00:00In 1992, he landed a role against type in Robert Zemeckis's very burlesque Death Becomes You,
00:05alongside Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn.
00:08He plays a failed aesthetic surge, haunted by these two immortal women who give him a hard time.
00:13Throughout, he adopts a deliberately excessive and outrageous tone in order to fit the style of the story.
00:18It's a miracle!
00:21He returns to a comic register that he has always been able to highlight in many of his works,
00:25notably by self-parodying in Fatal Alarms at the same time.
00:30The film was very popular upon its release.
00:38The visual effects are considered revolutionary for the time.
00:41It even won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
00:44And it's true that today, these effects fit perfectly with the very cartoonish tone that the film adopts.
00:48Bob Zemeckis offers us a beautiful fantasy comedy.
00:51In fact, a satire of show business where hypocrisy and physical appearance predominate.
00:55And as for Bruce Willis, he's still awesome.
00:57But he's chaining together illusions at the box office, he's taking risks with this kind of work,
01:01or that he brings out a new storm with Piège en haut trouble for example released in 1993,
01:06which suffers from a basic and predictable scenario, from a bland production,
01:10and a real identity problem, oscillating between drama, thriller, detective story and action film.
01:15At this time, the loss of speed is felt.
01:17But this good old Bruce will nevertheless see right by considerably reducing his fee
01:22to trust a young, talented filmmaker who will put him back in the spotlight.
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