It’s Uma Thurman’s birthday. The daughter of a baroness and a Buddhist can play anything from a goddess to a drug addict.

Uma Thurman plays women who drive men crazy but who are also pretty cold themselves.

On April 29, eminent Hollywood actress Uma Thurman turned 53. Uma was born in Boston. His father, Robert Thurman, is a professor of Oriental religions at Columbia University and a former Buddhist monk. Mother – Swedish baroness Nena von Schlebrugge, she was a model, and then a psychotherapist. Probably, the daughter of such advanced parents could not help being an unusual child. Uma’s beauty comes from her mother-model, and her mind comes from her teacher-father.

Focus I chose three films in which the actress played paradoxically different roles, but seductive everywhere.

Uma Thurman’s mother, Nena von Schlebruge, was born in Sweden, but her success on the podium forced her to move to London and then to the USA. The foundations of psychology were explained to him by no one, even by the famous psychologist and author, LSD propagandist Timothy Leary, who he was married to. John Lennon wrote the famous hit Come Together (“Come Together”) in support of his California governor election campaign (against Ronald Reagan).

However, Nena’s marriage to Timothy did not work out. One day she came to Leary’s house for divorce papers… and unexpectedly met Robert Thurman, an Eastern explorer who had traveled to Tibet and India. He was a Buddhist monk for five years and then, upon returning to the United States, was sworn in as a teacher. Robert Thurman was the first American in history to be personally bumped into a Buddhist monk by his friend the Dalai Lama.

Nena and Robert got married. Their daughter, Uma, was born on April 29, 1970, in Boston. He was the first-born, after which three more children were born in the family. The girl was named after the Indian goddess of beauty and light, Uma.

The decision to become an actress came to Uma after a small and successful role in the school theater. At the age of 15, Thurman dropped out of school and devoted himself to acting. She went to New York alone. Uma Thurman earned money as a waitress, model, and dishwasher. The newly minted actress was looking for roles in films and moved from city to city. Trials hardened his character.

The actress was first noticed by critics and directors when she starred in the role of the goddess of beauty and love, but not Uma in the east, but Venus in the west.

“The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” (1988): goddess

The painting is based on “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen”. In one of the scenes, director Terry Gilliam parodied Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus. Uma Thurman played Venus.

He looks naked in a shell. Then the angels give him a white robe. She silently invites Baron Munchausen to dance, looking at her with her huge magnetic eyes. Spinning in a waltz, the couple soars into the sky. Higher and higher, until this idyll was cut off by the cries of your husband – the blacksmith Hephaestus.

In fact, Venus was still that angry. As you know, she cheated on her husband, a master blacksmith, with the most important tyrant of Olympus, Mars. It’s a mystery why beautiful people are attracted to brutal types.

This type, but also an intellectual, will be in our next film, the author Henry Miller, who wrote the famous erotica-scandal novel Tropic of Cancer (1934).

“Henry and June” (1990): the author’s muse

In this picture, Thurman played the wife of Henry Miller, his muse and muse. The picture hit American censorship with its frankness: The film received a pornography rental rating (later replaced by a mid-range NC-17).

The film is adapted from the book of the same name by the French writer Anais Nin, about her relationship with the writer Henry Miller and his wife June.

Location: Paris, 1931. The tape talks about a love triangle: Millers and Anais Nin.

Anais is married to Hugo, but she is bored, bored and wants more. She also keeps a diary that she fills with her erotic desires. She meets Henry one day and falls in love with this strong, ruthless type. He is a talented New York writer and is working on his first book.

The Miller couple, who lead a bohemian lifestyle, lure Anais. Unable to stand it, he enters into a close relationship, first with Henry and then with his wife.

In the future, Anais helps Miller publish her book “Tropic of Cancer”, but at the same time causes a break in relations between Henry and June and she returns to her husband.

Dialogue, drama and eroticism are so masterfully intertwined in this picture and beautifully filmed (Oscar for cinematography).

June is a strong, confident woman who can cross any limit.

The film earned Uma Thurman the unofficial nickname “sex symbol for intellectuals.”

“Sexuality has always been the most important component of art. An actor who wants to accurately portray his character must take into account that sexuality is an important part of any image,” Uma said.

“Push Fiction” (1994): mafia wife and drug addict

The sexuality of the actress made an irresistible impression on Quentin Tarantino. After seeing her big feet, she gave her the role of Mia Wallace, the wife of a mafia (the actress’s height is quite large, 180 cm). And there was a landmark dialogue between the gangsters in the movie: Should massaging a woman’s feet be considered cheating on her husband or not?

According to the plot, mobster Marsellus Wallace instructs “full-time” gangster Vincent Vega (John Travolta) to “execute” his wife, Mia, as he himself is busy.

Vincent buys a bag of heroin from former drug dealer Lance, injects him intravenously, and goes after the woman. They go to a restaurant where Mia is smoking cocaine in the bathroom.

Mia’s role looks “simple” but feels depth and drama. She tells Vincent that she dreams of becoming an actress. And even made into some action movies. But things did not go beyond the pilot version. She gradually became the mistress of the mafia boss, and then she became his wife.

The restaurant announces a competition for the best performance of the comeback. Miya forces her guide to agree. And then, on Chuck Berry’s track You Never Can Tell, they do a totally awesome dance and win an award.

This dance entered the history of cinema. And recently, it was used for the basis of another “viral” dance from the main character of the series “Wednesday”.

Travolta, understandably, had long established herself as a flamboyant dancer when she starred in the much-loved disco movie Saturday Night Fever (1977). But Thurman is not inferior to him in the improvement of movements.

Uma is simply enchanting here, as in the dance of the goddess Venus. Here she dances barefoot, and Quentin Tarantino diligently flaunts her “sexy feet.”

Mia activates all her fuses, her main prize is not a trophy, but a defeated Vincent. And it almost fell. No matter how dangerous it is for both of them.

He understood this very well when he brought her home. However, they both survived by chance. Vega went to the bathroom. While there, Mia finds a bag of drugs in her raincoat pocket and inhales the powder she finds. She loses consciousness after taking an overdose.

Moreover, as you remember, his “resurrection”. And then both were no longer attached to passion.

Thurman is enchanting all around – as the maid of honor Anna de Montosier in Milos Forman’s “Vatela” (2000), or as the murderer of the Black Mamba Bride in Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” (2004). Everywhere, from their attractiveness, men lose their heads either figuratively (as in the first case) or directly (as in the second case). And he is not. Probably this is a special feature of Uma Thurman – she’s too smart for that.

Source: Focus

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