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The American actor Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955 in the German Idar-Oberstein and had his breakthrough as a mime with the cult film “Stirb slowly” (1988). After various films such as “Look Who’s Talking – Kuck times, who speaks there” (1989) and “The Bonfire of the Vanities – Purgatory of Vanity” (1990), he became an icon as a character actor in the action area that also in cult films such as “Pulp Fiction”, “Ocean’s Twelve” and in series such as “That 70’s Show – the wild Seventies ”and“ The Orville ”completed guest appearances. In addition to some theater roles and producer activities, Willis also released albums like “The Return of Bruno” as a singer and was in Video for “Stylo” from the Gorillaz (2010). He is a co -founder of the restaurant chain “Planet Hollywood” and after a long marriage to Demi Moore since 2009 with model Emma Heming. Willis’ family also published in February 2023 that he had been diagnosed with Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). Since then he has not worked in front of the camera.
For Bruce Willis’ 70th birthday, our author presents his best films and co -effects here.
11. The Verdict – the truth and nothing but the truth (1982)
Because Bruce is a superhero and has his birthday, this film can open the list. Because Willis is not involved as an actor at all, but only as an extent, In a court scene in the background (third row of seats, second person from right). However, despite the (still) plump hair growth, he is not allowed to look more than in a rather Willis-like dark.
10. The Hard II-V-Die Slow II-V (1990-2013)
If part 2 and 3 were still able to exist as the original variations of the starting theme (with a lot more blockbuster look), the last two sequels were more likely to be caricatures of John McClane’s hero-wider wider universe (Bruce Willis). When characters in films begin to quote themselves, you should quickly search for the remote control.
9. Looper (2012)
If Willis cannot play a superhero or tough cop, it is usually about science fiction stuff. In this film by Rian Johnson, the Looper contract killers are for a syndicate from the future, which people teleport in the present on the time, where they are killed – because this is no longer possible in the future. Yes, I didn’t quite understand that on the second look, but the film (after “Pulp Fiction”)) The highest Willis ranking at Rottentomatoes.com And somehow has to go to this list.
8. Moonlighting-The Model and the Schniffler (1985-1989)
A television series, which was also very decent in the relentless criticism, which was also able to score in the evening program in Germany. It was the acting breakthrough for Willis and because of its linguistic creativity and the parallels to Screwball comedies of the 1930s, a milestone in the television series landscape.
7. Unbreakable – unbreakable (2000)
Complex thriller with comic references, which has now completed a trilogy with “Split” (2017) and “Glass” (2019) and also got away quite well in criticism (for Willis’ circumstances). The supposed depth can also be seen from how to exchange film freaks in forums about light design, motifs and the camera settings, certainly atypical for a Willis film. Not for a work by director M. Night Shyamalan.
6. Four Rooms – New Year’s Eve in foreign beds (1995)
Hollywood goes Arthaus-Kino, with four directors (UA Rodriguez and Tarantino), high trash factor and a respectable list of stars for an underground episode film. Allegedly Willis does not appear in the decoration because he played without a fee and thus violated the rules of the “Screen Actors Guild”.
5. Pulp fiction (1994)
Even if Willis only plays a smaller main role here (of course John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman are the hero in the ring) The cult strip of Quentin Tarantino belongs to this list. Willis shows some antihero characteristics by John McClane, offering the cozy contrast to the overcoolness of the other actors.
4. The Jackal – The Schakal (1997)
One of these films in which you have been stuck in the night program countless times, even though you know the rather manageable storyline. At least when there was something like a television night program. IMDB forgotten Only a meager 6.4/10 points, but the ice-cold killer instinct, which Willis plays here with a penchant for absurd, warms up secret love for Bruce every time in streaming times.
3. The Whole Nine Yards – no half things (2000)
Completely over -the -top crime comedy with Willis as the contract killer Jimmy “Die Tulpe” Tudeski, in which the plot hides more narratively than a goldenoodle on Special K. Here too the charm is in numerous details, silliness and the loving secondary locations. “Jiiimiii” (with soft jott) the Gogolak mafia family always scolded him here – rarely, the cold -flowered underworld seemed more cozy.
2. Hudson Hawk – the master thief (1991)
Financially a disaster and decorated with numerous golden raspberries, this is the black hole in every actor vita. Willis was also co-author of this high-speed Albern Gangster comedy. However, if you celebrate nihilist synchronous texts in the style of Rainer Brandt (“Der Profi”, “The two”, numerous Bud-Spencer and Terrence Hill films), and it enjoys when Willis and Danny Aiello sing old croon classics with their breaks, this film is a highlight and secret classic. And since the first time in a Berlin category Hawkie’s exclamation “The coral laughs!” To my passive favorite phrase vocabulary.
1. The hard – die slow (1988)
A milestone of action film, which ended the era of costumed superheroes (for the time being) and unexpectedly makes John McClane, who had been handed over to the elaborate. The so-called “parade role” made Willis an eternal action superstar, and is probably not yet annoying today.
But why the saying “Yippie-Ya-Yeah, Schweinbacke” from the film made it into the language use of would-be checks will remain a mystery forever.