A touching story and the actors who embodied it. "Rain Man" - a successful film about "special" people

A touching story about uneasy family relationships, created in 1988, won the hearts of the audience without expensive special effects and tricks. Lente did not predict commercial success, because the main character - a mentally retarded person with amazing abilities, but not accustomed to living in society. I must say that the story was not invented, the script writer B. Morrow has long been interested in the problems of such people locked in clinics, although practically everyone had a family. The main suffering that they experienced in hospitals was not a physical, but a moral plan.

Prototype Raymond

In 1984, Morrow met with a mystery man - Kim Peak. His confirmed phenomenal abilities were combined with a complete lack of independence. A closed person with a computer brain had a unique memory. This meeting turned the quiet life of a strange genius, with the help of which many disabled people believed in their possibilities. The ailment of the talented Peak, who died in 2009, has not yet been unraveled by the doctors. During his life, his father published a book with the title "A real rain man." The film, which comes out 4 years after the meeting, tells of a genius man with an amazing mind, but in need of outside help.

The journey from hate to love

The hero of D. Hoffman, Raymond, suffers from autism and lives in the hospital. His younger brother Charlie, stunningly played by T. Cruz, after his father's death finds out about his relative. A selfish guy kidnaps an invalid to take care of a sick brother and get a huge fortune written in his name. The whole film is a great journey that brings together two native people. Anger and hatred are replaced by sincere love and concern for a brother who is deprived of a family because of an accident when he has boiled little Charlie with boiling water.

To love an uncommunicative and self-contained autist, who resides in his strange world, who lives in a strict regime and runs into hysterics while not observing it, for Charlie was comparable to a spiritual feat. Tom Cruise played an indifferent person who takes a step towards his brother, and he does not have the opportunity to respond with the same feelings due to his psychic abnormalities.

Beginning career Cruz revealed himself as a dramatic artist. In the eyes of viewers, the inner world is evolving from a selfish selfish businessman to someone who is sympathetic to someone else's misfortune. To their roles carefully prepared actors, "Rain Man" for which has become a real springboard in his career.

How did actors get involved in the role?

Cruz worked as a nurse in a hospital for autists to immerse himself in the world of unusual people. Critics noted his masterful play, but some expressed the opinion that after all, the reliable transmission of the emotions of the sick man Hoffman was a true success for the film.

He really got used to the image of an autist, flawlessly conveying his facial features and facial expressions. The actor read special literature and met with "special" people. Then he told me that he took them to the bowling alley and the cafe to watch the real emotions. Hoffman did not even play, but lived in this invented world with a clear schedule.

Gradually, the hero changes with his brother - he gets out of his shell and adapts to the new conditions of life. Raymond, devoid of emotions, even smiles at jokes, and it's touching to see how the younger brother enjoys at least some kind of feelings. The hero of Hoffman is complicated, for the viewer to love such an annoying image is very difficult, and the skill of the artist manifested itself in the fact that his character was accepted by the audience.

Improvisations

In the process of filming, both the director B. Levinson and the main actors improvised. "Rain Man" takes the final form only after installation, when all the material was viewed, and it was decided which fragments are included in the picture, and which are mercilessly removed. For example, the episode when Raymond is laying his head on Charlie's shoulder and calling him his main man was not in the script, it was Hoffman's real improvisation.

Another impromptu touched the image of the girl Charlie. The director rewrote her role. From a real American, he turned her into a poor Italian speaking Italian.
Misunderstanding the relationship of his boyfriend with his brother and father, she asks direct questions to get honest answers. That's why the role was given to the Italian actress Valeria Golino, who became famous after the movie in Hollywood.

Recognition and success

Their roles in the pair were rehearsed daily with burning eyes actors. "Rain Man" was at that time their real life, where the main characters played at the limit of their dramatic abilities. They locked themselves from everyone and repeated the scenes, often changing scenarios. In Cruz at the time very few people believed, believed that he did not pull such a serious role.

The director of the film admitted how constantly the actors doubted about their game and future success. "The Man of the Rain" received an unprecedented resonance, thousands of people went to the cinemas to plunge into the piercing human feelings. The result of painstaking and long work was 19 prizes. The film received extraordinary success abroad, and soon the tape is recognized as a real classic of American cinema.