15 best roles incredible Adrien Brody

Despite the original appearance, the actor easily gets used in comedy and dramatic roles, and his intelligent game can get even the average film.

1. king of the Hill

King of the Hill

• USA, 1993.
• Drama.
• Duration: 109 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,6.

Steven Soderbergh's drama tells the story of a difficult growing 12-year-old boy Aaron (Jesse Bradford) during the Great Depression in the United States. Early left without parents, the boy shows remarkable ingenuity to survive alone.

Adrien Brody played the seasoned guy named Lester, ready to rescue the hero out of trouble. The role was quite small, but the young actor noticed criticism. They noted the large Brody dramatic potential.

2. The Thin Red Line

The Thin Red Line

• United States, 1998.
• War drama.
• Duration: 170 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,6.

World War II battle for the island of Guadalcanal. Against this background, fictional drama unfolds several soldiers thrown into the thick of the military operations.

Feature film Terrence Malick that secondary role in it perform the first magnitude stars: Adrien Brody, Sean Penn, George Clooney, Jared Leto, Woody Harrelson, Nick Nolte,

John TravoltaJohn Cusack and John C. Reilly.

Initially the role of Corporal Fife, played by Adrien Brody, was one of the most important to the plot. But when installing most of the scenes with the hero of the cut. Brody did no one notice. The fact that numerous replicas of his character were reduced to a couple of sentences, the actor learned only at the premiere.

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3. the height of freedom

Liberty Heights

• United States, 1999.
• Drama, comedy.
• Duration: 127 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,1.

The story unfolds in Baltimore a year the abolition of racial segregation in US schools. Changes in the country affect many, including a Jewish family Kurtzman. The father (Joe Mantegna) is making trouble for a black drug dealer. The eldest son (Adrien Brody) is faced with anti-Semitism. Well, Jr. (Ben Foster) falls in love with his classmate, African-American.

The film is to some extent autobiographical. The basis of the plot became director Barry Levinson memories of childhood in Baltimore.

4. Pianist

The Pianist

• France, Germany, Great Britain, Poland, 2002.
• Historical drama.
• Duration: 150 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,5.

The film is based on real events and tells the story of the famous Polish pianist and composer Wladyslaw Szpilman. The protagonist becomes a witness of how, during the World War II territory of Poland occupied by the Nazis and sent to all the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto.

Before filming Brody in the short term I lost 15 kg and learned to play the piano. And in order to better understand his character, the actor temporarily moved to Europe, I sold the car and refused to TV.

Spielmann role - a real triumph Brody. The actor was able to show an incredibly poignant transformation of a free man in a hunted prey and deservedly became the youngest winner of the award "Oscar" for Best Actor. At that time, Brody was only 29 years old.

In addition, the actor became the first American to receive the prestigious French award "Cesar".

5. Jacket

The Jacket

• United States, 2004.
• Thriller.
• Duration: 102 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,1.

Amnesiac war veteran Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) is accused of murdering a police officer and sent to a psychiatric hospital for criminals. There, on a former military testing new drugs.

In this film, the actor once again showed his dramatic talent and was not afraid even of terrible scenes in the mortuary chamber. And for maximum realism Adrien Brody asked director John Maybury permission to remain locked up in between takes.

6. Mysterious forest

The Village

• United States, 2004.
• Drama, thriller, dystopia.
• Duration: 108 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,5.

The film is set in the supposed end of the XIX century in a small Protestant community. Locals do not go in the vicinity of the thicket, because they believe, as if there are living a terrible monster. Everything changes when an inquisitive young man named Lucius Hunt decides to go into the forest to get medicines to the villagers.

Adrien Brody plays the fool rural November Percy. This is another interesting tragic figure in his filmography. Brodie originally claimed the role of Lucius Hunt, but she went to Joaquin Phoenix.

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7. King Kong

King Kong

• New Zealand, USA, Germany, 2005.
• Adventure, action, fantasy.
• Duration: 187 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,2.

Director Carl Denham (Jack Black), together with a talented screenwriter Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody) and actress Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) is sent to the sinister Skull Island in the Indian Ocean to shoot action movie. And no one even suspected, what dangers they have to face there.

Peter Jackson's film was one of the most expensive in the history of cash and gave new life to King Kong - a popular character comes from the 30s.

In this case, Adrien Brody cast as playwright, intellectual, Jack Driscoll even before the script was written.

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8. Hollywoodland

Hollywoodland

• United States, 2006.
• Detective drama.
• Duration: 126 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,5.

Action crime drama directed by Allen Coulter takes place in 1950 in Hollywood. Actor George Reeves (Ben Affleck), who gained fame for his role as Superman, mysteriously dying in their own homes. Private Detective Luis Sim (Adrien Brody) does not believe in suicide stars and intends to get to the truth.

The main role in this film could play Joaquin PhoenixBut this time the producers preferred to Adrian Brody. After the "Mystery Forest" it was the second case in which the actors were auditioned for the same role.

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9. The Darjeeling Limited. desperate travelers

The Darjeeling Limited

• United States, 2007.
• Comedy, adventure, drama.
• Duration: 91 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,2.

Three brothers - Francis, Peter and Jack - after a long separation, are in train to pass through the whole of India in the city of Darjeeling. Not the most friendly family will not just bring each other to a white heat, and make a lot of strange things.

With "The Darjeeling Limited" began a collaboration Adrien Brody and American independent director Wes Anderson. The role of the melancholy brother Peter, who could not come to terms with the upcoming fatherhood, was written specifically for Brody.

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10. The brothers Bloom

The Brothers Bloom

• United States, 2008.
• Criminal comedy.
• Duration: 113 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,8.

Brothers Stephen (Mark Ruffalo) and Bloom (Adrien Brody) - ingenious fraudsters. Once Stephen born grandiose plan of another scam. He wants to rob eccentric heiress Penelope Stamp (Rachel Weisz). But for that he needs to brother met a girl and started a love affair with her.

Sophisticated comedy director and screenwriter Ryan Johnson, in his own words, was created under the strong influence classic adventure film ( "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," "The Spanish Prisoner," "The Sting"), as well as the novel by James Joyce "Ulysses."

First, the director suggested that the role of Bloom will play Mark Ruffalo. But when actors read the script, with the approval of the director switched roles.

11. Cadillac Records

cadillac Records

• United States, 2008.
• Biography, history, drama.
• Duration: 109 minutes.
• IMDb: 7.0.

History, which is based on real events that takes place in Chicago 50-ies. One Polish immigrant Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody) gets acquainted with a talented guitarist Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright). Together they recorded a record that instantly becomes popular. Since the light appears the legendary studio of Chess Records, which opened the world the talents of Little Walter, Etta James and Chuck Berry.

"Cadillac Records" - one of those moviesTo look out for every music lover. It is interesting that Adrian Brody then again had to embody the image of the hero of the Polish-Jewish origin, whose life is connected with the music.

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12. Experiment

The Experiment

• United States, 2010.
• Thriller, Drama.
• Duration: 96 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,5.

The protagonist, an unemployed pacifist Travis (Adrien Brody) is in the newspapers of the country classified. Volunteers offer - of course, not free - to spend two weeks in prison environment and play roles of prisoners and guards. The experiment begins peacefully, but soon the "guards" become real sadists.

The basis of the picture lay the famous Stanford Prison Experiment, which in 1971 put an American psychologist Philip Zimbardo. The incident, which occupies an important place in the history of sociology and psychology, was shot many films. In 2001 came the German "experiment" by Oliver Hirschbiegel, and in 2015 - "Stanford Prison Experiment" Kyle Patrick Alvarez Ezra Miller in the title role.

Around the experiment itself is still conducted a fierce debate: it is called controversial at least from a moral and ethical point of view. And not so long ago, there were reportsThe Lifespan of a Lie that Zimbardo experiment was staged.

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13. Teacher for the change

Detachment

• United States, 2011.
• Drama.
• Duration: 97 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,7.

The teacher of English language and literature Henry Barthes (Adrien Brody) pedagogical gift. But he does not stay long in any school, because the teacher is working on a replacement. Once Henry comes to school for troubled teens. And there he manages to not only arouse interest in the subject of children, but also to get them to look differently at life.

It may seem that the existential drama directed by Tony Kaye tells about the state of the educational system in the United States. But first of all it is a film about the relationship between people.

Adrian Brody immediately loved the script, affecting close to the actor topic: his father had taught for many years at the school.

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14. Midnight in Paris

Midnight in Paris

• USA, Spain, 2011.
• Comedy, Romance.
• Duration: 94 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,7.

Arriving in Paris Hollywood screenwriter Gil Pender every night mysteriously tolerated at other times, and have fun with brilliant people from the past: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and others.

Woody Allen romantic comedy charmed critics and has received numerous prestigious awards, including the "Golden Globe" and the BAFTA.

Adrien Brody appears in the film for a few minutes, but in the role of Salvador Dali. The master of surrealism leads to the protagonist very meaningful conversation about Rhino and gives him valuable advice about relationships.

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15. Hotel "Grand Budapest"

The Grand Budapest Hotel

• Germany, USA, 2014.
• Comedy, Drama.
• Duration: 100 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,1.

The action of the most famous film Wes Anderson takes place in the fictional country of bison. The main characters - a senior concierge at "The Grand Budapest" Monsieur Gustave (Ralph Fiennes) and his assistant Mustafa Zero (Tony Revolorio) - get involved in a crazy adventure to prove his ownership of the priceless painting "Boy with a apple. "

The "Hotel" Grand Budapest "" Adrien Brody plays a mustachioed villain Dmitry, who is haunted by the idea that his mother left the most important part of the inheritance not to him but to some rascal.

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bonus

A little later, Wes Anderson removed charming Christmas short film for Swedish brand H & M. There Adrien Brody starred.

In the film, the passengers traveling by train to celebrate Christmas with his family, but winter weather interferes with their plans. Business-like conductor (Adrien Brody) saves the day and arranges a Christmas party on a train.