John Travolta Knows How to Make Villains into Superstars

Picture: John Travolta in Pulp Fiction (1991) Source: IMDB

John Travolta has been the man for a long time. His consistently good acting puts him in the top tier of Hollywood superstars. He’s someone who’s really earned his position in Hollywood. It’s because he knows how to stand out that he’s successful, but he also knows how to blend in. A lot of what makes him great is due to his acting chops.

               Often taking a lowkey profile to high profile roles, Travolta is sometimes a man of mystery. He takes a deep, dark, twisted character, and makes them relatable to the audience. He’s been around that kind of scene for a long time. The types of movies featuring bloodthirsty killers involved in conspiracies. But Travolta always makes those characters likeable.

               Classic mafia movies have done the same thing. Painting pictures of mafiosos as party-loving people that have their own senses of humor. Movies like Goodfellas will have all kinds of characters popping in and out of the mafia with their own agendas. Those kinds of things are present in John Travolta’s acting a lot of the time. He really takes the dark sides of humanity and paints them in a brighter light.

               John Travolta’s style of mafia movies is often more mainstream than movies like Goodfellas. He’ll take up a role in a big scene of people, and he’ll play the bad guy. It’s the art of making a villain into a billboard superstar. It takes a lot of hard work and effort to make something like that happen.

               The now 72-year-old actor has been putting in work into Hollywood since the 1970s. He’s always been working with other big names in Hollywood, too. Working with director Brian de Palma and nemesis John Lithgow in 1981’s Blow Out, about a sound engineer involved in a government murder plot, John Travolta shows just how much charisma it takes to pull off a good psychological thriller. Director Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 cult classic Pulp Fiction features Travolta in a prominent mafia role alongside partner Samuel L. Jackson and mafia hit Bruce Willis.

               Working with a large selection of Hollywood superstars has put Travolta inside of Hollywood’s deepest circles. Always a cool dude with a steady demeanor, Travolta is one of Hollywood’s most established actors. He really knows what it takes to make a hit movie. It’s not what you’d expect it to be, either. In order to pull off a good plot, Travolta will take the darker sides of characters and bring out their inner demons. It’s really what gives him his style. There is a certain level of honesty involved, even when things are taking a turn for the worse.