"The 80-year-old Harrison Ford on the Cannes red carpet is still going strong, but it also reminds us of the lack of really powerful young stars in Hollywood today..." The US "Variety" published a long article on the 21st, analyzing that the US film industry has fallen into the dilemma of "no successor", and the commercial operation of excessive pursuit of IP and network traffic is killing the Hollywood star system that has created countless "male gods" and "goddesses".
At the ongoing Cannes International Film Festival in France, two out-of-competition Hollywood blockbusters brought the atmosphere to a climax, attracting the attention of media and fans around the world.
Indiana Jones 5, starring Harrison Ford, and The Killers of the Flower Moon, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo dicaprio and Robert De Niro, held a grand premiere, and Cannes officials also awarded Ford the Palme d 'Or Award for lifetime achievement. The popularity of Hollywood stars is reminiscent of "Top Gun 2" and Tom Cruise, which also premiered at Cannes last year.
However, the mainstream media of the industry such as Variety also found that these Hollywood stars with global influence are now old: Ford is 80 years old, De Niro is 79 years old, Cruise is 60 years old, and even the youngest "Leo" will be 50 years old next year.
"Ford is back in the iconic cowboy hat he wore in the first Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981," Variety lamented, "this was before social media, before Amazon, before smartphones and the Internet."
Ford is now set to stage his own action scenes in the fifth Indiana Jones film, with producers having to age him in key scenes using the latest CG special effects technology to make him look "younger".
The use of special effects to rejuvenate old stars is not a new phenomenon in Hollywood. Scorsese's last work, "The Irishman," shaved decades off the age of two "old boys" Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.
However, the appearance of the stars can be "PS", but the physical ability can not be restored to the prime of life, the producers can only through the "old with new" way, try to let the young actors to the predecessors "take over".
For example, next year's new version of The film will feature 77-year-old Stallone, the original lead, alongside younger actors. Many of the Hollywood projects being traded at the Cannes global film market feature older stars, such as "Prison Break," a new film starring Schwarzenegger, 75; "Lord of War II," 59, by Nicolas Cage; and "That's Love," 69, by John Travolta. Let's wait.
