Bill Paxton - film actor, screenwriter, producer, director

Bill Paxton, known to the world in several ways: a film actor, screenwriter, producer, director and artist, was born in mid-May in the family of an actor and businesswoman who lives in Fort Worth, Texas, Texas.

Childhood and adolescence

Paxton was brought up in an exemplary orthodox Catholic family, his parents are fervent devotees of religion. Nevertheless, Paxton Bill grew up as an ordinary child, not thinking about acting career. After graduating from school, the young man enters the Texas University of San Marcos. After his successful graduation, he leaves for Los Angeles and, thanks to a lucky chance, gets the job of the designer of the creative team of film director Roger Corman. Watching what is happening on the set, a recent graduate of the design department thinks about acting and acting. The first step in this direction can be expected rapid relocation to New York and private lessons of skill from the specialist Stella Adler. In parallel with the training Bill Paxton begins to actively attend all the announced movie castings. Without bothering to use existing connections in the film industry, the beginning talent gets the first roles.

Saturated 80's

Until the 80s of the last century, Bill could not get any significant roles, except Jonathan Demme's project "Crazy Mother" and a number of music videos. But that was not what Bill Paxton wanted. Films in which the actor starred after a long break, captured him only in episodic roles: "Talking with the Tiger Rock", "Volunteers Willy-nilly", "Cemetery", "Lords of Discipline", "Night Warning", "Great Day", "Impulse" "And serials:" Hitchhiker "," Miami Police: Department of Morals. " A more notable role was brought to Paxton in 1984. The actor finds himself in the casting of two legendary fighters - the "Terminator" of James Cameron, where he played one of the members of the gang, and "Commandos".

Breakthrough

The breakthrough of the actor is considered to be the role of Private Hudson, who performed in the second part of "Alien" Bill Paxton. "Strangers" attracted the attention of not only the ordinary spectators, but also the filmmakers of all stripes. The texture and skill of reincarnation Paxton noticed, appreciated, finally, the actor showered sentences one after another. The first was the role of a vampire in the dramatic horror film Catherine Bigelow "Almost dark", in which the entire story was built on the adventures of the clan of vampires who traveled all over the country on a stolen car, satisfying the thirst for blood. The unpretentious plot blossomed through the acting group of the film. From "Aliens" in the project, Catherine Bigeloy moved half of the cast. They were able to translate on the screen the most important element of the author's idea - a sense of unity of the clan, vampires, long living together. Then followed the roles of the second plan in the films: "Predator-2", "Apollo 13", "Elena in the Box", "Smerch", "True Lies". Bill Paxton, in addition to work in film, starred in various TV series, took part in a TV show. One of his favorite roles, according to the lycee, for him was the character of the treasure hunter in the movie "Titanic."

Classics in its pure form

In the drama "Titanic" Bill Paxton played the role of a treasure hunter, who repeatedly descended to the bottom of the ocean in search of relics from the side of the most famous ship. The unprecedented triumph of the film, which happened in the majority thanks to the persistence of screenwriter-producer-producer James Cameron, was not accidental. Acting casting of the picture played an important role in the ubiquitous and stunning success of the Titanic. After four years from the release of the drama, James Cameron and a group of like-minded people, including Bill Paxton (the films in which the actor was shot, are not limited to the category "artistic"), organizes a real marine expedition to the site of the flood of the grandiose liner. Later, after analyzing the footage, Cameron releases a documentary about them with Paxton expedition.

the main role

In 2006, the actor becomes the star of the television series "Big Love", which is broadcast a decent period of time from 2006 to 2011 (5 seasons). The plot of the soap opera is famously twisted around the incompatibility of the lifestyle of the Mormon sect and American sanctimonious morality. All events take place in Salt Lake City (Utah). There exists a sect of Mormons, famous for the tradition of polygamy. Here is one of the sect's families and becomes the heroes of the series. The head of the family Bill Henrikson (Bill Paxton), his official "public" wife Barbara (Jinn Tripplehorn), the unofficial second Nicoletta (Cloe Sevigny) and the third wife Margine (Jennifer Goodwin) go hand in hand, fighting off enemies, And bringing up common children.

Modernity

At the moment, the actor does not stop his creative activity, actively filming in various projects. An example is the Dag Lyman project "The Face of the Future", Bill Paxton starred in it with Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. The picture is full of events as dense as if compressed, so the viewer does not have time for even a short respite. The plot narrative can be described with the same verbs: drive, breathe, hold, run. Individual details are explained in the process. Thematic dialogues are almost completely eliminated, so Master Sergeant Farrell, the hero of Bill Paxton, a soldier to the core, thinks and speaks with solid slogans and appeals. Some of the shortcomings made by the creators are blocked by an impeccable insane crazy action-component and impeccable visualization.