the name jokes, but in the case of the actor John Hurt, one can hardly resist: No other performer of his Generation, embodied the pain and the injury, hurt so, as intense as the 1940-born Briton. John Hurt and pushed with his game, never forward, never was a man in the first row as his friends and drinking cronies, Oliver Reed and Peter O’Toole, and his best roles, a burned deep into the collective cinema memory: Misfits, like the “elephant man” Joseph Merrick, eccentrics, such as the Gay icon Quentin Crisp, an outsider like Winston Smith in “1984″, or by a wound such as the Roman Emperor Caligula.
could embody The whole range of human weakness and Fragility, Hurt with the intensity of his early wrinkles furrowed face, and the sinewy Wire of his physique. In each of his roles, he immersed himself entirely, no matter how deep the abyss of rails. “What is interesting about the human race, the human race itself,” he said in 2007 the “Guardian”, “if you are interested in, it could be that you land at the most convenient places.”
culture shock at the public school
With uncomfortable places, John Vincent was Hurt early on in acquaintance. As the son of an Anglican vicar, he grew up in sanctimonious conditions in the English County of Lincolnshire. The father was distant, as the youngest of three siblings hung Hurt on the coat-tails of his mother, drive but already as an acolyte in worship to all sorts of mischief, as he crowded the incense vessels deliberately to the municipality to fog and put it in a swoon.
In the Church-Prep-School, he failed, however, and was sent to a public school. A culture shock, the Hurt made a deep impression: The authoritarian Rigor of the teacher, the brutality of the bullies in the schoolyard, the constant Swearing – hardening of the working class, which had been the sheltered pastor’s son, to date, unknown. Hurt and withdrew into fantasy worlds, and developed, teased, and intimidated, his instinct for Underdogs.
in 1966, discovered by Director Fred Zinnemann, the stage and television actor and gave him a supporting role as Richard Rich in the adaptation of the novel “A man for all Seasons”. His breakthrough came when he experienced to many of the smaller roles and several years as an Ensemble member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, however, only in 1975, with its main role as a scene size of Quentin Crisp in the TV Biopic “The Naked Civil Servant”. Gay cinema was in the seventies yet to establish themselves away from voyeurism or education, so that Hurts fearless, bitchy-flamboyante representation of the queer icon caused a stir. In the following year, he shocked the television audience once again with his out of mistaken Caligula in “I, Claudius”, the crawled to his dying mother to bed, and his pregnant sister and the unborn child from the belly cut.
Alien and elephant man
Three years later, the Hurt won with his presentation of the detainee to Max in Alan Parker’s prison Shocker “Midnight Express,” a Golden Globe as best supporting actor and an Oscar nomination. 1979 was followed by a Hurts shortest, but the most spectacular theater performances. In Ridley Scott’s space Thriller “Alien” he plays the unfortunate Crew-member Kane, to a greedy, consumed Spaghetti Dinner the first Horror-creature from the chest breaks. The shock on Kane’s face, in pain and disbelief mixing, is more frightening than the fantastic special effects in this scene.
With a physical Affliction, it got Hurt in 1980 in David Lynch’s “The elephant man”. He played virtually unrecognizable under the monstrous deformations, by the rare lymphatic disorder Elephantiasis infested British Joseph Merrick (in the movie, John). His Outcry at the end of the film to the bone: “I’m not an animal. I’m a human being!” The touching, often with Boris Karloffs classic Frankenstein Performance compared representation of a brought about Hurt to a further Oscar nomination. Under the heavy mask, alone on the pain-filled, frightened or contemptuous of thrown back at the end of looks and Gestures, designed to Hurt such a pitiful as a full character would.
With the same sensitivity Hurt also made the poetry against the authoritarian “Big Brother”Regime of resistive individual, Winston Smith, to the theatrical event. As Michael Radford’s film adaptation of George Orwell’s society as a dystopia “1984″ in the same year to the cinema came, reflected the suffering and the Frailty of his film characters also in private John Hurts: His partner of many years, Marie’s life-Lise Volpelière-Pierrot died in 1983 in a horse riding accident. Hurt turned to alcohol, which he was since his beginnings of uncertainty in her.
Last major performance in “Jackie,”
In later years of Career excelled Hurt as an experienced and reliable supporting actor and speaker in dozens of roles: a stay Unforgettable for its minimal, but effective use as wand-maker Mr Ollivander in the two Parts of the Harry Potter series, but also concise roles in Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia” and as the head of the secret service in the Le Carré adaptation of “Queen, king, ACE, and spy”.
ambition, he once said the “the Guardian”, had never been his thing. “I’m incredibly ambitious people-watching: In the Moment of success you know exactly where to go, you know how to deal with it, and then it goes really wrong for you. Great. But that’s not how I work.” In July 2015 he was defeated by Queen Elizabeth II as a knight.
Religious married the four, meanwhile, for many years, dry Cricket Fan, in spite of his childhood embossing had not been. One of his last great performances Hurt has currently in Pablo Larraíns Kennedy-ballad “Jackie” as a pastor, speaks to the despairing President of the widow’s courage. There is no absolute Faith, and there are no answers, he says to her, with the world experienced, more tired, but embracing kind voice. Nevertheless, God had given “just enough” to be able to with the death to deal.
John Hurt died in the night to Saturday in London at the consequences of his pancreatic cancer. A year ago, he had been shown in the British press is confident that the conquer cancer. 22. January, he was 77 years old.
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