Brad Pitt is one of the only people that can somehow make even a yelling scene look good. He’s just one of those fortunate few that doesn’t seem to have a bad film or a bad experience in film. Everyone around him screw up and have an off day but for some reason even when this guy yells he seems like he’s totally in control, no matter the situation or the circumstance. How is that even possible? He’s a good actor yes, he’s on the road to greatness, of course, but how in the world can anyone look good when they’re yelling and still look even better when it seems out of their control?
Here’s a few clips to show you how.
5. Fight Club
It’s one thing to talk to yourself, to imagine someone else that you can have a good time with and that understands you, but to shoot at them? Even after you’ve figured everything out and realize he’s not really there and there’s a van filled with explosives that could go off if you so much as bumped it wrong? Let’s just say it, Tyler Durden is a guy that loves to live dangerously, no matter what he says.
4. Troy
Achilles is understandably upset. First he loses track of his cousin and has to find out about his death from his own men, whom his cousin led into battle. Then he has to learn that Hector, a prince of Troy, was the man that did it. Surely Achilles wanted to face him on even ground but this was fueled by rage, not a desire for glory or anything else, and it produced one of the greatest fight scenes ever filmed.
3. Snatch
Don’t talk to a native of England or Ireland about this film because one of the first things they’ll rip into is the language and how silly everyone sounds. Linguistics aside however Mickey was a funny and likable character despite being dirty and a little confrontational. Give him this much though, he wasn’t boring and he certainly wasn’t as shady as the rest of the cast.
2. Legends of the Fall
Tristan is almost like a force of nature bottled up into the form of a human being. He lives between one existence and another, never fully inhabiting either one. In other words he’s a hard person to get to know even from the standpoint of the viewer, which could be what makes him so charming to so many. There’s a strange charisma that the man has that isn’t easy to avoid.
1. Se7en
Anyone that tells me the wouldn’t at least contemplate doing the same in this situation is either lying to themselves or is a hardcore pacifist. In any case it’s still hard to deny that any person would respond any differently upon hearing that the suspect they have in custody took the head of their loved one just a few hours before walking into their custody. But upon learning his wife was pregnant, that was the line that dared not be crossed.
Brad Pitt is good at yelling, and looking good while doing it.
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