Schindler's list
1993
In the film by Steven Spielberg, who won seven Oscars and has been a leader in all sorts of ratings for 20 years, Fiennes plays animated evil - SS officer Amon Goeth, a concentration camp commandant and murderer, and also, part-time, a lover of luxury, wine and women. While Schindler rescues Jews and spends a fortune to move them from the camp to his factory, Goeth shoots them, sometimes as morning exercise. Clean-shaven and combed, wearing a fresh shirt, this makes him even more terrifying. Having only once tried on the idea of forgiveness, he predictably fails to cope with it. By the way, Fiennes was so convincing in his role that one of the concentration camp prisoners, after watching the film, mistook him for the real Amon Goeth.
MY RALFE FIENNES
Thanks to Gossip for the opportunity to share the most intimate thing - our love for actors)
We're talking about Ralph Fiennes
- a handsome, sophisticated, talented, monstrously sexy man. Spielberg called the phenomenon of the attraction of Fiennes's villains "dark sexuality" - I support it! He comes from a good, intelligent family. He has several brothers and sisters. Sister Martha Fiennes, by the way, is a director. Brother - Joser Fiennes - famous actor. Rafe lives in London, unmarried. And according to his sister (I read an interview with her), he is not very eager to get married and have children. By the way, for many years he was in a relationship with actress Francesca Ennis, who is 17 years older than him. He loves Russia and Russian literature very much, for which I personally thank him and mur-mur-mur.
Here I want to present a list of films in which you can admire wonderful acting and just a very handsome and sexy man. I want to immediately warn Harry Potter fans, I am a person of a different generation and have different preferences in cinema, and I simply do not like Harry Potter, so it will not be here. RALPH FIENNES IS NOT VOLDEMORT. VOLDEMORT IS NOT RALPH FIENNES. PLEASE. GO WATCH SCHINDLER'S LIST. OR THE ENGLISH PATIENT. OR THE CONSTANT GARDENER. THEN COME BACK HERE AND CALL HIM VOLDEMORT ONE MORE TIME. I DARE YOU. (funny quote from a fan forum))
So: my love—impossible and all-consuming—for Ralph (after all, his name is more familiar to me) began with the film “Schindler’s List.”
1) “Schindler’s List” 1993 F
The film is very famous, I think there is no point in talking about it - everyone watched it. But we can talk about how Ralph played the sadistic Nazi Amon Goeth (I remember this name by heart) for hours and days. How sexy and cruel a character he turned out to be - to the point of trembling in his knees - was not written only by the lazy. So - Amon Goeth played by Ralph Fiennes. This is the peak, this is the unattainable height of acting. How can you play a cruel sadist so that the entire female population of the globe falls in love with this character? Only Ralph can do this. He didn’t win an Oscar, which saddens me to this day. Apparently, it was inconvenient for academicians to give an Oscar, albeit brilliantly played, but still a Nazi. That year, the Oscar went to Tommy Lee Jones for his role in some action movie. It is clear that the roles and films are incomparable. But let’s leave this to the conscience of the Academicians.
2) “The English Patient” 1996
The film collected all conceivable and inconceivable awards, including 9 Oscars. An unusual love story, several timelines and plot lines, excellent cinematography, a strong cast, an ending that I call “you will cry” - the film is definitely a must see even for “non-fans” of Ralph Fiennes. But how beautiful he is there, it is impossible to describe in words. As a bonus, a young Colin Firth and Daniel Defoe. Ralph was nominated for an Oscar for this role, but the Oscar was snatched away from him again. Fiennes generally has a lot of nominations, but few awards. Geoffrey Rush stole the Oscar, by the way, but deservedly stole it: for his role as a brilliant but crazy pianist in the film “Glitter” (I recommend watching it). Jeffrey is generally a talent - what is his Marquis de Sade worth in the film “The Pen of the Marquis de Sade” (I also recommend it, very much so). I would like to note that the 1997 Oscars were very strong, and the competition was crazy - just look at the nominees among actresses and actors and the films of the year. But let's return to Ralph.
3) “Wuthering Heights” 1992.
A dark, gothic, intimate and, in my opinion, underestimated by Western critics film adaptation of Emily Brontë's famous 1993 novel. Rafe plays the embittered, withdrawn Heathliff, who will carry his love for the main character throughout his life. I would like to note that in this role, Ralph subtly and skillfully managed to combine in his hero a deep sense of affection, the need for another person with the desire for revenge and infliction of pain.
4) “Red Dragon” 2002 (“Behold the Red Dragon!”)
Another sadistic maniac from Ralph, after visual acquaintance with whom I dreamed of him as a prince on a white horse. Remembering the scene where Fiennes’s character throws off his robe and shows a naked body with a dragon tattoo on his entire back and butt (photo attached, of course!) - I even begin to forget the Russian language. He's good there, he's good. Plus, the film is a prequel to The Silence of the Lambs, and I respect Silence of the Lambs so much. In short, I highly, highly recommend watching it.
5) “Onegin” 1998.
Another inept Western adaptation of a Russian classic, namely by Ralph’s sister Martha Fiennes.
We can talk endlessly about the minuses, blunders, and stupidly chosen actors (except for Ralph, of course). But I still love this movie. I think you can guess because of whom). I especially love this film for a few minutes, when Onegin-Ralph reads his letter to Tatiana - it’s touching, it was emotional No, seeing you every minute,
following you everywhere,
A smile of the mouth, a movement of the eyes
Catching with loving eyes.
And just yesterday I read a rumor that during the filming of Onegin, the performer of the role of Tatiana, Liv Tyler, very tenderly “looked” at Ralph, and tried in every possible way to transfer their relationship from the category of stage partners to a completely different category). Who would have behaved differently in her place?
6) “Coriolanus” 2010
Came out not long ago. I liked it very much. I was struck by Shakespeare’s play, which “reports” the main characters against the backdrop of a modern military conflict somewhere in Eastern Europe or the Balkans. And of course Ralph - brutal, pumped up, smeared with blood, in a military uniform - you can’t take your eyes off him. I highly recommend watching it. Although, I will warn you that it may seem boring. Ralph acted here not only as an actor, but also as the director of the film.
7) “The Duchess” 2008
This film came as a complete surprise to me. Firstly, I don’t like Keira Knightley, and secondly, I don’t really like costumed historical films. But the film turned out to be very interesting, I literally could not tear myself away from the screen.
"Bernard and Doris" 2006
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The behind-the-scenes story of the final years of tobacco billionaire Doris Duke (1912-1993) and her relationship with her devoted butler Bernard Lafferty,” is the film’s synopsis.
I want to note that this picture is another confirmation of Fiennes’s multi-faceted acting talent, sparkling with all the colors of the rainbow. Here he plays a gay man, and does it brilliantly. 9) “The End of the Affair” 1999
A love story about which I heard a lot of good reviews, and which I absolutely did not like, and seemed bland and uninteresting. And this is even despite the large number of sex scenes, etc.
10) “Mistress Maid” 2002
You may or may not watch it. A light romantic comedy with Jennifer Lopez, at first I couldn’t even figure out what Ralph Fiennes forgot in it.
There was also “The Constant Gardener” in 2005 with Rachel Weisz, but I honestly didn’t watch it. And, of course, the famous, but not so much my favorite, “The Reader” of 2008. They also praise “A Taste of Sunshine” from 1999, but as I understand it, the movie is difficult, and for now I don’t feel like watching it. And Spider (2002) is an extremely strange, paranoid movie. From the early ones, which I have not watched, but are worth checking – “Oscar and Lucinda” from 1997 and “Strange Days” from 1995.
Here https://fuckyeahralphfiennes.tumblr.com/ and here https://fyralphfiennes.tumblr.com/ there are a lot of rare photos, cool GIFs, fan confessions, jokes, cheerful mood and other things) When I want to make sure that I’m not I'm so crazy about Ralph, I go to these communities))
Thanks to everyone, especially Ralph!
English patient
1996
Again a film with worldwide recognition and again about the Second World War. The story, which comes together only at the end credits, has two times. In one of them, Fiennes is Count László de Almásy, a desert explorer and pilot mapping the Sahara with his expedition; in the other, he is a barely human “English patient” waiting in Italy for his death while the rest of the world waits. end of the war. The patient may not understand who he is, but he perfectly remembers the history of his relationship with Catherine (who, by the way, is Colin Firth’s wife). Among other things, Fiennes here easily swaps the loose shirts, sand-colored jackets and shorts that he wears in the Sahara for a tuxedo and bowtie.
You probably don’t know Ralph Fiennes, a British actor, twice nominated for an Oscar, who played, in particular, Eugene Onegin, Rakitin and... Voldemort. Probably, those St. Petersburg residents whom he passed unnoticed while walking around the city in July of this year did not know him either. Without security, in the most ordinary blue jacket and with headphones... The actor’s phone photo ended up on Instagram, and everyone found out that Ralph Fiennes had arrived in St. Petersburg. Once again.
I AM FIANCE
What brought the Briton to the city on the Neva was not the premiere of another film, not the presentation of some advertising brand, but preparation for a new project - a biopic about the dancer Rudolf Nureyev (who, by the way, was born on a train between Irkutsk and Slyudyanka - approx.) In 1961, on While on tour in Paris, the soloist of the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater asked for political asylum. In response to this, the Union declared him a traitor to his homeland and sentenced him to 7 years in absentia. It is the theme of emigration that will become central to the as yet untitled film (working title: “The White Crow”). Fiennes himself will direct it, and may also play a supporting role as Alexander Pushkin, Nureyev’s mentor at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. As Fiennes told reporters, “Nureyev in his youth will be one of the leading ballet dancers of the Kazan ballet troupe, Oleg Ivenko.” This is his first film role. “Nureyev was able to overcome borders, overcome cultural differences, to express through art his desire to connect people,” added the British actor, describing the hero of his project.
The idea of a film about Nureyev haunted the British for many years. And if in 2012 Sting’s wife Trudie Styler practically persuaded the producers to give the main role to her husband, then 4 years later the project was launched under the patronage of Ralph Fiennes. The script is based on the book Rudolf Nureyev: A Life by British journalist and former ballerina Judy Cavan. “The film cannot be considered a biopic in the full sense,” explains the director. – It reflects only a few chapters from Nureyev’s life. The period when he entered the Leningrad School, and after graduation he went on tour to France, where he decided to stay and live. Thus, he was the first among the artists to be recognized as a “defector”[/caption]
– Rafe, tell us about the filming locations. Suddenly, residents of Russian cities will be able to get to the site and see the process with one eye. – Now we are dealing with issues of financing, collecting material and searching for nature. Most likely, in December in St. Petersburg we will film scenes from our student years and the beginning of our dancer’s career. Next year we will go to Ufa, where Nureyev took his first steps in the world of ballet.
– You’ve already been to Ufa, right? And they even found the place where the house of the young Nureyev stood. – Yes, we spent 2 days in Ufa. We managed to visit the opera and ballet theater, the choreographic college and some of the city’s attractions.
IN SEARCH OF THE RUSSIAN SOUL
Ralph Fiennes has a special relationship with Russia. She appeared in his life... back in London. For the actor, who has been fond of Russian classics since his youth, one of his first theatrical works was the minor role of Arkady from Turgenev’s novel “Fathers and Sons.” And a few years later she became the main character in the play “Ivanov” based on Chekhov. In addition to the English stage, the troupe toured almost all of Europe, including the Moscow Maly Theater. This is how Fiennes’s first visit to Russia happened. He was followed by the role of Onegin in the film adaptation of the same name, directed by his sister Martha Fiennes, chairmanship of the jury of the Mirror film festival in the Ivanovo region, repeated visits to the capital's theaters and, of course, acquaintance with Vera Glagoleva. Glagoleva, having seen the Briton in “Ivanov,” dreamed for many years of transferring Turgenev’s “A Month in the Country” with Rakitin-Fiennes into the language of cinema. The project took place and was released in early 2015 under the title “Two Women”. – I really love this play, I love the hero. Probably, first of all, for his isolation and at the same time intense inner life. He feels a powerful suppression of his emotions, which are rushing out.
– They say that you studied Russian specifically for this role. And they said all the lines themselves. “We struggled with this for a long time.” Unfortunately, I couldn’t get rid of the accent. In the end I had to call in a backup. It fit perfectly into the movements of my lips, so the difference is almost invisible. Now I continue to learn Russian, I still make a lot of mistakes. I practice with Russian friends who live in London and Paris. I often come to Russia, where there is an opportunity to improve.
– Where did you manage to visit during your visits? – We can talk about this for a long time. Several times he flew to the Chaliapin Dacha Festival in the city of Plyos, Ivanovo Region, and brought two of his directorial works, “Coriolanus” and “The Invisible Woman,” to the Russian premieres. Your director Pavel Lungin invited me to play Herman in The Queen of Spades, but it didn’t work out. There was also an idea to film one of the short stories in the almanac “Petersburg, I love you” (the project has been in development for many years - approx.) I also visited Yasnaya Polyana and other estates of the 19th century. We traveled through them to get into the spirit of that time. Frankly, I am always happy to come to Russia. It’s hard to explain, but somewhere on a subconscious level I am drawn to your country.
– The media write that you even have a favorite Russian performance. - “Uncle Vanya” at the Vakhtangov Theater. Sergei Makovetsky brilliantly plays the main role. Yes, this is my favorite performance, my heart. I saw him in Moscow, and then in London, where he was brought on tour. By the way, in the same theater they staged “Eugene Onegin” with the same Makovetsky. It was extremely interesting for me to look at the role that I played many years ago. In St. Petersburg, I went to the “Cherry Orchard” and took pictures with the actors Elizaveta and Danila (Boyarskaya and Kozlovsky - approx.) I really love Russian literature. I read a lot of Pushkin, Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy... He repeatedly acted in Chekhov's plays. It seems to me that he, like no one else, knew how to describe everyday life - subtly, transparently.
– Have you ever wanted to stay and live in Russia? - It happens sometimes. I want to live in a real Russian wilderness.
– Your first experience as a director is directly related to your theatrical past. You played in Shakespeare's play Coriolanus in the early 2000s. And then they filmed it, 10 years later. This is far from the playwright's most famous play. Why did she attract you so much? – By its provocation and deliberate conflict with the audience. His hero, straightforward and honest to a fault. The public doesn't like him. And it shouldn't. He plays on her feelings of sympathy and antipathy. On the one hand, he can be considered a villain, but it seems to me that this is not so. This is a person who has not fully developed, like a child in an adult's body.
– Which Shakespearean play would you film next? – I think “Antony and Cleopatra”.
– And your favorite character from Shakespeare is probably Hamlet? – You will be surprised, but no. It's Odysseus! The ability to overcome all obstacles along the way, while simultaneously understanding your own life, is the pinnacle of heroism.
- Let's return to Russia. Your second directorial work, the drama “The Invisible Woman” (2012), was shown at the annual New British Cinema festival, held as part of the Cross Year of Culture of our countries. You personally presented the film in Moscow. Tell us about it and the audience's reaction. – This historical drama tells the story of the scandalous affair of the English writer Charles Dickens with the young actress Nelly Ternan. He was then 45, and she was 18. For the sake of blonde Nellie, Charles left his wife, who bore him 10 children. In society, their romance was considered just another affair, although this relationship lasted for more than 13 years.
– The role of Charles Dickens was played by the famous British actor Ralph Fiennes. What interested you in the writer’s personality? – In fact, Dickens is not the main character in this story. I tried to focus on Nellie Ternan - a woman who finds it very difficult to play secondary roles, a woman who does not want to be completely invisible. During her affair with Dickens, she is young and attractive. After his death, she marries again, now she is a mature woman. Did she love him? That's the main question. When I first read the script, I didn't believe the events were true. And for a long time I could not understand what was fiction and what was not.
– On the set of the biopic about Nureyev, you will be combining the work of an actor and a director for the third time. What is more important to you? – When I direct a film, I have to make important and difficult decisions. Sometimes you need to be able to put someone in their place or refuse with reason if an idea does not fit with the concept. The director on set is always the most important. I am not a supporter of the conflict method, shouting and other things. But sometimes it needs to be done. Something I would never allow myself to do if I was only acting.
- And finally. Is there any hope of seeing you in a comedy? – Alas, directors don’t offer comedy roles at all. Although, in my opinion, I could do it. So I'll wait a few more years, and then I'll make a comedy myself and cast myself in the lead role.
SITTING IN TWO CHAIRS It’s interesting that every audience has its own Fiennes. Fans of costume adaptations know him as Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights and Onegin from the melodrama of the same name. Connoisseurs of war cinema remember his role as a concentration camp commandant in Schindler's List, which has been a leader in various ratings for 20 years. For young people, Fiennes – Voldemort from the Harry Potter franchise – is the main embodiment of evil in the cinema of the last ten years (he, by the way, considers the hero “a desperately lonely creature”). The actor recently added his name to another film series, playing M, James Bond's boss. The Briton himself calls his favorite roles in “The Constant Gardener” and “The English Patient”. And he takes the beginning of his directorial role very seriously.
text: Vladimir Rutman, especially for the magazine “In Good Taste”
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Mistress Maid
2002
Another Cinderella story, this time about a Latin American maid of an expensive New York hotel, played by Jennifer Lopez. Chris Marshall, Fiennes's hero, is a politician who not only has impeccable manners and a good wardrobe (which, strictly speaking, every politician is entitled to), but also a dog. The latter becomes the reason that the same maid meets the son, who, in turn, accidentally ends up in the role of a hotel guest. The ending is predictably cloying, but Fiennes in the role of a lover ready for exploits with a half-mad smile is a rare sight, not to say exceptional.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (as well as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)
2005
Lord Voldemort, performed by Fiennes, is not particularly attractive and in general strongly resembles the burned count from The English Patient. The only difference is that this one only lies and remembers, while this one is quite active and constantly tries to kill the unfortunate Harry Potter. Work on this and subsequent parts of the Potter epic brought the actor, accustomed to serious roles, closer to mass culture and significantly increased the number of his fans, although mainly at the expense of teenagers.
Movies
Ralph Fiennes made his television debut in the leading role in the historical drama Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia in 1990. It was immediately followed by the crime series “Prime Suspect,” in which the film actor played the role of Michael in one of the episodes.
The experience of playing dramatic characters helped Rafe get on the big screen. In 1991, the actor starred as Heathcliff in the film adaptation of Emily Brontë's famous novel Wuthering Heights. Then the scandalous film on a religious theme, “Child of Macon,” was released.
In 1993, the actor gained worldwide fame after the appearance of the war biography Schindler's List, in which the Briton played Amon Goeth, the commandant of a fascist concentration camp. For this role, Fiennes received the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Best Supporting Actor, and was also nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe. This film will be called the best in the actor’s creative biography, and directors from different countries will offer the Briton roles in historical films more and more often in the future.
Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth
Then came unnoticeable films, of which only the science fiction thriller “Strange Days” stands out; for his participation in it the actor was nominated for a Saturn Award. In 1996, Ralph Fiennes again excites the imagination of film lovers and makes people talk about himself, playing the main role of Count Laszlo Almasy in the film adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel The English Patient. The film actor was expected to receive another Oscar nomination, and the film itself received this prestigious award.
After this success, the actor could already choose scripts on his own, so almost all of his films became successful: the melodrama “Oscar and Lucinda”, the film adaptation of Pushkin’s novel “Onegin”, directed by the actor’s sister Martha, the thrillers “Spider” and “Red Dragon” , the comedies “Mistress Maid” and “Chumscrubber”, the action-packed drama “The Constant Gardener” and other films.
Ralph Fiennes in the film "Onegin"
For his participation in these films, the actor was repeatedly nominated for various film awards in Britain, Europe and the USA, but Fiennes only received the European Film Academy award for his leading role in the historical drama A Taste of Sunshine.
In 2005, Ralph Fiennes agreed to the role of the main villain Voldemort in the film “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”; he would later participate in the sequels of this teen movie – “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” and two parts of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” " This role earned the actor an MTV Movie Award for Best Movie Villain.
Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort
In addition to this fantasy franchise, the actor starred in the historical dramas “The Duchess” and “The Reader,” participated in the film adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novel “Great Expectations,” and played in the comedies “Nanny 2” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel.”
TV viewers especially note Fiennes’ work in the films “Clash of the Titans” and “Wrath of the Titans.” In the films, he played Hades, and Liam Neeson, another popular British film actor, played the role of Zeus.
The last significant work for Ralph Fiennes was the role of the head of the MI6 intelligence service, Gareth Mallory. The film "007: Spectre" is about the adventures of superspy James Bond.
In 2014, the actor attended the “Evening Urgant” program. The Briton talked with the presenter on various topics, talked about the films in which he participated, and also talked about plans for the future.
Reader
2008
The film, based on the novel of the same name by the German writer Berhard Schlink, tells the story of the relationship between schoolboy Michael Berg and the adult and not very literate conductor Hannah Schmitz. Berg eventually becomes a lawyer (and therefore wears not only suits, but also robes), Hannah turns out to be a Nazi criminal, who is framed at trial by her former “colleagues”, and ends up in prison. The entire romantic part of the story, including reading together in the bathtub, went to David Cross, who plays the hero in his youth, while Fiennes is left to comprehend that very relationship, divorce (from someone else) and meet the aged Hannah in prison.
Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
Monsieur Gustav N. (Ralph Fiennes), the concierge of the Grand Budapest Hotel with a neat mustache, inherited a painting from a guest and now finds himself in all the ridiculous situations that are possible. This is Fiennes and Anderson's first collaboration. But we remember the latter’s habit of filming his favorite actors many times in a row, so naturally we hope for a continuation.
Photo: stills from films
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