“He told him that if he ever made me feel uncomfortable again, he’d kill him,”the ac- tress said, adding that she would always be grateful to Brad for everything. And Brad explained that at that moment he was just a boy from the Ozark Mountains.“That was the way we handled things there. I just want- ed to make sure nothing would happen later,” said Pitt. He also deserves an Oscar for being so in- credibly grounded and normal for someone who has been proclaimed the sexiest man on the planet ve times. And he kept his two feet on the ground because life is a struggle and no one is ever really on top. “Ioncephonedmygrandparentsandmy grandfather said‘We saw your movie.’‘Which one?’I said. He shouted ‘Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn’t like?’. That brings things into perspective,” laughs this brilliant actor, who’s otherwise endlessly witty and al- ways ready to joke at his own expense. At least when he’s not joking at the expense of Matt Damon and George Clooney. We could also give him an award for having stayed in touch with director Boži- dar Nikolić, with whom he made his rst lm, and for coming to Serbia in the 1990s and going to a Red Star match when he was al- ready a major star. And because he adores our Novak Đoković, so he always smiles with sympathy when someone mentions Serbia. He could also receive accolades for hav- ing knocked the whole world o its feet during his recent encounter with Jennifer Aniston, his rst wife, with whom he was so sweet and charming that even the Guardi- an cooed. “Who knows what life would be like now if Pitt and Aniston had never split up... Maybe the American mood would have been so buoyant that Trump would never have reached oce. Maybe Brexit would not have happened. Maybe in this uni- verse David Bowie is still alive. We will nev- er know,“ writes the Guardian wittily, con- sidering whether Brad and Jennifer will try again after all. “If Pitt wins at the Oscars next month, his acceptance speech should consist of him getting down on bended knee in front of the world and saying: ‘Jen, I’ve been a fool. Please take me back’,” writes the Guardian, adding,“Then Aniston would rush down the aisle, mascara streaked down her face, to accept. Then they would kiss and Aniston would become pregnant immediately and have a baby right there on stage – and then we will nally be happy.” Jesting and irony aside, as you read this you will probably know if Brad Pitt really won an Oscar. We’re cheering him on, and until then he’s left with this Oscar of ours, which he undoubtedly deserves for a million more reasons than there’s room to detail here...
And Pitt has endured hardships in his pri- vate life, and not just because he spent a year and a half being treated for alcohol abuse. On one occasion he told Anthony Hopkins all about how he had become more vulnera- ble with age, when he revealed that he hadn’t cried for 20 years, but that he was becoming increasingly sensitive. Pitt showed us his sen- sitivity, a particular attribute of 21 st -century men, in the aforementioned lms, but he al- so explained it in an interview when talking about Ad Astra. “I think we were originally heading to- wards that dark night of the soul, where our character has to go to the farthest reaches of our solar system to nd himself utterly alone, to not have anyone else to rely on, or any TV to distract, or any drugs to escape with. So he is really left having to confront the self - with all of its grief, buried pain and regret.“ says Pitt, con rming once again that he has long been much more than just a pretty face and an even prettier body. Although there’s no doubt that he’s ageing like Dorian Gray, given that in the Tarantino lm he also strips and looks perhaps better than he did 30 years ago when he rst showed us his torso while seducing Thelma & Louise. There are many other good reasons to award Brad Pitt an Oscar, and not just those linked to his professional achievements, which have long been unrivalled. And there are cer- tainly many lms for which he could have been awarded. Because after Troy, which in my lay opinion was pretty ridiculous (even Brad Pitt agrees that every shot was in the style of“hey, look, here comes a hero”), his lms bring an array of di erent characters and we can’t de- cide which is better. The Tree of Life, Inglouri- ous Basterds, Moneyball and Benjamin Button are just a few of them. But the actor shows that he’s just as great in his private life. Gwyneth Paltrow revealed that he had saved her from being harassed by Harvey Weinstein while he was still a nobody in Hol- lywood, and the producer was everything.
ble in what we hope is not the last Quentin Tarantino lm, Once Upon a Time in Holly- wood. Pitt has been nominated for best sup- porting role, though there’s no doubt that he overshadowed the proverbially good Leonar- do, at least in my opinion, which on this oc- casion is just the opinion of a passionate lm lover who is by no means an expert and com- petent person, so the article should be read as such. The incredibly cool guy that is Cli Booth o ers us a new type of man, who unobtrusive- ly and almost shyly protects and stands in for his boss, a mediocre B-category actor, as his double. There isn’t much ambition, or desire to be exposed, but he always speaks the truth and fears no one. Not even Bruce Lee, who – in thekindoflegendaryscenethatonlyTarantino could write – beats him to a pulp in response to Bruce bragging about how he’d turn Cassi- us Clay, who would go on to become Muham- mad Ali, into a stain on the oor. The way Pitt acts later on, during the best part of the lm, when - with the help of his dog, which has a character that is incredibly remi- niscent of his - massacres the madmen of the Manson clan, he could also become antholo- gous. The credit probably belongs to Quentin and Brad equally for the fact that a scene that’s lled with blood and violence is so charming and in nitely witty, all of which are undoubt- edly good reasons for this Oscar of ours. But that’s not all, because last year he was also brilliant as Roy McBride in Ad Astra. I don’t know whether the lm is good or bad, but I know that Brad Pitt is absolutely incredibly fan- tasticintheminimalistexpressionofamanwho has stored all of his emotions and then headed to the end of the known solar system to nd them and face himself, his father, the world, demons. McBride’s uselessness is rooted in re- pression and hurt, far removed from Booth’s re- assuring acceptance of life. And still.“The two characters could be connected,” Pitt says, “in the sense that you have to go through an evo- lution to get to a place of comfort. You have to go through profound internal hardships.”
Kao da se nikada nisu rastali… As if they never split up...
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