Brad Pitt is one of the most popular American actors of our time, besides, he is a good producer. Almost all films with his participation receive high ratings and awards. In total, he has over 250 films in his acting career. In this article, we tried to choose the best films with his participation.
Thelma and Louise (1991)
Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, and George Clooney, among others, were considered for the episodic role of a young rogue in Sir Ridley Scott’s feminist road movie, but Geena Davis, who played Thelma, immediately drew attention to the “blonde” (the bed scene with which the actress wished to play without an understudy). “From that moment on, Brad Pitt began,” the director later recalled, referring to the scene where the rising star poses with a hairdryer. – Bingo! “
Seven (1995)
The collaboration between Pitt and Fincher, which has been going on for almost a quarter of a century, began with a crime-psychological thriller about the details of the interpretation of the biblical text, where Brad inspires anger. The film was remembered for its shocking ending (especially since Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow, who played the spouses, soon became a couple in real life) – and how Brad turned from the king of episodes into a superstar before our very eyes.
12 Monkeys (1995)
For several years ahead of Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron and other masters of Hollywood de-glamorization, the actor appointed as the sexiest man on the planet spent a day in the psychiatric ward of a Philadelphia hospital, after which he brilliantly played the insane creator of the supposedly responsible for the end of the world “Army of 12 Monkeys”. Their role in Terry Gilliam’s dystopia earned Brad a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination.
Fight Club (1999)
Pitt and Fincher and their reunion came out for a feast, where the director took on one of the main novels of the counterculture of the 1990s, Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, and the actor – for the meaty role of Tyler Durden, the self-confident alter ego of office plankton in the equally powerful performed by Edward Norton. Having mastered boxing with taekwondo and inserting crooked teeth, Brad took part in creating a film, which is one of the encyclopedic examples of the concept of “cult”.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)
Over the years, Pitt called this action-packed comedy about the marriage of two elite mercenaries the most important work in his life – it was on its set that Brad met Angelina Jolie. Now that Hollywood’s most beautiful couple are sharing parenting rights for their six children, Pitt has every right to change his mind, but the bullet and the hormone-lavish film remains the perfect escapist entertainment about the crisis of marriage.
How the Cowardly Robert Ford Killed Jesse James (2007)
One of the best dramatic roles in Brad’s career was the biopic of the legend of American criminality Jesse James, produced by him – an amazingly beautiful movie that finally convinced that the cameraman Roger Deakins is a god. Having received the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival, Pitt was left without an Oscar nomination – which he earned a year later with another title role, in The Curious Story of Benjamin Button.
Burn after reading (2008)
Radically different came the role of Brad in the Coen brothers, who decided to mark the end of the “trilogy of idiots” with George Clooney, making his close friend a cartoon idiot of epic caliber. Playing a highlighted fitness club instructor with a hilarious fixation on the name Cox, Pitt formed an excellent tandem with Frances McDormand and for the first time seemed “not at all attractive” to his fair half.
The Tree of Life (2011)
Brad put his hand – as a producer and star – on the most ambitious film by Terrence Malick – an unparalleled meditation on the nature of all existence, where Pitt plays the archetypal father of sons, one of whom will grow up to be Sean Penn. Winner of the Palme d’Or in Cannes and an Oscar nomination for best film of the year, The Tree of Life is a source of special pride for the actor and was recently reissued as a director’s cut.
The Man Who Changed Everything (2011)
In the same 2011, Pitt’s resume was replenished with another role, rightfully reputed to be one of the best in his career, and, contrary to usual, was nominated for an Oscar. Brad, as Billy Bean, who rewrote the laws of professional sports as the boss of a humble baseball team, is an endlessly charming loser, whose succession of failures is temporarily interrupted by a very successful find (she is personified by Jonah Hill).
World War Z (2013)
If the victories of Pitt the actor in recent years are sparse, then in the often applied role of the producer Brad succeeds. Three projects of his company Plan B, “The Departed”, “12 Years of Slavery” and “Moonlight”, were awarded the most important “Oscars” (one of them received Pitt personally), and the thriller about the zombie apocalypse with Brad as a husband, father and ex-UN employee, whose main merit is observation, became the highest-grossing in his acting career.
