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Glen Thomas Powell Jr. (born October 21, 1988) is an American actor. He began his career with minor roles on television and in films such as Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) and Fast Food Nation (2006). Powell acted in the action film The Expendables 3 (2014), the comedy-horror series Scream Queens (2015–2016), the teen comedy Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), the historical romance The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018), and the romantic comedy Set It Up (2018). He also portrayed astronaut John Glenn in Hidden Figures (2016) and aviator Tom Hudner in Devotion (2022). Powell became famous for starring in the action film Top Gun: Maverick (2022) and the romantic comedy Anyone but You (2023). He has since starred in the dark comedy Hit Man(2023), which he also co-wrote and produced, and in the disaster film Twisters (2024). His performance in the former earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination. Description above from the Wikipedia article Glen Powell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
It's based on the novel The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 1926 and describes the soldiers' feelings after returning home from WWI. The protagonist and narrator is an American Jacob Barnes. This is a story about a group of young soldiers living in France, they drink a lot, sleep with girls a lot and even bet who will have sex with more girls, but in reality, nothing is as it seems and they aren't happy in life. Jacob strives for a full and carefree life spent with friends at parties, restaurants. But, he is marred by a war injury that renders him impotent and thus unable to fulfill his feelings for Lady Brett Ashley, whom he loves and presumably she too. However, they know that the relationship is impossible cause she would have to cheat on him, which she doesn't want. They deal on her dating, she confides in him about her love problems. The men decide to travel to Spain for the Fiesta of San Fermín in Pamplona iwhich s known for the Running of the Bulls. They think there is no reason to be alive anymore for them so they don't care if they will die there. Jacob is a big fan of Bull fighting. Brett Is there too and she is there with her Fianceé Mike, but she falls in love with the young bullfighter Pedro Romero. They are together but after a while their relationship doesn't last and she calls Jake. In the final scene in Taxi in Madrid Brett tells Jake she thinks they could have had a wonderful time together. Jake replies, “Yes, isn't it pretty to think so?
