One of Hollywood’s great legends is gone. Actor and director Robert Redford died on Tuesday, September 16, his agent announced at the New York Times. He was 89 years old.
A true big screen giant, both the Hollywood hero archetype and the flash support of independent American cinema, had filmed in more than 70 films and made nine feature films of which there is an anthology.
• “Butch Cassidy and Le Kid” (1969)
Without a doubt, the role that promoted Robert Redford to the international star range. Together with Paul Newman, who plays Butch Cassidy, the actor plays Sunday Kid, a charming and carefree foreign. A role that is originally expected for Steve McQueen.
Directed by George Roy Hill, this feature film tells the misdeeds of these two thugs, charismatic and Gouailleurs, who develop an ingenious plan to allow them to divert the double of the same convoy.
If the humor of the iconic duo is going badly with the criticisms of the time, the public replied: the west is a success and drives Robert Redford in the big leagues.
Madness is such that the film is now a reference of Friends movies And that Redford will baptize his independent film festival of the name of his character: Sunday.
• “Jeremiah Johnson” (1972)
In western Sydney Pollack, presented in 1972 in competition in Cannes, Robert Redford, bearded and long hair, embodied a veteran of the United States War against Mexico in the mid -nineteenth century, who left to live in hermit in the rocky mountains.
• “The scam” (1973)
After the success of Butch Cassidy and El NiñoRobert Redford again finds Paul Newman under the direction of George Roy Hill, this time as a criminal in the Chicago of the 1930s.
In this feature film, the two men established an ambitious scam to take revenge on a dangerous New York Gangster Doyle Lnergan. Critical success, The scam It will be rewarded by 7 Oscar, including the best film, the best director, the best edition and the best original script.
The performance noticed that Redford in the role of Johnny Hooker will also be worth the actor, the only appointment of his career for the best actor. A reward that will finally return to Jack Lemmon for his role in Save the tiger.
• “Gatsby The Magnificent” (1974)
Robert Redford lends the beauty of his features to Jay Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s hero. Folles rumors are executed in this mysterious millionaire, which gives sumptuous receptions in its magnificent villa. This Jack Clayton movie, released in 1974, is the third adaptation of the novel published in 1925.
After Robert Redford, forty years later, it was Leonardo DiCaprio who will once again slide into the costume of Jay Gatsby, in a new adaptation produced and produced by Baz Luhrmann.
• “The president’s men” (1976)
Fascinated by the Watergate issue, this political scandal that led to the resignation of US President Richard Nixon in 1974, Robert Redford acquired the rights of the book written by the journalists of Washington Post, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, with the origin of the case, to adapt it to the cinema.
The film in the four Oscar, directed by Alan J. Pakula, just two years after the fall of Nixon. Robert Redford embodies Bob Woodward there, along with Dustin Hoffman at the place of his colleague Carl Bernstein. Emblematic cinema work in the power of the press against political derivations, this film is considered one of Robert Redford’s emblematic functions.
“Forty -five years after Watergate, the truth is in danger again,” the actor threatened at Washington Post in April 2017. He then compared the hatred to President Trump with the journalists with that of the Richard Nixon administration.
• “The three days of Condor” (1975)
In this film he signed Sydney Pollack, the actor plays the role of Joseph Turner, known as “Condor”, an analyst at the CIA. When all his colleagues are killed, he is hunted and must survive while seeking to understand the plot behind these murders.
Critical and commercial success, this political film classic of the 1970s, launched in a climate of distrust after Watergate and the Vietnam War, resonates strongly over time and contributes to strengthening the image of Robert Redford in roles linked to politics and espionage.
• “The Best” (1984)
Roy Hobbs, baseball player, is at the top of his art when a woman shoots him brutally. However, his courage and determination allow him to return to the field and, necessarily, take his team to victory.
Particularly for his advantage in the middle of the sand, the scene of his victorious “home run” has become a cult, Robert Redford brings his shoulders with this film with a slightly agreed script.
• “Out of Africa” (1985)
Classic among the classics, Out of Africa Inspired by Karen Blixen Danish memories, follows a Danish aristocrat, embodied by Meryl Streep, which is going to be established in Africa after a disappointment of love.
Upon arriving in Kenya, at that time still a British colony, Karen, abandoned by her husband, falls in love with the elusive adventurer Denys Finch Hatton, a role in which Robert Redford slips perfectly. A real success at the box office, this feature film directed by Sydney Pollack will be crowned with seven Oscar, including the best film in 1986.
• “And in the middle a river flows” (1992)
Third achievement of Robert Redford, after People like others AND MiracleThis film, adapted from Norman Maclean’s semi -autobiographical novel, tells the story of two brothers, Norman and Paul, and their relationship with fly fishing in Los Ríos de Montana.
The intrigue takes place for several decades, exploring childhood, adolescence and adulthood of Norman and Paul, respectively played Craig Sheffer and Brad Pitt. Robert Redford lends his voice to Norman, Mayor, the narrator of the story.
• “The man who whispered in the ear of the horses” (1998)
Directed and played by Robert Redford, the film adapts the novel by Nicholas Evans. The actor plays Tom Booker there, a horse coach famous for his ability to whisper in the ears of traumatized animals, requested by a woman (Kristin Scott Thomas) to help his daughter and horse, both marked by an accident.
The success at the box office, this feature film, filmed in the large spaces of Montana with Kristin Scott Thomas and Scarlett Johasson, comforts Robert Redford in his double actor and director.
Source: BFM TV
