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Post by DeepArcher on Jul 25, 2019 3:54:41 GMT
There's something about the way that De Niro says the key line in Heat ... "I am never goin' back" ... that always just shakes me deep in my soul.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jul 25, 2019 4:05:09 GMT
I just love Anne Heche's line deliveries in Wag the Dog. The performance doesn't get the credit it deserves, but my favorite scene is when they're all on the plane with violent felon Woody Harrelson. Heche: "What did he do" Dustin Hoffman: "He raped a nun" Heche, scratching her head nervously: "Oh god, oh god, gee-oh god!"
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jul 25, 2019 4:12:10 GMT
oh, and this thread wouldn't be complete without Margaret Hamilton
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jul 25, 2019 4:25:13 GMT
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Post by TerryMontana on Jul 25, 2019 9:35:19 GMT
When you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?
The Departed.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Jul 25, 2019 12:20:54 GMT
"I'm black and I'm proud!"
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Post by Drish on Aug 4, 2019 3:46:30 GMT
FORK - First Wives Club.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Aug 4, 2019 4:20:23 GMT
"Now fuck off and die, you fucked up slag!"
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 4, 2019 14:46:17 GMT
The mighty George C. Scott with what I say when I win my weekly football pool:
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 4, 2019 23:21:21 GMT
The whole thing by Cage but obviously, um......... wannnnnng.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jun 23, 2022 3:55:56 GMT
Duvall's delivery of "It's a big, fat, BIG TITTED HIT" always makes me lol (at 2:12)
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Post by Nikan on Jun 24, 2022 17:06:14 GMT
in the spirit of Network:
You have meddled with the PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE, Mr. Beeaale, and I won't haAVe it!! Is-that cleaR?!
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Post by Joaquim on Jun 28, 2022 23:00:51 GMT
“I’ve changed since we last swam in the raw, haven’t I”? - Dorothy Malone in Written on the Wind (1956) My jaw fucking dropped when she delivered that line. That right there won her that Oscar and deservedly so. Perfect delivery
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 7, 2022 8:45:24 GMT
Anthony Hopkins The Father
One thing that comes up on MAR fairly often is actors not being "the equal" of other actors - that there's "levels of greatness" within the craft even if you don't see the greatness every time for every actor.
This is one of my favorite scenes from The Father because I distinctly remember Frank Langella being less impressive in this scene after I saw this - he was great, won the Tony - but until I saw this I didn't get how it could have been played better than how he did it. But it was......
Hopkins plays this scene like someone specifically deciding on controlling the scene - as his character - not as the actor. Which is realistic of course, particularly with this condition - however he appears to be genuinely losing it, or outfoxing himself - at times on purpose,but at times not. It's choice not ego in how he fuses what the actor is asked to do vs. what his character is required to do........and that choice on how to play the scene deepens every line in the scene.
It starts with him toasting the glasses - what a great touch, improvised I think, right (?) - he's sharing the drink - but he's not sharing the toast - he's the one being celebrated in his own mind - for his "performance" which is about to begin - it's HIS toast.
I love the way each line is double edged. "What do you do for a living?" is really "I know who you are" ....etc ......every scene played for conversation or pleasantness is acted by Hopkins in such a way that he forces unique (and better) reactions from the others in the scene - it is HIS scene.
When he closes - saying "laughing inanely" - what a great line reading that is - and it is achieved differently - not just the difference between acting on stage vs. film - but a difference in acting, period - and how he builds to that word specifically out of another performance he's in effect engineered for his character - it's a masterclass of the craft as a complex game of surge and recede.
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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 27, 2022 21:49:59 GMT
FOR THE LOVE-A CHRIST, WOMAN, I THINK I'M A BUG!
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 6, 2022 10:07:34 GMT
Bardem is masterful here - in his 2nd language btw in the whole scene reading text - in how he takes the conversational and makes it threatening - actors want a scene where they tell you they are going to kill you repeatedly and then kill you screaming their heads off.......
Of course I could have posted him just saying "Friendo" too.......no one ever made a nice, corny word more creepy
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Post by wallsofjericho on Aug 6, 2022 10:10:18 GMT
Most of Clint's best lines in Unforgiven.
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Post by Joaquim on Aug 6, 2022 11:35:36 GMT
When Patrick Bateman tells the waiter “not if you want to keep your spleen”
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Post by ibbi on Aug 6, 2022 17:41:58 GMT
"We don't wanna know"
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Post by pupdurcs on Aug 6, 2022 18:09:52 GMT
Denzel's delivery of "I...wish...you...had...more...time" in Man On Fire is superlative. I've read several actors (Eric Bana, Aldis Hodges etc) talking specifically about how specific, creative and ultimately memorable that line reading was.
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Post by mhynson27 on Aug 13, 2022 3:38:51 GMT
Re-watching Grand Budapest, and Brody's delivery of "What's the meaning of this shit?!?", sends me.
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Post by stephen on Aug 14, 2022 1:47:03 GMT
Ben Affleck's delivery of the C-bomb in The Last Duel should've earned him ten Oscar nominations.
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Post by MsMovieStar on Aug 15, 2022 13:52:40 GMT
Oh honeys, The Graduate has so many great lines in it but there's a scene when Ben tries to initiate conversation with Mrs Robinson (above) and we suddenly discover that she's an unfulfilled, frustrated artist. Anne Bancroft's resigned, flat, deadpan delivery of the word 'Art' is just so psychologically poignant and totally reveals her character, with a life full of empty disappointments.
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Post by SZilla on Aug 15, 2022 14:18:46 GMT
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Aug 19, 2022 18:45:32 GMT
Pretty much any line that Sam Rockwell delivers
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