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Post by stephen on May 2, 2019 17:14:51 GMT
Based off of the hit play that earned Frank Langella a Tony a couple of years ago:
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Post by pacinoyes on May 2, 2019 17:46:18 GMT
I have spoken a lot on here about the (good natured) rivalry between Hopkins and McKellen that has for quite sometime lately been riding in McKellen's favor but may be swinging towards Hopkins (we'll see how their 2018 films turn out).
This is a great choice for him and his Lear dovetails with this role (as it did for Langella who played Lear on stage shortly thereafter). Not sure about Zeller directing but sometimes as in Doubt and Fences someone close to the play (playwright or actor) can ace it even without film experience.
If it was Langella getting the film (as he did in Frost/Nixon) he may be contending for his elusive Oscar win even......
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Post by TerryMontana on May 2, 2019 18:04:40 GMT
Based off of the hit play that earned Frank Langella a Tony a couple of years ago: And that's how Hopkins and Colman get their second Oscars. I'm kidding of course but I just got hyped only by reading this. Always good news when sir Hopkins gets a fine role that suits him. Same goes for that wonderful actress Olivia Colman.
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Post by TerryMontana on May 2, 2019 18:07:42 GMT
I have spoken a lot on here about the (good natured) rivalry between Hopkins and McKellen that has for quite sometime lately been riding in McKellen's favor but may be swinging towards Hopkins (we'll see how their 2018 films turn out). Am I the only one around here who actually liked The Dresser??? BTW, any news about The Pope?? No release date yet.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2019 18:28:43 GMT
He trully need role like in Silence of the Lambs!
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Post by Lubezki on Jan 17, 2020 17:11:13 GMT
Queen Colman coming again
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Post by TerryMontana on Jan 17, 2020 17:30:41 GMT
That's a pairing I'm really excited to see!!
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Post by quetee on Jan 17, 2020 19:13:49 GMT
Back to back nod incoming...
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Post by stephen on Jan 17, 2020 19:29:55 GMT
This is a major boost for both Hopkins and Colman. Hopkins's role has won Frank Langella a Tony and Kenneth Cranham an Olivier (and Robert Hirsch the Moliere) -- it's a juicy role indeed. I expect Sir Tony will be their big push this year. Colman has afterglow nod written all over her; I don't know if she'll win for it, but if anyone can secure a second win so soon after the first, it's her (especially as it promises to play to a completely different range than her Oscar-winning role).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2020 19:49:47 GMT
This is a major boost for both Hopkins and Colman. Hopkins's role has won Frank Langella a Tony and Kenneth Cranham an Olivier (and Robert Hirsch the Moliere) -- it's a juicy role indeed. I expect Sir Tony will be their big push this year. Colman has afterglow nod written all over her; I don't know if she'll win for it, but if anyone can secure a second win so soon after the first, it's her (especially as it promises to play to a completely different range than her Oscar-winning role). Do you think Colman is winning the Emmy for The Crown later this year?
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Post by stephen on Jan 17, 2020 19:57:11 GMT
This is a major boost for both Hopkins and Colman. Hopkins's role has won Frank Langella a Tony and Kenneth Cranham an Olivier (and Robert Hirsch the Moliere) -- it's a juicy role indeed. I expect Sir Tony will be their big push this year. Colman has afterglow nod written all over her; I don't know if she'll win for it, but if anyone can secure a second win so soon after the first, it's her (especially as it promises to play to a completely different range than her Oscar-winning role). Do you think Colman is winning the Emmy for The Crown later this year? Probably. The Crown is such a phenomenon and she's already won the Globe (and may win the SAG on Sunday, especially as she didn't win last year). Depends on who comes up between now and then, though, because voters do love the shiny new toys.
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Post by mhynson27 on Apr 12, 2020 17:02:14 GMT
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Post by stephen on Apr 12, 2020 17:08:07 GMT
Holy shit. He broke my heart in that first clip, and then he was a roaring dervish in the second.
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 12, 2020 17:18:36 GMT
It looks very much at what's hinted at in his King Lear (more than hinted) - where he sort of turns his face into a death mask and then (clip 2) he plays it as a precisely manic prick. It's obviously great and if he wins the Oscar - it's Academy history as no British actor save DDL has 2 Oscars where one is a Best Actor - usually that has sort of been thought that Bale would do it next.....maybe not.
Also, he's tremendously aided by being opposite Colman here - not merely because she's a great actress but the camera is on her a lot during these scenes so he doesn't wear you out with his conception of the part - EVERY time they cut away and back it's like the scenes re-start to powerful effect.....
I recently posted about Colman and Mullan in Tyrannosaur and that film has the same effect in the "reaction shot" rather than the closeup, but I assume when closeups come they're going to devastate.
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Post by mhynson27 on Apr 12, 2020 17:19:39 GMT
Oscar #2 x2, incoming.
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Post by TerryMontana on Apr 12, 2020 17:59:06 GMT
Give the man his Oscar!!!!
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Apr 12, 2020 20:25:40 GMT
my god it's like they're on a stage. The movie looks like it's going to have that kind of intimate quality that you can only get from an acting-heavy chamber piece and these two LEGENDS are eating those words right up. Can't come soon enough.
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Post by mattfincher on Apr 12, 2020 22:28:36 GMT
Hopkins will accept his Oscar via his Twitter account (either because we'll still be quarantined or he won't show up). Maybe they'll convince him to make the rounds if they tell him he has a chance to win this time. Was probably futile to persuade him this past year when they/he knew that he was going to lose every time. But considering those two clips are already better than the entirety of his Two Popes performance and he managed to stave off tough competition for a slot, he must have a lot of goodwill left. No SAG win, no competitive Globe win, and BAFTA may be a given... the sweep potential is there. Perhaps this forum will get what it wanted this past year and an old male legend will win a second Oscar.
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Post by Sharbs on Apr 12, 2020 22:48:32 GMT
I’ll.....still.......take.....the.....(gulp).....the..field...
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Post by mattfincher on Apr 12, 2020 22:50:40 GMT
I’ll.....still.......take.....the.....(gulp).....the..field... Bold considering no one knows what the field will actually be made up of at this point.
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 12, 2020 22:59:45 GMT
I’ll.....still.......take.....the.....(gulp).....the..field... Me too........Hanks has a film done too - people always flip (me included) for scenes but we just haven't seen the clips and that Hanks one is upbeat on an issue too and people who say stuff like "Paul Greengrass is a shaky director" yeah well maybe he is but he's not a playwright directing his downbeat play. I love Anthony Hopkins far more as an actor than I do Tom Hanks who I also like too but he's no Anthony Hopkins to me ..........but if my life depended on it - like it does every time I go to the supermarket - well for the Oscar BS, I'm still leaning with the American in the issue oriented positive film who recovered from Covid-19.......but Hanks better be stellar because you know Hopkins is.
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Post by mattfincher on Apr 12, 2020 23:03:34 GMT
The auspice of Hanks' future frontrunner status seem to be entirely based on the fact he got Coronavirus. Greengrass is a wildcard of a director at this point and somebody needs to convince me why Hanks is suddenly an Oscar darling again and on the precipice of a third lead win because he finished 4th or 5th last year in a supporting race.
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Post by stephen on Apr 12, 2020 23:10:04 GMT
The auspice of Hanks' future frontrunner status seem to be entirely based on the fact he got Coronavirus. Greengrass is a wildcard of a director at this point and somebody needs to convince me why Hanks is suddenly an Oscar darling again and on the precipice of a third lead win because he finished 4th or 5th last year in a supporting race. I think if anything, Hanks has a stronger shot for the interrupted Luhrmann film. It's the movie that everyone knows got stalled and he got sick making, he's playing a real-life jerkass (if he sticks the landing, it'll silence the naysayers who say Hanks can't play morally corrupt characters), and it's a baitier overall project than the Greengrass turn. I do hope that Hanks's drought is finally over, though.
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 12, 2020 23:21:49 GMT
The auspice of Hanks' future frontrunner status seem to be entirely based on the fact he got Coronavirus. Greengrass is a wildcard of a director at this point and somebody needs to convince me why Hanks is suddenly an Oscar darling again and on the precipice of a third lead win because he finished 4th or 5th last year in a supporting race. Not really. His film has a buzz (maybe undeserved, Pete Hammill BS but we'll see......), it has a distinctly strong subject in an election year, he got his welcome back nod which counts, the year will be weak which helps, his film has a December slot. Would you say Greengrass is more of a wildcard than Zeller adapting his downbeat play in his debut?.......nope. Not saying he's a lock to win........but he makes more sense on paper - 7 Oscar nominations (assuming he gets it) and a legend at 63 is something to you know, take seriously......Hanks is an Oscar darling because he's Tom F'N Hanks.......and people think he deserved his 2 wins (I don't) so giving him 3 to them doesn't seem like a big deal I reckon.......he'll get 3 anyway and you know in a year where we could have lost him (um!)...... Not a prediction just taking a flying fnck at a rolling donut as they say in Last Tango......
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Post by mattfincher on Apr 12, 2020 23:28:32 GMT
The auspice of Hanks' future frontrunner status seem to be entirely based on the fact he got Coronavirus. Greengrass is a wildcard of a director at this point and somebody needs to convince me why Hanks is suddenly an Oscar darling again and on the precipice of a third lead win because he finished 4th or 5th last year in a supporting race. Not really. His film has a buzz (maybe undeserved, Pete Hammill BS but we'll see......), it has a distinctly strong subject in an election year, he got his welcome back nod which counts, the year will be weak which helps, his film has a December slot. Would you say Greengrass is more of a wildcard than Zeller adapting his downbeat play in his debut?.......nope. Not saying he's a lock to win........but he makes more sense on paper - 7 Oscar nominations (assuming he gets it) and a legend at 63 is something to you know, take seriously......Hanks is an Oscar darling because he's Tom F'N Hanks.......and people think he deserved his 2 wins (I don't) so giving him 3 to them doesn't seem like a big deal I reckon.......he'll get 3 anyway and you know in a year where we could have lost him (um!)...... Not a prediction just taking a flying fnck at a rolling donut as they say in Last Tango...... A Universal exec hyping up a film to Pete Hammond is about the least trustworthy type of "buzz" I can imagine being construed. And Zeller's film at least has very strong reviews to back him. Greengrass' film is a complete unknown quantity. I think it'll be a weak year for nominations, probably weak enough that Hanks can be nominated solely on the basis of sentiment, but that doesn't necessarily mean it'll be weak enough that anybody can just win on likability. I don't even expect Hanks will be Hopkins biggest competition. I think it'll be Damon. Now that DiCaprio and Pitt have won, he seems like the logical next A-list male to be rewarded for a long career and generally doing consistently respectable work and not devolving into long stretches of crap like some of his contemporaries have.
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