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Fatal 15 years
Periodically encountering biography of the young actors who were involved in the film adaptations of novels King, I said to myself a strange pattern - these guys not only did not get a ticket to a great movie, but it seems, a ticket to life itself got them defective. What is this - a series of tragic coincidence, or is it the effect of a mystical fantasy "King of Horror"?
Once in the attic of his home Stephen King found the badly battered, but very attractive for yourself book - the story of HP Lovecraft "lurking in the shadows" (one of the founders of American literature in the style of horror-fantasy). Cosmic horror that inspired the terrible monsters of these stories literally inspired the still very young Stephen and he began to invent one by one the characters living under the pressure of their own fears and ugly mystical fantasies.
King was then about 15. Later he would say that this age - is ideal for such experiences. When the absurd fantasies can become a reality, and teenage fears and complexes - the perfect field where you can without too much labor to sow and reap the benefits of the horror and cruelty of weakness and self-centeredness.
The film was shot on the King has a large number of venerable actors such as Jack Nicholson, Johnny Depp, Tom Hanks, John Cusack, Schwarzenegger finally. But they already held actors and personalities, these roles have not had any mystical action. While most of the boys was the actors who played the characters of King remained in a state of adolescent "oppressive uncertainty", and in later life drowned her alcohol and drugs, and some have decided to overcome through suicide.
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River Phoenix (1970-1993)
His brilliant and brief career began precisely with the role in the adaptation of King's novella "Fall of Innocence: The corpse." In the film, "Stay with me," 15-year-old River Phoenix earned his first major role Chris Chambers - one of the four friends who went in search of the corpse of his friend.
After a fine young characteristic of the role of the character, River continued to follow the "path of acting" complex psychological roles.
He brought down the role of depressive musicians ("The Thing Called Love"), homosexuals, melancholic ("My Own Private Idaho"), in short, desperate and desperate characters, who in life was far from smooth.
During the 23 years he has played 23 roles. His last work was the role in the "language of silence" - the only work as a director Sam Shepard. This film is about death, where a lot of thinking and talking about it. Sign it? After all, it was during the post-production paintings, 8 years after filming "Stay with me," the young actor died of an accidental overdose of heroin and methamphetamine at the hands of his brother, and before the eyes of his friends.
Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman and Jerry O'Connell
The other three boys, who played Chris's friends (Rivera) in the "Stay with me" fate also awarded a special favor.
Corey Feldman quite early started acting in movies, and has remained unclaimed in a big movie. His destiny - as bandits and "dunce" in the television series. In addition, most of his life, he will not part with the drug.
Wil Wheaton's acting career after "Stay with me" and supporting roles in "toy soldiers" and "Star Trek" is also practically disappeared. Today, he leads the show on the table games. From time to time it appears on the screen, but this is hardly enough to qualify as an actor. Although he still considers himself to be.
Also, there was not very successful acting career, Jerry O'Connell. Actor serial genre, occasionally appears in the second-class comedies or small roles big movies. In fact, in the role of "Stay ..." and remained the only major and prominent in his life.
Edward Furlong
More than a successful start in the movie of the actor, I think we all remember.
The role of the young John Connor in the second part of the "Terminator" was a brilliant debut of 14-year-old actor. After that, it seemed, the role of such a plan were to make of it, well, the second Arnold or something. But after the role of the young savior of mankind, 15-year-old Edward Furlong is removed in the second part of "Pet Sematary" by King and future roles do not bring him a small fraction of the success to which he could rely.
Difficult teenagers, drug addicts and maniac - now his acting role of a different kind. After five years of wandering and second-class roles, he was again briefly touches to fame when she played the hero's brother Edward Norton in "American History X".
But after that the success of his acting career and did go downhill.
The reasons are the same - alcohol and drugs.
Brad Renfro (1982-2008)
Like Edward Furlong, he predicted a great future acting.
First acting experience Breda - role in the box office film "The Client" with values such movies as Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones.
He is absolutely accidentally hit in this movie, but after rather quickly began to receive new offers and different roles - in the poignant drama "The Cure," a family film "Tom and Huck».
At age 15, he had received an offer to play in the film adaptation of the story "Apt Pupil" from the collection of King's "Four Seasons."
The role brought the actor Todd Bowden's first major award, and soon ... a drug problem. On the eve of the release of pictures, it for the first time arrested for possession of marijuana.
Further roles have become less visible, except that in the movie "sadist", where he plays the schoolboy infirm, suffering a hit from his powerful friend. As a result, the hero will be the organizer of the group Renfro murder and will be sentenced to death. The film is based on real events.
Ten years after roles in "Apt Pupil" Brad Renfro find lifeless at his home in Los Angeles. Cause of death - an overdose of heroin.
Jonathan Brandis (1976-2003)
The first notable work of this fascinating and promising actor - Bastian role in the adaptation of the fairy tale "The Neverending Story".
The role of a brave visionary particularly well was the blue-eyed boy, but in 1990, almost 15 years Jonathan cast changes course and accepts an offer to star in the film adaptation of Stephen King's novel "It" as Stuttering Bill.
Following the shootings, it did not seem to foretell disaster. Jonathan became acting productively. Having Lucas Volancheka role in "Underwater Odyssey" and coping very well with it, it becomes a teen idol and the idol of girls.
Also manifests itself as an outstanding writer and director. But despite the success, there is growing dissatisfaction with himself as a creative person, it frequently falls into depression, a lot of drinking.
After all, in 26 years, Jonathan attempts of suicide, no suicide note, direct motives and sober mind. Hanged in his apartment, but it is still a live one. Day efforts of doctors do not give any results, Brandeis dies without leaving a coma.
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So what selilos in the minds of 15-year-old actor, who shoulder the burden of the characters of Stephen King?
"Horror in most works, and my in particular - a good background to put people in inhuman conditions, so that they could show themselves as they really are ...»
So says Mr. King about his stories. Well, he was able to achieve this goal, not only with their heroes, and with the young actors who come into contact with his fantasies, living this fear, and then carried off to a nightmarish alternate reality of ordinary life experiences imprint screen.
Unfortunately, in the fight with the already real, but no less terrible nightmares - the actor's lack of demand, alcohol and drugs, - the outcome of the confrontation is the same dead-end or tragic, as in themselves works of King horror.
Once in the attic of his home Stephen King found the badly battered, but very attractive for yourself book - the story of HP Lovecraft "lurking in the shadows" (one of the founders of American literature in the style of horror-fantasy). Cosmic horror that inspired the terrible monsters of these stories literally inspired the still very young Stephen and he began to invent one by one the characters living under the pressure of their own fears and ugly mystical fantasies.
King was then about 15. Later he would say that this age - is ideal for such experiences. When the absurd fantasies can become a reality, and teenage fears and complexes - the perfect field where you can without too much labor to sow and reap the benefits of the horror and cruelty of weakness and self-centeredness.
The film was shot on the King has a large number of venerable actors such as Jack Nicholson, Johnny Depp, Tom Hanks, John Cusack, Schwarzenegger finally. But they already held actors and personalities, these roles have not had any mystical action. While most of the boys was the actors who played the characters of King remained in a state of adolescent "oppressive uncertainty", and in later life drowned her alcohol and drugs, and some have decided to overcome through suicide.
=============================
River Phoenix (1970-1993)
His brilliant and brief career began precisely with the role in the adaptation of King's novella "Fall of Innocence: The corpse." In the film, "Stay with me," 15-year-old River Phoenix earned his first major role Chris Chambers - one of the four friends who went in search of the corpse of his friend.
After a fine young characteristic of the role of the character, River continued to follow the "path of acting" complex psychological roles.
He brought down the role of depressive musicians ("The Thing Called Love"), homosexuals, melancholic ("My Own Private Idaho"), in short, desperate and desperate characters, who in life was far from smooth.
During the 23 years he has played 23 roles. His last work was the role in the "language of silence" - the only work as a director Sam Shepard. This film is about death, where a lot of thinking and talking about it. Sign it? After all, it was during the post-production paintings, 8 years after filming "Stay with me," the young actor died of an accidental overdose of heroin and methamphetamine at the hands of his brother, and before the eyes of his friends.
Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman and Jerry O'Connell
The other three boys, who played Chris's friends (Rivera) in the "Stay with me" fate also awarded a special favor.
Corey Feldman quite early started acting in movies, and has remained unclaimed in a big movie. His destiny - as bandits and "dunce" in the television series. In addition, most of his life, he will not part with the drug.
Wil Wheaton's acting career after "Stay with me" and supporting roles in "toy soldiers" and "Star Trek" is also practically disappeared. Today, he leads the show on the table games. From time to time it appears on the screen, but this is hardly enough to qualify as an actor. Although he still considers himself to be.
Also, there was not very successful acting career, Jerry O'Connell. Actor serial genre, occasionally appears in the second-class comedies or small roles big movies. In fact, in the role of "Stay ..." and remained the only major and prominent in his life.
Edward Furlong
More than a successful start in the movie of the actor, I think we all remember.
The role of the young John Connor in the second part of the "Terminator" was a brilliant debut of 14-year-old actor. After that, it seemed, the role of such a plan were to make of it, well, the second Arnold or something. But after the role of the young savior of mankind, 15-year-old Edward Furlong is removed in the second part of "Pet Sematary" by King and future roles do not bring him a small fraction of the success to which he could rely.
Difficult teenagers, drug addicts and maniac - now his acting role of a different kind. After five years of wandering and second-class roles, he was again briefly touches to fame when she played the hero's brother Edward Norton in "American History X".
But after that the success of his acting career and did go downhill.
The reasons are the same - alcohol and drugs.
Brad Renfro (1982-2008)
Like Edward Furlong, he predicted a great future acting.
First acting experience Breda - role in the box office film "The Client" with values such movies as Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones.
He is absolutely accidentally hit in this movie, but after rather quickly began to receive new offers and different roles - in the poignant drama "The Cure," a family film "Tom and Huck».
At age 15, he had received an offer to play in the film adaptation of the story "Apt Pupil" from the collection of King's "Four Seasons."
The role brought the actor Todd Bowden's first major award, and soon ... a drug problem. On the eve of the release of pictures, it for the first time arrested for possession of marijuana.
Further roles have become less visible, except that in the movie "sadist", where he plays the schoolboy infirm, suffering a hit from his powerful friend. As a result, the hero will be the organizer of the group Renfro murder and will be sentenced to death. The film is based on real events.
Ten years after roles in "Apt Pupil" Brad Renfro find lifeless at his home in Los Angeles. Cause of death - an overdose of heroin.
Jonathan Brandis (1976-2003)
The first notable work of this fascinating and promising actor - Bastian role in the adaptation of the fairy tale "The Neverending Story".
The role of a brave visionary particularly well was the blue-eyed boy, but in 1990, almost 15 years Jonathan cast changes course and accepts an offer to star in the film adaptation of Stephen King's novel "It" as Stuttering Bill.
Following the shootings, it did not seem to foretell disaster. Jonathan became acting productively. Having Lucas Volancheka role in "Underwater Odyssey" and coping very well with it, it becomes a teen idol and the idol of girls.
Also manifests itself as an outstanding writer and director. But despite the success, there is growing dissatisfaction with himself as a creative person, it frequently falls into depression, a lot of drinking.
After all, in 26 years, Jonathan attempts of suicide, no suicide note, direct motives and sober mind. Hanged in his apartment, but it is still a live one. Day efforts of doctors do not give any results, Brandeis dies without leaving a coma.
=============================
So what selilos in the minds of 15-year-old actor, who shoulder the burden of the characters of Stephen King?
"Horror in most works, and my in particular - a good background to put people in inhuman conditions, so that they could show themselves as they really are ...»
So says Mr. King about his stories. Well, he was able to achieve this goal, not only with their heroes, and with the young actors who come into contact with his fantasies, living this fear, and then carried off to a nightmarish alternate reality of ordinary life experiences imprint screen.
Unfortunately, in the fight with the already real, but no less terrible nightmares - the actor's lack of demand, alcohol and drugs, - the outcome of the confrontation is the same dead-end or tragic, as in themselves works of King horror.
