![]() ![]() ![]() The character is also insistently one dimensional. It is as if he wandered right off the red carpet and onto the screen, stopping only to swap his shirt for a mildly sweatier one. Everyone in the film is carefully made up and styled to fit into director Steve McQueen’s perfectly constructed 19 th century world, except for Brad Pitt who stubbornly looks just like well, Brad Pitt. I mean, in the critical last act of a movie, I shouldn’t have to spend brain power thinking about where some random field hand managed to find a flat-iron and a salon to put in blond highlights. The most obvious problem with Bass is his look. Brad Pitt is undeniably a fixture of American pop culture (a glamorous, golden-haired fixture) but the question is, as always, can he act? Lately he’s been talked about more for his red carpet appearances with his humanitarian wife and their brood, than for the films those appearances are promoting. ![]() After skyrocketing to fame in the 1990s and weathering quite a scandal in the early 2000s, in recent years, Brad Pitt has been settling comfortably into the role of one of the esteemed elder statesmen of film. ![]()
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