You might find it interesting to realize that Andrew Garfield almost missed out on acting due to his desire to go into business, but was convinced by a friend to take acting courses. Aside from that he’s an avid philatelist, which is quite plainly a person that has an interest in stamps and other postal history. To some that might make him sound like a rather boring character as far as his interests go, but if you really take the time to think about it you’d see that postal history is a big part of the world’s history since the post office, no matter where it’s located, is how people have managed to come together in one way or another for many, many years. Even in today’s modern age the post office is still a revered location and position that serves an important function, no matter how outdated some might think it’s become.
Here are some of Andrew’s best movies so far.
5. Silence
The price of religion is a steep one in certain countries. When two priest come to Japan seeking their mentor and any proof that he’s denied his faith, they quickly find out that Japan is not a place that openly welcomes Christians and is quite antagonistic to those that do. Throughout the film Garfield’s character does whatever he can to hold onto his faith, even as those around him are being tortured so that he can be broken and forced to relinquish his religion. Near the end he finally does what his persecutors demand of him and seems to deny his faith, though deep inside he knows that such a thing will never really happen.
4. The Social Network
If this film is true to life then you might understand why some people have a real issue with Mark Zuckerberg, despite the fact that he and a few others came up with an idea that has managed to be used by millions upon millions of people worldwide. The sordid details of how Facebook came to be are up for dispute since within the parameters of a movie it’s all dependent on the direction the director takes and applies to those that are under their control at the moment. The actors have something to do with it as well since the fact that the real Zuckerberg had nothing to do with the film kind of indicates that the actor and the director could have been playing things up a little.
3. Breathe
Based on a true story this details the life of a man that was struck with polio when he was 28 years old and was paralyzed from the neck down. Depression followed rather quickly as you can imagine since being stuck on a respirator and not being able to go anywhere didn’t lead to much of a life. But when he devised a way to first go home and live a rather stable existence and then came up with an idea on how he could travel with a respirator attached to a wheelchair life began to get better. The one thing that needs to be taken from this is that his strength came from the unyielding will of his wife, who wouldn’t let him give up.
2. The Amazing Spider-Man
There are some that say that Garfield was not the best Spider-Man, but let’s not get too judgmental in the wake of Spider-Man 3 since someone really messed up on that account. Upon releasing his own brand of Parker/Spider-Man, Garfield went back to the comics to define a young man that was both troubled, highly intelligent, and very witty when he donned the suit and started protecting the city. This was more along the lines of the Spider-Man that fans wanted to see, the only problem was that the villains and the material kind of fell short in a couple of ways and didn’t really seem to live up to the hype.
1. Hacksaw Ridge
Most people don’t enlist in the armed forces and then refuse to pick up a weapon, it’s just not done unless you’re a non-combatant that won’t ever see the battlefield. But in this film his personal mission was such that he was firm on his belief that he was there to save people and not take another life. That’s something that you would think might get you killed in a heartbeat if that’s the kind of attitude you walk onto the field with. But as this is based on a true story, the main character actually ended up saving a large number of lives and not taking a single one. He never fired a single bullet and he managed to rescue so many people that any words of him being a coward were soon drowned out, never to be spoken again.
Andrew Garfield knows how to act, but it would seem that sometimes the films he’s in just need a little something more to catapult him even further into the good graces of the audience.
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