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its always hard to translate a long text like this, specially this one was a bit... poetic in some parts. Hope I managed to bring the atmosphere though.
Cinema:
Murphy's Law: Anybody who knows Cillian?
The Irishman Cillian Murphy is very popular in cinema these days. He was a butcher, blackmailer, transvestite, Batman-opponent - and now in the new sci-fi-movie "Sunshine" he wants to save the sun.
Still, nobody knows his name.
[Picture 1: The man who disappears behind his versatility: Cillian Murphy, now in cinemas in the film "Sunshine"]
Once Pierce Brosnan was -that time still acting as James Bond- Ireland's silver screen-icon.
This place has been taken by two younger guys: Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy. Farrell is, even though 6 days younger than Murphy, the more male, hard, aggressive (laddish) type. He likes to take roles for which Russell Crowe has become to old. His private life is filled with parties and stories about women (last sentence not exactly translated...)
Cillian Murphy is softer, younger, he moves in wider borderlands.
One never hears of his private life. His wife and his meanwhile two children are being completely protected by the 30-years-old.
And then one notices: the time has long passed since Colin Farrell ("Alexander") played in every second film, but Murphy's career proceeds continuously.
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He fancied Scarlett Johansson in "The girl with the pearl earring" - as butcher. He was schlepping (carrying) meat although being a vegetarian. He blackmailed his seat neighbor in "Red Eye". Since then nobody wants to sit next to him in plane.
His whole bandwidth was proven by the young Irish in two Irish productions: In Neil Jordans "BoP" he played the role of a transvestite in the Nothern Irish war (the movie was presented by Murphy at the Berlinale in 2006); in Ken Loach's "TWTSTB" he was one of the first victims in the nascent conflict between Irish and English (the film won the Cannes Film Festival in 2006).
The man is looking for borderline-experiences constantly, he permanently acts the exceptional circumstances.
And still nobody really knows how to pronounce his name ("Kill-ian"). Despite this fact he is -for more than five years-, to his amusement, being dealt as either rising star or newcomer of the year - though he has long gone over this.
Since thursday his new movie "SS" is in our cinemas. A science-fiction-movie in which he wants to retrieve the
world from an exinguishing, coldening (does this exist-if not I have just invented the word
) sun.
And this now, when the whole world speaks of global warming!
Presently he sits in the Four Seasons in Berlin, more moon- than sun-addicted; somnambule and absent-minded.
But with those stinging, blue eyes, who give him this very own blazing aura.
No, Sunshine was not meant as a political statement. Not as "An inconvenient truth" in form of a movie. But:"If it points out the
fragility of our planet it's good."
He is not afraid of his future; but of the future of his children.
First of all, he had made the movie because he wanted to work again with Danny Boyle. They had done 28 DL together five years ago; a horror-movie that made him well-known. Now he is here, adoring his director like Leo DiCaprio adores Martin Scorsese:"I have learned so much from him. I grew up with his movies, with
"Trainspotting" and "Shallow Grave". He one of the world's best directors."
And he means what he says. He has already worked with a remarkable number of [...] big names, with Ken Loach,
Neil Jordan, Anthony Minghella, Christopher Nolan.
How does he do that?
"I have no idea" says the modest introvert; "I just apply and hope that they take me."
For Nolan he has even broken his own law: to not make any
blockbuster movie.
He acted in Batman Begins, he was even supposed to play the bat himself and allowed to try huddling on the bat costume. But it did not fit him, also not physically... In the end he was "just" one of the opponents, which was very ok for him: "I am not really batman-material". He would have just wished that his 10-years-old ego, which was a Batman-fan, could have seen himself as Batman one time.
BB was a great new-invention of the series. That's why he had taken part in it. All he wants are movies that present a challenge for him. He does not want trash. That's the point where the cool young man shows at once temperament:"I dont wanna do one of those soul-less things that are being hatched in the marketing departments of studios". Special appearances -as for the second part "28 weeks later"- are out of question for him.
The man has clear demands to himself. And strict rules that he follows adamently. No wonder: He once studied law. Only 1.5 years, but still.
"It might have been",he ponders, "the healthier life, but surely the more boring one."
Normally Murphy's Law says: things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance.
Not so at Cillian Murphy's.
Careful: SUNSHINE SPOILER :
He has just once burnt his fingers.
In Sunshine: at it's end he - burning himself- brings the sun to implosion.
Another rising star.
) sun.