She only had a small role in ‘Annie Hall’ when she was cast in this unforgettable mash-up. science fiction and terror. It’s a chorus story, but he becomes the sole survivor of the menacing xenomorph, which would lead him to intervene in the sequels and be remembered today as the film’s true hero, with the creature devised by Giger pardoned. The proactive hero takes on the rather literary name Ripley, like the character created by Patricia Highsmith.
‘The year we lived dangerously’ Peter Weir, 1982
Australian Peter Weir’s last film before settling into American cinema. Set in the turbulent Jakarta of 1965, the film ascribes to a variant commonly used in 80s cinema: reporters in dangerous areas. Mel Gibson came to Indonesia as a special envoy. Weaver is the woman working at the British embassy with whom he falls in love. The film perfectly combines the love story and political conflict in the last days of President Sukarno’s regime.
‘Ghost Hunters’. Ivan Reitman, 1984
The actor added sanity to the fantasy comedy, which features a male lead (Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis) from the ‘Saturday Night Live’ mining industry. If ‘Alien’ was a commercial success, ‘Ghostbusters’ blew up the box office and launched a very profitable franchise that Weaver capitalized on. He was even better in 1989’s ‘Ghostbusters 2’, where a married and divorced woman accidentally triggers another ectoplasm apocalypse in New York with her baby.
‘Women’s weapons’. Mike Nichols, 1988
It was supposed to represent the most unpleasant and ambitious side of the emotional triangle consisting of Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffith. All three work in the same company. Weaver is a competent and confident manager. Griffith is an intuitive and intelligent secretary from humble origins who will do anything possible to prove her worth in a hierarchical and classist world. Even though it talks about the dehumanization of big companies, it ultimately turns into a pink romantic comedy.
‘Gorillas in the fog’. Michael Apted, 1988
Until this film, she had appeared in ensemble casts, in more secondary roles, or with a strong male antagonist. Here she would be an absolute hero, with no one well-known enough to outshine her and recreate Dian Fossey’s true character.Famous zoologist who spent years studying the behavior of gorillas in the Virunga Mountains, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. Weaver, another active and determined character, moves like a fish in water in the dense vegetation.
‘Death and the Girl’. Roman Polanski, 1994
A three-act adaptation of the play by Argentine-Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman was released in 1991. A chamber play in which the victim and the executioner confront each other many years after their violent past. The action takes place in a fictional country that has just emerged from the dictatorship period. A torturer from the old regime is paired with one of the women he tortured. Polansky It offers one of its usual morbid atmospheres, and Weaver and Ben Kingsley engage in an intense acting duel.
‘Copycat’. Jon Amiel, 1995
Although it is a small film, the actor does a great job. A thriller that tells the story of a menacing psychopath. The peculiarity of the plot lies in the fact that the hero is a criminal psychologist who is on the verge of being killed by one of his disturbed patients. As a result, he lives trapped in his apartment; suffering from agoraphobia. Weaver (and Holly Hunter, the homicide detective who guards her) enhance the performance of what could have been a more important story.
‘Ice Storm’. Ang Lee, 1997
An excellent text, Rick Moody’s novel. A Taiwanese filmmaker who has adapted well to the United States is Ang Lee. And a stellar cast including Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Weaver, Christina Ricci, Tobey Maguire and Elijah Wood. The early 70s, a residential neighborhood, Thanksgiving, the adult experience of sexual freedom, the end of adolescence and also the end of puritanism. Weaver plays the married woman whose neighbor plans to sleep with her for the ill-regarded sake of freedom.
‘A monster is coming to see me.’ J. A. Bayona, 2016
It is one of her few films in Spanish cinema, but she also played Queen Elizabeth in the 1992 international co-production by Ridley Scott about the discovery of America. by order of bayonne establishes the cold and calculating character of the protagonist’s child’s grandmotherFaced with his father’s orphanage and his mother’s terminal illness, this child fantastically channels his deepest problems and fears into his relationship with a monster on which he projects.
‘Master Gardener’. Paul Schrader, 2022
One of his latest works is the conclusion of Paul Schrader’s trilogy that began with ‘The Priest’ and ‘Card Counter’. Weaver applies his flexibility to the director’s tougher, more reserved style. She plays a rich widow who owns a mansion and a garden that everyone envies. The gardener who gave his name to the movie, a man with a dark past, works for him. In the sequences between both characters, Weaver and Joel Edgerton convey an odd mix of confidence and tension.