As mentioned above, the 33-year-old multiple award winner is ready for anything. And I say that maybe (or maybe) there is no one like her. Yorgos Lanthimos, director who signed the film Poor creatures!, winner of the Golden Lion at Venice, said that without leading lady Emma Stone, he would never have won the award. This is a resounding endorsement.
Emma attended a couple of boarding schools, but without much enthusiasm. He had a great sense of his fate. He made his theater debut at the age of eleven in the play “The Wind in the Willows,” but immediately after that he fled to the cinema. She auditions and… they always get her. In her early twenties she appeared in “real” films, from that point on she participated in almost every role as an actress, always dominating them and always bringing something exclusive. As always, you have to choose. A film that attracts the attention of the system to her, Easy girl, based on Hawthorne’s novel, one of the greatest works of the nineteenth century. Critics call 22-year-old Emma a rising star. She was noticed by someone important, Woody Allen, who entrusted her with the role of the psychic Sophie opposite Colin Firth in Magic in the moonlight (2014), resumed it the following year. Irrational man, as a student investigating a mysterious death. IN Under the Hawaiian sky she has no problem playing a fighter pilot, giving the tough and unpredictable Bradley Cooper a run for his money. But the decisive thing was her meeting with director Damien Chazelle, who offered her the role of Mia in La La Land (watch video review), the film is a masterpiece. Emma acts, sings and dances in a way reminiscent of the great Metro musicals of the 1950s, a true art form. His performance will be included in the film anthology. Helping Emma, who won an Oscar, is the magnificent Ryan Gosling.
The actress will also be awarded the Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival. And then, the rest of the Stone, right down to Poor creatures!.
As is my custom, I think I should put the actress in general context. From whom does the golden club that is now in his hands come? Emma is the last heir to the divas, perhaps the “divine” one who has dictated beauty, fashion and behavior since the dawn of cinema. They are… important women. Let’s go back.
The great divas of the golden age of cinema had nothing to do with reality. As they say, these were not the people you would meet on the street. They were a tool for identification and dreams. The cinema of that time favored such a transfer.
The general natural evolution of role and image would be towards reality. Queens like Dietrich, Garbo, Katharine Hepburn, who represented the first great generation of entertainment, would certainly have found citizenship in the cinema of the following decades, but would simply be declassified as great actresses and (almost) people. Even the next generation, which I identify with Audrey, Marilyn and Grace, continued to accept the divine untouchables, albeit with some small signs of belonging to the normal human race. Of course, the star system would always exist, but more and more often it happened that the female spectator sitting in the audience had the same attractiveness, and perhaps more attractiveness, than the model on the screen.
The actress who picked up the baton of those mentioned above, which also added cultural value, is, of course, Jane Fonda. Kind, beautiful, smart. An icon, the daughter of an icon, Jane brought unprecedented content, real pain, social issues, awareness and militancy to cinema that was then unknown. And, of course, a beauty as extraordinary as she was normal, she was a diva and a woman, and remains so to this day.
Then there are those who grasp the definition of Jane mentioned above: beautiful and normal. These are Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman and Meg Ryan. The first was able to prove herself in many roles. “Escort” Pretty Woman he created a precedent that remained in the memory of cinema, with Erin Brockovich she dedicated herself to her role in the Foundation: she was warm-hearted and tireless, protecting the weak; and won an Oscar. Nicole Kidman had to face her too much beauty. It was legitimized by the great master Kubrick in With eyes wide shutthen she became ugly for the role of Virginia Woolf in Watch. The painful application won her an Oscar. Meg Ryan signed with Harry, meet Sallyone more part Pretty Womanones that set a precedent that we will always refer to.
An honorable mention has to go to Meryl Streep, who is unique in her own right. An actress who can score in all seasons and adapt to roles at any age. It was an exhausted mother who abandoned her son in Kramer vs Kramerwith Oscar, still a Jewish mother, forced to make a decision about the death of one of her children in Sophie’s Choice (another Oscar), romantic and sad writer Karen Blixen in My Africa; and then the mother of the family, who lives with deep and sincere love, a four-day affair with Clint Eastwood, in Bridges of Madison County.
A worthy heir – Angelina Jolie, who has already built herself a good pedestal, can do everything from the virtual Lara Croft desperate mother’s video games Changelings. In the hands of directors, she is precious plasticine, but… she is not a queen. From a great book, from a multitude of actors, I extract Scarlett Johansson, Keira Knightley, Penelope Cruz, Anne Hathaway. But modern cinema, in a certainly vast panorama, sees two dominant women. Beautiful, full, different. Owners of that “extra amount” that cannot be determined.
The first is Cate Blanchett, Australian, born in 1969, ideal in every role, exceptional and maturely charming. Blanchett won two Oscars for her supporting role in Pilot Scorsese and the main character Blue Jasmine Allen. He also has an influential sponsor: Giorgio Armani chose her as his brand ambassador. He said: “Kate represents the woman I create for.”
And here comes Emma Stone again. At such a young age he has already won so much and who knows how many more awards will follow. Those big blue irises of his and that smile, which, in addition to his talent, spoke of charm and exceptional grace, were not reflected in the current cinematic movement. And here is that mysterious and indefinable signal that the deities of cinema sparingly give. Emma Stone will define an era. Similar to the divine ones mentioned above. “Colleagues”, which I extracted from the magic book of cinema. Unfortunately, space has me.
forced to selection and privileges.