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You don’t have to be a Hollywood insider to recognize that. For an actor, it is a clever move to be part of the latest project of a world -famous screenwriter and director. A director who has just shown a huge critic and audience success with an Oscar. Most A-Promis might have spared the main role in Bong Joon Hos “Mickey 17” to play.
The elevator pitch: In the future, technological progress gave us the opportunity to create human duplicates. This is prohibited on earth. But completely legal in the area of space research. A stupid guy named Mickey Barnes registers for the program to escape sharks. And spends the next four years to be used as a human laboratory for tests of viruses, cosmic radiation exposure and other fatalistic threats. After an old Mickey has died, a new one is spit out. Life-size, like a 3D printer. So when the 17th version of Mickey is thought to be dead during a routine emission on an ice planet, an 18th is created. Only Mickey 17 is not dead. A classic clone comedy cavala cade follows.
The tone of the film is slapsticked dystopian. Like a Harold-Lloyd film, written by Philip K. Dick. And his star would play both a fool and a psychopath. Sometimes both in the same setting. You can imagine that most of the stars who are above the title ask that Mickey is heroic, brave and noble in some scenes.
The nasty scar from Robert Pattinson
Not Robert Pattinson. It is not absurd to believe that the 38-year-old actor with the bedroom looks and the Matinee idol face asked that things still much Alber, repulsive and bizarre. Could Mickey sound like a nasal fool? Or pretend to be a Wile E. Coyote from a live action series that has just been hit on the head by an ambuses falling? Where we are at the moment. Could he also show a nasty scar in the last third of the film?
Robert Pattinson has been in his “Make it super crazy” phase for a little more than a decade. And we’re better off. The former swarm of women in the twenties may follow the way that Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and other adonis-beautiful gentlemen who have set their career on unconventional decisions and extreme extravagance. See 12 Monkeys,, Edward with the scissor hands.
But he probably implemented this template even better than its predecessors. Robert Pattinson could just have been another pretty face that stuck in variations of sad guys who long for loved ones. And save the world. Instead, he put his internal eccentricity in the foreground. Is more of cult filmmen chased as blockbusters. And has turned out to be one of the most interesting film stars of the 21st century.
Internet friend of the month?
It is not a complete 180-degree turn. Real fans know that Pattinson 2008 in Little Ashes, just before Twilight Practically made him a sex symbol overnight, played a sexually ambivalent, self -destructive Salvador Dalí. But the sheer popularity of the youth book series and the role of Edward Cullen, a love-sick blood sucker, whose brooding sensitivity made him a favorite figure of shopping center and moody teenagers, threatened to do too little than the Internet friend of the month. Some attempts to take over traditional main actor rolls outside the franchise, like his dream type at New York University in Remember me (2010) and his circus veterinarian in Water for Elephants (2011), did not do him well. Just like the tabloid press that his romance Twilight-Co star Kristen Stewart treated like a soap opera.
But Pattinson deliberately began to avert the expectations of a film star that circulated around him. He chose quirky projects. The more authors -oriented and less commercial, the better. One would think that David Cronenberg the actor would reject the financing for his Don Delillo adaptation Cosmopolis (2012). But Robert Pattinson practically begged to work with the body horror legend for almost nothing.
Instead of trying to become the next Mad Max, he turned the dark post -apocalyptic thriller The Rover (2014). And played the villain. Long before Brady Corbet The brutalist became the savior of the cinema with great swing and the Safdie brothers were on the red carpet, Pattinson worked with both in Childhood of a leader (2015) or Good time (2017) together. He visited the Safdies after seeing a single statue (!) From one of her films. He thought: Yes, these boys seem to be crazy. Let’s do something together.
He made Batman look like a crazy look
The selection was varied. Whether it is a existential sci-fi (High Life) or about losing mermaids and losing the mind (The Lighthouse). Even when he went to an area more interesting for the box office, like Christopher Nolans Tenetwere The roles that Pattinson followed, so wonderfully contradictory and “wrong” that they somehow felt right. When he finally gave himself the temptation to play a superhero, Pattinson had so deeply embedded his crazy charisma in his canvas personality that he managed to make Batman act like a crazy person.
It is one of the most extraordinary interpretations of a pop culture classic. Most stars smooth the corners and edges for such high -doped roles. Pattinson went the opposite way. He managed to give mainstream films the feeling of midnight films.
With Mickey 17, Robert Pattinson (in the truest sense of the word) doubles the crazy accents. He gives Bong’s successor of Parasite A real feeling of unpredictable, undeniable madness. It is the type of turn in which you imagine younger actors who want to outperform their own freak flag even higher. He was once considered the hot new type to let the hormones play crazy until the next drooling guy appeared. Instead, Pattinson has made a fascinating career to follow his crazy instincts. May he never differ from the leaked path.