5 of America's most controversial male film artists

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Despite the glamor, sophistication and outward calm, storms often sweep across the sea called Hollywood, overnight washing away the career of one of the artists into a pool of disgrace. In most cases, the actors themselves are to blame for this, by their behavior in society, statements in public or indistinct play in a particular picture, they reject directors and viewers from themselves. Let's take a look at which of the American male artists have been washed away by a wave of popular, directorial and producer indignation in recent times.

Mel Gibson

Film actor, and part-time director, producer and master of writing excellent scripts - Mel Gibson - not without reason has gone into the shadows for a long time. And for 10 years we have not seen new works from him, although the previous ones were bestsellers and invariably beat off their budget with interest. But overnight the most famous film studios turned their backs on him,and he did not dare to create masterpieces "in the backyards of the empire", considering that it was below his dignity.

What is so wrong with the American artist Mel Gibson? Of course, not that he was often detained and fined for drunk driving. What Hollywood star doesn't indulge in this? But the last time the police pulled him out from behind the wheel drunk and with a bottle of tequila, he began to speak unflatteringly about the Jews, saying that they are the causes of all wars on Earth. His words immediately became public knowledge, which sharply condemned him, after which all the great studios told him that they did not need an anti-Semite.

The scandal was completed after his interview with one of the famous Spanish newspapers, in which he spoke unflatteringly (to put it mildly) about homosexuals. Public opinion was divided on this issue, but the film studios immediately and unequivocally declared: “We don’t need homophobe either!”

True, after 10 years, he nevertheless came out of disgrace, filming his grandiose project “For Conscience Reasons” and taking the Golden Globe and Oscar for best director, from which we can conclude that the Russian proverb was rights: "You can't drink talent." Moreover, even while driving a car…

Hayden Christensen

This is another unfortunate American male movie artist. True, he is Canadian by origin, but this does not make him not an American, and also not a star (in the past) of Hollywood.

A star is not a star, but he received his Golden Raspberry. And as they sayfans of the Star Wars universe - deservedly so. They were all mad at him for ruining such an awesome role and personality as Darth Vader, aka Anakin Skywalker. And he spoiled it not by the fact that his hero was forced, according to the script, to take the side of the dark forces, but by the fact that he created on the screen the image of some kind of whiner, always dissatisfied and whiny with something. Although, we won't be surprised if the tendency to the dark power, in the end, was also attributed to him.

Somehow his fate is akin to the fate of Briton Daniel Radcliffe. He, too, was vague and whiny. For which he is now chilling on the sidelines. Although he has already earned money for his whole life as a child…

John Travolta

It is generally believed that the studios began to turn away from him after he mispronounced the name of one of the nominees at one of the regular Oscars. This was hardly done on purpose, but it also caused rejection among the public. Added fuel to the fire and scandalous information about his penchant for homosexuality. But it’s not clear: while the wave of Hollywood lifts some homosexuals, for some reason it throws the second ashore.

Harsh words, ridicule and other statements also do not bring veneration to the public. And the rout of the famous American artist was completed by the statement of his former massage therapist, made by him in 2017 in the wake of sexual revelations provoked by Hollywood director Weinstein. He, allegedly, was once the object of homosexual harassment by Travolta. And this is how wewe understand, put a fat and unconditional end on the career of the 64-year-old actor.

Nicolas Cage

Despite the fact that there was no time, or to be more precise - in 1996, the actor was awarded the highest acting award - the Oscar in the Best Actor nomination, since 2007 he has been regularly for all the same "Male role", only now - the worst, receives only the "Golden Raspberries". What is it about?

This is also the merit of the directors, but, for the most part, everyone believes that in the wake of his bankruptcy (he was ruined, mainly by divorce litigation), he became some kind of "gray". In the end, well-known studios stopped working with him. Either fearing that his bankruptcy would somehow pass on to them, or for other reasons. Although, what can I say, 6 Golden Raspberry awards have done their dirty work.

And although the audience still wants to see the actor as the leading actor in films, famous directors strongly disagree with this. And the once-famous American film actor has to take part in dubious projects that drag his fame down to the bottom.

Adam Sandler

Another record holder for the number of Golden Raspberry awards. The audience, and the film industry figures, got the impression that although the American artist himself belongs to the cohort of producers and screenwriters, somewhere in the course of his acting career, Adam forgot that the actor on the screen should not only throw third-rate jokes and smile naively, but also and play. BUTbecause the same type of behavior of Sandler in each picture at some point simply disappointed both the audience and the film studios.

As they say, a person is the creator of his own destiny. And if you create it crookedly and without caring about the consequences, fate will only lose from this.