Description, plot, roles and actors "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." The film "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"

Actors and the roles of the movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" for a long time crash into memory. Still would! After all, in the lead roles - the most beautiful pair of Hollywood: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. It was this film that gave impetus to the development of their relations. It is he who most likes fans of artists. We'll figure it out, why?

The creators of the picture

If we talk about the memorable Hollywood paintings, we can not fail to mention the militant "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." Actors and roles are, of course, the main trump of the film: even before the premiere, the audience expected a lot from the duo of two sex symbols of the "dream factory" - Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. In addition to a successful cast, Daga Lyman's film also boasts an easy interesting storyline, simple humor, sprinkled with gunfire and explosions. In a word, what else is needed for a good pastime?

For director Doug Lymon, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" became the eleventh film. Prior to that, Lymon had already released two parts of "Identification Born" with Matt Damon in the title role, as well as a few little-known thrillers.

Boyan Bazelli was invited as an operator, and John Powell became the composer of the project, who just recently finished work on the story "Peng: Journey to Netlandia".

"Mr. and Mrs. Smith" (film): description

In the center of the plot of the comedy is an ordinary married couple, who was once madly in love with each other, and now drags on a boring existence, meeting only at dinner and in the morning in the bathroom cleaning her teeth. This is what the characters, played by the famous Hollywood actors, seem to us for the first ten minutes. "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" dramatically changes its storyline when Jane and John go to work. The viewer understands that this marriage is not so simple.

It turns out that a boring life in the private sector is just a cover. In fact, John and Jane are two elite mercenaries who work for competing agencies. And soon they are sent to eliminate the same goal. The world of the main characters collapses at a time when they realize that they can soon lose not only their favorite work, but also each other. They have to decide whether they are so important to each other and whether there was anything real and truthful in their lying relations.

"Mr. and Mrs. Smith": actors, heroes. Brad Pitt in the role of John Smith

Initially for the role of Mrs. Smith, the director wanted to approve Nicole Kidman. When Brad Pitt found out that Nicole was leaving the project, he decided to refuse. But the famous Hollywood actor stopped the news that her partner on the set could be Angelina Jolie.

The actors in the movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" were both known for their attractiveness and propensity to break hearts. Many participants in the filming process noticed that Pitt and Jolie disliked each other from the very beginning. Directed by Doug Lymon compared them with the "two scorpions" in an enclosed space. During this period, the most difficult moments in the film were shot: the battle of a married couple in their own house. Perhaps that's why John and Jane's brutal reprisals against each other look so realistic.

However, soon one of the participants of the crew accidentally or accidentally locked up the actors in one trailer. They had to spend a lot of time there, after which Brad and Angie suddenly got along.

Angelina Jolie as Jane Smith

The role of Jane Smith in his action movie Doug Lymon entrusted Angelina Jolie and not lost: the actress did a remarkable job. Maybe because Jolie's playing dangerous women is a familiar thing: she appeared on the screen in the form of hijacker Sarah from "Gone in 60 Seconds," Lara Croft from the video game of the same name, and also as Detective Ileana Scott from the thriller "Taking Lives" and Swindler Bonnie Castle from "Seduction." Now she had to play a hired killer, but after such a galaxy of "dangerous" images it was not an actress of labor.

As for Jolie's dislike of Pitt's public favorite, she was quite justified from the actress's point of view: Angelina's father (a famous actor) left the family when the girl was very young, and Jolie's last husband (also a famous actor) shortly before filming "Mr. And Mrs. Smith "left her with a small adopted son in her arms. But then the cooperation with Pitt turned out almost to the loudest novel of the XXI century with divorce, adoption of children, joint films and many other interesting facts.

The spectator watched closely with this Hollywood couple. So it's not known if Doug Lymon's film would have been successful had it not been for the actors. "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" is 70% interesting to the viewer precisely because of the non-standard and intriguing screen duet.

Vince Vaughn as Eddie

But Brad and Angie are not the only actors who decorate the film. "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" was another successful film work for Vince Vaughn.

This time Vince, known for the films "Psychosis" and "Cage", played a friend and partner of John Smith on the agency. However, this character turned out to be very comical: in thirty years he lives with his mother and sleeps on the couch in the living room, all afraid and constantly whines for every reason. However, the hero of Vince is the only one who does not turn away from John in a difficult moment.

After participating in the comedy "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," the actor rose well: in all subsequent films, Vince Vaughn was offered exclusively major roles ("American Divorce", "Dilemma", "Father-boy", etc.).

Other performers of roles

Also in the film Doug Lymon were involved many other actors. "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" entered the filmography of actress Kerry Washington. She got the role of co-partner Jane Smith. However, in the career of the artist this project was not reflected in any way, she continues to play secondary roles ("Fantastic Four", "Django the Liberated").

In the action movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" actors Adam Brody ("Smallville's Secrets"), Keith David ("Platoon"), Chris Weitz ("My Boy"), Rachel Huntley, Michelle Monahan ("Source Code") appeared in the episodes.

Premiere, box office

In the film Doug Lymon "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" actors, the plot and the script played a positive role: the film, at a cost of 110 million dollars, collected 478 million at the box office. I must say that this figure was not broken by any of the director's subsequent projects. Approached the similar results except that the "Bourne Ultimatum".

The premiere of the comic thriller took place on June 7, 2015 in the US and Kuwait. The next day, the picture was seen by the people of Egypt, Mexico, the United Arab Emirates, the Philippines and Jamaica. Russian viewers were able to appreciate the screen duet of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt on June 16.

Reviews

Instant was the reaction of periodicals to the film "Mr. and Mrs. Smith": actors, roles, reviews of viewers and film critics - all this was covered by journalists immediately after the premiere. The reviews on the militant were mostly positive: of the 207 reviews, 122 are positive.

Critics point out the successful cast. The presence in the action movie of two real action-stars in advance raises the limit of confidence in the material. And in general it is difficult to imagine the role of special agents of someone else: Pitt and Jolie have long established themselves as actors who know how to be both tough and touching in the frame.

Pleased with the smooth genre transitions in Lymon's film: the first 15-20 minutes of melodrama for "housewives", then half an hour of an espionage detective, and in the finale a real "massacre" for true connoisseurs of militants.

Among the negative moments, regular press observers note plagiarism of script writers, since in the history of American cinema there are at least two films with the same title and a similar plot. Also about the peonies, peonies were filmed films "The Honor of the Family Prizzi", "True Lies", "The War of the Spouses of Rose" and many other projects.

Viewers' comments

Nevertheless, the film "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" ("Mr. & Mrs. Smith") very favor ordinary viewers. And the age range of fans of the painting ranges from 16 to 55 years.

Such success can be explained by the fact that the ribbon is a special dish in which everyone will find something to his taste. Do you like melodramas? Watch how the lyrical line develops between the characters. Do you like comedies? Well, Mr and Mrs. Smith have something to laugh at, sometimes even very loudly. You love action? Excellent! Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in the second half of the movie will blow up everything for you that was "overprotected by the hard work" (meaning the Smiths house) and they will still destroy a huge hypermarket, arrange a shootout on a high-speed track and get a good shot not only to each other but also to bad ones Guys.

And finally, do not forget that Angelina Jolie has an army of fans, and Brad Pitt has an army of fans who automatically turn into fans of the comedic thriller Doug Lymon.