"Actor's Watch" focuses on watches worn by actors in movies, television, etc.
In this 82nd installment, we will be looking at Ryan Gosling's watch .
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Ryan Gosling is a handsome man with a sweet appearance, but he is also the best when it comes to playing "twisted handsome men" who have secrets and worries. Many people have probably seen him play clumsy and troubled characters in Oscar-winning and blockbuster films, such as " La La Land " (2016), where he played a pianist who is only interested in good old jazz, and " Blade Runner 2049 " (2017), where he played an artificial human called a "humanoid."
In this edition of "Actor's Watch," we'll take a closer look at the watches worn by Ryan Gosling in the film.
Half Nelson
HALF NELSON (2006)
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Dan Dune ( Ryan Gosling ), a history teacher at a junior high school in Brooklyn, is a popular teacher with a casual teaching style and a strong student following. However, in his private life, he is addicted to drugs and struggles to hide his drug addiction from his students and colleagues.
One day, after watching the basketball team's game as a coach, he can't resist and starts smoking cocaine in a toilet stall, but a female student sees him doing so. From that day on, his life begins to change dramatically.
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" Half Nelson " (2006), which depicts the interaction between a drug-addicted teacher and a female student who is forced to help a drug dealer by her brother, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and established Ryan Gosling as a notable actor.
In this film, he wears a Casio Databank 150 (Ref. DBC150B-1DF ) . The Databank, which exudes an intellectual vibe but also a cheap and geeky feel, seems like the perfect watch for the role of a middle school teacher who is addicted to drugs, has no savings, and is on the verge of having his credit card canceled.
Love Again
CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE (2011)
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Cal ( Steve Carell ), a humble middle-aged man whose wife has fallen in love with someone else, is forced to divorce him. As he laments his life as a widower to the bartender at his favorite bar, a handsome young playboy named Jacob ( Ryan Gosling ) shows up to teach him how to win the hearts of women.
Cal, who was taught the basics of how to talk and dress in order to be popular, succeeds in picking up women. From that day on, he begins to enjoy adventures with multiple women, but when he finds out that his estranged wife still has feelings for him, he begins to think about getting back together with her. And when Jacob sees Cal trying to get his life back together with his wife, he also realizes the importance of "loving people" and begins to seriously consider loving Hannah ( Emma Stone ), a law student he was trying to woo.
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Prior to 2016's La La Land , Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone first starred in the romantic film The Disappearance (2011). Ryan Gosling, who played a playboy who does not know true love, wore a Rolex Submariner (Ref. 16610) in this film.
A handsome man in a fitted suit with no tie, looking sexy. The slightly chunky Submariner gives off a casual vibe. This technique is light and casual, typical of Jacob, who knows all about fashion for popular men.
Drive
DRIVE (2011)
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Kid ( Ryan Gosling ), who has excellent driving techniques, works as a stunt driver and a mechanic at a repair shop during the day, and helps criminals escape at night as a "getaway driver." One day, he meets a married woman named Eileen ( Carey Mulligan ) who lives on the same floor of his apartment building.
Soon after, Irene's husband is released from prison, but he has financial troubles in prison and is forced to take part in a plan to rob a pawn shop in town as payment for his actions. Kid volunteers to be the "getaway man" for Irene, but he is unaware of the larger conspiracy that lies behind the plan.
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In Drive (2011), Ryan Gosling plays a silent but kindhearted "underworld professional." In the film, he wears a Patek Philippe small second three-hand watch. However, as you can see from the image, this watch is a fictitious model made as a prop. There is no need for a "fictitious Patek Philippe model" in the story, and it may be that they wanted to use the real thing but couldn't prepare it, so they had no choice but to use a prop.
First Man
FIRST MAN (2018)
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In 1961, Air Force test pilot Neil Armstrong ( Ryan Gosling ) lost his young daughter to illness. Although he never showed emotion in front of his grieving wife, he was unable to escape from his deep grief and volunteered for NASA's space program as if to distract himself from it.
Armstrong continues to undergo rigorous training amid a succession of bad news, including repeated pilot fatalities and financial pressures due to the Vietnam War becoming a quagmire. He is soon appointed commander of Apollo 11, and is faced with the life-threatening mission of making the first manned landing on the moon .
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First Man (2018) depicts not the Apollo 11 as the history of mankind, but the Apollo 11 as seen through the eyes of astronaut Neil Armstrong. There is no other watch that Ryan Gosling, who played Armstrong in this film, should have worn than this one. The watch in question is the Omega Speedmaster 4th (Ref. ST 105.012-65) .
The dial of this Speedmaster 4th model has the word " PROFESSIONAL " written on it, which is proof that it was selected as a NASA-certified chronograph . To match the wide sleeves of the spacesuits, the watch has been replaced with a Velcro nylon strap. This is a watch that can be said to be a milestone in the history of mankind, as it was actually worn by Captain Armstrong and Pilot Aldrin during the Apollo 11 mission.
The Gray Man
THE GRAY MAN (2022)
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A man named Fitzroy from the CIA visits Courtland ( Ryan Gosling ), who is in prison for murder. He offers Courtland a deal: he will be released on the condition that he "become an unidentified entity ( the Gray Man ) who eliminates villains that the justice system cannot bring to justice."
Thus, Cortland, who became an agent of the secret unit "Sierra" and was given the code name "Sierra Six," steadily carried out assassination orders from the CIA. However, one day, he assassinated a man who had uncovered corruption within the CIA without realizing that he was a member of the group, and his own life became the target of an assassination.
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The Russo brothers of the Avengers series took the megaphone and produced the streaming movie " The Gray Man " (2022) with a budget of $200 million, the highest in Netflix history. Ryan Gosling, who plays the assassin "Sierra Six" whose life is targeted by his own family due to a conspiracy, wears a TAG Heuer Carrera in the movie. I am wearing the Calibre 5 Date ( Ref. WBN2111.FC6505 ) .
Since 2021, Ryan Gosling has been an ambassador for TAG Heuer, and wearing a Carrera in this film is part of that tie-up. The image of the " Carrera Calibre 5 Date ", which combines elegance and robustness, is beautifully projected onto the character of Ryan Gosling, as both his own sophisticated aura and the strength of his role as an assassin.
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What did you think.
Since he often plays characters with lopsided personalities - drug addicts, unable to love women seriously, too quiet, unable to show their emotions - it seems like he keeps his watches simple so as not to make his character image too much .
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Because Ryan Gosling is able to accurately express the character of his roles with his excellent acting ability, it could be said that a highly universal model was chosen from the brand's watches to ensure that the watch would not interfere with his ability or convey an unnecessary image.
I think this kind of " subtractive " choice of wearing a watch, which doesn't express any special image, is interesting. However, this style of wearing a watch would not work if the wearer did not have a strong character .
If I were to imitate this, I'm afraid my whole body would end up looking like a featureless " vague shadow ," so I'll refrain from doing it after all! (laughs)
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