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Marty Supreme Starts with a bang: with a flutter of suspenders, a hasty climax and a collection of sperm trying to break into an egg. Those little swimming tadpoles come with a message and set the direction of the film’s journey, reminding us that some slimy candidates are tougher and more determined than others. This is certainly the case with Marty Mauser, the staunch anti-hero of Josh Safi’s Dalit storyas it is true timothy chalametThe main star of the film. He is now the bookies’ favorite for next year’s Best Actor Oscar.
While bookies, like hustlers, can’t always be trusted, there’s something undeniably thrilling about Chalamet’s turn as Marty, a mad shoe salesman in early ’50s Manhattan who sees himself as a ping-pong superstar. Marty rushes into the action like Augie March’s east coast cousin; A wandering freestyle opportunist with a listless lashing of bleached hair and a mustache like a malnourished caterpillar. He is incorrigible, malignant, a thief, and a liar driven by self-entitlement and self-pity.
The fact that we’re able to digest him – let alone cheer for him – rests largely on Chalamet, who makes the man subtle and convincing without even once softening his edges. It’s already been a good, diverse year for Best Actor Oscar candidates and so Academy voters may still be impressed by Ethan Hawke’s high style sensibilities. blue moon Or Joel Edgerton’s stoic composure in a tragic situation. train dreamsIts Marty SupremeHowever, it provides the largest fireworks display of the season.
As far as Chalamet is concerned, this film feels like a turning point, a coming-of-age breakthrough for an actor who has always looked younger than his age and therefore has been playing children for longer than is entirely healthy. Hollywood stars are defined by their genes as much as their acting talent and it was Chalamet’s luck to embody doe-eyed teen hero Elio Perlman. call me by your name (2017), Almost Awesome. The role earned him his first Oscar nomination and made him an international sensation, but it also led to him being typecast as a symbol of vulnerable, sensitive youth, just as other actors are typecast as dopey dads or by-the-book police commissioners.
None of Chalamet’s later pictures were absolute duds. he was fine as a handsome prince lady bird (2018), Functional as a Distressed Addict handsome boy (2018) and perfectly tolerable as a student firebrand in Wes Anderson’s french dispatch (2021), a film that wouldn’t know any firebrand if someone came and set its pastel-coloured stage-flats on fire. It was simply his portrayal of the callow Henry V. King (2019) impressed credibility precisely with the way it had him competing with actors twice his size, slicing and slicing his way through an armored French army like a kid playing dress-up in his suburban back bedroom. Most films demand a certain leap of faith from the audience. KingHowever, a permanent jump across the English Channel was required.
Naturally the 29-year-old star would never be cut out for a Schwarzenegger-style action career. This role does not suit her from physical and aesthetic point of view. He represents a different brand of 21st century masculinity. the new York Times Last year Chalamet was honored as the unofficial frontman of a group dubbed the “Noodle Boys”, which included “Twiggy”, a gang of androgynous-looking performers. stranger thingsFinn Wolfhard, Dominic Cessa holdover (2023) and Russian-born Mark Edelshtein, who played the Brighton Beach Brat in the Oscar-winning Anora (2024).
As far as that goes, it’s a neat cover-all label. Except that every Noodles Boy is the latest version of the boy-next-door, a Hollywood ideal as old as the malt shop and the white picket fence. And if past evidence tells us anything, it’s that the boys next door reach their peak early and then have to adapt and regroup. Mickey Rooney aged like milk and the fabulous Montgomery Clift self-destructed. Anthony Perkins turned inward, went dark and reimagined the clean-cut All-American as a knife-wielding psychiatrist.
Alternatively, consider the case of Nineties Hollywood’s fresh-faced poster boy Leonardo DiCaprio, who has recently established himself as Chalamet’s wise old mentor. “No superhero movies and no hard drugs,” DiCaprio Told his disciple, which is sensible advice in both cases.
And yet it is DiCaprio’s own career that provides the most reliable roadmap for Chalamet, as it shows how he was able to withstand that first burst of fame and transition to rewarding adult roles – temporarily at first. aviator (2004) and blood Diamond (2006), then swiftly, triumphantly, with choice The Revenant’s (2015) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). Probably every young actor goes through the equivalent of adolescence in their career, a few awkward years where they don’t feel confident as a fully fledged adult. But good swimmers – tough swimmers – ultimately emerge stronger.
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“This is probably my best performance,” Chalamet has bragged about his role. Marty Supreme“This is really some top level nonsense,” It’s the kind of thing Marty himself might say, a barking bit of post-modern propaganda circus that’s liable to irritate at least as many people as it amuses, And yet annoyingly, he’s right, there’s no doubt about it, As he celebrates his 30th birthday, the actor has evolved into the frame and moved up through the gears, dune (2021), wonka (2023) and a complete unknown (2024) is her most compelling adult role to date.
On screen, the unstable Marty Mouser is eventually pitted against Koto Ando (Koto Kawaguchi), an ice-cool table tennis champion from Japan. Off-screen, if the punters are to be believed, Chalamet’s main Oscar rival is none other than his mentor DiCaprio, who plays the racketeer father. one fight after another (2025). The adventurous young gun versus the cool old samurai. Former boys-neighbors fight. It’s the kind of cheesy Hollywood ending that would make cinephiles blush, but it plays to the gallery and its showbiz panache can’t be faulted. It’s a late twist that will bring the picture’s story full circle; A real-world climax at the Academy Awards ceremony, to be sure Marty Supreme Both come in with a bang and go out with one too.
‘Marty Supreme’ is released in UK cinemas from Boxing Day