Bruce Willis, a review of his extensive career

Here is a review of the best of the acting career of Bruce Willis.

moonlighting

The series broadcast between 1985 and 1989 made him a recognizable face on American TV. In this mix of drama, romance and detective comedy, he shared the bill with Cybill Shepherd. For his performance as detective David Addison, he won an Emmy Award in 1987.

Hard to Kill

Without a doubt the role that catapulted him to fame as an unlikely action hero. Willis took on the role of Detective John McClane, an off-duty officer of the New York Police Department who takes on a group of highly organized criminals led by Hans Gruber (alan rickmann), who carry out a robbery of a Los Angeles skyscraper under the guise of a terrorist attack using hostages, including McClane’s wife, Holly Gennaro (Bonnie Bedelia), to keep the police distracted.

The film directed by john mctiernan it was an absolute success that spawned four sequels Die Hard 2 (1990), Die Hard with a Vengeance (nineteen ninety five), Live Free or Die Hard (2007) and A Good Day to Die Hard (2013), all starring Willis. The saga has grossed more than $1.4 billion at the box office, and the first released in 1988 is considered one of the best action movies in history.

look who’s talking

The film starring John Travolta and Kirstie Alley it featured the voice of Willis as little Mikey. The film was successful enough to spawn two sequels: Look who’s talking too (1990) where Bruce put his voice back on and Look who’s talking now (1993) and without Willis.

pulp fiction

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The film directed by Quentin Tarantino It served for Willis’s career to take a second wind after several films that went unnoticed through theaters. He shared the bill with John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth and Tarantino himself. His role was that of Butch a down-and-out boxer who refuses to lose a fight he was meant to lose. That will lead him to find himself in a life or death situation with the mobster Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) together they star in one of the most intense scenes on the film.

Twelve Monkeys

Directed by Terry Gilliamthe 1995 film stars Willis and Brad Pitt. Bruce plays James Cole, a convict living in a sinister post-apocalyptic future. Gilliam chose Willis because he felt the actor evoked Cole’s personality, as “someone strong and dangerous, but also vulnerable”. The film was praised by critics and had a very good reception by the public.

The fifth element

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Directed by Luc Besonstarring Bruce Willis, Mila Jovovich and Gary Oldman. The film is framed within science fiction, action and comedy. Primarily set in the 23rd century, the film’s central plot involves the survival of planet Earth, which becomes the responsibility of Korben Dallas (Willis), a taxi driver and former special forces commander, after a young woman (Jovovich) falls in his cabin. To accomplish this, Dallas joins forces with her to retrieve four mystical stones essential to Earth’s defense against impending attack by a malevolent cosmic entity.

Armageddon

Loved and hated in equal parts, the 1998 film was a worldwide box office success. Directed by Michael Bay and starring Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Owen Wilson, Will Patton, Michael Clarke Duncan, Peter Stormare and Steve Buscemi. The movie is about a group of oil rig drillers who are sent by NASA to a huge asteroid that threatens planet Earth with the idea of ​​drilling into its surface so they can destroy it with a nuclear bomb. A beautiful madness.

Sixth Sense

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One of the most commented plot twists in film history, 100% M.Night Shyamalan. The film that put the Indian-born director on the map was the first of several collaborations with Bruce Willis. Its premiere caused a public and critical phenomenon, something rarely seen at that time with respect to films of its genre, which mixes drama with suspense and terror. He earned 6 Oscar Award nominations.

The protégé, Split and Glass

One of the most interesting and strange trilogies in cinema. The first was released in the year 2000 and its sequels in 2016 and 2019, and show Bruce Willis in the role of David Dunne. The series has been noted for its differences from more traditional superhero movies, and the work of M.Night Shyamalan it is known as “the first co-authored superhero universe”. It is the first superhero franchise to be written and directed by one person, compared to other popular movies in the genre.

Other works that deserve to be mentioned are “SinCity”his special participation in “Friends”his role in the first parts of “The Expendables”, “Moonrise Kingdom” and “Looper”.

Source: Ambito