In ‘The dark end of the street’, a long-forgotten independent American production from 1981, he made his debut in a nine-year-old boy named. Ben Affleck. Matt Damon He was 11 years old at the time and would make his film debut by 1988, with a small role in the cross-generational comedy ‘Mystic pizza’. Until 1997, each of them continued on their way by learning the trade.. There isn’t a significant Affleck movie until she meets Kevin Smith and starred in ‘Mallrats’ and ‘Chasing Amy’ – other than cameos in ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ and ‘The ’76 Scene’ – and more Damon remembers. few titles. Legitimate defense’ is an adaptation of a 1997 novel by John Grisham by Francis Ford Coppola.
But something was beginning to take shape between them. They came together today in the cast of the 1992 movie ‘Private School’, starring the Oscar-winning actor. brendan fraser and from 1950 focused on anti-Semitism in a private school. They repeated it in the previously mentioned ‘Chasing Amy’. They co-wrote and starred in Good Will Hunting. (1997) is a film between ‘independent’ and ‘mainstream’, which earned Damon an Oscar for best screenplay and a Silver Bear for best performance in Berlin. Two teenagers under the age of 30 looked like they were going to take over Hollywood and therefore the world.
What has happened in these twenty-five years, what separates the success of ‘Good Will Hunting’ from the reunion of Affleck and Damon as producers and actors of ‘AIR’, also Affleck’s fifth feature film as director? The comparison, especially on a personal level, would throw light on Damon’s situation and cast a shadow over Affleck’s.
What do we know about Damon’s private life? Very little. He has been married to Argentinean Luciana Barroso since 2005 and has three children. What about Affleck? He’s been in and out of rehab centers, divorced from Jennifer Garner, with whom he has three children, living with Ana de Armas for a time, and married last July to Jennifer Lopez, with whom he had previously formed a two-person couple. years ago. decades.
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In strict cinematographic terms, although Affleck’s career was very interesting, Damon chose better. portraying dark characters like George Reeves, the actor who brought to life the 50s television series Superman and eventually committed suicide, in ‘Hollywoodland’. Damon has become one of the stars of the new spy and action cinema with his films of the Bourne saga.. Affleck struggled as a young Jack Ryan in ‘Nuclear Panic’, while Damon entered the flock starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Steven Soderbergh in another successful series that began with ‘Ocean’s eleven (Match)’ in 2001.
Despite appearing in great productions such as ‘Armageddon’ and ‘Peal Harbour’, he’s still trying to become Hollywood’s new headstrong protagonist. Affleck is best remembered today for his fateful journey with superhero movies.. While he’s had fans, critics, and even TV series protagonists of the Batman comics, he wasn’t the only one responsible for the ‘Daredevil’ disaster, in which he played a blind vigilante, and he’s not the worst Batman in Zack Snyder’s movies. The ‘big bang theory’ think of it that way. Having been heavily involved in the DC cinematographic universe, Affleck would eventually throw in the towel and separate himself from the Batman, which Robert Pattinson eventually starred in..
Perhaps the more patient Damon charted his destiny better: “Saving Private Ryan”, “Mr. Ripley’s talent”, “All the beautiful horses”, “Stuck on you”, “Left”, “Crab”, “Green zone” ‘, ‘Valor de ley’, ‘Contagio’, ‘Marte’, ‘El último duelo’ and the as yet unreleased ‘Oppenheimer’, among others, confirm an almost flawless filmography.
The trajectory of one and the other is very stimulating when they dedicate themselves to other cinematographic pursuits.. Affleck has become one of the best adaptations of Dennis Lehane’s detective novels – ‘Goodbye little girl, goodbye’ and ‘Live at night’ – and achieved one of his best successes as a director in the fast-paced ‘The Town (City of Thieves). on his behalf Damon has produced excellent movies like ‘Manchester by the Sea’ starring Ben’s brother, Casey Affleck.. Successes, failures, addictions and stability aside, they continued to maintain their friendship. ‘AIR’ is the first production of their newly formed company, Artists Equity.