The 3 best films of the magical Ewan McGregor

Behind the great figures of cinema there is a second line full of actors and actresses eager to get into action to snatch handfuls of cinematographic glory from the Pittdeep, DiCaprio and company. Ewan McGregor is one of those solid, solid actors. An interpreter capable of that mimicry with a hook to bring out the best in his characters from that point of view of Hollywood dramatization.

Because yes, it all started with his role in Trainspotting. Nothing to do, then, with that commercial cinema for all audiences. But you'll forgive me for not selecting this movie. One has grown up with some Spanish junkie movies and the junkie world seems more credible to me among more traditional neighborhoods...

But don't let anyone get mad at me. It will be for endless filmography for this already universal Scotsman. Let's go with other films that will surely also be well valued by the most staunch followers of him. Tapes where that most current commercial point is interspersed with resounding, masterful interpretations...

Top 3 Recommended Ewan McGregor Movies

Big Fish

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I must admit that I have been encouraged by this entry in a revised version of this film, for me one of the best dramatic works in history. In the evolution of the Edward Bloom that McGregor embodies, all that transcendent point of the work is settled as it advances to its wonderful ending.

When you think that a film would no longer be the same played by another actor, no matter how good he may be, the guy has embellished it by making it his own. Ewan McGregor was born for this film. His comings and goings between reality and fiction for what ultimately was his existence seen in perspective, become unforgettable. Between the allegorical and the transcendental, with new meanings with each viewing of the film.

The more adult character ends up breaking your heart thanks to the fact that you think of the guy he was, that Ewan McGregor (that is, Edward Bloom), going through life with that patina of fiction in charge of painting as best he can the most dramatic moments of life. Because certainly only with fiction can one overcome the weight of the world on men and the idea of ​​being a father to deliver that new weight to a son.

The island

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The thing about genetic engineering itself and clones as a derivative has always fascinated me from that profane point of view of a former literature student. In fact, at the time I was encouraged by a clone novel that I called "Alter." In case you are interested, you have it here.

To reduce the technicality of the matter, this novel addresses the most interesting aspects, the moral aspect of the recreation of human beings. Even more so because what is done on the supposed paradise island is to recreate human beings in the image and likeness of their interested patrons, as insurance for when a kidney fails or leukemia enters them. In his defense, yes, it must be said that they do not know that he has his clones. They just believe that their genetic information recreates organs as needed in a shapeless mass.

The movie is perfectly followed even by laymen in CiFi. And at times it seems more like an adventure play where the protagonists played by Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johanson reach the level of consciousness necessary to discover the fallacy and try to flee.

Because of course, the island is not such and the promises to all its inhabitants of a better destination by lottery (they disappear from there as soon as the promoter needs an organ) is in evidence thanks to the fact that McGregor is an evolved type capable of the most doubts. momentous.

In this movie there is a great little dialogue that I will always remember. And it is that when Ewan asks an external worker about God, since he is already aware of his own real nature, the guy says something like this:

_ Do you know when you want something with all your might? _ Yes -answers Ewan- _ Well, God is the one who does not pay attention to you.

The movie has a lot of action, touches of humor when the strange inhabitants of the island (which ends up being an underground construction in a lost desert) interact with people from the real world. A good science fiction film recommended for all audiences.

Moulin Rouge

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A musical, yes. But not just any one. Because really this film perfectly counterbalances plot and musical without definitively winning one side or the other. The scenery that accompanies each musical theme is very powerful but without detracting from the progress of the knot of history.

Romanticism and decadence, misery and ephemeral glory of love capable of illuminating the deepest darkness. What Christian and Satine reaches us with the power of their looks and that music that moves our hearts to lead us on the same stage boards of that world of that time.

Christian is a young poet from Paris in 1890 who leaves home to move to the Montmatre neighborhood, the cradle of romantic bohemianism at the end of the XNUMXth century and where curious characters such as Toulouse-Lautrec live. In this depraved and glamorous haven of sex and drugs, the innocent poet meets Satine, the star of the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret and the most desired courtesan in town. Together they will start a passionate love story marked by tragedy, since she is engaged to a powerful businessman nicknamed the Duke.

Original musical drama directed by the Australian Baz Luhrman (responsible for the also curious adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare"). On this occasion, the director constructed a story that emanates directly from the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. To do this, he used a very careful soundtrack, which pays homage to XNUMXth century pop music and contains, among others, songs by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Sting, Elton John and David Bowie. The Australian Nicole Kidman and the Scotsman Ewan McGregor were up to the task in this baroque film of the musical genre that was a great success with critics and audiences.

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