Four reasons to hate and love Robert Pattinson

• Batman Some days in Benidorm

Piercing gaze, bushy eyebrows, angular jaw and a sickly pallor.

This is how a certain Robert Pattinson, a British actor who now dons the suit of

(premiere in theaters on March 4), was presented in society, loved and vilified in equal parts by fans and

since he took out his fangs to walk in the

saga

.

TEEN IDOL

Against.

It is not necessary to go very far: Pattinson himself has publicly reviled that stage of his career.

His bland Cedric Diggory from the

saga put him on the map, but then Edward Cullen from

arrived and the madness began.

Pattinson's acting technique at the time was to really clench his jaw, frown, and look stoned all the time.

Collateral damage: We had to endure five installments and an exhausting

of information about his love and heartbreak with Kirsten Stewart.

Pattinson, road to doom with Harry Potter.

In favor.

Pattinson was a kid who aspired to be like Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando and bet everything on becoming an actor.

Good for him.

What was his fault if

was a ridiculous manual on toxic relationships disguised as a history of vegetarian vampires?

He more than delivered by flashing pecs and saying lines like "you're my personal brand of heroin" without laughing.

In addition, whenever he could, he took the film and the fan phenomenon a bit to the point that they threatened to fire him.

HUNT FOR THE DIRECTOR

Against.

In his desire to show himself as a versatile and risky interpreter, Pattinson has suffered more than one slip.

His lack of charisma in the romantic melodrama

does not withstand even the first assault.

Another kind of slip: convincing a filmmaker of the stature of Werner Herzog to play TE Lawrence in

and the result being, to put it mildly, one of the German director's least inspired films.

The years of madness.ÓSCAR MONZÓN.

In favor.

What do you do to fight against a public image that does not correspond to who you are?

Radically change course.

And what better way to do it than to do it in the hands of giants like David Cronenberg (

and

), Claire Denis (

) and James Gray (

), as well as contenders like the Safdie brothers (

) .

or Dave Eggers (

).

In all cases, it was Pattinson himself who fought to get the roles and the results place him well above some of his generation peers.

THE PATTINSON METHOD

Against.

With referents like Nicholson and Brando, the danger is taking the worst springs of Stanislawski's lessons to the extreme.

more believable

, in which he played a petty criminal, he lived in a Harlem basement during pre-production and filming.

"I didn't let anyone visit me. And I didn't take out the trash or change the sheets. So the whole place smelled like rotten fish," the actor himself acknowledged.

In

he spent most of the time eating mud, drunk, vomiting and pissing his pants.

Authenticity in exchange for becoming a tramp.

In favor.

Pattinson has never tried to mislead the public with deep disquisitions about her craft.

"I don't really know how to act," she bluntly acknowledged in an interview for

.

If, in order to achieve the maximum interpretive truth, she needs to slap herself before shooting ("it's easier if you shake your physical state just before the action"), it is because her delivery is absolute.

And the results are mostly brilliant: the method works.

I'M BATMAN?

Against.

Since it was announced in 2019 that Pattinson was the one chosen to wear the dark knight suit in the

of the franchise raised by Matt Reeves, a wave of rejection flooded the network.

The resounding masculinity that is presupposed to the bat man was had by guys like Ben Affleck, George Clooney or Christian Bale, nothing to do with the languid demeanor of the British actor.

As he himself has revealed, he was practicing a way of speaking in whispers that he abandoned on the first day of filming at the express request of the director and the rest of the cast, who described it as "atrocious".

In favor.

Why not try something different?

We've already seen the thug Batman, the seductive Batman, the flat encephalogram Batman... Pattinson's has to be different, in part because it's a story about the character's origins, before developing his full potential against crime, and partly because the actor has based his performance on the conflicting desire of the masked man to exercise violence and deliver justice without killing his enemies.

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