Method Actor Series | Part -2

Continuation to the Previous Blog, Here are the next two actors

                             Jack Nicholson

Short Intro:

His Original name is "John Joseph Nicholson", He is one of the most prominent American actors of his generation, well known for his versatile portrayals of unconventional, alienated outsiders. He has a total of 12 Oscar Nominations & has won 3 times. Other than Michael Caine, he is also notable for being one of the two actors who has received Oscar Nomination in every decade from the 1960s through the early 2000s.

Notable Acting Performances:

1) The Shinning(1980)

2) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975)

3) As Good as it gets(1998)

4) Terms of Endearment(1984)

5) Chinatown(1975)

Few Astonishing Facts about him:

1) When he played the role of Joker in Tim Burton's Batman(1989), He actually bought that Joker Costume worth $70,000.

2) The Joker actually became such an iconic role, that it was prominently featured during his "Life Achievement Award" ceremony at the American Film Institute in 1994.

3) He won his first Oscar playing a "Mental Patient" in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

4) In the early 1970s, Stanley Kubrick cast Jack Nicholson as Napoleon in a biopic, but the plans for the film fell through. The director and actor would finally work together nearly a decade later in the 1980's "The Shining".

5)  Even though he played the villain in 1989's "Batman," he got top billing over Michael Keaton as the title character. He also made sure he got a percentage of the merchandising, meaning his role as the Joker netted him between $60 and $90 million.

6) Jack Nicholson’s trademark look is his dark shaded glasses without which he is rarely seen,  when in public settings.

7) He is a big fan of the Los Angeles Lakers and refuses to miss a game when they play at home. He rather has his movie roles scheduled nowhere near the game days.

8) Growing up Jack Nicholson was raised by his grandmother whom he thought was his actual mother. He did not discover the truth until a reporter for TIME magazine broke the news to him during an interview.

9) Along with Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty, he was asked to play the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1972).

10) He once said “You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.” – Jack Nicholson

Do watch the below Video for the Most Incredible Fact about JACK Nicholson:-

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                              Marlon Brando 

Short Intro:

Marlon Brando, in full Marlon Brando, Jr., (born April 3, 1924, Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.—died July 1, 2004, Los Angeles, California), American motion-picture and stage actor is known for his visceral, brooding characterizations. Brando was the most celebrated of the method actors, and his slurred, mumbling delivery marked his rejection of classical dramatic training. His true and passionate performances proved him one of the greatest actors of his generation.

Notable Acting Performances:

1) The Godfather(1972)

2) Julius Caesar(1953)

3) The Wild One(1957)

4) Sayonara(1957)

5) Apocalypse Now(1979)

Few Stellar Facts about him:

1) He was in the Charlie Chaplin movie, This was five years before The Godfather, It was the last film Chaplin made.

2) He hated memorizing lines but spoke Five languages(Dutch, French, German, Irish & Scottish)

3) He almost didn’t get the part of Don Corleone, Stanley Jaffe, president of the studio making The Godfather, said Brando would never be in the movie. But he eventually agreed to allow him the part in the Movie.

4) He Owned a private island in French Polynesia.

5) Brando starred in the only film he ever directed, the western One-Eyed Jacks (1961, Now a cult favorite, it was notorious at the time for Brando’s excessive expenditure of time and money.

6) According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Brando was paid a record $3.7 million ($15 million in inflation-adjusted dollars) and 11.75% of the gross profits for 13 days’ work on Superman.

7) He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1765 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.

8) In his final film, The Score (2001), he starred with Robert De Niro.

9) Marlon Brando is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, rivaled only by the more theatrically oriented Laurence Olivier in terms of esteem.

10) Marlon Brando is often considered as the "Pioneer of the Method Acting"

11) HIS ACADEMY AWARD WAS STOLEN, After winning Best Actor for his role in the 1954 film On the Waterfront, Brando's Academy Award was stolen. Years later, it was found at a London auction house and returned to the actor.

Do Watch the below Video for the Most Remarkable Fact about Marlon Brando:-

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• Jack Nicholson
• Marlon Brando 

Method Actor Series | Part -1

I have been doing this Series on "Method Acting" in Parts to do justice to my time & actor's effort that has been spent on this ART.

The list of actors that I will include will be based on the movies that I watched till now & in this lockdown, I got plenty of time apart from my work to watch few movies & did spent it well on some reasonable movies. I came across such tremendous performances by a few actors, It literally gave me goosebumps to think that they are doing it on camera, It's just unbelievable.

So the first actor I want to include in this list is "Daniel Day Lewis"

                                Daniel Day Lewis

Short Intro:

He is a Retired English actor, born on 29th April 1957 in London. His full name is Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis. His first movie was "Sunday Bloody Sunday" which was released in 1971 & his last movie was "Phantom Thread" which released in 2017. He did act on a few television shows & had done theatre also in his early days. He is known for his on-screen ferocity & for his exhaustive preparation for roles. An Actor one of a Kind.

Notable Acting Performances:

1) My Left foot(1989)

2) There will be Blood(2007)

3) Gangs of New York(2002)

4) Age of Innocence(1993)

5) Lincoln(2012)

Few Astonishing Facts about him:

1) He is a complete Private Man, He is very protective of his private life, Daniel Day-Lewis rarely gives interviews & makes very few public appearances.

2) He is one of the very few actors in the film industry who are very selective in doing films. He has acted in only 5 films since 1998 up to 2017 taking a gap of 5 years between each role. 

3) He is the only male actor to win three Oscars in the Best Actor Category. He won Best Actor for:

----My Left Foot in 1989

----There will be Blood in 2007

----Lincoln in 2012

4) He is widely recognized as Method Actor, due to this devotion to the character that he is playing in the movie, His devotion is so intense to the point, that it affects his health adversely.

5) Being a rich Jewish, he is often bullied in his childhood & To escape from that he soon mastered the local accent & their discipline. He regards that as his first greatest performance of his life.

6) He is transferred to three different schools in a short duration owing to his wild behavior.

7) Several times he was offered the role of Aragorn in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy but he turned it down.

8) For the character "Bill- The Butcher" in the movie "Gangs of New York", he listened to songs of Eminem to get into an Angry frame of mind.

9) For his role in "There Will be Blood", he not only receives Oscar, but he has won a cumulative total of 23 acting awards.

10) He Learned a completely different language i.e Czech for his role in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

Do watch the below Video for the Most Surprising Fact about Daniel Day-Lewis

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                                        Al Pacino 

Short Intro:

His full name is "Alfredo James Pacino", He is born in New York, USA on 25th April 1940. He is an American actor best known for his vigorous, explosive acting style.

He also had an impressive career on stage & in the theatre as well. He made his filmmaking debut in 1996 with the movie named "Looking for Richard".

Notable Acting Performances:

1) The Godfather(1972)

2) Serpico(1973)

3) Scarface(1983)

4) Carlito's Way(1993)

5) Heat(1995)

6) Donnie Brasco (1997)

7) The Irishman (2019)

Few Stellar Facts about him:

1) He was the first actor to get nominated for Best Supporting Actor & Won an Oscar for Best Actor at the same time.

2) He Originally wanted to be a Professional Baseball Player.

3) One of his performances in Godfather I & Godfather II is often regarded as the greatest in movie history.

4) He has won Oscar only once, despite having 8 Nominations.

5) First Male actor to receive two acting nominations for two movies in the same year

- Best Actor for "Scent of a Woman"

- Best Supporting Actor for - "Glengarry Glen Ross"

6) He is one of the few actors to win the "Triple Crown of Acting" i.e. Oscar, Emmy & Tony Award, hence regarded as one of the best method actor ever.

7) He has never been married but has three children & he also has twins with actress Beverly D'Angelo in 2001, His first child was born just six months before he turned 50.

8) He dropped out of acting school, Yes you heard it right, one of the greatest method actors of our generation is a acting school drop out.

9) He turned down a part in the famous movie "The Usual Suspects" and He regrets that decision to date.

10) AL Pacino did not want to act in the gangster movie "The Godfather" & the team also does not want to work with him, except for director Francis Ford Coppola. 

Do Watch the below Video for the Most Stunning Fact about Al Pacino

Stay Tuned for Part 2 :) ...!!!!

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• Daniel Day Lewis
• Al Pacino 

Did USA really went to Moon OR It was just a HOAX

More than 50 Years later there are still conspiracy theorists, who insist that this is not a coincidence, It was just the very well planned & executed HOAX.

This all traced back to a part in our history when two superpower giants i.e. America & Russia are fighting for supremacy by declaring war on each other...not Military War, A waged Political, Economic & Propaganda war i.e Cold War.

If you have good political understanding & are aware of international affairs, you have observed that the war has not ended yet, Even though they have publically announced it in 1991 that the cold war has ended, but it's just the pace of the tensions has increased & decreased over the time, but it still continues.

NASA 

When John F Kennedy was elected as President of the United States in 1961, He publically declared that "Before the end of this decade, We Americans will have our first mankind foot on moon" #WeChooseToGoToMoon

Thus the race for Supremacy takes place in terms of who will reach space first, USA did win that race, JFK was quite truthful for his words, they landed on Moon on 24th July 1969 with Apollo 1 & Neil Armstrong became the 1st Human to have his foot on Moon & Buzz Aldrin being the 2nd Human.

Hang on.....!!!!!!

Even though they have landed on the Moon, But still they are still few people who believed that this is not the truth, Just to proved the Dominance & to get rid of the humiliation of their previous failed space missions/experiments they have created a Hoax Film into the studio & showcased the whole world that they are the first to land on the moon.

Do watch the below video to understand the theory behind the Hoax Film that the USA may have created to fake moon landings.

Below are the few claims that Conspiracy Theorist has put forward regarding Moon Landing:

1) There are no Stars in any of the pictures they took, while they landed on the Moon?

Nasa's Response:

   The Moon's surface reflects a lot of lights which came from sun & because of the light from the sun being reflected from the moon, that's why you wouldn't be able to see the stars, Also the exposures they were was very fast which doesn't let a lot of lights to come in, so the cameras in order to expose properly in the surrounding environment would have not actually exposed the stars.

2) The USA flag that they put on the moon was actually waving, as there was no vacuum on the moon then how come this is possible?

Nasa's response: 

   If you watch closely, the flag is only moving after it has been touched, this is because they had horizontal rods planted inside the flag to make it stand out well & they are bending those rods as they were installing it on the moon's surface. 

3) There is no landing crater under the moon lander & what about the thrust of the engines which results in the dust cloud?

Nasa's response: 

     The Moon lander may be relatively heavy on the earth, but it's 1/6 of its weight because of the less gravity on the moon, this actually means that the moon lander doesn't take much thrust to propel things up and down & so it wouldn't have created a huge dust cloud & huge crater.

4) There are multiple photos taken on the moon which are miles apart from each other, but they have the same background?

Nasa's Response: 

    These photos indeed are very very similar, but there are actually more than subtle differences between the photos, the same type of difference you will expect in Parallax Effect when you move, but the background is miles & miles away, another thing is there is no pollution, there is no haze, no air on the moon so that these objects are 10-20 kilometers away, thus they are the different photos they are not same.  

5) The quality of photographs that were taken on the moon was far fetched of very high resolution?

High Resolution

Low Resolution

Nasa's Response: 

    There are many poor-quality photos also taken by astronauts, Nasa chose to publish only the best ones. Also, the cameras they are using are of very high resolution i.e Hasselblad 500 EL with Carl Zeiss Optics and a 70 mm medium format film magazine.

Conclusion:

     Even though conspiracy theorist had put many myths forward to this moon landing theory, NASA has given a very well explained hypothesis to each of the myths, even for the few myths they have created a Moon-like environment in Lab & shown experiments to prove that the USA did go to the Moon & they are first to do that :)

Do let me know in the comment section, what's your thought of this conspiracy theory?, Do you believe in a myth or the USA did go to the moon?

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Lesser known facts about IPL you won't believe it's true

IPL, which is widely called "India ka tyohar" (festival of India), has begun its 13th edition with this year's season, kickoff started from 19th September 2020.

IPL has gained popularity down the years, Cricket Frenzy is all-time high during this part of the year, IPL now in its 13th edition has had brilliant moments and epic milestones so far with two super overs. In this post, I am going to share the few unknown(well, known to die-hard fans like me ;) facts about IPL.

1) Ashok Dinda has played for 4 teams, but every single time, the franchise he played ended up in the bottom four teams, Sadly the team he has played never went to the playoffs

--In IPL 2008, he was with KKR, They finished 6th in the points table

--In IPL 2009, again with KKR, They finished 8th in the points table

--In IPL 2010, again with KKR, They finished 6th in the points table

--In IPL 2011, he went to DD, They finished 10th in the points table

--In IPL 2012, he went to PWI, They finished 9th in the points table

--In IPL 2013, again with PWI, They finished 8th in the points table

--In IPL 2014, he joined RCB, They finished 7th in the points table

2) Delhi Daredevils is the only team that has never played IPL finals(They reached playoff thrice, but never win an IPL)

3) Rohit Sharma, current captain of the Mumbai Indians team is the only player in IPL history to have won 5 IPL trophies (1-Deccan Chargers & 4-Mumbai Indians).

4) Bhuvneshwar Kumar is the only Indian Bowler to have won the purple cap twice and also the only paper to won the cap in the consecutive years 2016 & 2017.

5) Pragyan Ojha is the only spinner to win Purple Cap, he has won that in the 3rd season of the IPL in 2010.

6) Fair Play award has given to each team after IPL finals every year, Mumbai, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Hyderabad, Punjab has won each, Chennai is the only team to win 6 times that too without playing two years.

7) Brendon Mcculum has played with KKR in the very first match of IPL & he scored a whopping 158* in 73 balls, unfortunately, that is the only century by the KKR team till date.

8) In 2014 RR versus KKR match got tied, they played super over and that was even tied, later RR declared as the winner of the match, this such instance has happened only once in the IPL history.

9) RCB holds the record for the Highest & Lowest total in IPL history, In 2013 RCB scored 263/5 against Pune Warriors & In 2017, they scored just 49 against KKR, both the records have happened on the same day of the month i.e. 23rd April.

10) Dwayne Bravo is the leading wicket-taker in the single-season of the IPL i.e. 32 wickets in the 2013 edition, he broke the record of the Lasith Malinga's 28 wickets of 2011 edition. 

11) Sohail Tanvir is the only Pakistani bowler to take 6 wickets haul in IPL, he has done that in the very first season of the IPL, the record was unbroken for almost 11 years one of the long-lasting records in IPL, while in 2019 Alzarri Joseph broke the record, these two along with Adam Zampa are the only 6-wicket hauls in the IPL history.

12) Paul Valthaty is the only Non-International player to scored a century in the IPL, he has scored 120 against CSK in 2011.

13) KKR  along with CSK are the only two teams to win a match by 1 wicket, KKR has achieved this while chasing 184 against KXIP at Eden Gardens in 2015, While CSk achieve this in 2018.

14) Amit Mishra is the only bowler to take Hattrick with 3 different teams, he has achieved this while playing for Delhi Daredevils, Deccan Chargers & Sunrisers Hyderabad.

15) KXIP is the only team to change their captains in each season of the IPL i.e from 2008 to 2020, each season they have named a different player as their captain.

--- 2008-09-> Yuvraj Singh

--- 2010-10-> Kumar Sangakara

--- 2011-11-> Mahela Jayawardene

--- 2012-12-> Adam Gilchrist

--- 2013-13-> David Hussey

--- 2014-14-> George Bailey

--- 2015-15-> Virender Sehwag

--- 2016-16-> David Miller

--- 2017-17-> Murli Vijay

--- 2018-18-> Glenn Maxwell

--- 2019-19-> R Ashwin

--- 2020-20-> KL Rahul

While CSK on the other side has not changed its Skipper till date, they have World Cup Winning Indian Captain "Mahendra Sing Dhoni aka MSD" as captain. 

16) God of Cricket "Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar" is the first Indian to hold an orange cap in the IPL when he played with Mumbai Indians back in 2010.

17) Virat Kohli & Sachin Tendulkar are the only two Indians to win MVP's in IPL, Sachin Tendulkar achieved this in 2010, while Virat Kohli in 2016.

18) Mumbai Indians initially try to keep their franchise name as " Mumbai Raisers" due to their logo appearance, but due to Sachin Tendulkar's suggestion, management decided to keep it as "Mumbai Indians".

19) CSK & MI are the only two teams to win all home matches in single-season, CSK achieved this in 2011 & they become the champions in the same season & later on they became the only team to defend their title as well, While MI achieved this in 2013 winning all 8 home matches. 

Now, the 20th one is quite interesting,

20) In 2009 & 2016, Hyderabad became the IPL champions,
----- Both time, Captains was Australian
----- Both time, Opponent was RCB
----- Both time, RCB's Skipper was an Indian Player
----- Both time, Hybdreabd batted first
----- Both time, Hyderabad player's hold purple cap(RP Singh & B Kumar)
----- Both time, Hyderabad's captain was in the 2nd place in the orange cap race

Hope you have enjoyed these facts about IPL, Do let me know in the comment section that how many of these you have already known & which of these you find interesting 😎

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