The actor has an extensive career, including several roles with which he has moved away from his handsome boy image.
When it seemed that Brad Pitt was never going to win an Oscar for his career as an actor, he arrived in 2020 with 'Once Upon a Time'. Of course, despite what he cost, he is one of the most famous and prestigious actors in Hollywood both as a performer and as a producer. Throughout his career he has played roles of both 'good boy' and 'bad boy' and tough guy, something that denotes how good an actor he is, since he has a physique prone to leading man roles and of handsome people. Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, his career has gone in another direction, with several films in which, with greater or lesser prominence, he has become the antihero.
1 'Fight Club' (1999)
Brad Pitt was already an established actor when David Fincher called him again to co-star in 'Fight Club'. In 1995 he had directed him in 'Seven', and he was so satisfied with the result that he wanted to have him again for this film adaptation of the book of the same name that Chuck Palahniuk had published in 1996. In 'Fight Club', Brad Pitt He plays Tyler Durden, a soap salesman who meets Edward Norton's character during a flight. After finding his house destroyed by an explosion, Norton's character calls Tyler Durden for a drink. As they leave the bar, Durden offers her his house on the condition that they fight. Thus begins an adventure that will take them on an unsuspected path that will change their lives forever.
With this title, it is clear that Brad Pitt's character had to be a tough guy and boy is he! Tyler Durden becomes an idol thanks to a fight club in which he makes it clear that no one can beat him, and that behind his good face hides a man with a lot of guts. But who really is Tyler Durden?
2 'Snatch: Pigs and Diamonds' (2000)
Perhaps the always impeccable Guy Ritchie (except in the terrible 'Swept by the Tide') noticed Brad Pitt's fighting qualities when he saw him in 'Fight Club'. On the other hand, Brad Pitt deeply admired the director since he saw 'Lock & Stock', so he asked him for a role, and although his character was similar to the one in Fincher's film, he did not hesitate to accept. . The filmmaker was so happy to have Pitt under his command that he changed everything Mickey O'Neil needed to make it fit. Finally, this gypsy emerged, whom no one understands and who caused quite a bit of laughter when he spoke.
The film is set in London and tells two stories that intersect. On the one hand, the search for a stolen diamond, while on the other, it tells the pressure that an unscrupulous gangster exerts on a boxing promoter named Turco and his partner Tommy. It is precisely these last two who locate a gypsy named Mickey O'Neil and convince him to fight in his fights. Mickey turns out to be a gypsy bare-knuckle boxing champion, so he seems like the perfect target. It seems like it is a minor role, but the gypsy ends up being a key piece in the story, and he has a bit of a tough guy role.
3 'Ocean's Eleven' (2001)
If it's already good to make a movie that looks like it's going to be a blockbuster, it's even better to shoot it with friends. That's what Brad Pitt must have thought when he agreed to play Rusty Ryan in 'Ocean's Eleven' alongside George Clooney and Matt Damon. Steven Soderbergh managed to bring together these great actors and a few more in 2001 with this remake of the film of the same name directed by Lewis Milestone in 1960. It was so successful that it had two sequels with names as 'original' as 'Ocean's Twelve' (2004) and 'Ocean's Thirteen' (2007).
In this film, Danny Ocean (George Clooney) moves to Los Angeles after being released from prison with the aim of meeting his ex-partner Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt), whom he wants to convince to rob the Bellagio, Mirage and MGM Grand casinos. Las Vegas at the same time. Everything could go very well, or very badly, and Rusty Ryan shows that he can be a bad boy and a tough guy, but also a bit of a comedian. The truth is that he doesn't do it badly, although it is neither his best film nor was it the role of his life.
