This past weekend the death of Tom Sizemore was confirmed after complications after an aneurysm that made any possibility of improvement impossible. A very hard week for his family, who has to say goodbye to a loved one, and sad news for the rest of the world, who sees how he is tragically lost. one of the essential figures of the cinema of the nineties.
Sizemore was one of those definitive character actors, intense to play borderline characters that instantly captured your attention in any movie. She also had leading roles such as in the dark ‘The Relic‘, but what we most remember him for are secondary roles in some of the most powerful Hollywood proposals of that time. Extreme crime, science fiction, whatever. We find enough of the first in the three films that we remember today.
‘Natural Born Killers’ (‘Natural Born Killers’, 1994)
Address: Oliver Stone. Distribution: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Downey Jr.
A whole scourge to the culture of celebrity and also to the cheap morbidity that coverage of atrocious crimes becomes, sadly still very current today with the true crime phenomenon. The script by Quentin Tarantino and the direction of Oliver Stone without a doubt knows how to hit the mark in this crazy road movie wickedly romantic.
In a film characterized by such biting and extreme satire that it is utterly surreal in the characters it portrays, Sizemore strikes a different note of color with the character of the detective who is most frightening for its terrible realism. A presence that contrasts magnificently with the leading murderers or the sensationalist presenter of Robert Downey Jr.
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‘Heat’ (1995)
Address: Michael Mann. Distribution: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Ashley Judd.
An absolute must-have for heist movies, and also an action thriller masterpiece that breaks many of the conventions of that kind of cinema. Michael Mann signs a great fight of the titans within that particular ecosystem that is the streets of Los Angeles, not sparing when it comes to showing the danger and the intensity that is experienced being on one side or the other of the law.
For him to fully conquer, his conscientious way of writing and portraying both sides is key, giving incredible richness to characters like those of the gang of robbers. It helps to have level actors, like those who accompany De Niro. Among them, a Sizemore that conveys a truly unique auravery human in contrast to other roles she has played.
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‘Saving Private Ryan’ (‘Saving Private Ryan’, 1998)
Address:Steven Spielberg. Distribution: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, Adam Goldberg
But few have shown as much humanity as in one of the most brutal portraits of World War II. His are several of the best moments of this monumental work by Steven Spielberg, being one of the most exciting characters in the group of soldiers who go in search of an American soldier in the heat of the duel against the Nazis.
The film overall is quite a triumph, perhaps the most influential war movie for how the genre has developed this century. One of the best films of an excellent Spielberg from the direction, which continues to give its great moments of human drama in the midst of the horror of the conflict. And let’s not talk about the realization of sequences like the Normandy landings, which are absolutely memorable.
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