| Angelina Jolie | |
 Jolie at the premiere of Alexander in Cologne. | |
| Birth name | Angelina Jolie Voight |
| Born | June 4, 1975 (1975-06-04) (age 32) Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Spouse(s) | Jonny Lee Miller (1996-1999) Billy Bob Thornton (2000-2003) |
| Academy Awards | |
|---|---|
| Best Supporting Actress 1999 Girl, Interrupted | |
| Golden Globe Awards | |
| Best Supporting Actress - Mini-series 1997 George Wallace Best Actress - Mini-series 1998 Gia Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture 1999 Girl, Interrupted | |
Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) is an American film actress, a former fashion model, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is often cited by popular media as one of the world's most beautiful women[1] and her off-screen life is widely reported. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award.
After appearing as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin' to Get Out, Jolie's acting career began in earnest a decade later with the low budget production Cyborg 2 (1993) and she played her first leading role in a major film in Hackers (1995). She appeared in the critically acclaimed biographical films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999). She achieved international fame as a result of her portrayal of videogame heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and since then has established herself as one of the best known and highest paid actresses in Hollywood. She had her biggest commercial success with the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005).[2]
Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie currently lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship that has attracted worldwide media attention.[3] Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax and Zahara, and a biological child, Shiloh. Jolie has promoted humanitarian causes throughout the world, and is noted for her work with refugees through UNHCR.
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Born Angelina Jolie Voight in Los Angeles, California, she is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and the late Marcheline Bertrand. Jolie is the niece of Chip Taylor, sister of James Haven and the god-daughter of Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. On her father's side, she is of Czechoslovakian and German descent,[4][5] and on her mother's side she is French Canadian and is said to be part "Iroquois",[6][7] although Bertrand's alleged Native American ancestry was once disputed by Voight.[8]
After her parents' separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother were raised by their mother, who abandoned her acting ambitions and moved with them to Palisades, New York.[9] As a child Jolie regularly saw movies with her mother and later explained that this had inspired her interest in acting; she had not been influenced by her father.[10] When she was 11, the family moved back to Los Angeles and Jolie decided she wanted to act and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she trained for two years and appeared in several stage productions. She later recalled her time as a student at Beverly Hills High School (later Moreno High School), and her feeling of isolation among the children of some of the area's more affluent families. Jolie's mother survived on a more modest income, and Jolie often wore second-hand clothes. She was teased by other students who also targeted her for her distinctive features, for being extremely thin, and for wearing glasses and braces.[10] Her self esteem was further diminished when her initial attempts at modeling proved unsuccessful. As her despondency grew, she started to cut herself; later commenting during an appearance on CNN, "I collected knives and always had certain things around. For some reason, the ritual of having cut myself and feeling the pain, maybe feeling alive, feeling some kind of release, it was somehow therapeutic to me."[11] At 14, she dropped out of her acting classes and dreamed of becoming a funeral director.[12] Her self-loathing led her to embark on a rebellious period in her life; she wore black, dyed her hair purple and went out moshing with her live-in boyfriend.[10] Two years later, after the relationship had ended, she rented an apartment above a garage a few blocks from her mother's home.[9] She returned to theatre studies and graduated from high school, though in recent time she has referred to this period with the observation, "I am still at heart—and always will be—just a punk kid with tattoos".[13]
Jolie has been long estranged from her father, blaming his infidelity for the break-up of the family, though a reconciliation was attempted, and he appeared with her in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. In July 2002, Jolie filed a request to legally change her name to "Angelina Jolie", dropping Voight as her surname; the name change was made official on September 12, 2002.[14] In August of the same year, Voight claimed that his daughter had "serious emotional problems" on Access Hollywood. In the October 2004 issue of Premiere Magazine, Jolie indicated that she no longer wished to pursue a relationship with her father, and said, "My father and I don’t speak. I don’t hold any anger toward him. I don’t believe that somebody’s family becomes their blood. Because my son’s adopted, and families are earned." She stated that she did not want to publicize her reasons for her estrangement from her father, but because she had adopted her son, she did not think it was healthy for her to associate with Voight.[15]
Jolie began working as a fashion model at 14. She was signed with Finesse Model Management and modeled in both the United States and Europe, working mainly in Los Angeles, New York and London. At that time she also appeared in numerous music videos, including those of Meat Loaf ("Rock & Roll Dreams Come Through"), Antonello Venditti ("Alta Marea") and Lenny Kravitz ("Stand by My Woman"). At the age of 16 Jolie returned to theatre, and played her first role as a German dominatrix. She began to learn from her father, as she noticed his method of observing people to become like them. Their relationship during this time was less strained, with Jolie realizing that they were both "drama queens".[10]
Jolie appeared in five of her brother's student films, made while he attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts, but her professional movie career began in 1993, when she played her first leading role in the low budget film Cyborg 2, as Casella "Cash" Reese, a near-human robot, designed to seduce her way into a rival manufacturer's headquarters and then self-detonate. Following several undistinguished projects she starred as Kate "Acid Burn" Libby in her first Hollywood picture, Hackers (1995), where she met her first husband Jonny Lee Miller. The New York Times wrote, "Kate (Angelina Jolie) stands out. That's because she scowls even more sourly than [her co-stars] and is that rare female hacker who sits intently at her keyboard in a see-through top. Despite her sullen posturing, which is all this role requires, Ms. Jolie has the sweetly cherubic looks of her father, Jon Voight."[16] The movie failed to make a profit at the box-office, but developed a cult following after its video release.[17]
She appeared as Gina Malacici in the 1996 comedy Love Is All There Is, a modern-day loose adaptation of Romeo and Juliet set among two rival Italian family restaurant owners in Bronx, New York. In the road movie Mojave Moon she was a youngster, named Eleanor Rigby, who falls for Danny Aiello, while he takes a shine to her mother, Anne Archer. Still in 1996 she played Margret "Legs" Sadovsky, one of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond in the film Foxfire after they beat up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. The Los Angeles Times wrote about Jolie's performance, "It took a lot of hogwash to develop this character, but Jolie, Jon Voight's knockout daughter, has the presence to overcome the stereotype. Though the story is narrated by Maddy, Legs is the subject and the catalyst."[18]
In 1997 Jolie starred with David Duchovny in the thriller Playing God, a film portraying a famed L.A. surgeon who is stripped of his medical license and is lured deep into the criminal world where he meets Jolie’s character, Claire. The movie was not received well by critics and Roger Ebert noted that "Angelina Jolie finds a certain warmth in a kind of role that is usually hard and aggressive; she seems too nice to be [a criminal's] girlfriend, and maybe she is."[19] She then appeared in the TV movie True Women, a historical romantic drama set in the West, and based on the book by Janice Woods Windle. That year she also played as a stripper in the Rolling Stones music video for the song "Anybody Seen My Baby?"
Jolie's career prospects began to improve after her performance as Cornelia Wallace in the 1997 biopic George Wallace for which she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy. The film was highly praised by critics and, among other awards, received the Golden Globe for "Best Miniseries/Motion Picture made for TV". She played the second wife of the segregationist Governor of Alabama who was shot and paralyzed while running for President. The film starred Gary Sinise and was directed by John Frankenheimer.
In 1998 Jolie starred in HBO's Gia, as the supermodel, Gia Carangi. The film depicted a world of sex, drugs and emotional drama, and chronicled the destruction of Carangi's life and career as a result of her drug addiction, and her decline and death from AIDS. Vanessa Vance from Reel.com noted, "Angelina Jolie gained wide recognition for her role as the titular Gia, and it's easy to see why. Jolie is fierce in her portrayal—filling the part with nerve, charm, and desperation—and her role in this film is quite possibly the most beautiful train wreck ever filmed."[20] For the second consecutive year, Jolie won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Emmy. She also won her first Screen Actors Guild Award. In accordance with Lee Strasberg's method acting Jolie reportedly prefers to stay in character in between scenes during many of her films, and as a result has gained a reputation for being difficult to deal with. While shooting Gia, she told her then-husband Jonny Lee Miller that she wouldn't be able to phone him. "I'd tell him: 'I'm alone; I'm dying; I'm gay; I'm not going to see you for weeks.'"[21]
Following Gia, Jolie moved to New York and stopped acting for a short period of time, because she felt that she had "nothing else to give". She enrolled at New York University to study filmmaking and attended writing classes. She described it as "just good for me to collect myself" on Inside the Actors Studio.[22]
Jolie returned to film as Gloria McNeary in the 1998 gangster movie Hell's Kitchen, and later that year was part of an ensemble cast that included Sean Connery, Gillian Anderson, Ryan Phillippe and Jon Stewart in Playing by Heart. The drama tells the story of several seemingly unconnected characters, with Jolie playing a young club-scene hipster, Joan. The film received predominantly positive reviews and Jolie was praised in particular. The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "Jolie, working through an overwritten part, is a sensation as the desperate club crawler learning truths about what she's willing to gamble."[23] Jolie won the Breakthrough Performance Award by the National Board of Review.
In 1999 she starred in Mike Newell's comedy-drama Pushing Tin, about two air traffic controllers who engage in macho conflict, co-starring alongside John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett. Jolie played Thornton's seductive wife Mary Bell. The film received a lukewarm reception from critics and Jolie's character was particularly criticized. The Washington Post wrote, "Mary (Angelina Jolie), a completely ludicrous writer's creation of a free-spirited woman who weeps over hibiscus plants that die, wears lots of turquoise rings and gets real lonely when Russell spends entire nights away from home."[24] She then worked with Denzel Washington in The Bone Collector, an adapted crime novel written by Jeffery Deaver. Jolie played Amelia Donaghy, a police officer haunted by her cop father's suicide who reluctantly helps Washington track down a serial killer. The movie grossed $151 million worldwide,[2] but was a critical failure; the Detroit Free Press concluded, "Jolie, while always delicious to look at, is simply and woefully miscast."[25]
Jolie next took the supporting role of Lisa Rowe alongside Winona Ryder in Girl, Interrupted (1999), a film that tells the story of mental patient Susanna Kaysen, and which was adapted from Kaysen's original memoir Girl, Interrupted. While the lead role of the film was Ryder's character, and hoped to be a comeback for Ryder, the film instead became the "welcome-to-Hollywood coronation" for Jolie.[26] Jolie won her third Golden Globe, her second Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Variety noted, "Jolie is excellent as the flamboyant, irresponsible girl who turns out to be far more instrumental than the doctors in Susanna's rehabilitation"[27] and Roger Ebert wrote about her performance:
| “ | Jolie is emerging as one of the great wild spirits of current movies, a loose cannon who somehow has deadly aim.[28] | ” |
In 2000 Jolie appeared in her first summer blockbuster Gone In 60 Seconds, in which she played Sarah "Sway" Wayland, ex-girlfriend of car-thief Nicolas Cage. The role was small, and the Washington Post criticized that "all she does in this movie is stand around, cooling down, modeling those fleshy, pulsating muscle-tubes that nest so provocatively around her teeth."[29] She later explained that the film was a welcome relief after the heavy role of Lisa Rowe, and it became her highest grossing movie up until then, with $237 million internationally.[2]
Although highly regarded for her acting abilities, Jolie's films to date had often not appealed to a wide audience, but Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) made her an international superstar. An adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider videogame, Jolie was required to master a British accent and undergo extensive martial arts training to play the title role of Lara Croft. She was generally praised for her physical performance, but the movie generated mostly negative reviews. Slant Magazine commented, "Angelina Jolie was born to play Lara Croft but [director] Simon West makes her journey into a game of Frogger."[30] The movie was a huge international success nonetheless, earning $275 million worldwide,[2] and started her reputation as a female action star.
Jolie then starred alongside Antonio Banderas as the mail-order bride Julia Russell in Original Sin, a thriller based on the novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich. The film was a major critical failure, with The New York Times noting, "The story plunges more precipitously than Ms. Jolie's neckline."[31] In 2002, she played Lanie Kerrigan in Life or Something Like It, a film about an ambitious TV reporter who is told that she will die in a week. The film was poorly received by critics, though Jolie's performance received positive reviews. CNN's Paul Clinton wrote, "Jolie is excellent in her role. Despite some of the ludicrous plot points in the middle of the film, this Academy Award-winning actress is exceedingly believable in her journey towards self-discovery and the true meaning of fulfilling life."[32]
Jolie reprised her role as Lara Croft in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life in 2003. The sequel, while not as lucrative as the original, earned $156 million at the international box-office.[2] Later that year Jolie starred in Beyond Borders, a film about aid workers in Africa. Although reflecting Jolie's real-life interest in promoting humanitarian relief, the film was critically and financially unsuccessful. The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Jolie, as she did in her Oscar-winning role in Girl, Interrupted, can bring electricity and believability to roles that have a reality she can understand. She can also, witness the Lara Croft films, do acknowledged cartoons. But the limbo of a hybrid character, a badly written cardboard person in a fly-infested, blood-and-guts world, completely defeats her."[33]
In 2004, Jolie starred alongside Ethan Hawke in the thriller Taking Lives, as Illeana Scott, an FBI profiler summoned to help Montreal law enforcement hunt down a serial killer. The movie received mixed reviews and The Hollywood Reporter concluded, "Angelina Jolie plays a role that definitely feels like something she has already done, but she does add an unmistakable dash of excitement and glamour."[34] She also provided the voice of Lola, an angelfish in the animated DreamWorks movie Shark Tale; the cast included Will Smith, Martin Scorsese, Renée Zellweger, Jack Black and Robert De Niro. Also in 2004, Jolie had a brief appearance as Franky in Kerry Conran’s Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a science fiction adventure film shot with actors entirely in front of a bluescreen, with all the sets and nearly all of the props computer-generated. Jolie then played Olympias in Alexander (2004), Oliver Stone’s biopic about the life of Alexander the Great. The film failed domestically, with Stone attributing its poor reception to disapproval of the depiction of Alexander’s homosexuality,[35] but it succeeded internationally, with revenue of $139 million outside the United States.[2] Newsday wrote of Jolie's performance, "Jolie is the only one in the picture who seems to be having any fun with her role, and one misses her whenever she's off-screen."[36]
Jolie's only movie of 2005, the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith, is also her biggest commercial success to date. The film, directed by Doug Liman, tells the story of a bored married couple who find out that they are both secret assassins. Jolie starred as Jane Smith alongside Brad Pitt. The film was well received and was generally lauded for the chemistry between the two leads. The Star Tribune noted, "While the story feels haphazard, the movie gets by on gregarious charm, galloping energy and the stars' thermonuclear screen chemistry."[37] The movie earned over $478 million worldwide, one of the biggest hits of 2005.[2]
Jolie next appeared in Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd (2006),[38] a film about the early history of the CIA, as seen through the eyes of Edward Wilson, played by Matt Damon. Jolie co-stared as Margaret Russell, Wilson's neglected wife who becomes increasingly discontented by the effects of his work. According to the Chicago Tribune, "Jolie ages convincingly throughout, and is blithely unconcerned with how her brittle character is coming off in terms of audience sympathy."[39]
In 2007, Jolie made her directorial debut with the documentary A Place in Time, which captures the life in 27 locations around the globe during a single week and features fellow actors such as Jude Law, Hilary Swank, Colin Farrell and Jonny Lee Miller. The film is intended to be distributed through the National Education Association, mainly in high schools.[40] Jolie starred as Mariane Pearl in Michael Winterbottom's documentary-style drama A Mighty Heart (2007), about the kidnap and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan. The picture is based on Mariane Pearl's memoirs A Mighty Heart and had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The Hollywood Reporter described Jolie's performance as "well-measured and moving", played "with respect and a firm grasp on a difficult accent."[41]
Her confirmed future projects include the animated movies Beowulf, playing Grendel's mother, and Kung Fu Panda. Jolie will also appear in Wanted, an action film based on a graphic novel by Mark Millar, and she was cast in Clint Eastwood's upcoming drama The Changeling.[42]
Jolie first became personally aware of worldwide humanitarian crises while filming Tomb Raider in poverty-stricken and widely mined Cambodia. According to Jolie, "I discovered things about what's happening in the world... Cambodia was really eye opening for me."[43] Deeply affected by these experiences, she eventually turned to UNHCR for more information on international trouble spots. In the following months she agreed to visit different refugee camps around the world to learn more about the situation and the conditions in these areas. In February 2001, Jolie went on her first field visit, an 18-day mission to Sierra Leone and Tanzania; she later expressed her shock at what she had witnessed.[44] In the coming months she returned to Cambodia for two weeks and later visited Afghan refugees in Pakistan where she donated $1 million for Afghan refugees in response to an international UNHCR emergency appeal.[45] She insisted on covering all costs related to her missions and shared the same rudimentary working and living conditions as UNHCR field staff on all of her visits.[44] Impressed by her interest and devotion in the subject, UNHCR named her a Goodwill Ambassador on August 27, 2001 at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva, despite her warning that her controversial public image might shed a negative light on the U.N.[46] In a press conference Jolie explained her motives for joining the refugee agency:
| “ | We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us.[44] | ” |
During her first three years as Goodwill Ambassador Jolie concentrated her efforts on field missions, visiting refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) all around the world. Asked what she hoped to accomplish, she stated, “Awareness of the plight of these people. I think they should be commended for what they have survived, not looked down upon.”[47] In 2002, Jolie visited Tham Hin refugee camp in Thailand and Colombian refugees in Ecuador to take a closer look at the “Western Hemisphere's most severe humanitarian crisis”.[48] She and US Secretary of State Colin Powell opened events to celebrate World Refugee Day 2002 on June 20 in Washington, D.C.[49] Jolie then went to various UNHCR facilities in Kosovo and paid a visit to Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya with refugees mainly from Sudan. UNHCR's Representative to Kenya, George Okoth-Obbo, praised her “presence, just to bring some joy into what is undoubtedly a hard life for many of the people here”.[50] She also visited Angolan refugees while she was filming Beyond Borders in Namibia.
In 2003, Jolie embarked on a six-day mission to Tanzania where she traveled to western border camps, hosting Congolese refugees and she paid a week-long visit to Sri Lanka, where she saw the post–war conditions in northern Sri Lanka. Jolie again attended World Refugee Day on June 20 in Washington, D.C., and later concluded a four-day mission to Russia as she traveled to North Caucasus to learn about all aspects of UNHCR's operations in the region. Concurrently with the release of her movie Beyond Borders in October 2003 she published Notes from My Travels, a collection of journal entries that chronicle her early field missions (2001-2002). All her proceeds from the book went to UNHCR. During a private stay in Jordan in December 2003 she asked to visit Ruwaished camp in Jordan's remote eastern desert, 70 km from the Iraqi border. The camp hosted some 800 people who had fled Iraq during the U.S.-led invasion and later that month she visited Sudanese refugees near the Egyptian capital in Kilo Arbaa We Nus.
On her first U.N. trip within the United States, Jolie went to Arizona in 2004, visiting detained asylum seekers at three facilities and the Southwest Key Program, a facility for unaccompanied children in Phoenix. With the humanitarian situation in Sudan worsening, she flew to Chad in June 2004, paying a visit to border sites and camps for refugees who had fled fighting in western Sudan's Darfur region. Four months later she returned to the region, this time going directly into West Darfur to learn about the situation of thousands of IDPs. She stressed the need for security and access to displaced people's home villages at a press conference in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. On June 18, 2004 she and US Secretary of State Colin Powell met again in Washington to launch the three day events of World Refugee Day.[51] Also in 2004 Jolie visited Afghan refugees in Thailand and on a private stay to Lebanon during the Christmas holidays she visited UNHCR's regional office in Beirut, as well as some young refugees and cancer patients in the Lebanese capital.
With increasing experience, Jolie became more involved in promoting humanitarian causes on a political level. Since 2005 she has attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, announcing the formation of a Council of Business Leaders with UNHCR's Deputy High Commissioner, Wendy Chamberlin, in 2005, and participated in the panel discussion Human Rights: Reduced to Charity? in 2006. Jolie also began lobbying humanitarian interests in Washington, D.C. where she met with congressmen and senators at least 20 times from 2003.[46] She explained in Forbes:
| “ | As much as I would love to never have to visit Washington, that's the way to move the ball.[46] | ” |
Among others, she pushed for The Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection Act in reaction to her previous visit to facilities for asylum seekers in Arizona. On March 8, 2005 Jolie took part at a National Press Club luncheon in Washington, D.C. where she promoted the bill and in support of it announced the founding of the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children, an organization that provides free legal-aid to asylum-seeking children with no legal representation which Jolie personally funded with a donation of $500,000 for its first two years.[52] The Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection Act eventually passed in December 2005. Jolie also pushed for a bill to aid 70 million vulnerable children in the Third World which was signed by President Bush in November 2005, but so far no funding has been granted.[46] In addition to her political involvement, Jolie began using the public’s interest in her to promote humanitarian causes through the mass media. In May 2005 Jolie filmed a MTV special, The Diary Of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa, portraying her and noted economist Dr. Jeffrey Sachs on their trip to Sauri, a remote group of villages in Western Kenya. There, Sachs's United Nations Millennium Project team is working with locals to end poverty, hunger and disease. In September 2006 Jolie announced the founding of the Jolie/Pitt Foundation which made initial donations to Global Action for Children and Doctors Without Borders of $1 million each.[53]
Jolie visited Pakistani camps containing Afghan refugees, in May 2005 and she also met with Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. She returned to Pakistan with Brad Pitt during the Thanksgiving weekend in November to see the impact of the October 8 Kashmir earthquake. They met many quake victims as well as President Musharraf. In 2006 Jolie and Pitt flew to Haiti and visited a school supported by Yéle Haïti, a charity founded by Haitian-born hip hop musician Wyclef Jean. Jolie also arranged a deal with People allowing them to print the first picture showing her visibly pregnant in exchange for a $500,000 donation to Yéle Haïti.[54] In November 2006, while filming A Mighty Heart in India, she visited Afghan and Burmese refugees in New Delhi and met the Minister of State for External Affairs, Anand Sharma, praising India's longstanding hospitality to refugees. Jolie spent Christmas Day with Colombian refugees in San José, Costa Rica where she handed out presents and met with Costa Rican officials. In February 2007, Jolie returned to Chad for a two-day mission to assess the deteriorating security situation for refugees from the Darfur region of Sudan. In an op-ed for the Washington Post she stressed the need for justice and the increased involvement of the International Criminal Court to establish an enduring peace.[55] In May, Jolie and Pitt donated $1 million to three relief organizations in Darfur and neighbouring Chad.[56]
Jolie has received wide recognition for her humanitarian work. On October 24, 2003 she was the first recipient of the new created Citizen of the World Award by the United Nations Correspondents Association. Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni awarded Jolie Cambodian citizenship for her conservation work in the country on August 12, 2005; she has pledged $5 million to set up a wildlife sanctuary in the north-western province of Battambang and owns property there.[57] On October 12, 2005, Jolie was awarded the Global Humanitarian Award by the UNA-USA.[58] In June 2007, Jolie joined the Council on Foreign Relations, when the bipartisan think tank officially approved her membership nomination.[59]
On March 28, 1996, Jolie married British actor Jonny Lee Miller, her co-star in the film Hackers. She attended her wedding in black leather trousers and a white shirt, which had her groom's name painted in her blood on the back.[42] Jolie and Miller separated one year later and subsequently divorced on February 3, 1999. They remained on good terms and Jolie later explained, "It comes down to timing. I think he's the greatest husband a girl could ask for. I'll always love him, we were simply too young."[21]
She then married American actor Billy Bob Thornton, who she had met on the set of Pushing Tin, on May 5, 2000. As a result of their frequent public declarations of passion and gestures of love (most famously wearing one another's blood in vials around their necks), their relationship became a favorite topic of the entertainment media.[42] Jolie and Thornton divorced on May 27, 2003. Asked in Vogue about the sudden dissolution of their marriage, Jolie stated, "It took me by surprise, too, because overnight, we totally changed. I think one day we had just nothing in common. And it's scary but... I think it can happen when you get involved and you don't know yourself yet."[60]
Jolie has said in interviews that she is bisexual and has long acknowledged that she had a sexual relationship with her Foxfire co-star Jenny Shimizu, "I would probably have married Jenny if I hadn't married my husband. I fell in love with her the first second I saw her."[61] In an interview with Barbara Walters in 2003, asked if she was bisexual, Jolie responded, "Of course. If I fell in love with a woman tomorrow, would I feel that it's okay to want to kiss and touch her? If I fell in love with her? Absolutely! Yes!"[62]
In early 2005, Jolie was involved in a well-publicized Hollywood scandal when she was accused of being the "other woman" in the divorce of actors Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. The allegation was that she and Pitt had started an affair during filming of Mr. & Mrs. Smith; however, she has denied this in several interviews. In an interview with Ann Curry in 2005, she explained, "To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife."[62]
While Jolie and Pitt never publicly commented about the nature of their relationship, speculations continued throughout 2005. The first intimate paparazzi photos emerged in April, one month after Aniston had filed for divorce; they show Pitt, Jolie and her son Maddox at a beach in Kenya. During the summer Jolie and Pitt were seen together with increasing frequency and most of the entertainment media considered them a couple, dubbing them "Brangelina". On January 11, 2006 Jolie confirmed to People that she was pregnant with Pitt's child and thereby confirmed their relationship for the first time in public.[42]
On March 10, 2002, Jolie adopted her first child, Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt (originally Maddox Chivan Thornton Jolie[14]). He was born on August 5 2001, as Rath Vibol in Cambodia and he initially lived in a local orphanage in Battambang. Jolie decided to apply for adoption after she had visited Cambodia twice, while filming Tomb Raider and on a UNHCR field trip in 2001. After her divorce from her second husband, Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie received sole custody of Maddox. His name is Celtic in origin, usually translated as "beneficent",[63] and like Jolie's other children, Maddox has gained a considerable celebrity and appears regularly in the tabloid media; he was named the "cutest celebrity kid,"[64] and he is known for his mohawk hairstyle.
On July 6, 2005, Jolie adopted a six-month-old girl from Ethiopia, Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt (originally Zahara Marley Jolie), who was orphaned by AIDS. Zahara was born on January 8, 2005 as Tena Adam.[65] Jolie picked her up at a Wide Horizons For Children orphanage in Addis Ababa. Shortly after they returned to the United States Zahara had to spend time in a hospital for dehydration and malnutrition. Jolie stated that "she was six months and not nine pounds. Her skin, you could squeeze it, it stuck together."[42] Zahara's name means "flower" in Swahili, the second name "Marley" comes from late Jamaican reggae superstar Bob Marley.[63]
Brad Pitt was reportedly present when Jolie signed the adoption papers and collected her daughter;[42] later Jolie indicated that she and Pitt made the decision to adopt Zahara together.[66] In December 2005 it was confirmed that Pitt was seeking to legally adopt Jolie's two children, and on January 19, 2006, a judge in California approved this request. The children's legal surnames were formally changed to "Jolie-Pitt".[67]
On May 27, 2006, Jolie gave birth to a daughter named Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt in Swakopmund, Namibia by a scheduled caesarean section. Shiloh, according to a long-standing translation from the Bible, has come to mean "the peaceful one".[63] Pitt confirmed that their newly-born daughter will have a Namibian passport,[68] and Jolie decided to offer the first pictures of Shiloh through the distributor Getty Images herself, rather than allowing paparazzi to make these extremely valuable snapshots. People paid more than $4.1 million for the North American rights, while British magazine Hello! obtained the international rights for roughly $3.5 million; the total rights sale earned up to $10 million worldwide – the most expensive celebrity image of all time.[69] All profits were donated to an undisclosed charity by Jolie and Pitt. On July 26, 2006 Madame Tussauds in New York unveiled a wax figure of two-month-old Shiloh; it was the first infant re-created in wax by Madame Tussauds.[70]
On March 15, 2007, Jolie adopted a three-year-old boy from Vietnam, Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt, who was born on November 29, 2003 and abandoned at birth at a local hospital, where he was initially named Pham Quang Sang.[71] Jolie collected the boy from the Tam Binh orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City.[72] His new name is a combination of the Latin word for "peace" and the Vietnamese word for "sky" or "heaven."[63] Jolie revealed that his first name, Pax, was suggested by her mother before her death.[73]
Jolie appeared in the media from an early age due to her famous father Jon Voight. At 7 she had a small part in Lookin' to Get Out, a movie co-written by and starring her father, and in 1986 and 1988 she attended the Academy Awards as a teenager with him. However, when she started her acting career, Jolie decided not to use “Voight” as a stage name, because she wished to establish her own identity as an actress.[42] Jolie was never shy about controversy and integrated her teenage "wild girl" image into her public persona in the first years of her career. During her acceptance speech at the 2000 Academy Awards, Jolie declared "I'm so in love with my brother right now" which, combined with her affectionate behavior towards him that night, sparked rumors in the tabloid media of an incestuous relationship with her brother James Haven. She has denied those rumors and said while appearing on Inside the Actors Studio “the world is a lot sicker than I thought”.[22] Jolie and Haven later explained in interviews that after their parents' divorce they relied on one another and because of that they hold on to each other as a means of emotional support.[42]
Jolie is noted as "the one A-list celebrity without a publicist",[62] and she quickly became a tabloid's favorite, since she presented herself as very outspoken in interviews, once claiming to be "most likely to sleep with a female fan".[62] Her love life, especially her interest in sadomasochism, has often been featured in the media. In 2004 she stated in Allure, "S&M sex can be misinterpreted as violence. It's really about trust. I like to push boundaries, both emotional and sexual, with another person. That's when I've felt the sexiest. I've been in both submissive and dominant roles because I want more."[7] As one of her most distinctive physical features, Jolie's lips have attracted notable media attention and she has been described as "the current gold standard of beauty in the West" among women seeking cosmetic surgery.[74] She also created headlines with her much publicized marriage to Billy Bob Thornton and her subsequent change into an advocate for global humanitarian problems. As she took on the role of UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador she started to use her celebrity to highlight humanitarian causes worldwide, e.g. promoting World Refugee Day 2006 and 2007 with extended interviews on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°.[75] Jolie has been taking flying lessons since 2004 and she has a private pilot license and an instrument rating.[76] The media speculated that Jolie is a Buddhist, but she said that she teaches Buddhism to her son Maddox because she considers it part of his culture. Jolie has not stated definitively whether or not she believes in God. When asked in an interview with The Onion A.V. Club in 2000 if there was a God, she said, "For the people who believe in it, I hope so. There doesn't need to be a God for me."[77]
Starting in 2005, her relationship with Brad Pitt became one of the most reported celebrity stories worldwide. After Jolie confirmed her pregnancy in early 2006, the unprecedented media hype surrounding them "reached the point of insanity" as Reuters described it in their story "The Brangelina fever";[3] among others, there were several false wedding rumors including an alleged imminent wedding in Laglio, Italy that was even further ignited by the local mayor and was picked up by many noted news services like the Associated Press and the BBC.[78] Trying to avoid the media attention, the couple went to Namibia for the birth of “the most anticipated baby since Jesus Christ”, as it had been described.[79]
Today, Jolie is one of the best known celebrities around the world. According to the Q Score survey by Marketing Evaluations Inc., in 2000, subsequent to her Oscar win, 31 % of respondents in the United States said Jolie was familiar to them, by 2006 she was familiar to 81 % of Americans.[46] In a 2006 global industry survey by ACNielsen in 42 international markets Jolie, together with Brad Pitt, was found to be the favorite celebrity endorser for brands and products worldwide.[80] Also in 2006, Jolie was among the Time 100, a list of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time,[81] and she was described as the world's most beautiful woman in the "100 Most Beautiful" issue of People.[82] On Forbes Magazine's annual Celebrity 100 list, Jolie was ranked at No. 35 in 2006,[83] and No. 14 in 2007.[84] In February 2007, she was voted the greatest sex symbol of all time in the British Channel 4 television show The 100 Greatest Sex Symbols.[1]
Jolie's inventory of tattoos has become the subject of much media attention and has often been addressed by interviewers. Jolie stated that, while she is not opposed to film nudity, the large number of tattoos on her body has forced filmmakers to become more creative when planning nude or love scenes.[85] Make-up has been used to cover up the tattoos in many of her productions. She frequently adds or even changes existing tattoos and has said that all the tattoos she possesses have a special meaning. Jolie currently has 13 known tattoos, among them a Tennessee Williams quote "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages" which she got together with her mother, the Arabic phrase "العزيمة" (strength of will), the Latin proverb "quod me nutrit me destruit" (what nourishes me also destroys me),[86] and a Buddhist Pali prayer written in the Khmer script for her son Maddox.[87] She also has four sets of geographical coordinates on her left shoulder indicating the birthplaces of her children.[88] Over time she covered or lasered several of her tattoos, including "Billy Bob", the name of her former husband Billy Bob Thornton, a Chinese character for death (死) and a window on her lower back; she explained that she removed the window, because, while she used to spend all of her time looking out through windows wishing to be outside, she now lives there all of the time.[22].
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| زمینه فعالیت | بازیگر |
| تولد | ۴ ژوئن ۱۹۷۵ لس آنجلس، کالیفرنیا، آمریکا |
آنجلینا جولی (۴ ژوئن ۱۹۷۵، لس آنجلس)، بازیگر و مدل آمریکایی و «سفیر حسن نیت» سازمان ملل متحد در امور پناهندگان است.
آنجلینا هنگامی که یک سال داشت پدرش جان ویت و مادرش مارچلینا برت رانر (مدل وبازیگر) از یکدیگر جدا شدند.
او فعالیت به عنوان مدل را از دوازده سالگی شروع کرد و در شهرهایی مثل لندن و لس آنجلس مدل مشهوری شد. او در جوانی در کلیپهای خوانندگانی چون رواین استون، میت لوف، لنی کراویز، انتولینو وندیتیو بازی کرد. اولین نقش سینمایی وی در فیلم «هکرها» بود که داستان پنج دانشآموز هکر را روایت میکند
آنجلینا جولی از سال ۲۰۰۱ از سوی کمیسریای عالی سازمان ملل متحد در امور پناهندگان به عنوان سفیر حسن نیت تعیین شده و با مسافرت به نقاط دورافتاده جهان به فعالیت در زمینه حفظ حقوق آورارگان و پناهندگان مشغول است.
همسر اول وی جان لی میلر است که در سال ۱۹۹۶ با او ازدواج کرد و در سال ۱۹۹۹ از وی جدا شد. همسر دوم او بیلی باب تورنتون است که در مه ۲۰۰۰ با هم ازدواج کردند, ولی سرانجام بعد از ۳ سال ازدواجشان به جدایی انجامید.
پس از بازی در فیلم آقا و خانم اسمیت، او و برد پیت وارد یک دوستی عاشقانه و سرانجام در سال ۲۰۰۶ صاحب دختری به نام شیلو شدند که به خاطر باورهایشان در مورد پایان دادن به فقر و بدبختی مردم آفریقا تصمیم به تولد بچهشان در کشور فقیر و آفریقایی نامیبیا کردند.
خانم جولی همچنین یک پسربچه یتیم کامبوجیایی به نام مدوکس و یک دختر یتیم افریقایی به نام زهرا را به فرزندی قبول کرده است و با آنها زندگی میکند.
جواهری در قصر
این سریال با اسم فارسی "جواهری در قصر " آماده شده كه ترجمه اسم " Jewel in the Palace " و نام كره ای " Dae Jang Geum" نام های دیگر سریال The Great Jang Geum است.
این سریال محصول سال 2003 2004 كشور كره جنوبی است. که هم اکنون جمعه شبها ساعت 21:30 از شبکه 2 سیما بخش میشود.
خلاصه داستان:
داستان در حدود 500 سال قبل در زمان سلسله Chosun كه كره به نظام انعطاف ناپذیر طبقاتی و ساختار اجتماعی مردانه خود می بالیداتفاق می افتد. "جواهری در قصر " داستانی واقعی در باره دختری افسانه ای(Jang-Geum) است كه به نخستین زن پزشك درباری زمان خود تبدیل شد. بر مقام اجتماعی ضعیف خود به عنوان یك دختر سطح پایین در نظام اجتماعی مردانه و تبعیضات اجتماعی غلبه كرد و به مقام آشپز سلطنتی دست یافت و بعدها به پزشك درباری و پس از ان پزشك مخصوص شاه تبدیل شد. او همچنین لقب مخصوص "یان گوم بزرگ"(The Great Jang-Geum) را از شاه دریافت كرد. دارای درجه 8.3 است.
آشنایی با لی یونگ اِ ، بازیگر نقش یانگوم:
سال تولد: 31 ژانویه 1971 (11 بهمن;) )- محل تولد: سئول
قد: 165 سانتی متر - وزن: 48 كیلوگرم - گروه خونی: AB
سرگرمی ها: خوانندگی، شنا، اسب سواری و نواختن پیانو
زبان: مسلط به زبان های انگلیسی، كره ای و آلمانی
بیوگرافی: لی یونگ اِ یكی از مشهورترین بازیگران كره ی جنوبی است كه طرفداران بسیاری در شمار فراوانی از كشورهای جهان و به خصوص كشورهای شرق و جنوب شرقی آسیا دارد. یونگ اِ لقب دختر اكسیژن(Oxygen Lady) را پس از اولین حضور خود در تلویزیون (به عنوان مدل) به دست آورد. او اوج شهرت و محبوبیت خود را در بین كشورهای شرقی آسیا، پس از ایفای نقش در سریال جواهری در قصر كسب كرد. در هنگام پخش آخرین قسمت این سریال در هنگ كنگ، بیش از نیمی از كل جمعیت این كشور پای تلویزیون های خود بودند. در چین صدها میلیون تماشاگر برای مشاهده ی این سریال كه نیمه شب ها پخش می شد، بیدار می ماندند.
پس از بازی در این سریال از لی یونگ اِ برای سفر به كشورهای مختلف از قبیل سنگاپور، چین، هنگ هنگ، تایوان و ژاپن دعوت به عمل آمد. جمعیت طرفداران در این سفرها شگفت انگیز بود. در ژاپن شبكه ی NHK كه بیش از 10 شبكه ی تلویزیونی و رادیویی بزرگ را در ژاپن و سراسر جهان در زیرمجموعه ی خود دارد، پس از 12 سال برای اولین بار از تالار خود برای پذیرایی از یونگ آئی بهره برد. در چین یك مدرسه پس از كمك های مالی یونگ اِ به این مدرسه، نام خود را به مدرسه ی ابتدایی لی یونگ ا تغییر داد
لی یونگ اِ برنده ی جایزه ی بهترین بازیگر سال در جشنواره ی بلو دراگون در سال 2005 و جایزه ی بهترین بازیگر زن در جشنواره ی بیكسنگ آرت سال 2006 برای آخرین فیلم خود همدردی برای بانو گیوم جا Sympathy For Lady Vengeance می باشد.
یانگوم
یانگوم
افسر مین جانگو
بانو هن
بانو چوئی
یونسنگ
گیومیونگ
دو عاشق 
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Darsteller: Aishwarya Bachchan Rai, Abhishek Bachchan, Shabana Azmi, Suniel Shetty Das kleine Mädchen Amiran/Ameeran wird von einem Schurken von ihrem Elternhaus in Faizabad entführt. Amiran wird sofort an ein Etablissement von Lucknow verkauft. Von da an lernt sie die Künste des Dichtens, Tanzens, Singens und der Verführung. Als junge Frau beginnt Amirans Sie wird zum Gesprächsthema Nr. 1 in der Stadt Lucknow. Eines Tages lernt sie durch ihre "Arbeit" den Edelmann Nawab Sultan (Abhishek Bachchan) kennen. Nawab ist verzaubert von ihr. Auch sie verliebt sich in ihn, als sie sich näher kommen. Doch das Schicksal hat etwas anderes mit
Egal ob Hauptdarsteller, Nebendarsteller oder Statist, die Reihe durch werden erstklassige Darbietungen geboten. Aishwarya hat mit der Rolle als "Amiran" mehr als nur überzeugt. Ihre Schönheit, Ihr Tanz und ihre Mimik ist umwerfend. Wohl einer ihrer besten Rollen bisher. Ohne sie wäre der Film nicht vorstellbar oder gar machbar gewesen. Als klasse Gegenstück kann man auch Abhishek nur loben, auch er weiß es die Zuschauer zu bezaubern auf seine eigene spezielle Art und Weise. Absoluter Mittelpunkt ist jedoch Aishwarya Rai in diesem Blockbuster. Auffällig bei diesem Streifen sind die relativ vielen Augenkontakte von Aish mit der Kamera, natürlich nur bei Tanzszenen. Man merkt es nicht immer, aber Dutta lässt seine Charakteren mit dem Zuschauer "kommunizieren" und baut ein intensive Spannung auf. Schade nur das Aishwarya fast den ganzen Film lang weinen muss, etwas zu übertrieben und das unterstreichen auch ihre viel zu roten Augen.
Dutta hat sich sehr viel Arbeit mit diesem Film gemacht und wusste genau was er will. Dem Film anzusehen ist das alle mal. Neben den Darstellern bietet er natürlich auch eine bewegende und sehr emotionale Geschichte. Die Texte zu den Liedern schrieb der bekannte Lyriker Javed Akhtar, die Musik übernahm Anu Malik mit seiner Sängerin Alka Yagnik an der Seite. Diese Drei inkl. dem Regisseur, haben ein wirklich atemberaubendes Meisterwerk geschaffen. Wie in Devdas und Parineeta auch, passt die Musik 1A zur Handlung und Aussage des Films. Die Texte sind himmlisch und laden zum Träumen ein. Umrao Jaan bietet neben der tollen Musik auch viel für das Auge. Die Bildgestaltung, das Szenenbild und die wunderbaren, kostbaren und ausgefallenen Kostüme sind ein einziger Traum. Jede Figur hat ihren persönlichen Stil zu verschiedenen Zeitpunkten der Geschichte, ein großes Lob an die Verantwortlichen bleibt da nur noch auszusprechen. Neben den ab und zu eher schlechten Tonübergängen im Film (Handlung/Musik), wie z.B. beim letzten Gesang von Aish, ist die Umsetzung auf sehr hohem Niveau, welches man auch bereits von J.P. Dutta aus früheren Produktionen gewöhnt ist. Auch ein Zusammenhang mit dem "Konkurenzfilm" Devdas lässt sich noch am Ende erschließen, Umrao Jaan hat nämlich wie Devdas auch kein Happy End und gehört damit zu einem der Wenigen mit diesem Bollywood untypischen Ende.
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Krishnas (Hrithik Roshan) Großmutter Sonia (Rekha) zieht ihren Sohn fern ab von allem in den Bergen auf. Da ihm nicht dasselbe Schicksal wiederfahren soll wie seinem Vater Rohit (Hrithik Roshan in Koi… Mil Gaya (erste Folge der Spielfilmreihe). Denn Krishna hat von seinem Vater Superkräfte geerbt. Als junger Mann trifft er auf Priya (Priyanka Chopra) aus Singapur, die in seiner Gegend campt und die beiden werden ein Paar. Er will ihr nach Singapur folgen, doch Sonia erlaubt ihm die weite Reise nicht. Als Priyas Job beim Fernsehen ins Wanken gerät, lockt sie Krishna in die Ferne, um aus ihm einen indischen Superstar im TV zu machen. Da er eine Aussicht auf eine Verlobung mit Priya sieht, wiedersetzt er sich seiner Großmutter mit dem Versprechen seine Kräfte geheim zu halten und reißt nach Singapur. Damit ihn niemand erkennt, wenn er seine Superkräfte einsetzt, zog er eine Maske auf und wird zum Helden Krrish. Regie wurde von Rakesh Roshan geführt, die Musik stammt von Rajesh Roshan und der Held, der Star dieses Filmes, ist Hrithik Roshan.
Übrigens war der gesamte Roshan-Clan in einem Film vertreten und zeigten Ihr Können als Filmfamilie. Niemand würde ahnen, dass Krrish ein Sequel zu Koi Mil Gaya (2003) ist, wenn man es nicht wissen würde. Die Bezüge zum ersten Teil sind minimal. Jaduu, das kleine blaue Alien aus „Sternenkind“ bleibt aber trotzdem nicht unerwähnt, sondern hat einen Kurzauftritt im Genremix des Films, fällt aber auch nicht weiter auf.
Krrish ist eine Mischung aus Touristeninformation der Stadt Singapur, Action-, Heimatfilm und Sci-Fi-Drama in einem. Das schafft wohl nur Bollywood in der Form. Die relativ rar gesetzten Action-Szenen sind von dem chinesischen Ching Siu-Tung („Hero“) choreographiert. Für einen so langen Film gibt es erstaunlich wenige Songs, doch diese können mit ihren sehr schönen Kompositionen überzeugen und waren an der Spitze der indischen Musikcharts. Krrish führt uns in eine Welt mit Sc-Fi-Elementen, maskierten Superhelden und Bergromantik. Er ist ein Blockbuster, der amerikanische Superheldenmotive in das indische Kino bringt und wohl ein neues bekanntes Genre in Bollywood intregiert.
Neben Hrithik spielt die wunderschöne Priyanka Chopra die weibliche Nebenrolle, nicht immer souverän aber durchaus auf hohem Niveau und das muss man einfach neben Hrithik leisten können. Auch wieder mit von der Partie ist Rekha, spielt wie immer mit Ihrem speziellen Charme und muss sich in Krrish als ältere Frau beweisen. Die relativ vielen CGI Effekte sind neu in der indischen Filmwelt, daher auch nicht so ausgereift wie der Standard von Hollywood Blockbustern, jedoch gibt es keine großen Mängel zu sehen und daher ein positiver Aspekt des Films. Von überzeugender Bildgewalt kann man deutlich und ohne zu zögern über Krrish sprechen, auch die Tanzszenen sind wie beim Vorgänger echte Sahne. Natürlich hat die Familie Roshan mit Rajesh Roshan einen erfahrenen und erfolgreichen Komponinisten ins Bot geholt und das Ergebnis könnte nicht besser sein. Bild, Tanz und Musik harmonieren in höchster Form und lassen einen dadurch in die Traumwelt leicht einsteigen.
Die Geschichte ist spannend und interessant erzählt, auch wenn einige Stellen unnötig waren, wie z.B. die überlange Erzählung vom fiktivem Geist, welcher die Geschichte kein bisschen voran treibt und nur als Lückenfüller erkennbar ist. Insgesamt also ein neuer Meilenstein in Bollywood, viele positive Aspekte und wenig zu meckern, daher absolut empfehlenswert und vor allem den Soundtrack gleich mitnehmen. |
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Die in Kashmir lebende, blinde Zooni (Kajol) ist auf der Suche nach einem Lebenspartner und macht mit Freundinnen einen Trip nach Delhi. Dort trifft sie auf Rehan (Aamir Khan), der sofort begeistert von ihr ist und mit ihr flirtet. Sie verlieben sich in einander und Zooni überredet ihre Eltern Rehan heiraten zu dürfen. Was Zooni nicht weiß ist, dass Rehan auch noch eine andere Seite seines Lebens hat, die er vor ihr versteckt hält. Etwas, dass nicht nur ihr Leben verändert, sondern es auch zerstören kann. Ein furchtbarer Terroranschlag der IKF (Unabhängigkeitskämpfer) zereist das junge Glück.
Fanaa war einer der meist erwarteten Filme 2006. Mulitplex Association wollte außerdem, dass die Staatsregierung den Film ganz verbietet. Der Regisseur erklärt: „Fanaa wird in allen kleinen Kinos im ganzen Land gespielt, so kann das Publikum den Film ab den 26. Mai sehen.“ So war es dann auch und mit sehr großem Erfolg. Ihre Namen sind Markenzeichen Bollywoods und setzen Trends in Indien und anderen Teilen der Erde. Kajol, nach einer fünf jährigen Babypause wieder zurück auf der Leinwand, und Aamir Khan! Der Film soll in den ersten 3 Tagen 22.79 Crores an den Kinokassen Indiens eingenommen haben. Fanaa (Aus dem Urdu übersetzt: Zerstörung) ist Aamirs und Kajols erstes gemeinsames Filmprojekt nach Ishq (1997). Zum ersten Mal spielen sie ein Liebespaar. Aus Filmkreisen war zu hören, dass Kajol sich in Fanaa neu erfinden wollte, um nicht auf ewig als die bessere Hälfte von King Khan in Erinnerung zu bleiben.
Der Regisseur Kunal Kohli wollte einen vollkommen gefrorenen Schauplatz für seine Dreharbeiten. Da es jedoch in Kashmir nicht wirklich kalt war entschied sich stattdessen für einen Dreh in Polen. Wie der Zufall es so wollte, wurde es genau dann in Kashmir kälter, als gerade als alles unter Dach und Fach war. Zum ersten Mal seit Jahren fror der See „Dal“ wieder komplett zu. Das geschah jedoch zu spät für die Crew von Fanaa und es wurde trotzdem in Polen gedreht. Der Film wird noch interessanter, wenn man die Tatsache betrachtet, dass die Hauptdarsteller im Film zwei Liedern ihre Stimmen liehen. Die Sprache ist von “Mere Haath Mein” und “Chanda Chamke”. Aamir stand schon für Ghulam, Mangal Pandey und Rang De Basanti hinter dem Mikrofon, doch von Kajol hat man noch nichts dergleichen zu hören bekommen. Die Hauptdarsteller „sangen“ zusammen mit den bekannten Sängern Sonu Nigam, Babul Supriyo, Mahalaxmi Iyer und Sunidhi Chauhan. Der „Gesang“ von Kajol und Aamir ist aber leider mehr oder weniger eher Sprechen.
Vorallem sein Konflikt zwischen Liebe, Verpflichtung und Hass wird sehr gut vermittelt und es fehlt an keiner Spannung. Die Musik von Jatin Lalit enthält sowhl romantische Akzepte als auch dramatogische. Passende Musik für diesen Film mir recht außergewöhnlichem Ende, mehr wird nicht verraten. |
شعری در مورد سریال جواهری در قصر
