His members include Tom Cruise, Leonardo, Tom Hanks, Jackie Chan and Jet Li. The top movie stars you know may be one of them. They are very famous.
This is an honor, a term to evaluate the value of actors. Only actors who earn more than 20 million dollars (about 65.438+0.2 billion yuan) in Hollywood are eligible to join.
Today, I'm going to introduce you to the first actor in Hollywood history who entered the $20 million club: Jim Carrey.
Jim Carrey is a comedian, even the most successful comedian in Hollywood after Chaplin.
Due to cultural differences and language barriers, when we talk about comedy in China, the first thing is definitely the absurd but rich Zhou humor of Master Xing. But around the world, influenced by Hollywood, Jim Carrey is recognized as the uncrowned king of comedy.
Similarly, due to cultural differences, you may not be familiar with the name Jim Carrey, but if the panda provides his expression pack, you will find that he has occupied your major WeChat chat groups.
For example, the silent complaint of this overtime worker:
From "false gods"
On the surface, it's pleasant, but inside, it's extremely disgusting:
From "liar"
Three people extremely shook his head:
From saturday night live.
And countless second creations:
Of course, if your friend likes black, there may be something wrong with this one:
However, Jim Carrey is not only funny, but also plays Truman in the famous movie The Truman Show.
This film scored 9.0 in Douban, occupying the top 20 list of films for many years in a row, providing countless people with a brand-new way of looking at the world.
When the Golden Globe Awards were presented last year, 54-year-old Jim Carrey made his third podium. As a two-time Golden Globe winner, I became the host this time, and I was teased by everyone with a beard resembling Leonardo da Vinci, which made everyone suddenly realize that, like Master Xing, the person who brought us laughter was old.
It is for this reason that Panda wrote this article, hoping to let more people who have seen and have not seen his films know what kind of life this man who has devoted his life to comedy leads.
1. Long walk-on career
In China, many people who have seen Jim Carrey's movies always compare him with Master Xing.
On the one hand, because they all push the ridiculous style of nonsense to the extreme, on the other hand, because their lives are too similar.
The beginning of the story is very coincidental. They were born in the same year, 1962.
But think about that year, God must be very busy and accidentally let two top comedians in the world live together, but the efforts of turning around left them in the corner and left them to fend for themselves.
So A Jin, born in Canada, and A Xing, born in Hong Kong, started their own comedy life together.
At the initial starting point, Ah Kin took the lead. /kloc-When he was 0/5 years old, in order to support his family, Jin Kairui dropped out of school, joined a comedy club with the help of his father, and embarked on the road of professional comedian. Compared with Jim Carrey, the starting point of Stephen Chow is much lower. Born in a poor area of Hong Kong, my parents divorced since I was a child, and I have been working hard for my life since I was a child. /kloc-When he was 0/8 years old, by chance, he signed a contract with Lili TV and started his career as an actor.
After becoming actors, they also had the same experience, all served as festival hosts, all worked hard in the field of TV dramas and finally gave up, all worked as a walk-on for more than ten years, and all established their own nonsense and funny styles through tempering.
But obviously, it is too early to become famous. In the middle of the track, A Xing successfully surpassed Ah Jin and pulled back a game.
1990, with the article Gambling Saint, Stephen Chow became an instant hit, which not only broke the box office record in Hong Kong, but also opened the "Zhou Xingxing era" in the mainland of Hong Kong with its mature nonsense style, and the box office kept rising. Compared with Hong Kong movies full of unknowns and miracles, Hollywood's existence as a global movie mecca also means more big-name stars, making it more difficult to get ahead.
At this time, Jim Carrey has played a white role in a black comedy sketch TV program for three years, and is still struggling to explore his own comedy road. He seems to see the end of the future at a glance.
But the phrase "gold always shines" seems to have a magical power, regardless of national boundaries.
2. Peak period
1994, after living in Hollywood for 17 years, Jim Carrey got the chance to play Ace Ventura, a pet detective with a flying head.
For this film, the distributor didn't expect much at first. They thought the story was simple, the characters were rough, and the actors were unknown, so the shooting cost was only $24 million, but Jim Carrey's performance surprised them.
In this film, Jim Carrey first showed his ridiculous comedy talent. The model of the plane's head is exaggerated and eye-catching, and the blinking facial movements and nonsense thinking make the audience laugh. After its release, it won the box office market of $70 million in one fell swoop and became the most popular movie in the first half of 1994. Well, you asked me why it was the first half. Because there will be Forrest Gump in the second half of the year ...)
Through this film, Jim Carrey became famous in one fell swoop, so in the same year, he filmed "Disguised Grinch" and "Dumb and Agua". Unexpectedly, the two films were even more successful, which quickly laid his meaningless acting route and pushed him to the peak of comedy.
Grinch in disguise
The disguised Grinch creatively integrates many elements such as "fantasy, horror, singing and dancing" into comedy, and uses a lot of special effects to create an unprecedented comedy effect. It was praised by the audience as "every second is a joke" and became a model of Hollywood commercial films.
Classic confession of holding roses
In the film, Jim Carrey swallows bombs, spits out smoke rings, grabs roses, instantly changes his clothes, changes his face, and so on, which has also become a lasting part of comedy performances. Until now, we can still see similar scenes in many movies.
Dumb and agua
Dumb and Gua tells the funny story of Roy and Harry, two low IQ buddies, in the process of pursuing modern girl Mary by combining road movies and comedy movies. There is a deep brotherhood in nonsense.
In this film, Jim Carrey pushes nonsense to the extreme by screaming, staring blankly and tearing facial expressions in the toilet. Although criticized by film critics at that time, it was loved by the audience.
The $240 million global box office directly pushed Jim Carrey into the $20 million club, becoming the first actor in Hollywood to earn more than $20 million (RMB 65.438+RMB 200 million).
Interestingly, during the filming process, Jim Carrey accidentally knocked out his front teeth, but unexpectedly created a comedy effect, which became his unique symbol.
3. The road to breakthrough
After filming A Dai and Agua, Jim Carrey's nonsense style was sought after by the market and became the box office guarantee of Hollywood.
Therefore, during the period of 1995- 1997, he began to take plays frequently and produced a large number of nonsense comedies of the same style, such as Detective Plane 2 and Sleeping King, which were all filmed during this period.
His success in business made him a box office guarantee and gained more say. By 1998, Jin Kairui began to March to the peak of performing arts.
1998- 1999, he bravely broke his comedy image and filmed The Truman Show and Man on the Moon, showing two completely different attitudes in his mind.
Man on the Moon tells the interesting, bitter and controversial life of comedian andy kaufman.
In Jim Carrey's early comedy style, he borrowed a lot from andy kaufman's performances, such as pretending to be embarrassed and forgetting words in a reality show, whispering his voice, imitating the voice of the radio and so on. Therefore, this film should be regarded as Jim Carrey's tribute to andy kaufman, and it also tells the origin of his comedy style.
The Truman Show represents Jim Carrey's inner thinking. Truman, the protagonist of the film, was exposed to the camera by Christopher from the moment he was born. Taoyuan town, where he lives, is a huge live broadcast room, and his every move is always "snooped" by the global audience.
In order to play the role of Truman well, Jin Kairui constantly worked with the role and added his own interpretation.
On the one hand, he restrained his exaggerated comedy style and interpreted Truman's state as an ordinary person, facing the panic and helplessness of huge lies; On the other hand, he combined his comedy style with the optimism in Truman.
At the end of the film, when Truman found himself living in a huge scam, he bravely sailed to the end of the world. When he learned the truth, he chose to bow his head, say goodbye to the world with a smile and turn into the real world.
At that moment, Jim Carrey was Truman, and the two became one.
4. Return to nature without a golden statuette
Jin Kairui's transformation is undoubtedly successful. "Man on the Moon" and "The Truman Show" won him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for two years in a row, but that didn't make him pick up the golden statuette.
This is also related to the tradition of Oscar. Although it is the highest award in the global film industry, the judging power of the golden statuette has always been in the hands of the old-school academic school. And these academic antiques always think that comedy is grandiose and vulgar, and never value comedians. Therefore, even the comedian Chaplin only won the lifetime achievement award, but failed to win the golden statuette of best actor.
It is inevitable that Jim Carrey is disheartened because he missed the little golden statuette, but after precipitation, he has a deeper understanding of his comedy style. 200 1 starring in "Movie Life", telling his love and attitude towards the film industry. In 2003, he starred in "False God", with a global box office of $500 million.
20 14 On May 24th, Jim Carrey was invited to give a speech at the graduation ceremony of Mahesh Management University (MUM) in Iowa. Here, he put away his ridiculous attitude in the film and shared his life experience and love for comedy.
He talked about his love of comedy:
I hope young people have the courage to try:
Moreover, life has no limit:
Today, Jim Carrey doesn't need a golden statuette to prove him.
He was born for comedy, and comedy shaped him.
This may be the best recognition of Jim Carrey's half-life experience.
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