The Pitt1

Written by Trey Seah

First and fore­most, I’m a guy.

I’m a nor­mal and straight guy who thinks that Brad Pitt is a great and com­mit­ted actor (and he’s extremely hot btw).

Over the past 2 decades or so, he’s placed him­self in a num­ber of great films and doing jus­tice to the char­ac­ters. Some of my favourite films are actu­ally in my list because of him. Films such as Interview With A Vampire, Fight Club, Ocean’s Eleven, and of course, Troy.

Of course there are other roles, which he did well in, like Mr and Mrs Smith, though it’s not the best film in my opin­ion, so I shall leave it out of the equa­tion today.

Let’s talk about Interview With A Vampire. It’s one of those films that either you hate it or love it. It’s a film about this vam­pire who’s been alive for over 200 years, and still going. Well, I choose the lat­ter. I love it to bits, not only for the script, but for Brad Pitt’s deliv­ery as Louis. He was amaz­ing, to the point where I would say spec­tac­u­lar. Apart from Brad Pitt, I really can­not see any­one else play­ing as Louis the vampire.

It’s a great film, filled with a great cast and script, but most impor­tantly, Brad Pitt’s inside. His des­per­a­tion, despair, hap­pi­ness and even­tual rage were all extremely believ­able. He really led me to think, what would it be like to be a vam­pire for 200 years.

Another movie really worth men­tion­ing is Fight Club. It’s a time­less clas­sic, and if you’ve not watched it, THEN YOU BETTER GO AHEAD. Edward Norton did a great job, but I think more cred­its gotta go to Mr Pitt here.

He’s really amaz­ing isn’t he? He actu­ally worked out for a cou­ple of months to pre­pare for this role. Fight Club, unlike the name, is not only about fight­ing. In fact, fight­ing is a metaphor for some­thing even greater in the film which I shall not reveal to allow you to go expe­ri­ence it your­self, if you haven’t. He was so cool, so styl­ish with his act­ing, his look and more. Everything about him was close to per­fec­tion in this film of the decade. Why is it the film of the decade? Go watch it. Trust me.

He did another film, Troy, which required him to work out exten­sively as well. He worked out for 7 months prior to shoot­ing Troy. Such pas­sion for his work as an actor just makes me respect him more.

In Fight Club, he was more of the toned, well built and sexy young man, while in Troy, he was a deadly war­rior who’s fear­less. Check out the dif­fer­ent in size and shape. Ok sorry I did not mean to lead this arti­cle towards his body (but he’s really incred­i­bly sexy right)

Brad Pitt’s a unique class of actor who not only has a really good look­ing face (I attribute it to his eyes and jaw line btw), a crazily good body but also first class act­ing skills. He’s con­stantly chal­leng­ing him­self as an actor too.

If you actu­ally check out the movies he’s acted in, you would dis­cover such a wide range of films, some­thing that very few actors actu­ally attempt any­more. Plus, he’s already 40 despite look­ing like he’s in his early 30s, sooooooo that just made him even more awesome.

There’s no doubt that he’s up there as one of my few favourite actors ever. Every guy can only dream to be like him.

But hey, I’m allowed to dream right?