MICKEY ROURKE : de la Gloire au Néant

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Rusty James, 9 Semaines ½, Angel Heart, Man on Fire, Sin City, The Wrestler, Iron Man 2... Mickey Rourke a une carrière aussi passionnante et étrange que sa vie. Dans cette vidéo, je vais mettre les deux en corrélation afin de résoudre l'énigme d'un des acteurs les plus controversés d'Hollywood.  N'hésitez pas à vous abonner et à partager cette vidéo si elle vous a plu.  Vous pouvez également soutenir mon travail via les liens suivants :  La boutique : https://reservoir-shop.myspreadshop.fr/  Tipeee : https://fr.tipeee.com/reservoir-vlog  Et me suivre sur les réseaux sociaux :  Facebook : https://m.facebook.com/reservoirvlog   Twitter : https://twitter.com/reservoirvlog   Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/reservoirvlog/   Tik Tok : https://www.tiktok.com/@reservoirvlog  Musiques (dans l'ordre de diffusion) :  - where stars fall inspirational cinematic orchestral - scott buckley - i walk with ghosts meditative neoclassical - scott buckley - solace calm piano strings - scott buckley - Nightfall Dark Dramatic Hybrid - Scott Buckley - Light in Dark Places Epic Orchestral - Scott Buckley  Sources :  https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Rourke https://www.lepoint.fr/medias/la-descente-aux-enfers-de-mickey-rourke-07-08-2022-2485668_260.php https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYr-o_LhSiQ&t=2249s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MyIMu8MyNs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4STuhPP9KXs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAO8CAAfEDo   #MickeyRourke #Portrait #Hollywood #VanDamme #Stallone #Cinema

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00:00 I wonder why somebody hasn't taken a rifle and blown your head off.

00:07 Well, even the most primitive society has an innate respect for the insane.

00:12 Poetic, mysterious, talented, dangerous, Mickey Rourke is an enigma who over the decades has worn different masks.

00:24 From the young prodigy to the rebel boxer to the wise old man.

00:28 He is a unique actor in his own kind, who said no to the conventional star system before throwing himself at it,

00:34 leaving behind his money, his family and his soul.

00:52 But how? How could the one we considered as the future icon of Hollywood have fallen into such abyss

00:58 before having to deal with the almost divine intervention that allowed him to come back?

01:02 Let me try to understand this labyrinth that is Mickey Rourke's life and career.

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01:43 Philippe-André Rourke Jr. was born in 1952 in New York.

01:47 He lives with his parents, his brother Joey and his sister Patricia.

01:50 All of them call him Mickey, emphasizing his resemblance to a little mouse.

01:54 At 6 years old, his father decides to leave.

01:56 The young Mickey leaves New York for Miami, his mother having met a cop in Florida, with whom they will settle.

02:02 He now lives in a ghetto with 7 other children and with this new father, Eugène Haddis.

02:07 They mistreat him, hit him, humiliate him and probably more.

02:12 Mickey talks about it in the media but never goes into detail.

02:16 Describe to me your upbringing. How would you describe it?

02:19 My upbringing? Well, you know, I don't want to beat a dead horse but let's say if I had a choice of living where I grew up

02:28 and having to do it all over again, I'd prefer not to have been born at all.

02:31 Really? How does that sound to you?

02:33 That sounds quite dramatic.

02:34 Yeah, well, there's a lot of stuff, a lot of things that went on that I'm not even comfortable talking about.

02:42 It was just unusual, it was very violent, it was crazy.

02:48 He can't defend himself against such a strong man. His hatred grows and he has to exteriorize it.

02:55 He starts boxing at 12. It will be a revelation. Boxing will become his cursed passion.

03:01 His other passion is theater.

03:03 He discovers the boards for the first time in 1969 at the Miami Beach Senior High School,

03:08 which he graduates from two years later and is ready to face the world.

03:12 At 19, he goes to live in New York. He does a lot of small jobs to pay for his drama classes.

03:17 He could sometimes not eat for several days to have enough to finance his classes.

03:21 His ultimate goal being the studio actor that he will integrate for four years.

03:26 I had to do a scene where I'm talking to my father.

03:31 And I couldn't relate to a father because I didn't see mine since I was six, but I missed him, you know,

03:39 and always had stuff in my head about him.

03:42 So, Sandra said to me, she says, "How badly do you want to get into the actor's studio?"

03:47 She knew I really wanted to get in there.

03:50 She says, "You're going to have to go find your father."

03:52 Fuck, you know.

03:55 So, I actually went to find him and found him the day before I did the test.

04:01 And then I was able to relate to somebody other than some kind of beast.

04:07 And how was the first moment of the reunion?

04:10 I followed him out on the street and I walked up next to him and I just stepped down on the curb.

04:15 And I said, "Are you so-and-so?" And he said, "Yeah."

04:19 And I said, "I'm so-and-so."

04:22 And he said, "Oh."

04:24 I always knew you'd come by one day.

04:27 It was already set.

04:28 Yeah, and then we went to this bar and he bought me a dinner.

04:33 And he gave me 50 bucks and I left and did my test the next day.

04:38 Did you ever see him again?

04:40 No, he died about a year later. He drank himself to death.

04:43 Besides that, he fights as an amateur boxer.

04:52 He's a good boxer.

04:53 He wins a lot of fights, but two brain commotions forced him to take off his gloves in 1974,

04:58 replacing the fights on the ring with castings,

05:01 and then doing his little roles on TV before making his debut in 1941's Steven Spielberg,

05:06 where he made an appearance,

05:08 and then in Michael Cimino's "The Gates of Heaven" a year later, in 1980.

05:12 His presence in "Body Heat" in 1981 doesn't leave anything undone.

05:16 Young Mickey has an undeniable charisma,

05:19 a beautiful face that we don't forget and that will be noticed for good a year later in "Diner" by Barry Levinson,

05:25 where he gives the line to as young as Kevin Bacon and will win the NSFC Award for Best Actor in a Second Role.

05:32 After that, he gets several big opportunities, but only one will be accepted.

05:36 He refuses Jack Kade's role in "The Body Movie" in 1948,

05:39 and Axel Follet's role in "Beverly Hills Cop".

05:42 He leaves the big Hollywood machines aside,

05:44 the comedies where he doesn't feel comfortable,

05:46 and accepts a more risky but also more ambitious role in "Rusty James" by Francis Ford Coppola.

05:51 In this film, which deals with lost youth, boredom,

05:54 Mickey Rourke plays a methodical big brother, in a permanent reflection,

05:58 carried in esteem by the KD that he sees in him everything he wants to be.

06:02 Rourke's interpretation is one of his most beautiful.

06:04 He has a fascinating sobriety.

06:06 His voice pierces every dialogue.

06:08 His presence offers the film all its melancholy.

06:10 Because that's Mickey Rourke in the 80's.

06:13 An envying actor, a face that can't be ignored.

06:16 An extraordinary presence, which he offers to productions that feel him just as much.

06:20 After "Rusty James", he continues.

06:22 The Pope of Greenwich Village in 1984,

06:25 and "The Year of the Dragon" the same year,

06:27 his first main role and his second collaboration with Michael Cimino,

06:31 who he always considered as a mentor, a friend, and a great artist.

06:35 He will play for him a third time in 1990 in "The Hostage House".

06:39 The long-awaited consecration arrives in 1985, with "Nine and a Half Weeks".

06:44 The film is about a tumultuous and somewhat sadistic relationship

06:47 between two lovers drawn to each other by the fugue and self-destruction.

06:51 The success is immense, especially internationally.

06:54 Mickey Rourke becomes a planetary star and a sex symbol.

06:57 But while he feels like he's growing wings,

06:59 his bad choices will deprive him of them much earlier than he had expected.

07:02 At this time, he's on everyone's lips.

07:05 Everyone wants him, but Rourke wants no one.

07:08 He will refuse Highlander, Top Gun, The Unbreakable, and Platoon.

07:13 He feels untouchable, thinks that everything is due to him,

07:16 and we can't blame him for that.

07:18 At this time, he has everything for himself, and he proves it in "Angel Hurt" in 1987,

07:22 where he shares the screen with a Denis Rowe unrecognizable

07:25 in this kind of fantastic, hyper-clock and very captivating thriller,

07:29 where Rourke gives everything and offers a performance to the height of his immense talent.

07:33 He reaches his peak of career at this time,

07:35 an artistic peak that he will never touch again.

07:38 The director of "9 and a Half Weeks" will even say that if Rourke died after this film,

07:42 we would have remembered him as a James Dean or a Marlon Brando.

07:46 In this same year, 1987, his talent continues to dazzle spectators around the world,

07:56 since in "Barfly", he still surprises by the accuracy of his play,

07:59 by playing the writer Henry Chinaski.

08:02 Rourke is never where we expect him.

08:04 He is the opposite of the stars of his level,

08:06 who go towards comedy, brain action or Oscar dramas.

08:10 Mickey Rourke, he experiments, goes where no one wants to go,

08:14 sometimes by vanity, for profit or simply for the love of the character.

08:18 He has the merit of being whole, of being true, of saying what he thinks,

08:22 but Hollywood will see it as arrogance,

08:24 contempt for an industry that gave birth to him.

08:27 The same year will be released "The Irishman", and Rourke will not find the successful film.

08:31 He will make the big mistake of taking it publicly to Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

08:35 during a press conference in Cannes,

08:37 accusing the producer of having lied about the intentions of the film.

08:40 The problem is that he is a very powerful man in the industry at the time.

08:44 He can make and undo careers, and Rourke will do the same.

08:48 Mickey, everyone loved him, he was the bad boy, he was outspoken,

08:52 but then he picked a fight with Hollywood royalty in the form of Sam Goldwyn Jr.

08:57 and that was it, he was out, you can't do that.

08:59 The general rule is if you don't like the movie, then you just shut up.

09:03 And unfortunately Mickey didn't.

09:05 He will also make the mistake of publicly supporting the IRA,

09:08 which all the United Kingdom agencies will not be able to accept.

09:11 From there, these films will be banned from the territory.

09:14 The controversy will swell and the popularity of the actor will take a hell of a hit.

09:18 He takes less and less pleasure in playing.

09:21 He has the reputation of not being the most professional on a set and in the world of cinema.

09:26 For example, he avoided reading the script of Rain Man,

09:29 sent by Dustin Hoffman himself because he was too busy preparing a futile boxing fight.

09:34 That's Mickey Rourke, a waste, a raw diamond who never knew where to stand.

09:39 An actor born who never wanted to be.

09:42 Maybe that's the real common point with Brando.

09:45 Homeboy, in 1988, is his first film as a screenwriter and producer.

09:51 He deals with different themes and links them to his passion for boxing.

09:55 The film is based on his life.

09:57 His crush in the film is played by his wife at the time, Deborah Furr,

10:00 with whom he will divorce a year later.

10:02 His best friend, Wesley, is played by one of his best friends, Christopher Walken.

10:06 And his boxer character is him, of course.

10:09 He is forced to quit because of bad costs,

10:12 by making friends with people from a rare background.

10:15 Homeboy will be a critical and commercial failure.

10:17 Without a doubt, the grace for Rourke, who was full of hope.

10:20 From there, his career will never be the same.

10:23 He continues to make more or less good films, most of them being live or video.

10:27 Wild Orchid, in 1989, a kind of failed remake of Nine and a Half Weeks,

10:32 Johnny Beautiful Face, the same year,

10:34 tells the story of a man who can't stand his face and will use surgery to change it.

10:39 Strangely prophetic.

10:41 Then comes, in 1991, Harley Davidson and the Man in the Santiago,

10:45 who will literally disgust him for good, on the set.

10:49 He only agrees to make this film for the money.

10:51 He describes himself as a "sold out" who took his 4 million for a film he didn't want to make.

10:56 Disgust is total. The break is announced.

10:59 The same year, he leaves the world of cinema to start a professional boxer career.

11:04 In 4 years, he participates in 8 fights, will win 6 and will not lose any.

11:08 But, whatever, these fights will be enough to break his face forever.

11:13 His face is gone.

11:15 He must try to find it and continue the surgery to change the aesthetic.

11:19 Nothing is done. The sex symbol is defeated by chaos.

11:23 At this time, however, he is still offered roles.

11:26 Tombstone in 1993, Pulp Fiction in 1994.

11:30 He refuses everything. He doesn't want to have anything to do with Hollywood anymore.

11:34 His statements are the most explosive.

11:36 He is aggressive, arrogant, wants to be the whole world without questioning himself once.

11:41 He lives the night between drugs, sex and alcohol and has no clear ideas.

11:45 His frequentings are limited to the rapper 2Pac, to the French escrow Christophe Rocancourt,

11:50 to the chief of the Los Angeles, to John Gotti of the mafia and so on.

11:54 His wife, Carreotis, whom he met on the set of Wild Orchid,

11:58 asks for a divorce in 1994 and accuses him of marital violence, which he will categorically deny.

12:04 Knowing that he is asking for a marriage, he will do it 2 years earlier by threatening her to commit suicide in case of refusal.

12:10 A relationship all off-scene, far too passionate,

12:13 between two tortured souls who will spend their time showing up in magazines for sordid stories.

12:18 But Mickey was madly in love with her and still admits today not to have ever fallen in love since.

12:23 He will live this breakup very badly, to the point that he will be interned for some time in a specialized center,

12:29 the latter being subject to major suicidal impulses.

12:32 The hardest thing for me is, it's like when my ex-wife said to me, you know, you have to change, you know.

12:38 And then I realized, man, I gotta change or I might as well just blow my fucking brains out.

12:44 Did you ever think of blowing your brains out?

12:46 Sure.

12:48 You actually had moments when you thought, I'm gonna kill myself?

12:52 Well, let's just say, you know, it crosses your mind.

12:55 How would you have done it?

12:57 I have no idea. But you see, because my kid brother was sick with cancer his whole life, trying to live.

13:04 There was a big part of me, I wouldn't do it because of, only mainly because of him.

13:10 You know, because he would fight so much to beat his illness and want to be alive,

13:15 and I'm gonna sit there and blow my fucking brains out?

13:18 No, I wouldn't, there's no fucking way I'd do it. Mainly because of him.

13:23 Was Joey the one person you were closest to in your life?

13:27 Yeah.

13:28 And was his death the most difficult thing you've ever had to deal with?

13:32 Yeah. Yeah.

13:36 In the mid-90s, his film career is over.

13:49 His boxing career is no longer glorious. His family, his friends, his money, all that has disappeared.

13:55 Ruined, he's losing all his possessions little by little.

13:58 He who used to boast about having a mansion, 10 motorcycles and cars to no longer know what to do with,

14:03 he now has nothing.

14:05 Rourke is at the bottom, and there's only cinema that can help him climb the hill.

14:09 In Europe, people go wild for you, but in the American media, you've been having some problems lately?

14:15 Lately? For about 10 years.

14:19 Why is that? I mean, why is that such a big deal?

14:21 Probably because I've got a lot of talent, and I speak the truth, and they're always afraid of that.

14:28 It's the directors that come to my rescue because of my ability. I know this.

14:32 But my ability doesn't mean shit if I don't take responsibility and be a professional.

14:38 And I realize right now that being responsible and being not so unpredictable is part of me being consistent.

14:48 In 1997, the world is stunned to see Mickey Rourke as buffy in Double Team with Jean-Claude Van Damme.

14:55 His features have disappeared. Boxing was right about his face.

14:58 And his dependence on aesthetic surgery won't go away, since he still can't stand himself and spends a lot of time in different offices.

15:05 Most of them are held by unscrupulous charlatans who take money from a man who is physically complex.

15:11 In 1997, he's back in business. Probably not for fun, but boxing destroys his health while bank accounts are empty.

15:19 He owes millions to creditors. He has to go back to the set, but the ambition is no longer there.

15:25 The actor's career becomes as confusing as his private life.

15:28 From 1997 to 2004, he's in the middle of a series of futile productions, cash-tones at their maximum,

15:34 even leaving a set because the director doesn't want him to make his dog run in the film.

15:39 A whim he can't take responsibility for.

15:42 However, in this pile of crap, some films stand out and allow Mickey Rourke to keep being in the shot through small roles.

15:50 "The Idealist" in 1997, where he plays a greedy lawyer under the direction of his great friend Francis Ford Coppola.

15:57 "Gate Carter" in 2001, a film that's not extra, but allows him to get his head out of the water, thanks to Stallone,

16:02 who will insist on making his friend play in the film.

16:05 "Animal Factory" the same year, under the direction of Steve Bucemi.

16:08 And "Man on Fire" by Tony Scott in 2004.

16:11 Films that will allow him to be noticed by a certain Robert Rodriguez, who will make him play in "Desperado 2".

16:17 Then in the very ambitious "Sin City", where he finds one of the roles of his life through the character of Marv.

16:22 He finds himself a lot in him, this broken face, this guy rejected by his peers and in search of redemption.

16:33 The success of the film will mark the beginning of a return to force for the actor,

16:36 which will be confirmed the same year with "Domino" by Tony Scott,

16:39 which after "Man on Fire" offers him a much more important role here.

16:43 The true story of Domino Harvey can be confused with that of Rourke.

16:47 The story of a person destined for great things, but who will decide to turn his back on his environment to fulfill himself in a devouring passion.

16:54 Model become bounty hunter, actor become boxer.

16:58 And yet it is the ring that will give his second chance to Mickey Rourke.

17:02 Not a boxing ring, but a wrestling ring.

17:09 The real rebirth will take place in 2008 thanks to a certain Darren Aronofsky and his film "The Wrestler".

17:15 Mickey Rourke is an actor who lives through his characters.

17:18 But it is in the one of Randy "The Belly" Robinson that we find the most.

17:22 The story of a broken star, of a man who has lost everything, but who will do everything to find his glory of old and those at the risk of his life.

17:29 The two are confused, their fates cross and the time of a film Mickey Rourke shines again.

17:35 He offers us everything he has, finally finds the role of his life.

18:04 He is now at peace with himself, aware of his past mistakes.

18:08 And his rebirth will be realized with the obtaining of a Golden Globe and a BAFTA of the best actor in a dramatic role, as well as a nomination for the Oscars in 2009.

18:17 Again bankable, Hollywood makes the eyes of Rourke again, and the latter does not make the same mistakes twice.

18:23 He takes shelter by respectively following the three blockbusters that are "Iron Man 2" and "The Expendable" in 2010,

18:29 "The Immortals" in 2011, then signs for the sequel to "Sin City" in 2014.

18:34 Like a phoenix, he is reborn.

18:37 This rebirth, he dedicated it to his dogs during his speech at the Golden Globes.

18:41 He claims that they saved his life, that they were there when no one else was.

18:45 He raises the slope and this unexpected return is proof that anything is possible when talent is there.

18:50 Now it is true that for almost 10 years he has only been chaining the broken comics,

18:54 and I can't personally prevent myself from seeing a waste of time as his talent and his presence are unique.

19:00 He deserves better than that.

19:02 Roles to his measure, artistic proposals that would position him for good as one of the best of his generation.

19:08 No doubt he already is.

19:10 No doubt he had nothing more to prove after his artistic rebirth.

19:13 So much so that it was inconceivable, unexpected.

19:17 No doubt he only wanted to prove that he was still in the game, that he was one of the greats,

19:22 that his talent was not exaggerated.

19:24 And he succeeded.

19:25 So from there on, he must have thought that the rest didn't matter anymore.

19:29 Today, aged 70, the mystery surrounding this man is complete.

19:34 His suffering results from a traumatic childhood that will prevent him from seeing clearly,

19:39 from making the right choices.

19:41 Everything comes from childhood, and Mickey Rourke's life is proof of it.

19:45 He is without a doubt at peace with himself.

19:47 He has nothing more to prove.

19:49 We all hope that he will express his talent one last time through a role as powerful and tormented as his life.

19:55 So people say to me, "What's your best movie you make?"

19:59 And I say, "I haven't made it yet. I'm gonna fucking make it."

20:02 And I know I'm going to.

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