Best Chris? The Pine in March 2023 Credit & Copyright: Axel/Bauer-Griffin
New Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, which may be the most unexpectedly pleasant and unpretentious blockbuster of 2023. Escaping the sinister gloom and often incomprehensible worldbuilding that's bogged down in everything from Game of Thrones to the recent Lord of the Rings TV series, this is a fast-paced and highly entertaining piece of escapism that offers as much laughter as thrills. But his masterstroke isn't his blessedly irreverent attitude to the source material or the presence of Hugh Grant as the villain. Instead, its biggest special effect is the casting of its main character.
As Egin, a principled thief who tries to win back his daughter's trust and affection by trying to save the world in the process, Chris Pine delivers a performance that will surely not be recognized by any awards organization, because the actors are in big… budget special effects pictures. are usually ignored. However, on the part of Pine, as well as writer-directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daly, the masterstroke is that his protagonist is not the dashing hero one might expect.
Instead, he's an all-too-human figure, always ready with a witty joke and a subtle joke, but one who leaves the vast majority of swordsmanship and conventional heroism to the other members of the cast. Pine is consistently hilarious, capturing the spirit of Cary Elwes in The Princess Bride — a clear touchstone for the film — and manages to make on-screen antics feel almost akin. If the flourish seems absurd, you can bet your last dollar that Ejin will sardonically point it out before any other character can even react.
It's a rare and daring move for the male lead in this kind of film to be as comical as he is the protagonist, but it works beautifully. Just as Harrison Ford's Han Solo managed to become the most likable and likable character in the original Star Wars trilogy by being the most recognizable person, so Pine is an actor who has been repeatedly and rightly compared to Ford in the past. his career — abandons the alpha male style of his peers in favor of something fresher. There is no question that he has the charisma and looks of a leading man, but Pine hilariously refutes this. He's so funny that you miss him whenever he's off screen.
It remains to be seen if Dungeons & Dragons spawns a series of sequels or it will be an independent picture. (His opening US $37 million: not bad at all, but not the kind of blockbuster that usually results in a sequel being green-lit overnight.) But whatever happens, this represents another evolution in the man's career. who is often lazily referred to as one of the four Hollywood Chrises: the others are, of course, Hemsworth, Evans and Pratt.
Chris Pine in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Credit & Copyright: Alami
The quartet are first-rate stars who have made names for themselves in blockbusters with special effects and evoke sympathy and sympathy on the screen. However, it was Pine who had the most interesting career to date; if you had to bet on one of them achieving true longevity, it would be him.
Ironically, it was another major film in the franchise that made Pine a noteworthy actor for the first time: JJ Abrams' 2009 Star Trek reboot. Prior to that, he appeared in undemanding films like The Princess Diaries 2 and Lindsay Lohan's romantic comedy Just My Luck: rites of passage for a young actor, perhaps, but hardly a stretch.
Abrams, however, saw in Pine a quality he wanted to convey when he cast him as Captain Kirk, in a production that both paid homage to William Shatner's legendary interpretation of the character and reintroduced him to a new generation. Kirk Pine was cocky, impulsive, reckless and at times flirty, being completely unsympathetic, but then the flash of his boyish smirk and innate charisma quickly returned him to sympathy. And he received the papal seal of approval from Shatner himself. Pine, according to the senior actor, was «such a good and such a leading man»; vainly, he even suggested that Pyne would be his ideal choice for the role if a biopic about his life was ever made.
However, Pine's carefully crafted career suggests that he seeks to take on more challenges than just spending his life imitating or playing William Shatner. Like Dungeons & Dragons is so captivating that he's an incomparably talented comedian who has appeared in everything from the film adaptation of Sondheim and Lapin's musical Into the Woods, where he plays Prince Cinderella, and duets in the film's funniest song, Tragedy, to minor otherwise. «Terrible.» Bosses 2 shows that he has a knack and a willingness to laugh at himself and his on-screen persona that few of his peers are capable of.
This suggests that when he is given more standard heroic roles, he is less interesting; he appeared as Jack Ryan in Kenneth Branagh's attempted reboot of the series in 2014, but failed to bring his usual eccentricity to the role. Meanwhile, his appearance in the Disney adventure film The Finest Hours was perfectly acceptable, but it was a performance that any other actor, especially another Chris, could have played with their eyes closed.
Instead, Pine transcends more nuanced and intricate details. He was an unorthodox but effective actor for the role of Robert the Bruce in the historical epic The Outlaw King — and a brief flash of full nudity delighted his fans of both sexes — and arguably delivered his best performance to date in the contemporary western Hell or Hai.» Water, written by the new ubiquitous Taylor Sheridan and revolving around two brothers whose bank robberies are motivated by a strange sense of altruism. Pine was able to go head-to-head with the typically authoritative Jeff Bridges, playing a legal veteran on the hunt for the pair, and came out at least on par, if not triumphant.
Chris Pine in Outlaw King
The suspicion remains that Pine, like Jude Law before him, is a character actor who is often mistaken for leading male roles and resents this. He was a pleasantly reserved character in the Wonder Woman films, but none of them really stretched him as an actor. In a recent interview with Esquire, he almost confirmed the frustrations he's experienced in his career: «The stuff I'm interested in isn't always the stuff I'm offered,» he said. «And I can only do so much in terms of reaching out to writers and directors that I like or telling my reps what I want to do.»
It's no surprise that he made his directorial debut with the black comedy Pool Man: in addition to co-writing the script, he also stars in it, suggesting a more practical approach is that really drives him in his career.
It was also the only redeeming feature of the failed Don't Worry Darling, which is now far more interesting behind the scenes shenanigans surrounding the relationship between its director Olivia Wilde and its lead actor Harry Styles than anything that has appeared on screen. . As the charismatic but sinister cult leader Frank Pine showed a talent for nefarious villainy, but his work in the film was overshadowed by a bizarre opening at the Venice Film Festival where, among other things, Stiles was accused of spitting on Pine (he didn't) and where, during the press conference, Pyne looked tired and depressed.
Chris Pine in Hell or High Water
When asked about it, he replied, «Sometimes the question isn't that interesting and you just get distracted and stare at the ceiling because it's really beautiful.» He dealt with offset shenanigans with appealing alacrity (“If there was drama, there was drama. I absolutely didn’t know about it and I wouldn’t give a damn. If I feel bad, it’s because the vitriol that the film received is completely disproportionate to what was on screen»), but had to be grateful that he was able to walk away from a completely unsuccessful film with his head held high.
The fate of Chris Pine — whether he cares or not — is that he can't open a movie based solely on his name. He may be a recognized leading man, but he's not a movie star like Tom Cruise or even Chris Pratt. Instead, he can look at Mission: Impossible — an actor who once alternated between blockbusters and working with the likes of Stanley Kubrick, Oliver Stone, and Paul Thomas Anderson — and take that as a model for his career.
Still relatively young at 42, he nevertheless approaches roles that allow him to have gray hair and beard and wrinkles on his forehead, and play against his existing image. Just as Harrison Ford became the biggest movie star on the planet thanks to Han Solo and Indiana Jones before ruining his image, Pine has long since moved away from the crisp, fresh face that once built his career. The agents and talent managers around him might lament his decision to play against type. But for fans of iconoclastic, old-fashioned actors who really care about the roles they take on, Chris Pine will remain the most interesting — and certainly the most unorthodox — star of his generation.
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