Monday, February 10, 2020

Kirk se ganó un Oscar


Kirk Douglas agradece a sus hijos y a su esposa, Anne, al recibir el reconocimiento de la Academia de Hollywood por su trabajo a lo largo de 50 años. Steven Spielberg dice de él que no tiene un solo personaje que lo caracterice y que el coraje es uno de sus principales atributos. Para saber: The Bad and the Beautiful y en vocabulario: alienate

The Bad and the Beautiful tells the story of a film producer who alienates all around him…

In 1996, Douglas received an Honorary Academy Award for "50 years as a moral and creative force in the motion picture community." The award was presented by producer/director Steven Spielberg.
As a result of Douglas's stroke the previous summer, however, in which he lost most of his speaking ability, his close friends and family were concerned about whether he should try to speak, or what he should say. Both his son, Michael, and his long-time friend, Jack Valenti, urged him to only say "Thank you", and leave the stage. Douglas agreed. But when standing in front of the audience, he had second thoughts: "I intended to just say 'thank you,' but I saw 1,000 people, and felt I had to say something more, and I did." Valenti remembers that after Douglas held up the Oscar, addressed his sons, and told his wife how much he loved her, everyone was astonished at his voice's improvement:

    “The audience went wild with applause [and] erupted in affection ... rising to their feet to salute this last of the great movie legends, who had survived the threat of death and stared down the demons that had threatened to silence him. I felt an emotional tidal wave roaring through the Dorothy Chandler.”

In a 2014 article, Douglas cited The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Champion, Ace in the Hole, The Bad and the Beautiful, Act of Love, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Indian Fighter, Lust for Life, Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Lonely Are the Brave, and Seven Days in May as the films he was most proud of throughout his acting career.

He worked with the greatest actors and actresses of his time: Barbara Stanwyck, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, among others.

Para saber
The Bad and the Beautiful is a 1952 American melodrama that tells the story of a film producer who alienates all around him. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli and written by George Bradshaw and Charles Schnee. It stars Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame and Gilbert Roland. The Bad and the Beautiful resulted in five Academy Awards out of six nominations in 1952, a record for the most awards for a movie that was not nominated for Best Picture nor for Best Director.

Vocabulario
alienate: make (someone) feel isolated or estranged, turn away.
"an urban environment which would alienate its inhabitants"

Kirk Douglas receiving an Honorary Oscar
Steven Spielberg presenting an honorary Oscar to Kirk Douglas for his fifty years as a creative and moral force in the film community - the 68th Annual Academy Awards in 1996.

… the dark has a light of its own. Kirk Douglas said that in The Bad and the Beautiful, one of the best movies ever made. We´re celebrating and honoring Kirk Douglas tonight because he´s done almost everything on film. He´s directed, he´s produced and in the process he´s helped to harness the blacklist to pieces and of course most memorably and most lastingly he´s acted. He´s done it the way he does everything, with grace and courage. Whether he´s dealing with the character on screen or with the old too real effect of a recent stroke. Courage remains Kirk Douglas´ personal and professional hallmark. Most stars of his stature are shaped out of mythic clay. Kirk Douglas never chose that. He doesn´t have a single character that made him unique, instead he has a singular honesty, a drive to be inimitable. That´s what animates all his roles from Spartacus to Vincent Van Gogh. There´s a single thread drawing all his characters together. It´s called conscious. Every person he ever played had one and because Kirk Douglas never made his characters simple, no good guys or bad guys, he shaded heroics with self-doubts and shaped his villainy with compassion. His characters weren´t bigger than life. They were life reconverted, something we all could identified with. Something that could touch us out there in the dark, something that gave dark a life and a light of its own.
Ladies and gentlemen, Kirk Douglas.
Thank you. I see my four sons. They´re proud of their old man. And I am proud too. Proud to be a part of Hollywood for 50 years. But this is for my wife Anne. I love you. And unite I love all of you and I thank all of you for 50 wonderful years. Thank you.


Comentario de YouTube
And after 103 long lived years Kirk Douglas has passed on! He’s lived through two World Wars, a Great Depression, fought in WWII, helped end the Hollywood Blacklist, survived a helicopter crash, survived a stroke, and lived on to be over 100. That is one hell of a long gifted life. May he rest in eternal peace. Long Live Spartacus!

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