I've always liked Ethan Hawke, and this article really just makes me like him more. There does seem to be an earnestness about his acting that makes his work with Linklater really work. And I...
I've always liked Ethan Hawke, and this article really just makes me like him more. There does seem to be an earnestness about his acting that makes his work with Linklater really work.
And I think there is this pressure in life not to take yourself too seriously. I know I definitely try not to take myself too seriously. But there is a need for people to give life it's due and treat it with the import it deserves. Trying not to be a tryhard kinda gets in the way of the fact that trying hard is worth doing. I like this article and I like the writing and I like Ethan Hawke. Thanks for posting this.
Oh man. This makes me think of Boyhood. What an amazing movie. It reminds me at once of those "small" "human-scale" movies about something common that ends up being profound and an old-school...
There does seem to be an earnestness about his acting that makes his work with Linklater really work.
there is a need for people to give life it's due and treat it with the import it deserves
Oh man. This makes me think of Boyhood. What an amazing movie. It reminds me at once of those "small" "human-scale" movies about something common that ends up being profound and an old-school cast-of-thousands epic. On the one hand, it has a very domestic, familiar setting, and at the same time was a big, ambitious project.
All the while emanating the sincerity and joie de vivre that I think will eventually be the cure our endemic detached post-modern irony. I like thinking about this movie.
Glad it was engaging. I was pulled in by the first couple paragraphs. I actually hadn't realized that Hawke was a child actor - he seemed to come out of nowhere to me. I need to read his IMDB page...
Glad it was engaging. I was pulled in by the first couple paragraphs. I actually hadn't realized that Hawke was a child actor - he seemed to come out of nowhere to me. I need to read his IMDB page and check out some of those earlier films.
Now he’s 47, but when he was much younger, Ethan Hawke read “Cassavetes on Cassavetes,” the indie filmmaker bible, and then went to hear the author’s widow, Gena Rowlands, speak. She looked out at the crowd and laughed. She said John Cassavetes was always disappointed because nobody would finance his movies; he’d always felt dismissed and disregarded. “‘And now here you guys are making a big deal out of him,’” he remembered her saying. She said that was nice, but that they shouldn’t miss the point. “‘Make a big deal of yourself.’ You know? Whatever indifference the world gives you, he felt it, too. So you’re just as good as he is. Like, go out and do it.”
Mr. Hawke found that so moving, the idea of ignoring what the world was telling you about yourself and instead living only by standards that you had, yourself, carefully defined for your life and work. He vowed right then that he would do whatever it took to make good art on his own terms, no matter what anyone said. He would take himself seriously, even if no one else did.
I've always liked Ethan Hawke, and this article really just makes me like him more. There does seem to be an earnestness about his acting that makes his work with Linklater really work.
And I think there is this pressure in life not to take yourself too seriously. I know I definitely try not to take myself too seriously. But there is a need for people to give life it's due and treat it with the import it deserves. Trying not to be a tryhard kinda gets in the way of the fact that trying hard is worth doing. I like this article and I like the writing and I like Ethan Hawke. Thanks for posting this.
Oh man. This makes me think of Boyhood. What an amazing movie. It reminds me at once of those "small" "human-scale" movies about something common that ends up being profound and an old-school cast-of-thousands epic. On the one hand, it has a very domestic, familiar setting, and at the same time was a big, ambitious project.
All the while emanating the sincerity and joie de vivre that I think will eventually be the cure our endemic detached post-modern irony. I like thinking about this movie.
Glad it was engaging. I was pulled in by the first couple paragraphs. I actually hadn't realized that Hawke was a child actor - he seemed to come out of nowhere to me. I need to read his IMDB page and check out some of those earlier films.