{"id":710,"date":"2009-10-19T16:23:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T14:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inthenameofmovies.wordpress.com\/?p=710"},"modified":"2010-03-27T23:32:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T21:32:20","slug":"hugh-jackman-my-favorite-australian-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/hugh-jackman-my-favorite-australian-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Jackman: My favorite Australian ever"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hugh Jackman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He presented the 81st Academy Awards<\/a> in 2009. I\u00a0traditionally watch the show every year since I was a little kid and I don’t remember having been entertained this much. His theatrics, jokes, presence were all just brilliant. He danced\u00a0and sang\u00a0like a pro.\u00a0He was genuinely funny- I think the only guy who could do a funnier job is Jim Carrey<\/a> but then again I am not sure Jim could pull of the dancing\u00a0routine like Jackman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway at the 2009 Academy Awards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Who would have thought? Beyonce and Hugh dancing together<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is amazing how far\u00a0Hugh<\/a> has come in his career.\u00a0Not that he doesn’t deserve all of his popularity, but I just hadn’t seen it coming when I first saw him in the 2001 movie, Swordfish. Since then he has been in rom-coms, dramas, thrillers and action movies. He has done theater and played the lead in hit Broadway musicals. He has done movies both in his hometown Australia and in Hollywood. Though his biggest and role has been of Wolverine, one of the most popular characters in the X-men series. Although arguably Meg Ryan<\/a> was the more famous one when they starred together in the 2001 flick Kate and Leopold, right now Hugh Jackman has a much stronger status.<\/p>\n

He is just one of the lucky men in Hollywood\u00a0whose adored both by men and women; by critics and movie-goers.\u00a0\u00a0He is breathtakingly gorgeous. I haven’t yet met a girl who thinks that he is not attractive. I remember being in the movie theater with two girl friends of mine, watching Swordfish. We have absolutely the most opposite taste in men yet we all simultaneously agreed that Hugh was hot. On the top of all this, he is a family man. He has been married to his first and only wife since 1996 and they are raising their kids together. Oh,well-as I said, everyone loves him. And his masculinity and strength are not questioned by his fellow co-stars. Ryan Reynolds<\/a>– who plays Wade Wilson actually said that Hugh would probably\u00a0win,\u00a0were they to engage in wrestling.<\/p>\n

Of course there are some of his old projects that I couldn’t get my hands on (like some of his earlier Australian work) and some movies of his that I didn’t enjoy\u00a0all that much, such as\u00a0The Fountain and Deception. But mostly, his movies entertain. They take you from your reality to the movie’s and he makes you believe whatever reality his movie is representing. Since this guy has done so much, I think it’s best if we just consider some examples from this decade.<\/p>\n

X-men (2000)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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He plays Wolverine. He’ll continue to play the role for three more movies, the second and third parts of the trilogy and X-men origins: Logan\/Wolverine. He likes to be and work alone but he needs to join in the mutants team for the sake of\u00a0Prof. Xavier and he also has the hots for Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), who is married to another X-men mutant: Scott\/Cyclops (James Marsden<\/a>). The plot is just to good to go into the specifics and X-men shall have their own posts.<\/p>\n

Swordfish (2001)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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John Travolta makes a great villain. He’s tough, he’s crazy and he’s fun to watch. You just keep your fingers crossed that hacker Stanley Jobson can pull off everything so that he can save himself and others from the potential wrath of the psychotic Gabriel (Travolta<\/a>) and his not so pleasant surprises.<\/p>\n

(2001) Kate & Leopold<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Romcom queen Meg and the guy of every role Hugh.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kate (Ryan)’s\u00a0 neighbor\/ex-boyfriend Stu (Liev Schreiber<\/a>) discovers a time travel portal and manages to be tracked down by someone from 1870s: Leopold. Leopold’s process of\u00a0adjustment to today’s life in New York is hilarious. Meanwhile, Kate is thinking that she always has attracted crazy men. After all, Leopold acts just like himself.\u00a0 Still, Leo is handsome, gentle and has a unique character. Little does she know that the uniqueness does comes from a different era…<\/p>\n

Van Helsing (2004):<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jackman as Van Helsing. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jackman plays the famous monster hunter Van\u00a0Helsing, fighting the ultimate bottle with the help of Anna (Kate Beckinsale)<\/p>\n

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(2006) The Prestige<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale in The Prestige, featuring Scarlett Johansson and Michael Caine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale play the rival magicians- one has the ultimate secret of a breath-taking trick and the other will do anything to get it. Great twists and turns however the ending really let me down.<\/p>\n

(2008) Australia<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman in Australia. Two of my favorite Australians. Both are great actors and both are gorgeous. Perfect combination.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s not your typical Buz Luhrmann movie. It is epic and in some senses it i much more traditional than his other works like Romeo and Juliet or Moulin Rouge. However it is beautiful- with performances and cinematography.<\/p>\n

Pre-World War II. British Lady Sarah Ashley\u00a0(Kidman<\/a>) comes to Australia to meet her husband and manage the land but she finds that her husband is dead and the natives are being abused. Along with the help of the loner\/free-spirited cattle driver Drover, she needs to save her cattle and from an enemy.Not to mention the growing attraction between her and Drover\u00a0(Jackman)…<\/p>\n

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Hugh Jackman is of course not exactly resting. He has many movies in (pre-) production stages and Wolverine II is one of them. At 41, he is at the peak of his career and\u00a0his looks. He enjoys all the perks\u00a0of fame without letting the whole concept\u00a0get to his head. I just hope that he never tires of acting. And how lovely it would be if I ever got to see him live on Broadway.<\/p>\n

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He presented the 81st Academy Awards in 2009. I\u00a0traditionally watch the show every year since I was a little kid and I don’t remember having been entertained this much. His theatrics, jokes, presence were all just brilliant. He danced\u00a0and sang\u00a0like a pro.\u00a0He was genuinely funny- I think the only guy who could do a funnier […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[17,55,1271,208,255,1270,356,539,540,541],"class_list":{"0":"post-710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-movies-and-actors","7":"tag-81st-academy-awards","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-beyonce-knowles","10":"tag-hugh-jackman","11":"tag-kate-beckinsale","12":"tag-meg-ryan","13":"tag-nicole-kidman","14":"tag-wolverine","15":"tag-x-men","16":"tag-x-men-origins-wolverine","17":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI4PB-bs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2938,"href":"https:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/2938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}