Unbreakable Foundation
Jane Fonda turns 80 today. Kinokumir, political activist, public figure, daughter of the legendary Henry Fonda and ex-wife of the cult French “new wave” director Roger Vadim. She was born in an era when men ruled over the world, and her way of thinking until a certain age was based on this paradigm. Never shouting about gender equality, she became one of the first self-made women, not only in life, but also in cinema, where she went from a Sunday doll, an image imposed by male directors, to roles that she literally rewrote for herself by force of character.Daddy's daughter Fonda's father was a celebrity. Henry Fonda is a representative of the elite Hollywood. He gained success on Broadway, in films, had an extensive circle of acquaintances, a beautiful immigrant wife whose roots go back to royal persons, and two adorable children. With them, he shamelessly photographed for the gloss, thereby strengthening the image of a solid actor, a family man, and not some dude. And he chose good roles for himself, for example, in the film adaptation of Tolstoy and the spaghetti western by Sergio Leone, for which he was awarded numerous awards, including an Oscar. Jane Fonda's family was deeply patriarchal. Dad was considered almost a god, at least in the eyes of the children, which was greatly indulged by the mother of the family, who, having married the Foundation, from a brilliant socialite became an exemplary housewife and changed the receptions to the kitchen. This role of a woman in the family will dominate the matured Fonda for a long time and will lead to the fact that, being already in the role of a wife, the actress will indulge her unfaithful husbands. In the meantime, as a child, little Jane goes out of her way to win the praise of her father. And if in the society of Henry Fonda he knew how to present himself, then at home he was most often sullen and silent, instantly irritated because of tears and recognized fishing as the only acceptable pastime with children. Male of an endangered breed, especially in America.  To draw attention to herself, Jane decided to completely abandon girlish habits: pretentiousness, vulnerability, delicate style of dress. She dubbed herself "the lone ranger" and ran with the boys, knocking her knees and wringing her arms. The case with the hand is indicative: she broke it in a fight with the groom's son, proving that she was not a coward and even less a weakling. Arriving home, Jane said nothing to her family and sat down at the table to have supper, after which she lost consciousness and woke up in the hospital. Then dad looked at her with interest, which strengthened Jane's confidence in the correctness of the chosen line of behavior. Of course, in her life there were private schools, racehorses, holidays on the French Riviera in the company of the Kennedy couple, billionaire Onassis and other members of the elite. However, she was more dependent on her father than spoiled, which she, in fact, does not hide in her autobiography All My Life.  Memoirs Foundations are a separate song. She wrote them closer to the age of 60, and these memories became one of the most frank ones that a public person has ever shared. She dedicated them to her mother. Being from top to toe of her father's daughter, she did not recognize her mother, did not understand and did not mourn when she, not surviving a divorce, cut her throat with a sharp razor in a clinic for mentally unbalanced wives of rich people. An unsettled relationship with such an important person gave the tilt of Jane's entire future life and led to the inability to accept herself as a woman - vulnerable, weak, imperfect. This will happen, but much later, and will lead, in fact, to the birth of a frank autobiography.In the meantime, Fonda was getting prettier, growing up and did not know what to do with herself. Newspaper gossip has already begun to circulate about her as about the dissolute daughter of a Hollywood star. They decided to attach her to painting courses in France, which she mercilessly skipped. It is not known how long the ordeal of the future screen star would have lasted if not for the acquaintances who led her to Lee Strasberg, whom Monroe opened for movie actors. She worshiped his vision of Stanislavsky's ideas, and later, as a source of new acting wisdom, all the Hollywood cream began to flow to him. In the class of the famous Foundation teacher, he receives the first praise for his acting and decides to try a movie.  Fonda's debut work in cinema was the role in Big History. Have you noticed that almost all the artists talk about the complexes that worried them at one time or another in their lives? Sometimes it seems like this must-have acting bike exists just to be closer to the fans. But Jane had a real complex, burning and hard, could not stand her appearance, exhausted herself with hunger, and therefore suffered from bulimia. Later psychoanalysts will say that all this is due to dislike. In the meantime, for the debut role of a wicked cheerleader, they smeared her from head to toe with a foundation, put on a sexy-inviting make-up, tucked the pads into her bra and in between times advised her to go to a plastic surgeon to change the oval of the face and the bite. This nondescript comedy was followed by an equally nondescript theatrical premiere. The play, in which Jane participated, lasted only sixteen screenings, and then only because the writer and director wanted to receive a tax deduction. However, this was enough for the Foundation to be noticed, wrote laudatory reviews and named a promising theater actress, and someone even generous with the title of the new Sarah Bernhardt.  And God created women Roger Vadim was a magnet for beautiful women. No not like this. Not beautiful, but like goddesses. One wife is Brigitte Bardot, the other is Catherine Deneuve, and, finally, Jane Fonda. She was, of course, not the last, but she rounded out the three significant persons. This trinity provided interest in the director's work, and he, in turn, gave them the main roles in his own films. They first met when Fonda was not thinking about acting. This was her first visit to France, and at that time she tried in vain to comprehend the history of art. Then he thought the Foundation was a silly American woman, and she was simply frightened of him. Roger has already directed his first cult film, And God Created Woman, starring Bardot, and became one of the founders of the New French Wave. Then he was not yet 30 years old. Jane starred in her sixth film, Sunday in New York, when she was offered a role in Roger Vadim's new film Carousel. She went to France, only not to Roger, but to Rene Clement. And here Roger caught her. She fell into the trap she was so afraid to fall into by watching her own mother. Jane melted into a man, cooked for him, starred in his films, shared his ideas, even fed his ex-wife a burnt steak. Remember Darling in Chekhov's story? A woman is a reflection, a repository for experience, knowledge, interests of a man, you can leave her, exchange for another and blame everything. In her autobiography, she will make a sensational confession, as she shared the marriage bed with the call girls invited by Roger. This experience will come in handy when she plays the prostitute Bree Daniel in "Klute". Hi to Lee Strasberg, who taught her not to play, but to live. Fonda lived it to the fullest, sharing her dissolute husband with the red-haired naiads from the house of a French madame, serving them croissants in the morning and listening to stories of their fall.  In France, Fonda thinks about politics for the first time, listens to the conversations of Vadim's friends, absorbs liberal French views, learns what communism is. To star in a new film, she flies to America, crosses the Atlantic and Roger after her. And again old friends are around. Here she is the daughter of Henry Fonda and a successful actress, and not only the wife of a French director, who was dragged to the States on the lasso. At that time she starred in the movie "Barefoot in the Park". This is the first painting she really likes, thanks in large part to her partner Robert Redford. Between takes, they chat a lot, discussing the construction of his new house, which after a while will become the Sundance Institute - the Mecca of independent cinema in America. After that, it is the turn of Vadim's painting again. Unique, impossible, he conceived for Bardo "Barbarella". Perhaps Bardo would have been easier to film. Jane never got rid of her complexes, and the role of a half-naked seeker of sexual adventures was a burden to her. But Fonda the actress is a real scout. She is very afraid of being known as an arrogant star or being late for the shooting, as it happened only once and then, because she was very worried and needed to cope with an attack of nausea.  Jane tried, but Vadim went into a binge: apparently, USA roots affected. However, the film still came out and, to the surprise of the creators, became almost the hallmark of these two madmen. Meanwhile, the marriage was bursting at the seams, the creative union and the birth of a daughter did not save. Moreover, the war began in Vietnam. Just a little bit, and Fonda will turn from a seductive Barbarella into a patrolled activist and ride anti-aircraft guns ... Roger Vadim, by the way, will also write his autobiography. And, of course, he will not miss the opportunity to walk through his three beloved ladies. His memoirs will scatter like carrier pigeons around the world, everyone will want to look under the curtain of the director's bed. His former companions were also buried together: all his numerous wives, civil and married. One did not come - Deneuve. Bardot and Fonda walked hand in hand behind their husband's coffin along the narrow streets of Saint-Tropez, and USA violinists played nearby. Later, at home, each shared what she loved him for.  Hunted horses are shot, aren't they? The role of Gloria in the film adaptation of Horace McCoy's novel "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" - pivotal for Foundations. She is no longer a doll in a sitcom and not an erotic fantasy, placed in the fantastic scenery of the never-come future. She works on the role herself, tests herself for strength, persuades her partner in the film to arrange a dance marathon, like their heroes. Then they held out for almost two days. Fonda managed to notice everything: her own fatigue, and the position of the body on the last breath, before falling from deadly fatigue, and the breath of her partner on her cheek. Under her tough gaze, discipline, posture, the image of the vulnerable, melancholic Gloria, who committed suicide by surrendering, acquired a completely different reading from the book. Her departure is a slap in the face of the one who invented this damn life. Criticism of the highest authority. She doesn't want to live anymore because she is deeply disappointed in people. The work on the role became a turning point in the actress's personal life. She makes the final decision on divorce and goes headlong into anti-war activities. Many mistakenly write that she was the result of a new marriage with activist Tom Hayden, but this is not so, rather, the marriage was a consequence. By that time, Fonda herself had been touring the campuses of American universities for two years and raising a wave of riots against government policy in Vietnam. By that time, she had already experienced an arrest, trumped-up charges of drug trafficking, wiretapping of calls and clashes with the police. She makes the final decision on divorce and goes headlong into anti-war activities. Many mistakenly write that she was the result of a new marriage with activist Tom Hayden, but this is not so, rather, the marriage was a consequence. By that time, Fonda herself had been touring the campuses of American universities for two years and raising a wave of riots against government policy in Vietnam. By that time, she had already experienced an arrest, trumped-up charges of drug trafficking, wiretapping of calls and clashes with the police. She makes the final decision on divorce and goes headlong into anti-war activities. Many mistakenly write that she was the result of a new marriage with activist Tom Hayden, but this is not so, rather, the marriage was a consequence. By that time, Fonda herself had been touring the campuses of American universities for two years and raising a wave of riots against government policy in Vietnam. By that time, she had already experienced an arrest, trumped-up charges of drug trafficking, wiretapping of calls and clashes with the police. By that time, Fonda herself had been touring the campuses of American universities for two years and raising a wave of riots against government policy in Vietnam. By that time, she had already experienced an arrest, trumped-up charges of drug trafficking, wiretapping of calls and clashes with the police. By that time, Fonda herself had been touring the campuses of American universities for two years and raising a wave of riots against government policy in Vietnam. By that time, she had already experienced an arrest, trumped-up charges of drug trafficking, wiretapping of calls and clashes with the police.  Before going on her political voyage, she is filmed in “ Klute ". And, preparing for filming, for the first time thinks about the ideas of feminism. Many things touched her: racial segregation, the torture of prisoners of war, and the oppression of African Americans. However, everything that concerned women's rights, she considered a far-fetched story, distracting from important things. The last test to prepare for the role of a prostitute in "Klute" is a visit to the police morgue, where she is shown the corpses of women who died at the hands of jealous husbands and lovers, pimps and clients. Fonda, trying not to drop her face, exits. But he is in no hurry, covering his mouth with his palms, as shown in the movies, but ceremoniously and slowly brings the vomit to the toilet. Then she opens the boil which began to mature since the death of his mother.She will receive an Oscar for Klute. True, at the moment when she is invited to the stage, Fonda will already be under the gun of the FBI, they will begin to whisper behind her and she will be very scared, climbing the podium. His father, the unsinkable Henry Fonda, who knows a lot about Hollywood wisdom, will come to the rescue. He will say a phrase that the actress will reproduce, clutching the "golden boy" to her chest, something from the series "I could say a lot, but not now." And with a meaningful look, but, in fact, on shaky legs, will leave the stage to an ovation. The FBI's interest only fueled the Foundation. She deliberately meets leftist and communist people, goes to North Korea, gets into another scandal and gets the nickname Hanoi Jane. True, the scandal was artificially created and warmed up to the required temperature by the government of Nixon and Hoover, but for a long time it ruined its reputation.  Cool Foundation She will start acting again only after the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. Having proved her worth as an actress, first of all, to herself, she will give up the roles of superficial flirtatious and sexy ladies. Fonda will go into drama and sometimes she will show even more than is in the script. She will give each of her heroines an unshakable fundraising character, when they, suffering and disadvantaged, still go through life with a straight back. There will be another Oscar for the anti-war drama Homecoming, with Jon Voight as her partner. Later, she starred in the film “China Syndrome”, a premonition, which tells about the work of a nuclear power plant and was mysteriously released a few days before the largest accident in the United States. But the most important picture of those years for her will be "On the Golden Pond", where she will play together with her father. Her latest attempt to get closer and finally get Henry Fonda's approval. In one of the scenes - the most piercing - she unexpectedly for her father will take his hand and, according to her own recollections, will see tears in his eyes for a moment, as if then he mourned Jane's mother and his own family failures. For Henry Fonda, this role will be the last and Oscar-winning. In the 90s, Jane Fonda will announce that she is retiring from the cinema.  She is a cat breed. And it's not just about the shape of the eyes, high cheekbones and longevity. The Foundation seems to have more than one life. She managed to be an activist, a communist (love for our country is a separate chapter, the apogee of which was the strange film adaptation of Maeterlinck's "Bluebird"), and she also became famous as an aerobics icon. She came up with a program and made millions. Before the Foundations, ordinary women did not go in for sports: it was not accepted to sweat. They were plagued by diets and did what would later be called an eating disorder, or simply “two fingers in the mouth”. Fonda herself found an outlet in the ballet, and as soon as she gained excess weight, she drove it to the barn. However, she also admits bulimia.With her aerobics, tights and lion hair, she entered every second home in America. Fonda was known before, but this time the popularity reached cosmic heights. Then she thought about her own image, about what message she carries to women on the other side of the screen, and what they really want. Well, not a slender body, really? They want to be wanted, confident, and proud of themselves. This is Fonda and tried to give them. She returned to the cinema only to raise money for her numerous social programs. Like Roger Vadim's first wife, Brigitte Bardot, who stopped acting and devoted herself to saving the world, Fonda is much more than just a movie actress. She returned as the obstinate mother-in-law paired with Jennifer Lopez in the movie "If the mother-in-law is a monster" and the no less characteristic grandmother of the main character in "Cool Georgia".  She was married three times, a mother of three and a grandmother of four. But Jane Fonda, like one of her last heroines in "Youth" Paolo Sorrentino, Brenda Morel, is not one of those old women who knit a thirty-fifth sock for Christmas and look inward with unseeing eyes, going through the archive of memories. She does not like to look back, but looks exclusively forward. She knows that she will not live forever, but that the measured will live for her pleasure. The Topic of Article: Unbreakable Foundation. |
