A myth is, to not roll enough definitions, a person or thing surrounded by the highest estimate. Myths are as popular as unattainable, we can only approach his pedestal and worship them looking up. If the height where it reaches our eyes find a movie screen, then we will have a movie myth .
En este pasado mes de marzo, duro para las necrológicas, han muerto varios mitos cinematográficos. Jane Russell, la exuberante actriz, junto con Bettty Grable y Ginger Rogers, uno de los iconos sexuales de los soldados norteamericanos en la II Guerra Mundial, falleció a edad avanzada, 89 años. La antaño competidora de Marilyn, el mito for ever, en “ Los caballeros las prefieren rubias ” llevaba, al parecer bastantes años internada en un clínica de rehabilitación debido a sus problemas con el alcohol. Recuerdo con simpatía a esta actriz, de corta pero rotunda filmografía, ya saben por qué, y no olvido los buenos moments that led me as a child, the vision of his film "Paleface ", next to Bob Hope. will not even within the category of local myths, there are always classes, the Andalusian Amparo Muñoz, as beautiful as unfortunate and the bullfighter in Seville, famous in his day, Pepin Martin Vazquez.
Amparo Muñoz saw in the beginning, when I was a couple of Maximo Valverde, shopping at a grocery store near my home, because we were neighbors. His films never interested me, not a good actress. Television recently put one of his worst films, "the minister Women", where it was little more than looking body.
Martin Vazquez The teacher did not see him fight, I'm not that old, but if I was a spectator of his first steps as a film actor in films like stale " Currito Cross," the story of a torero poor lover of a quiet country houses which he called "Senorita" and another, whose name I forget, which his partner was the actress Danielle Darrieux, a legend of French cinema who is still alive (93 years).
But the indisputable film legend, who died in these days is no doubt, Elizabeth Taylor, actress of incredible violet eyes, five times nominated for an Oscar, impressive in all his films, " a woman to whom self-importance was not prevented from owning something that few actresses have beautiful: a sense of humor " 1. The necrologic (the New York Times had prepared his obituary from 2005) have reminded us of the exciting and passionate life of this splendid little woman to always look like a living legend teenagers of my generation. see a movie By Liz (the actress hated that nickname) made it more than once "pellets" at school, watching a movie of Taylor, in the darkness of the room, took a first kiss and our dreams juveniles became more pleasant recalling her graceful figure, enlarged on the screen, in movies like "Ivanhoe " or " The last time I saw Paris ."
Personally I must admit that I liked more Elizabeth Taylor as a young actress more. Mentally, I place before and after "Cleopatra "(1963) and it is possible that this different finding was influenced by his stormy private life. I still remember his visit to Spain, recently married to British actor Michael Wilding. A reporter asked fry marriage "who had pleaded who ." "Well, I ," the actress replied, laughing, always so determined.
But the priceless scene, that which I have stuck to my retina, and it still gives me chills to remember, for more time which I have not seen, belongs to one of the film credits that impressed me most " A Place in the Sun , 1951. I would play his staging and dialogue: She (Elizabeth Taylor) enters the billiard room where he (Montgomery Clift) has found refuge in isolation from others, perhaps displaced from festival that takes place at that time in a luxurious mansion. She slips, radiant in her white dress, barely touching the index finger edge of the table. Never have been. She says.
" These wasting your youth."
" is possible," he replies.
"just Why, asks her" Are you afraid or 're sad?
A fairly moviegoers this scene will no doubt recall a similar one the famous scene of smoking, "the Woody Allen movie" Match Point "(2005) when Crish ( Jonathan Rys Meyers) and Nola (the sexy Scarlett Johansson) meet for the first time. movie myths have helped many people to live and support life. As long as we keep watching and remembering their films, the cinematic myths not age nor die. Long life, then, to the myths.
© Manuel Martínez Bargueño
April, 2011
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NOTES
1. Pedro Almodóvar "Maggie eternal." El País, March 24, 2011.
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