While Bruce Willis was forced to end his career for health reasons, fans are falling back on his old films on the platforms. One of them, arguably his best, is about to leave Netflix.
For a year, bad news about Bruce Willis has followed and resembled each other. “Since we announced the diagnosis ofaphasia in the spring of 2022, Bruce’s condition has progressed and we now have a more specific diagnosis: Madness fronto-temporal”, announced his wife, Emma Heming, last February. Before continuing: “Communication difficulties are just a symptom of the disease that Bruce faces. (…) Today there is no cure for this disease, a reality that we hope can change in the years to come.” The following month, it was another member of his family, his cousin Wilfried Gliem, who spoke in the columns of Bild to give news.
In the shoes of boxer Butch Coolidge
“His movements are very slow, with a constant aggressiveness. He is no longer able to hold a normal conversation. This behavior is typical of patients who suffer from the same disease”, he explained to the German media Wilfried Gliem last March. In this context of forced retirement for the 68-year-old actor, his fans console themselves by looking at his past successes. Among them, crystal trap (1988), the first episode of the saga Die Hard. Six years later, he burst the screen in Pulp Fiction. A film not recommended for children under 16 on Netflix, which he will leave on May 31. Platform subscribers therefore have until the end of the month to (re)discover this legendary film. In the role of boxer Butch Coolidge, he shared the poster with John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman. A dream cast orchestrated by Quentin Tarantino.
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Pulp Fictionawarded at Cannes and at the Oscars
And Pulp Fiction is considered by many to be the best film by Bruce Willis, it is because he knew how to seduce the public and the critics. The feature film has indeed received the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1994 and the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay the following year. In 2007, the American Film Institute (AFI) voted it the 94th best American film of all time. Rumor has it that Bruce Willis would have preferred to have the lead role in the film played by John Travolta. But Quentin Tarantino had denied this hallway noise. “Bruce Willis made us legit. Reservoir Dogs was fantastic internationally, so everyone was waiting for my new movie. And then when it was my new movie with Bruce Willis, they went crazy”had confided the director in an interview with Vanity Fair.
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