Sandra Bullock proves in 'The Lost City' that you can do a romantic comedy after 50

Sandra Bullock proves in 'The Lost City' that you can do a romantic comedy after 50

 

 

 The Lost City starring Sandra Bullock made its US box office debut. With a gross of $31 million, it dethroned The Batman and proved that romantic comedies are still popular.

 

In one of the scenes from The Lost City, by Aaron and Adam Nee, Sandra Bullock runs through the jungle in an extravagant fuchsia dress. She does it with all the charming nervousness that made other of her characters famous. She also with the levity of her long experience in romantic comedy. In fact, the entire sequence sums up the actress's career: strange, with ups and downs and a kind sense of humor. And it's that carefree, chaotic air that seems to have made the film such an unpredictable hit. With 31 million dollars, it was the highest grossing film last weekend in the United States and dethroned the unbeatable The Batman. To see it in other regions, we will have to wait until April 22, but the truth is that the premise with which the film is presented already predicts a success in theaters.

 

 

This is a phenomenon that surprised everyone. In an industry obsessed with youth, the 57-year-old Bullock is an exception. She is not the only point of interest in a film that, without her participation, would have gone unnoticed. It is also the credible demonstration that Bullock defies the belief that an actress her age cannot be the only support of a film. Much of the interest and curiosity that The Lost City has aroused refers to the way in which the production is sustained in Bullock. The old-fashioned formula of a romantic comedy that works only thanks to the sympathy of its actors is once again effective. And it is no coincidence that it was thanks to the magnetism and sympathy of the actress.

 

 

With The Lost City, Bullock breaks the old myth that an actress cannot break the symbolic age barrier in Hollywood. Also, that she is one of the most curious figures in American industry. Obsessed with private life, with a more than questionable selection of projects, the actress is an unclassifiable figure. She at the same time, one of the most powerful.

 

 

Long before The Lost City, Bullock rose to fame from unusual places. Irwin Winkler's Her Network catapulted her to stardom in 1995. At the time, cinema was still obsessed with finding the next "girl next door," that benign and dangerous American figure for an actress. It was the easiest way to pigeonhole into a single type of role and, in fact, that was what happened. But around the time Meg Ryan and Jennifer Aniston embodied the ideal of the sweet, approachable figure, Bullock became something of a mystery.

 

She also in the face of a heroine type that had little to do with the usual ones. From being Sylvester Stallone's partner in Demolition Man to the hardworking assistant DA in Time to Kill, the actress showed her versatility. At the same time, her ambition. In the nineties, her career became a unique combination of all kinds of records.

 

She was also a Hollywood personality who gathered journalists and discreetly took recognition. The weirdest thing was that Bullock kept going back to rom-coms from time to time and turning them into box office hits. While You Were Sleeping, Practically Magic, That Thing Called Love, Bullock became a box office magnet. One that defied the usual romantic partner rule. The actress built a style and also an intelligent version of the need for reinvention in the Industry.

 

 

With The Lost City her experiments show considerable importance. The film, the story of a writer of romance novels who ends up embarking on an unthinkable adventure, is topical in every way. But it is also a dynamic film, which uses humor intelligently and allows the actress to demonstrate her undoubted charisma. As if that weren't enough, Channing Tatum completes a strange pairing. The plot seems old-fashioned among the new deep, existentialist romantic comedies. But even so, Bullock shines and that's what has turned a minor project into a major success. One, which makes Hollywood wonder, is Sandra Bullock fireproof? 

 

 

Over the past two decades, the actress has won an Oscar and has become the face of several of Netflix's most-watched movies. She only stops again, returning to anonymity and returning with movies like The Lost City. Bullock is not interested in galas, ceremonies, interviews or promotions. And in fact, her new blockbuster is, as she announced it, the last project she will film for years. Even with an unexpected triumph, Bullock remains the elusive and singular figure that Hollywood cinema cannot classify.

 

 

But beyond that, The Lost City, in all its simplicity, is a demonstration of something more interesting. That some barriers are broken in Hollywood and some stereotypes, too. Something that Bullock has been doing for practically every one of her thirty years in front of the camera.