Robert De Niro, took a shot of old

Robert De Niro took a shot of old

Robert De Niro took a shot of old

One of the biggest and most beloved American actors on August 17 celebrates the anniversary. Robert de Niro is 70 years old.

Reflecting on this fact, I find that they are not a few my favorite actors, who have made a career in front of my eyes, who are entering such an honorary age. Among them, De Niro undoubtedly holds the lead.

He was born in New York, a family of artists who divorced in 1945. De Niro is growing in the City of the Big Apple and absorbs the culture of the multinational megapolis, the neighbors he meets every day. These unforgettable encounters and memories will be beneficial to him years later when he stood behind the camera for his directorial debut "The Bronx Tale" (1993). Since little Robert knows he will become an actor. He studied at the American Workshop and in the famous Actress studio with Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg.

Cinema finds him Brian de Palma. With him, she took small roles in "Wedding Evening" (1966) and "Congratulations" (1968). The first major role - the gangster Lloyd Baker - will be received from Roger Corman in the rediscovered later gangster drama "The Bloody Mum" (1970). John Hancock stamped his ticket to the sporting Squid Slow Drums (1973), which created a strong and memorable image of baseball player Bruce Pearson. Then Martin Scorsese takes on his first significant film, "Ridiculous Streets" (1973), in which he convincingly embodies himself as Johnny Boy. Only Coppola remains to offer him the role of young Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Part II (1974), to receive an Oscar for a supporting male role, to make the comparisons with Marlon Brando and to flow the flow of new roles even more famous and ambitious creators. De Niro carefully selected his roles in the 70s and 80s of the last century. His generosity will be in the late 90s, he relies on lasting contacts with the most prominent American and European producers, and therefore his career is steadily rising. With Scorsese, they make 9 films (the number and sound of Vicki Jensen's animated story "Shark History, 2004"). I firmly assert that under his deck, de Niro grew up as a great actor, a master of the reincarnation, which he then skillfully exploits to endlessly in a series of modest movies in which he really bored us with his own facial expressions and gestures and with the positively placed your articulation in front of the camera.

De Niro has the chance to work with Elia Kazan in The Last Magnus (1976) on Fitzgerald's novel, creating the impressive image of producer Munro Star, to create a monument to the Italian land aristocracy, such as Alfredo Berlingeri, in the legendary saga of Bernardo Bertolucci "Twentieth Century" (1976) and Michael Vronsky to defend his view of Vietnam's tragedy in the famous drama "The Deer Hunter" (1978), Michael Cimino.

In the 1980s, he created a monumental and unforgettable interpretation of David Aaronson in Sergio Leone's famous "Once Upon a Time" (1983), as well as the repentant Catholic priest Rodrigo Mendoza in another unforgettable drama by Roland Joffe "The Mission" (1986), in the exclusive duet with Jeremy Irons - Father Gabriel. Since then, his passion has also been filmed in episodic roles in otherwise quality films such as "Brazil" (1985) by Terry Gilliam, The Innocent (1987) of de Palma, in which he shines like the inimitable Al Capone, "Angel Heart" (1987) of Alan Parker, Midnight Running (1988) by Martin Brest. He experimented again with Neil Jordan's "We Are Not Angels" (1989) and Ulu Grossberg's Melodrama (1984), with whom he collaborated from "Recognition" (1981) and "Stanley and Iris" (1989) by Martin Ritt.

The 90s are beating and are very fruitful in his career. He made his debut as a producer in 1993 with "Bronx Tale", finished his collaboration with Scorsese in "Good Boys" (1990), "Nos Fear" (1991) and "Casino" (1995), creating a cult duet with Al Pacino (1995) by Michael Mann re-enforced the comedy and satire in John McNotton's "The Fiddly Dog and Gloria" (1993) and Tony Scott's "The Fan" (1996). He supports Bobby Levinson's ambitious project "The Sleepers" (1996) and as My Tilden James Mangold for the troubled drama "City of Cops" (1997), dresses Dr. Wally's apron in Jerry Saxe's "Marvin's Room" (1997) , sinks into the world of autism in Leonard Law's masterful performance in Penny Marshall's masterpiece Awakening (1990), shot with Alfonso Cuaron an updated version of The Great Hopes (1998), looks at the commercial cinema with Ronin (1998 ) of John Frankenheimer and managed to work in two of the cult opuses of the decade "Yes zlaem dogs "(1997) Barry Levinson as Conrad Brean, satire anticipated invasion of NATO in Kosovo and especially" Jackie Brown "(1997) Tarantino, which creates an iconic image of Louis Gara.

At the end of the decade, Harold Remis takes on the role of the ridiculous gangster Paul Vedy in "Analyze this" (1999). The film enjoys great success, the audience likes his duet with Billy Crystal - Dr. Ben Sobel, after which the millennium comes, and de Niro just flutters. He started to accept any suggestions - from 3 in 2000 to 6 in 2013. He also plays in insignificant productions, in incomplete roles, in sequels of cash hits, which brings him some satisfaction, especially when filling his bank account. In 2000, Jay Roach took over as former CIA functioner Jack Burns for "Meet Me with Our". The film has two sequels, which are significantly weaker than the original but are financially successful - "Meet Me With Yours" (2004) and "Meet the Little ones" (2010).

The next sequel is Harold Remis, "Analyze That" (2002). And also an avalanche of titles, among which I just mark the more memorable - "Men of Honor" (2000) by George Tilman, "15 Minutes" (2001) by John Herzfeld, Frank Oz's "Perplexing" (2001) "(John Paulson, 2005), John Avnet's Righteous Murder (2008), the second not so successful duet with Al Pacino, and Kirk Jones's" All Laughing "(2009).

In the first decade of the New Century, Nero also played a story like Captain Shakespeare in Matthew Vaughn's "Star Dust" (2007), was a Peruvian archbishop in Mary McGuquin's Bridge of the River Saint Louis (2004) and tormented us with the comedic (2002) by Tom Roach, Tom Thay Day and "Get to Know Yours" (2004).

In recent years, de Niro has always been so upset and dedicated to his work. Giovanni Veronezzi rediscovered him for the comedy with "Love Talks" (2011), Gary Marshall offered him a wonderful episodic role by Stan Harris in New Year's Eve (2011), and in Gary McKendri's "Elite Murderers" (2011) was the unrecognizable Hunter, involved in the international terrorism network. 2012 has brought new interesting challenges for de Niro - in Rodrigo Cortez's "Red Lights" we were surprised as the charlatan-propeller Simon Silver, in Jesse Terrero's Out-of-Work, shone like Mafia boss Jo Sarkone in Paul Wait's "Being Flint" has returned to the world of Awakening, and David O. Russell's "Handbook of Optimist" as Pat Senior reminded of his best times from the 70s and 80s of the last century when each of his performances was accepted as an event and revelation. Not accidentally and deservedly for his masterful interpretation, he received an Oscar nomination for a supporting male role.

The next meetings with the beloved actor come - in Mark Stephen Johnson's "Season of Murders" (2013), for the filming of which de Niro has also arrived in Sofia, joining John Travolta as Colonel Ben Ford in a drama between the Deer Hunter , "Deadly Hunt" and "Rambo", "Motel" (2013) by David Crozi, "Malawita" (2013) by Luc Besson, "The Big Wedding" (2013) by Justin Zackmann, and "The Last Kid in Vegas "(2013) by John Turneltaub, David O. Russell's" American Player "and Peter Segal's" The Worst Match "(2013), in which he performed the long-awaited duet with Sylvester Stallone.

Robert de Niro has also worked actively in the theater, and I still remember how delighted he was with his participation in Bill Hurth's "Kuga and his Stub" in 1986. He enters his golden age, mastering the acting skills and still shooting actively and horribly. He has proved himself as an artist, director, and producer - the organizer of the famous Trebecka film festival in the name of his New York cinema.

I would expect to be more precise in his next appearances, try to go back to directing and finally, sit down and write his autobiography. Because she has something to tell her about her professional career, her contacts with world-class characters, her personal life and her two marriages with Diana Abbott and Grace Haytaw, who since June 17, 1997, is his legal wife.

Over the years we have become accustomed to his presence on the screen, with his images of psychopaths, abusers, complexes, policemen, priests, mafia bosses, and tycoons. With his mole on his right cheek, his notorious smile, and his warm, intimate voice. I believe that we will be able to enjoy new interesting screenings in the future. Because he can play - and how!

Give him only a good script and an experienced performer, and he and his little supporting role will make a masterpiece. But it seems that there will be more need for provocations from the directors to get out of the skin of their familiar stereotypical appearances - Dad Pat's report in David O. Russell's "Handbook of Optimist" and Walt Kunts in "Miss Perfection" 1999) by Joel Schumacher.