제임스 브리지스 (1936 년 2 월 3 일, 미국 아칸소 파리, 1993 년 6 월 6 일, 캘리포니아 로스 앤젤레스에서 사망), 미국 배우, 시나리오 작가 및 중국 증후군 (1979)과 도시 카우보이로 가장 잘 알려진 감독 (1980).
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영화 학교: 사실 또는 허구?
무성 영화는 아카데미 상을 수상하지 못했습니다.
Bridges는 배우로서의 엔터테인먼트 분야에서 경력을 쌓기 시작했으며 초기 학점에는 많은 TV 쇼의 비트 부분과 Andy Warhol의 지하 영화 Tarzan 및 Jane Regained에서 Tarzan으로 출연 한 역할이 포함되었습니다.
일종의 (1964). 그러나 그는 결국 카메라 뒤에서 일하는 데 집중했습니다. 그는 잘 알려진 말론 브란도 (Marlon Brando) 차량 인 아 팔로 사 (The Appaloosa) (1966)와 알프레드 히치콕 아워 (Alfred Hitchcock Hour)의 수많은 에피소드를 썼습니다. 1970 년 Bridges는 대리모 역할을하기 위해 히피 (Barbara Hershey가 연기 한)를 고용하는 어린이가없는 커플에 대한 저예산 드라마 인 The Baby Maker를 대본으로 제작하고 감독하여 예상치 못한 결과를 낳았습니다.
More widely seen was The Paper Chase (1973), a drama about a Harvard Law School freshman (Timothy Bottoms) who struggles to survive the rigours of his course work with the demanding Professor Kingsfield (John Houseman, who won an Academy Award for his role) while courting the professor’s free-spirited daughter (Lindsay Wagner). Bridges’s adaptation of the source novel was also Oscar-nominated, and the popular film was later adapted into a successful television series.
Bridges next wrote and directed 9/30/55 (1978; also known as September 30, 1955), a dramatization of a fan (Richard Thomas) struggling to come to grips with the death of idol James Dean in 1955. However, it was the suspenseful The China Syndrome (1979) that became Bridges’s first breakout hit. Jane Fonda played a television reporter who stumbles onto a cover-up at a nuclear power plant that nearly suffered a meltdown, and Jack Lemmon portrayed the engineer who blows the whistle on his criminally negligent superiors. Both actors were Oscar-nominated, as was Bridges for cowriting the prescient original screenplay. The film received an enormous boost when, a few weeks after it opened, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurred in Pennsylvania.
Bridges also scored big with Urban Cowboy (1980), a formulaic but entertaining story about a young Texas construction worker (John Travolta) who lets his marriage to independent Sissy (Debra Winger) disintegrate while he struggles to be accepted in the world of Gilley’s, the famed Houston honky-tonk, with its mechanical bull and competitive dance floors. Cowritten by Bridges, Urban Cowboy was a box office hit and spawned a best-selling sound track. Bridges next wrote the existential murder mystery Mike’s Murder for his longtime friend Winger, but the studio rejected the cut he delivered in 1982, and the film remained on the shelf until 1984, when a much-edited version was released to critical and commercial failure.
Bridges’s next film, Perfect (1985), centred on the new subculture of health clubs. It starred Travolta as a bright but unscrupulous Rolling Stone reporter on the trail of a story and Jamie Lee Curtis as the club instructor he first exploits, then falls in love with. Perfect, which was coscripted by Bridges, was widely panned and failed to find an audience. In 1988 he helmed his last film, Bright Lights, Big City, an intelligent but curiously flat adaptation of the Jay McInerney best seller about the club-and-cocaine scene in 1980s New York City. Two years later Clint Eastwood directed White Hunter, Black Heart, which was based on a script cowritten by Bridges. Diagnosed with cancer, Bridges died in 1993. In 1999 the main screening venue of the UCLA Department of Film, Television and Digital Media was renamed the James Bridges Theater.
