Remembering the mythical player of billiards: Eddi Felson (Paul Newman)

Paul Newman had many faces along a memorable career. None as that of Eddie Felson. Arrogant, ambitious, tahúr, grasped to a plug of billiards, drowned in smoke, with his blazing fixed eyes in the figure of The Fat man of Minnesota, rival in the rug. Sordid rooms were receiving the desperate alluvium of fondness that he was spilling towards Piper Laurie's pathetic figure; two left beings who were relieving his defeat with embraces and furtive looks.

Paul Newman was Eddie Felson in the year 1961, in The busybody, a made fragment of life cinema. And it was again in 1986, in “The color of the money”, after 25 years of an existence that all the spectators we feel black and desperate.

Whatever Felson survived. And his look was stopping to guess less defeat that it fatigues. Until he was listening to his backs to the shining sound of a plug of billiards clutched by a youngster Tom Cruise. Then it was waking up to open his zeal vampírico, his anxiety of victory, in order corromper to whom it itself was years behind. An actor has to be really select to achieve that a wretched personage and unscrupulous opportunist turns in intimately. It has to possess Paul Newman's annihilating beauty and to combine it with the interpretive talent that allows to show human cracks.