[quote]imhungry wrote:
[quote]CSEagles1694 wrote:
Denzel Washington is my favorite actor of all time along with Robert Redford. Waquin (sp?) Phoenix also has some good shit out there. You can’t forget Clint fucking Eastwood, though.
Worst actors - Nicholas Cage, Dennis Quaid, Adam Sandler (last 10-15 years), Brendan Frazier.
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Brendan Fraser was damn good in ‘School Ties’, in my opinion.[/quote]
And he showed tremendous range in “Bedazzled”
[quote]Viernes wrote:
Harrelson has been solid for the last few films he’s been in as well. This scene needed patience, intensity, and calm. Awesome scene[/quote]
SO friggen awesome!! I could talk about this movie for hours, ha-ha.
^^ the original book by Cormac McCarthy is pretty excellent as well
and if nothing else, you get more of a peek “inside” the mind of Chigurh
[quote]Viernes wrote:
Harrelson has been solid for the last few films he’s been in as well. This scene needed patience, intensity, and calm. Awesome scene[/quote]
He killed Haymitch! Bastard!!!
[quote]Cimmerian wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]Samir wrote:
I can’t stand Nicolas Cage. [/quote]
I just can’t take him seriously. I laughed at his performance in the Wicker Man … literally.[/quote]
Dude, that was a comedy. I refuse to believe otherwise.
If you turn it to mute and play Loony Tunes in the background, tell me you won’t pass out laughing.[/quote]
Nic Cage is one of the finest comedic actors of his generation
My faves:
Christian Bale
Ed Norton
Max Von Sydow
Toshiro Mifune (if we’re allowed to include dead guys)
James Earl Jones
Ellen Burstyn
Hate:
Julia Roberts
Nicole Kidman
Matthew McConaughey
Ben Stiller
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Oh man that Nicolas Cage losing his shit video is pure win.
[quote]strungoutboy21 wrote:
[quote]Cimmerian wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]Samir wrote:
I can’t stand Nicolas Cage. [/quote]
I just can’t take him seriously. I laughed at his performance in the Wicker Man … literally.[/quote]
Dude, that was a comedy. I refuse to believe otherwise.
If you turn it to mute and play Loony Tunes in the background, tell me you won’t pass out laughing.[/quote]
Nic Cage is one of the finest comedic actors of his generation
My faves:
Christian Bale
Ed Norton
Max Von Sydow
Toshiro Mifune (if we’re allowed to include dead guys)
James Earl Jones
Ellen Burstyn
Hate:
Julia Roberts
Nicole Kidman
Matthew McConaughey
Ben Stiller
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Oh man that Nicolas Cage losing his shit video is pure win.[/quote]
OMFGLOL you don’t say
The scene in matchstick men when he’s trying to get his prescription is awesome lol, and when he takes drugs for the first time in FACE/OFF
God bless Nicholas Cage.
[quote]chillain wrote:
^^ the original book by Cormac McCarthy is pretty excellent as well
and if nothing else, you get more of a peek “inside” the mind of Chigurh
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YEP! I Know! That was the first full book I actually had the patience to read since I was forced to read stuff in high school, ha-ha.
Clint Eastwood is my favourite. I’ve never really thought about a least favourite.
[quote]Marzouk wrote:
The scene in matchstick men when he’s trying to get his prescription is awesome lol, and when he takes drugs for the first time in FACE/OFF
God bless Nicholas Cage. [/quote]
My major problem with Cage is that he never lets you forget that he’s an actor playing a role. Even in his ‘everyman’ roles he behaves in a way that he’d never get away with in real life. It’s behaviour that he can get away with on a movie set as Nic Cage the actor, but not on the street. Very self indulgent.
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Marzouk wrote:
The scene in matchstick men when he’s trying to get his prescription is awesome lol, and when he takes drugs for the first time in FACE/OFF
God bless Nicholas Cage. [/quote]
My major problem with Cage is that he never lets you forget that he’s an actor playing a role. Even in his ‘everyman’ roles he behaves in a way that he’d never get away with in real life. It’s behaviour that he can get away with on a movie set as Nic Cage the actor, but not on the street. Very self indulgent. [/quote]
This is a great way to put it. I think the opposite is what distinguishes a great actor. You look at really good ones like Edward Norton or Kevin Spacey, and in every single role, you forget you are watching someone playing a role. I don’t know what the trick is, but a good actor somehow seems completely natural and believable.
I think part of it requires not getting typecast. Especially with action stars, you never really forget it’s whoever you’re watching. Clint Eastwood is excellent, for example, but I never forget I’m watching Clint Eastwood playing a role. I suppose Bruce Willis is one of the ones who has been able to break away from that the most.
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Marzouk wrote:
The scene in matchstick men when he’s trying to get his prescription is awesome lol, and when he takes drugs for the first time in FACE/OFF
God bless Nicholas Cage. [/quote]
My major problem with Cage is that he never lets you forget that he’s an actor playing a role. Even in his ‘everyman’ roles he behaves in a way that he’d never get away with in real life. It’s behaviour that he can get away with on a movie set as Nic Cage the actor, but not on the street. Very self indulgent. [/quote]
Yeah. Look at him V Malkovitch in Con Air.
He’s the bumpkin M-vitch is the psycho. and they don’t really play it like an “everyman”
[quote]BobParr wrote:
You look at really good ones like Edward Norton or Kevin Spacey, and in every single role, you forget you are watching someone playing a role. I don’t know what the trick is, but a good actor somehow seems completely natural and believable.
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Exactly.
Guys like Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, and John Malkovich come to mind.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]BobParr wrote:
You look at really good ones like Edward Norton or Kevin Spacey, and in every single role, you forget you are watching someone playing a role. I don’t know what the trick is, but a good actor somehow seems completely natural and believable.
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Exactly.
Guys like Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, and John Malkovich come to mind.[/quote]
Anthony Hopkins said that he recites his lines 300 times to ensure that his delivery is effortless and natural. I suspect that there’s more to it than that.
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]BobParr wrote:
You look at really good ones like Edward Norton or Kevin Spacey, and in every single role, you forget you are watching someone playing a role. I don’t know what the trick is, but a good actor somehow seems completely natural and believable.
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Exactly.
Guys like Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, and John Malkovich come to mind.[/quote]
Anthony Hopkins said that he recites his lines 300 times to ensure that his delivery is effortless and natural. I suspect that there’s more to it than that. [/quote]
I suspect that the attitude that makes him practice hundreds of times is that “it”.
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]BobParr wrote:
You look at really good ones like Edward Norton or Kevin Spacey, and in every single role, you forget you are watching someone playing a role. I don’t know what the trick is, but a good actor somehow seems completely natural and believable.
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Exactly.
Guys like Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, and John Malkovich come to mind.[/quote]
Anthony Hopkins said that he recites his lines 300 times to ensure that his delivery is effortless and natural. I suspect that there’s more to it than that. [/quote]
I suspect that the attitude that makes him practice hundreds of times is that “it”.[/quote]
Yep.
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]BobParr wrote:
You look at really good ones like Edward Norton or Kevin Spacey, and in every single role, you forget you are watching someone playing a role. I don’t know what the trick is, but a good actor somehow seems completely natural and believable.
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Exactly.
Guys like Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, and John Malkovich come to mind.[/quote]
Anthony Hopkins said that he recites his lines 300 times to ensure that his delivery is effortless and natural. I suspect that there’s more to it than that. [/quote]
That’s surprising to me, but shouldn’t be considering the practicality of such a practice.
My assumption was that he was given license to ad-lib and therefore “appear” natural.
I respect him much more now. EXCELLENT work ethic.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
My assumption was that he was given license to ad-lib and therefore “appear” natural.[/quote]
That’s exactly what the majority of screen actors do. Many find it hard to memorize dialogue precisely in the time they have and are bailed out by multiple takes.
There are performers who rely too much on the medium to cover them. It works…as long as they don’t venture into live theater.
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
My assumption was that he was given license to ad-lib and therefore “appear” natural.[/quote]
That’s exactly what the majority of screen actors do. Many find it hard to memorize dialogue precisely in the time they have and are bailed out by multiple takes.
There are performers who rely too much on the medium to cover them. It works…as long as they don’t venture into live theater.
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Yeah, I’ve read that Mamet eats film actors alive with the cadence of his plays.
Also, (this might be pure legend/conjecture) during opening night he’ll stand in the wings and make adjustments, like if there’s too long of a silence inbetween dialogue and someone from the audience coughs, he writes that cough out for the following performance by elimitating or shortening the pause.
That kind of stuff impresses me.
[quote]Viernes wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
My assumption was that he was given license to ad-lib and therefore “appear” natural.[/quote]
That’s exactly what the majority of screen actors do. Many find it hard to memorize dialogue precisely in the time they have and are bailed out by multiple takes.
There are performers who rely too much on the medium to cover them. It works…as long as they don’t venture into live theater.
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Yeah, I’ve read that Mamet eats film actors alive with the cadence of his plays.
Also, (this might be pure legend/conjecture) during opening night he’ll stand in the wings and make adjustments, like if there’s too long of a silence inbetween dialogue and someone from the audience coughs, he writes that cough out for the following performance by elimitating or shortening the pause.
That kind of stuff impresses me.[/quote]
Yeah. The discipline of stage acting transfers to screen acting well, but a seasoned screen actor may pick up bad habits that can’t be hidden in live performance. I believe the story about Mamet using a cough from the audience as a pacing cue. Health problems aside, coughs are an subconscious sign of boredom. If a silence is too long, the audience fills the silence.