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Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.
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Post by cherry68 on Feb 19, 2019 17:26:37 GMT
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Feb 19, 2019 19:33:26 GMT
"I am just a patsy!"
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Post by pupdurcs on Feb 19, 2019 21:24:30 GMT
Gotta be Sid Vicious
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 19, 2019 21:42:00 GMT
The early Oldman performances Sid & Nancy through The Firm (which I consider his best) are the real special ones - he's been special after but that was a stunning golden period and as Sid he did something really remarkable. He took an inherently unlikable figure and made you feel it and question how you saw him, I mean I love the Pistols, love Punk Rock, love the people he idolized (Johnny Thunders etc), and even I am pushed away by the real Sid.
But he found a way to play that as a grown (or stunted) child and crucially a grown child in the midst of a first love - and that love is heroin, but in the midst of that ............a second love too. That insight into the character - a doomed child without a chance immediately places Sid at odds and outside with his wiser, older, colder peers (Rotten) and those people around him (McLaren).
That insight he doesn't really get anywhere else - rarely do you get to add that sort of layer to a character - although he does a great job capturing Joe Orton's callous cruelty too.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Feb 20, 2019 0:57:27 GMT
Darkest Hour and Sid & Nancy stand head and shoulders above everything else though I also like him in Prick Up Your Ears.
I don't know what anyone saw in his JFK performance because it felt like he was barely in that movie. All his scenes were short and chopped up and in flashback, which is the point of the character--to keep his motivations illusory and subject to the secondhand interpretations of those who knew him. The role is merely functional, mysterious and buried in flashbacks, and (I may wrong about this) but I feel like he was never onscreen for my than ten seconds at a time. The role doesn't require much of Oldman and he didn't bring anything to it that any number of professional actors couldn't have. I guarantee that if the role had been played by someone with less clout it wouldn't be talked about. It's such a small role.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Feb 20, 2019 1:31:31 GMT
Sid & Nancy is my favorite (though Prick Up Your Ears drove a hard bargain), but I may switch my vote if Immortal Beloved is left without a representative long enough. Oldman was on an absolute tear in the '90s and his Beethoven was one of the finest performances of 1994.
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Post by TerryMontana on Feb 20, 2019 16:51:24 GMT
Coppola's Dracula (and any other Dracula movie post-Lugosi) isn't exactly what you'd call "portrait of a real person" but anyway, it has my vote.One of Oldman's most imposing performances, without ever becoming "cartoonish".
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Post by cheesecake on Feb 20, 2019 18:23:16 GMT
Sid.
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