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Her own humourlessness was ready for Lisa - but being short on irony is peril for an actor. Lisa in Girl, Interrupted wanted to run others' lives and that domineering energy became more pervasive in Jolie. She had the swagger of a femme fatale that signalled roles like Lara Croft and Maleficent in which humanity began to cross over into comic-book extremism and a baleful need for authority. There was no doubting her sex appeal or intelligence, but something in Jolie was unwilling to settle for sweetness or likeability. She won every prize for it, including supporting actress Oscar, as the bad girl in the asylum, a charismatic sociopath, both beautiful and unstable. The Jolie performance that means the most to me is in 1999's Girl, Interrupted.
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Apart from being "Brangelina", who are they? My curiosity over Pitt and Jolie is fixed on what they are going to do next in turn, that asks us to consider what they've done already.
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Why they did that hopeless film only teaches you about the desperation in hope. By the Sea is truly about lovers who want escape. If you have the entourage, what room is left for a spouse? So the odds were long that Brangelina could stay hot on screen. What would you give to see Brangelina in their home-movie version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The best romantic movies are ones in which strangers look at each other and seem to say (like Bogart and Bacall in To Have and Have Not, and they faded after two glories), "God, would I like to get my hands on him/her?" while arguing, "But wouldn't it be a crazy dream, especially when I have an agent, lawyers, drivers, secretaries, child-minders, financial advisers, personal trainers, dietitians and any casual fuck I want?" I believe Burton and Taylor were in love (you feel it in his Diaries), but their movies work when they're fighting. The priest saying, "You may kiss the bride," can be death by permission. Kissing can be best when you're doing it with people you shouldn't be kissing. It's those sneaky first-time affairs that count, like Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander in The Light Between Oceans, wondering what else there was to do on a boring job. Famous lovers hired to do it again are often a let-down. I know, Mr & Mrs Smith has a reputation for scandal, because something happened there that shouldn't have. Recalling that lush but ponderous SOS for divorce lawyers gives you a clue: Brangelina didn't click together on screen, but neither did Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, or Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. I feel sympathy for all the children - do we have to look up just how many there are? But I could handle a stretch without having to think about them, let alone sit through such calamities as By the Sea (2015). They have been living ghosts for a couple of years - how could they still be excited at being together? How could they put their legendary heads together on a pillow and not listen for the camera's click, or gossip's whisper? I wish them nothing but good fortune. So, the poor wretches can rest now and surely they deserve it. Can we agree to do this without recrimination or mockery? Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had been together (more or less) for 11 years in a situation where it's hard enough to be married, next to impossible for two talented actors to exist as if they don't have to be the centre of attention, and hideous if the vulture internet insists you are the most famous celebrity couple in the world - and then waits to break you up.