Will Tom Cruise ever expire?

Tom Cruise embarked on the professional acting path when he was quite young. At the age of 19, he had his first role in the movie Endless love, just a small supporting role. Compared to his colleagues, Tom Cruise has a petite physique and a much more modest height, but in return, he has a natural charm that attracts both men and women. Charisma and energy are what made Tom Cruise conquer filmmakers right from the first years of his career.

After his leading role in Losin’ it , Tom Cruise has continued to act in films. However, the movie that brought him to the rank of A-list star was Top Gun (released in 1986). Pilot Maverick, played by Tom Cruise, is considered an iconic character, the perfect model of a brave, upright, and dedicated American man serving his country. Thanks to Tom Cruise’s charisma, this movie also earned a profit of 350 million USD.

Throughout the 1990s, Tom Cruise was always on the list of the highest paid actors in the world, with at least $15 million per movie. He also had the opportunity to collaborate with many famous directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott or Paul Thomas Anderson. With Interview with the Vampire (1994), Mission: Impossible (1996), Jerry Maguire (1996), Eyes wide shut (1999), Tom Cruise became a globally influential superstar.

Mission: Impossible alone has become an action movie franchise associated with the name of Tom Cruise. This franchise has been developed to its 7th part. Tom Cruise, in addition to being an actor, is also directly involved in the film creation process as a producer. 27 years have passed, this action movie series is still “hot” and earns “huge” profits as long as Tom Cruise is still participating.

In Hollywood, few stars have maintained their A-list status as consistently as Tom Cruise. Of course, in the works the actor has appeared in, there are also films in which he was criticized for his monotonous acting, with content that he watched once and then forgot. However, whenever they see Tom Cruise’s name on the poster, audiences are always willing to spend money to buy tickets to go to the theater.

Ở cái tuổi 60, khi nhiều diễn viên bắt đầu nghĩ đến chuyện về hưu hoặc bị gán cho cái mác “hết thời” thì Tom Cruise vẫn còn là người đi đầu trong cuộc chơi điện ảnh. Tom Cruise không ngừng kiến tạo nên những thành tích, đỉnh cao mới. Năm ngoái, khi phòng vé thế giới vẫn chao đảo vì những ảnh hưởng của đại dịch Covid-19, anh tái xuất với bom tấn Top Gun: Maverick. Tác phẩm thu 1,49 tỉ USD toàn cầu và thắng một giải Oscar. Phim cũng được chọn công chiếu trong buổi lễ khai mạc của Liên hoan phim Cannes danh giá tại Pháp.

Thành công của Top Gun: Maverick giúp Tom Cruise trở thành diễn viên kiếm nhiều tiền nhất thế giới năm ngoái, với thu nhập khoảng hơn 100 triệu USD. Năm nay, Tom Cruise tiếp tục khuấy đảo thị trường điện ảnh với Mission: Impossible – Dead reckoning part one. Ra mắt cách đây ít lâu, phần thứ 7 của loạt Mission: Impossible được chấm 98% cà chua tươi trên Rotten Tomatoes. Các nhà báo, cánh phê bình nhận xét Tom Cruise lại tiếp tục nâng tầm cuộc chơi, thiết lập những tiêu chuẩn mới cho dòng phim hành động. Sau 40 năm sự nghiệp, Tom Cruise chưa hết thời mà còn liên tục gặp thời.

‘Hồ hởi như lần đầu và quyết liệt như lần cuối’

Hào quang kéo dài dành cho Tom Cruise tất nhiên có một phần do may mắn trời ban. Tuy nhiên, đó cũng là thành quả cho những nỗ lực không ngừng nghỉ của nam diễn viên xuyên suốt 40 năm làm nghề. Mỗi khi bước vào một dự án mới, Tom Cruise luôn làm việc với 100% sức lực, tâm huyết. Tài tử 61 tuổi luôn tìm cách để nâng cao tiêu chuẩn, phá vỡ những giới hạn của chính bản thân mình hay tác phẩm mà anh tham gia. Tinh thần lao động, sáng tạo bền bỉ đã làm nên đẳng cấp có một không hai của Tom Cruise tại Hollywood.

Đạo diễn Steven Spielberg khi được phỏng vấn cho cuốn sách tiểu sử Tom Cruise: An Unauthorised Biography của tác giả Andrew Morton đã nhận xét rằng Tom Cruise là “người luôn tỏa ra một nguồn năng lượng bền bỉ”. Trong khi đó, đạo diễn Top Gun: Maverick – Joseph Kokinski cũng thể hiện sự trân trọng, ngưỡng mộ đặc biệt khi nói về Tom Cruise:

“He approached every day on set with enthusiasm as if it were his first film. But at the same time he worked as if it were his last. It’s an attitude Not every actor can have it. Never take everything you have for granted today, give 110 percent every day is what Tom Cruise does and thinks. I always feel overwhelmed by this energy, by this fact, that he has been in this industry for 40 years but never allows himself to slow down It’s also accelerating, which is great.”

Indeed, Tom Cruise has always been a pioneer in breaking the limits of action movies, bringing unique footage that makes viewers “eyes A-shaped, mouth O-shaped”. It’s hard to believe that at the age of 61, Tom Cruise still performs his own duel scenes on the roof of a train, zigzagging between narrow streets on a large motorbike, jumping from rooftop to rooftop. and stunned when he personally flew his car out of the abyss.

Throughout his career as an action star, Tom Cruise has rarely had to use stuntmen. Despite being seriously injured many times, the actor threw himself into work as soon as he recovered and never gave up on challenges. “Once Tom Cruise makes up his mind, no one can stop him,” said Mission: Impossible 7 director Christopher McQuarrie.

Tom Cruise said it took him 15 months to come up with the idea and perfect the “nail” scene in Mission: Impossible 7 , with 536 practice jumps. He participated in a series of parachute jumping and control training courses, learning how to deal with dangerous situations in the air. The director built a model of a slope, 135 m long and 10 m high, for Tom Cruise to ride a motorbike to show the scene of jumping off the cliff. He only has 6 seconds to open his parachute, otherwise he will crash into the cliff. Every operation must be performed with proficiency and precision down to the smallest detail.

With Mission: Impossible – Dead reckoning part one , Tom Cruise shows that his class has not diminished over the years. The actor even enthusiastically told the press that he wanted to continue acting in action movies until he was 80 years old and had many cherished plans for Mission: Impossible.