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Alan Lomax is a freelance writer from MPLS
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Bruce Willis is one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars for a hit movie. He is one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood including his appearances in supporting roles. Willis is a celebrity with such influence that when he starts balding and decides to shave his head it becomes a hot new hair fashion among other balding men. Here are a few of Willis’ best movie roles from his yearly 30 year career.
The Fifth Element
This science fiction action-comedy by French director Luc Besson stars Willis as a smart-alecky taxicab driver in future New York City. The somewhat convoluted science fiction story leads him to working to protect a young woman who holds a secret in saving the universe from an evil force and wealthy industrialist played by the wonderful Gary Oldman. Willis is perfect in action roles that give him witty lines and fun scenes to play up and The Fifth Element is no exception.
Unbreakable
This sophomore film by the then hot director M. Night Shyamalan was seen as a sophomore slump for the director but I believe it will gain recognition as an unheralded classic in later years thanks to Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis’ great performances and the clever, dark script by Shyamalan. The “Shyamalan twist” in Unbreakable is actually unique and not nearly as bad as some of his later movies.
Sin City
The graphic-novel style of the Sin City film just seems to fit Willis’ style as gruff, world-weary noir antihero so well. This dark graphic novel movie adaption, that was shot to look like a comic book or display easel artwork, was a huge success and put Bruce Willis and especially Mickey Rourke back on the Hollywood as bankable action film stars. A sequel is planned to begin shooting in 2010 and surely will need Willis in a reprisal of his role as Detective John Hartigan.