Devil”.
“You will become more famous than me”
Jackun’s career was stagnant when his brother was thriving. In six years, Jiekun did not receive a good contract.
Rui Fan began to focus on his younger brother.
Rui Fan and Jie Kun
Jackun recalled:
“He started teaching me to watch movies. I remember that he broke into my room and had to pull me to see “The Bulls of the Rage.” My reaction at the time was, what was that? I have never heard of this movie. I watched the comedy at that time. Just got the bed the next day, he took me and looked at it again, and then said to me very seriously, ‘You must cheer up and continue to act, you will go to play like this in the future. Works ‘.”
” Soon after, he suggested that I change my name back. Then after a few more months, one day at home, he suddenly said to me, ‘You will become a real actor and will become more than me. Famous. I remember that my mother and I looked at each other in confusion, not knowing what he was talking about.”
Rui Fan and Jie Kun
Jackun doesn’t know why his brother said so. For years, he has been wondering what his brother has seen from his tenderness, but there is no chance.
He just got a Venetian movie like a brother. I also had to play music, which is also the wish of Ruifan.
Brother died in front of him
The death of his brother is the minefield of Jiekun. “I can never understand such a loss, I can only slowly accept the fact that he has left.”
In the 1993 Halloween, Ruifan went to a bar with his girlfriend and Jiekun. This is where the young talents of Hollywood often visit.
Johnny Depp is the owner of the bar, and he and Ruifan are very close. In addition to acting, both of them formed a band. That day, Ruifan also wanted to play a musical instrument.
Rifan and Johnny Depp
After 45 minutes, Ruifan, who walked out of the bar, fell on the sidewalk and couldn’t afford it. When the ambulance arrived, he was already dead. The autopsy reported that he had taken in excess of heroin and cocaine. How these drugs have entered the body of Revan has always been a mystery. Some people say that a guitarist handed a drink to Ruifan and he drank it.
The person calling the ambulance is Jacques. Somehow, the media quickly got the call record. Overnight, Jie Kun’s desperate cry for help filled the headlines of the newspaper: “Please come and save him, he is going to die! Please, please! Please, please!”
Left: Jie Kun, Zhong: Mom, Right: Ruifan
Before his brother died, Jacques, who had been ruined for many years, had just returned to the right track. The media’s amnesty report aggravated his anxiety, and he ran to the pasture that his brother gave to his family before his death.
Later, my mother took him out of the house and took part in the audition of “Anything at All”. The director was Van Sant who had worked with Ruifan. Casting The director said that Jacques’s audition was the best she had ever seen in her career.
Integrated into the mainstream performing arts career
From the starring of “At All”, Jacques gradually distinguished himself from his childlike image and his painful adolescence.
In “At All”, the rebellious youth played by Jacques fell in love with many of his weather anchors. The heroine who played with him was Nicole Kidman.
In 2000, Jacques made two career masterpieces.
In “The Quill”, he plays a priest who runs a mental hospital, but in the end he is insane.
In the more successful “Gladiator”, Jacques played the prince who was so hot and good, and the uncle took power. Years later, in the “Game of Thrones”, the role of Qiao Fei is to use this role as their own textbook.
Gladiator clips
“Gladiator” became the best film in Oscar, and Jacques also won the first Oscar nomination in life.
The second nomination did not allow him to wait too long. In 2005, he played the legendary singer Johnny Cash in the biographies “Walking with the Songs.” This time, he missed the Xiaojin people. However, he has other gains, and his original soundtrack album has won a Grammy trophy.
Cross with the song. The director commented: “I don’t have to see Jacques’ face when filming, even if he only shoots his back, he can give me different feelings. He never has to imitate John Kash, he is already him.” “He Not who he plays, he only chooses who to be.”
Johnny Cash and Jacques have a cruel similarity: at the age of 12, the favorite brother of Karsh accidentally passed away. Because of this similarity, Jacques was often asked by reporters at the time: “Talk about your brother.”
Jackun hated these questions at the time. And this is not the biggest trouble. Johnny Cash is an alcoholic. In order to turn himself into a Kash, Jacques began to drink. After the shooting, this bad habit still entangled him.
“With the song” fragment
For Jiekun, this is about the truth. He has to personally experience how the changes in alcohol can make people decide that they are right:
“When I feel the truth, this is the most rewarding reward as an actor. But when the filming is over, I will react. I have not been normal for myself.”
In the year the film was released, Jacques began to receive alcohol treatment, which became a watershed in his career.
Jackun “mad”
From 2006 to 2010, Jacques’ behaviors were like crazy.
He first suffered a car accident. Like being stupid, the first thing he did was not to come out of the oil spilled car, but to order a cigarette! Fortunately, the smoke was not lit, and the filmmaker Herzog dragged him out of the car.
Jackun car accident animation Simulation
After 2 years, Jacques, who is at the peak of his career, suddenly announced: II don’t want to make a movie, I have to change careers. The new behavior he chose for himself was also unexpected: he was going to be a rapper. He became a topical character and was invited to the famous David Letterman show.
Jekun on the show is a good-looking image. He has a thick beard and a slightly exaggerated big sunglasses. These two things are almost Filled his entire face.
Jackun’s performance on this show became the biggest joke in Hollywood that year. He was on a talk show, but he didn’t want to talk. Regardless of what the host asked him, he used a simple “Yes” or “No” to smother, spoke a few sentences sporadically, and appeared incoherent and spirited. The host wanted to make a joke to be active, and Jacques was still angry.
The last host can only save the field and say: “The audience friends are sorry, Jiekun didn’t come to our program today.” After the broadcast, many people suspected that Jiekun’s medicine was big.
Jackun’s performance on rap is not bad. When the audience scolded him, he directly sprayed with the audience: “Shut up, don’t you know how hard it is to change careers?”
About real performance art
In 2010, Jiekun finally explained how these years are back.thing. It turns out that all his weird behavior is to shoot a fake documentary: “I am still here.”
He and director Cassie Affleck want to show how a Hollywood star collapsed. They redesigned the personality of Jacques: a “half bottle of water” that was stalked at Vanity Fair. The next five years are an experiment with a blurring of true and false boundaries, and Jacques is playing himself.
The “I am still here” poster, which won the Venice Film Festival Biographical Film Award.
For this explanation, some people pay the bill, but some people believe that everything in the documentary is true. Jacques really experienced a big collapse in those years.
The later events deepened people’s suspicions. First, the female staff of the crew complained to the director Cathy about sexual harassment. It was later discovered that Jacques and Cassie had long been a partner for fun.
Ringed “couple” tattoos on the arms of two people
When they were in their early 20s, they lived in a building and enjoyed the nightlife of New York. When they were in Italy, the two men tattooed the “couples”; later, Cassie became the brother-in-law of Jiekun.
In “I am still here,” Jie Kun drug abuse, and prostitute>
Jackun at the Oscars Awards
He thought she disliked herself, and she was just shy
When shooting “She,” Jacques met Rooney Mara.
In the film, the two are a couple who are divorced. Outside the show, Jacques’s obsession with Mara changed him back to a passionate but treacherous boy.
The “She” fragment, caught in love with Jacques.
Jackun did something very childish:
“She is the only girl I have searched online.” Jacques said, “At the time we were just the most ordinary friends, mailing, not meeting. So I went. I searched her online. I have never done this before.”
At first, Jacques found that Mara had no enthusiasm for him, and seemed to dislike him. Later he discovered that MaraJust shy, in fact, she also likes him.
“She” stills, Jacques and Mara
On the red carpet of Cannes in 2017, the two officially appeared together as a couple, which really shocked many people. They are all famous Hollywood geeks, giving the impression that they are quirky, maverick, and difficult to get along with.
But in fact, the two have a lot of fit.
They all like a low-key and simple lifestyle. Jacques still drives a regular scooter for the first time; both are passionate about charity; and like Jake, Mara is also a vegetarian.
According to the people who are familiar with them, the two don’t like to go out and like to stay at home together, just like living in the bubble of the two.
In July of this year, the two were engaged.
Next, when the Toronto Film Festival delivered an award speech, Jacques spoke to the Mara under the stage and said a romantic and quirky confession:
“In somewhere under the stage, I don’t know where, sitting a dirty little dinosaur (Mara starred in “The Girl of Dragon Tattoo” ) I want to tear off her wings, put a blanket on her, and always sleep with her. I love you, thank you.”
Reviewing Jacques’s acting career, he went through two stages: He first embraced the mainstream and then pursued to become a real artist, and “The Clown” might be a combination of the two.
He has hesitated to take over this role:
“These changes to the film usually oversimplify the role and allow the audience to be indifferent to the character. Just like in real life, we can easily put someone on the evil label and then say: ‘I am not a similar person. .’”
After the director assured that the character would challenge the audience’s exploration, he agreed.
“Sometimes you feel like you are closely related to his (clown), but sometimes you are rejected by him. I like to challenge the audience. Challenge yourself to explore such a role,” Jacques said.
Jequin said: “When there are many times of shooting, I have thought that this must be my best experience, and I will not be so good in the future. The movie is for me. But fortunately, there is always a movie that is better than it.”
For this role, he not only lost 46 pounds, but also read a lot, to study the psychology behind the clown’s pathological smile.
He explained his understanding: “Arthur is very introverted, he lacks security, inferiority, nervousness, and constantly suppresses his feelings, but the clown is an absolutely free person. We have been suppressing ourselves, but the clown can Jumping out of the norms of the social system, so he is attractive.”
In “The Clown”, Jacques abused himself into a sick skinny to help him mentally understand the crazy state of the character.
Jerkun said, He is willing to play the sequel to “The Joker” again, because a movie can’t finish what the character covers.
He also suggested putting the clown in the background of Angry Bulls, and he thought it must be cool.
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