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John Travolta at the screening of film "Propeller One-Way Night Coach" at the 79th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, Friday. The star of "Pulp Fiction" and "Grease" was surprised with an honorary Palme d'Or prize.
He received the award at his directorial debut, "Propeller One-Way Night Coach," that premiered at the festival. CANNES, France — Screen legend John Travolta, star of hits such as "Pulp Fiction" and "Grease," was surprised on Friday with an honorary Palme d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival, before the premiere of his directorial debut "Propeller One-Way Night Coach.
" "It's beyond the Oscar, really," said an emotional Travolta, who has been nominated twice for the prestigious award. "Propeller" is an exploration of a boy's waxing love for aviation and a fateful cross-country flight to Los Angeles during the golden age of flying and is based on a book of the same name that Travolta wrote some three decades ago.
Travolta piloted himself and his daughter, Ella Bleu Travolta, who plays one of the flight attendants, to the festival, according to an Instagram post. Making the film was a labor of love for Travolta, who produced, financed, directed, narrated and wrote it.
"Other people wanted to produce it and direct it, but I thought it was so personal," recalled the 72-year-old. "Not that another couldn't do it, it's just that I just wanted to be at the end of my chapters in my life to give a reflection of how it started for me," he told the audience.
Travolta has been one of Hollywood's most enduring stars, breaking out in the late 1970s with his disco drama "Saturday Night Fever" and the Stephen King prom night horror movie, "Carrie.
" After a slump, the actor revived his career at Cannes with Quentin Tarantino's cult classic "Pulp Fiction" in 1994, going on to cement his Hollywood star status with films including "Get Shorty," "Face/Off" and "Hairspray. " "It's been a wonderful life, because I've got the beautiful arts of theater, and of film and of singing and dancing and acting, and I also get the art of the sky.
" The film, which is showing in the Cannes Premiere section of the festival, will be released on Apple TV on May 29. The Key Takeaways for this article were generated with the assistance of large language models and reviewed by our editorial team. The article, itself, is solely human-written.
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