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Post by pupdurcs on Jan 18, 2021 1:48:34 GMT
Denzel is congratulated by an interviewer for being named the Greatest Actor Of The 21st Century in an Access Hollywood Zoom junket for The Little Things. The interviewer then shares a the quote John David Washington said about the accolade (it's about time, he's one of the greatest ever to do it, proud moment for our family etc) and Denzel is visibly overcome with emotion at his son's words. Starts from 5:20:
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Post by quetee on Jan 18, 2021 3:16:19 GMT
Denzel is congratulated by an interviewer for being named the Greatest Actor Of The 21st Century in an Access Hollywood Zoom junket for The Little Things. The interviewer then shares a the quote John David Washington said about the accolade (it's about time, he's one of the greatest ever to do it, proud moment for our family etc) and Denzel is visibly overcome with emotion at his son's words. Starts from 5:20:
Yeah, he did get emotional there. Jared looks like Jesus. Haha. I can't believe he's almost 50.
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Post by pupdurcs on Jan 23, 2021 17:50:44 GMT
Yeah, he'll likely downplay it and do his usual "God gives the reward, man gives the award" spiel . But he knows it's a big deal for him, because of the source (as you say, Huppert has been recieving accolades from around the world for decades, yet being acknowledged by the NYT so highly still stunned her). He's a competitive dude. He's in this game to be known as the greatest of all-time, as are all the greats. “You never see a U-Haul behind a hearse! The Egyptians tried it..it didn’t work” lol Haha! I called it. The Financial Times just did an interview with Denzel, and him being named the Greatest Actor of The 21st Century by the New York Times was brought up in the interview. Lo and behold, he downplayed the whole thing (though he said he appreciated the NYT doing it), then dropped that old chestnut, " Man Gets The Award, God Gives The Reward" .
www.ft.com/content/c759d2bd-0f0b-488c-830b-e5b8f37d5b6b
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Post by sirchuck23 on Jan 23, 2021 19:02:14 GMT
“You never see a U-Haul behind a hearse! The Egyptians tried it..it didn’t work” lol Haha! I called it. The Financial Times just did an interview with Denzel, and him being named the Greatest Actor of The 21st Century by the New York Times was brought up in the interview. Lo and behold, he downplayed the whole thing (though he said he appreciated the NYT doing it), then dropped that old chestnut, " Man Gets The Award, God Gives The Reward" .
www.ft.com/content/c759d2bd-0f0b-488c-830b-e5b8f37d5b6b
LOL you did call it. It’s pretty much his go to quote at this point. Anytime he goes deep he uses that quote. Surprised he didn’t drop the “you pray for rain you gotta deal with the mud too”.
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Post by pupdurcs on Jan 28, 2021 3:04:35 GMT
Entertainment Weekly just published one of the best top 10 lists of greatest performances of the GOAT I've seen. Good to see Man On Fire getting that mainstream respect. Loved the inclusions of He Got Game and American Gangster as well. My ranking would be different, but respect for putting Philadelphia in their top 3. I'd have had Roman J Israel Esq in there, but they at least had it as an honorable mention. Denzel Washington's best performances, ranked By Derek Lawrence January 27, 2021 at 10:45 AM He got game. There's no movie star quite like Denzel Washington. The career of the two-time Oscar winner (and nine-time nominee) has now spanned 40 years, and he's managed to seamlessly navigate an ever-changing Hollywood landscape, bouncing back-and-forth between prestige dramas and popcorn action vehicles. But, no matter the genre, every Denzel movie is an event (not to mention that every mom loves him). So, as the 66-year-old actor returns with his first film in almost three years, The Little Things (premiering Friday in theaters and on HBO Max), it's the perfect time to have the great debate about the magnificent 10 performances of a legendary run. And yes, King Kong ain't got s--- on these rankings. 10. Man on Fire (2004) Some respect needed to be paid to Denzel's impeccable track record in B-level action thrillers, especially his collaborations with the late great Tony Scott. The actor's turn as dedicated bodyguard John Creasy gets the nod for many reasons. While it's technically one of his quieter performances, he lets his badassery do the talking. But what really separates Man on Fire from the Unstoppables or Safe Houses is his adorable and heartbreaking chemistry with a then-10-year-old Dakota Fanning. Plus, bonus points for quintessential action lines like when Creasy is asked what he's going to do to Pita's (Fanning) kidnappers: “What I do best: I’m gonna kill 'em.” Truly on fire. 9. American Gangster (2007) At the 2008 Oscars, no one was going to beat Daniel Day-Lewis and his iconic turn in There Will Be Blood, but it's still shocking that Denzel didn't at least get a nomination for starring as infamous drug kingpin Frank Lucas in Ridley Scott's crime biopic. Denzel is all business as Lucas, highlighted by a chilling sequence where he's giving a speech in a diner, only to then spot a rival (Idris Elba) outside, walk up to him, fire a shot through his head in broad daylight, walk back, sit-down, and calmly ask his shocked family, "So, what was I saying?" Gangster, indeed. 8. He Got Game (1998) Denzel and Spike Lee's basketball drama is far from your classic inspirational sports movie, but its legacy has only grown over the years since its release. Alongside the unforgettable name that is Jesus Shuttlesworth (Ray Allen), much of the longevity is thanks to Denzel's Jake Shuttlesworth, the poster boy for overbearing, pushy sports dads, and one of the actor's most flawed characters. The film builds to a climactic game of one-on-one between father and son that Jesus was supposed to win 11 to 0. That is until Denzel decided to go off script without telling anyone, surprising Allen, a rookie actor and pro basketball player, by playing for real and getting a few points of his own. We told you that he got game. 7. Flight (2012) Years before Tom Hanks took flight as Sully, Denzel beat him to the air as alcoholic pilot Whip Whitaker, who finds himself trying to conceal his addiction following a miraculous crash landing. Often actors play into their worst tendencies when portraying a drunkard, going way too big, but, like Whip's plane, Denzel manages to ground his performance, whether when turning a plane upside-down or finally coming clean to himself — and the world. 6. Fences (2016) Denzel had a lot of things working to his advantage on this adaptation of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize winning play, considering he was serving as director and previously took home a Tony for starring on Broadway as unfaithful husband, stern father, and 1950s garbage collector Troy Maxson. Like the recent Wilson film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, which Denzel produced, it's impossible not to see the stage origins, and yet, the confined space and setting also allows Denzel to have a hurricane of powerful, intimate showdowns with Jovan Adepo (The Leftovers), Russell Hornsby (The Hate U Give), and Viola Davis, his Broadway partner and Oscar-winner for Fences. 5. The Hurricane (1999) Speaking of hurricanes, Denzel closed out the 20th century with a knockout performance as Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter, a boxer fighting for his freedom after being wrongfully imprisoned for murder. Denzel is tasked with playing multiple versions of the real Carter (and inspiration for Bob Dylan's protest song "Hurricane"), from a troubled soldier returning home to a young man at the top of his sport to an angry and volatile prisoner to a thankful, and freed man. It's hard not to wonder if the biggest hit The Hurricane took was soon being followed by Will Smith's much-bigger and louder Ali. 4. Glory (1989) Just one year after wrapping up his six-season run on the NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere, Denzel gained big screen glory as Private Silas Trip, the most outspoken member of the Union Army's all-Black regiment. Despite a few big verbal confrontations with fellow future legends Morgan Freeman and Andre Braugher, Denzel doesn't speak a word in Glory's most memorable scene, as Trip is punished with a flogging. He never blinks, staring right through Colonel Shaw (Matthew Broderick), and eventually having one tear run down his otherwise stoic face. The performance, only his seventh film credit, earned him the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. 3. Philadelphia (1993) The biggest objection to this legal drama is that Denzel didn't get nearly as much love as costar Tom Hanks, who won the first of his back-to-back Oscars. Hanks has the juicier part as Andrew Beckett, a lawyer dying of AIDS and suing his old firm for dismissing him because he's gay, but Denzel's supporting turn as Beckett's initially homophobic counsel Joe Miller is just as important, painfully showcasing the uninformed views and beliefs of the early AIDS-era. While Denzel is right at home in the courtroom, he especially stands out while riding an emotional rollercoaster during a pharmacy run-in. At first, Joe is beaming with pride when his work is recognized by a Black law student, only to be in shock when the young man hits on him. He's in such disbelief that he literally does a full 360-turn, before publicly snapping on his admirer. The scenes manages to be both hard to watch and impossible not to watch at the same time. 2. Training Day (2001) This isn't a film that you win an Oscar for. Especially when competing against Will Smith in a Muhammad Ali biopic, Russell Crowe in Best Picture victor A Beautiful Mind, and Sean Penn in usual awards catnip like I Am Sam. But that's the power of Denzel. What could have just been an entertaining, by the numbers cop drama, he elevates to a history-making level. From the first minute we're introduced to corrupt Det. Alonzo Harris, Denzel is electrifying, and that magnetism only grows as he and his new recruit Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) make their rounds through the gritty streets of Los Angeles. But it's the final 10 minutes, when his badge is literally and figuratively stripped from Alonzo, that Denzel unloads his Oscar-winning sequence. The defiant tirade has so many quotable lines (King Kong indeed doesn't have s--- on him), but, as Alonzo comes to grips with this being the end for him, Denzel brings it home with a cigarette, a hop, an evil chuckle, and a hoarse and resigned delivery of "What a motherf---in' day." And what a motherf---in' performance. 1. Malcolm X (1992) There's been plenty of infamous Oscar injustices over the years (Forrest Gump over Pulp Fiction, really?!), and that tradition will surely live on forever, which is also how long it will take us to get over Denzel as Malcolm X being snubbed in favor of what can only be described as a career-achievement win for Scent of a Woman's Al Pacino. No pair was better suited for this 200-minute epic than Denzel and frequent collaborator Spike Lee, who, unsurprisingly, doesn't turn in a traditional biopic. Whereas Kingsley Ben-Adir's version of the revolutionary activist in 2020's One Night in Miami is much more subdued, Denzel blends that nature with a fire and force, whether in his private moments with Malcolm's wife Betty (Angela Bassett) or in fervent speeches that showed why so many were drawn to the towering figure. "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock," he famously declares in one such instance. "Plymouth Rock landed on us!" Well, it was easy to land on Malcolm X as the greatest performance from one of our greatest actors. Honorable mention: Remember the Titans, Inside Man, and Roman J. Israel, Esq. ew.com/movies/denzel-washington-best-performances-ranked/
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Post by sirchuck23 on Jan 28, 2021 3:39:34 GMT
Entertainment Weekly just published one of the best top 10 lists of greatest performances of the GOAT I've seen. Good to see Man On Fire getting that mainstream respect. Loved the inclusions of He Got Game and American Gangster as well. My ranking would be different, but respect for putting Philadelphia in their top 3. I'd have had Roman J Israel Esq in there, but they at least had it as an honorable mention. Denzel Washington's best performances, ranked By Derek Lawrence January 27, 2021 at 10:45 AM He got game. There's no movie star quite like Denzel Washington. The career of the two-time Oscar winner (and nine-time nominee) has now spanned 40 years, and he's managed to seamlessly navigate an ever-changing Hollywood landscape, bouncing back-and-forth between prestige dramas and popcorn action vehicles. But, no matter the genre, every Denzel movie is an event (not to mention that every mom loves him). So, as the 66-year-old actor returns with his first film in almost three years, The Little Things (premiering Friday in theaters and on HBO Max), it's the perfect time to have the great debate about the magnificent 10 performances of a legendary run. And yes, King Kong ain't got s--- on these rankings. 10. Man on Fire (2004) Some respect needed to be paid to Denzel's impeccable track record in B-level action thrillers, especially his collaborations with the late great Tony Scott. The actor's turn as dedicated bodyguard John Creasy gets the nod for many reasons. While it's technically one of his quieter performances, he lets his badassery do the talking. But what really separates Man on Fire from the Unstoppables or Safe Houses is his adorable and heartbreaking chemistry with a then-10-year-old Dakota Fanning. Plus, bonus points for quintessential action lines like when Creasy is asked what he's going to do to Pita's (Fanning) kidnappers: “What I do best: I’m gonna kill 'em.” Truly on fire. 9. American Gangster (2007) At the 2008 Oscars, no one was going to beat Daniel Day-Lewis and his iconic turn in There Will Be Blood, but it's still shocking that Denzel didn't at least get a nomination for starring as infamous drug kingpin Frank Lucas in Ridley Scott's crime biopic. Denzel is all business as Lucas, highlighted by a chilling sequence where he's giving a speech in a diner, only to then spot a rival (Idris Elba) outside, walk up to him, fire a shot through his head in broad daylight, walk back, sit-down, and calmly ask his shocked family, "So, what was I saying?" Gangster, indeed. 8. He Got Game (1998) Denzel and Spike Lee's basketball drama is far from your classic inspirational sports movie, but its legacy has only grown over the years since its release. Alongside the unforgettable name that is Jesus Shuttlesworth (Ray Allen), much of the longevity is thanks to Denzel's Jake Shuttlesworth, the poster boy for overbearing, pushy sports dads, and one of the actor's most flawed characters. The film builds to a climactic game of one-on-one between father and son that Jesus was supposed to win 11 to 0. That is until Denzel decided to go off script without telling anyone, surprising Allen, a rookie actor and pro basketball player, by playing for real and getting a few points of his own. We told you that he got game. 7. Flight (2012) Years before Tom Hanks took flight as Sully, Denzel beat him to the air as alcoholic pilot Whip Whitaker, who finds himself trying to conceal his addiction following a miraculous crash landing. Often actors play into their worst tendencies when portraying a drunkard, going way too big, but, like Whip's plane, Denzel manages to ground his performance, whether when turning a plane upside-down or finally coming clean to himself — and the world. 6. Fences (2016) Denzel had a lot of things working to his advantage on this adaptation of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize winning play, considering he was serving as director and previously took home a Tony for starring on Broadway as unfaithful husband, stern father, and 1950s garbage collector Troy Maxson. Like the recent Wilson film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, which Denzel produced, it's impossible not to see the stage origins, and yet, the confined space and setting also allows Denzel to have a hurricane of powerful, intimate showdowns with Jovan Adepo (The Leftovers), Russell Hornsby (The Hate U Give), and Viola Davis, his Broadway partner and Oscar-winner for Fences. 5. The Hurricane (1999) Speaking of hurricanes, Denzel closed out the 20th century with a knockout performance as Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter, a boxer fighting for his freedom after being wrongfully imprisoned for murder. Denzel is tasked with playing multiple versions of the real Carter (and inspiration for Bob Dylan's protest song "Hurricane"), from a troubled soldier returning home to a young man at the top of his sport to an angry and volatile prisoner to a thankful, and freed man. It's hard not to wonder if the biggest hit The Hurricane took was soon being followed by Will Smith's much-bigger and louder Ali. 4. Glory (1989) Just one year after wrapping up his six-season run on the NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere, Denzel gained big screen glory as Private Silas Trip, the most outspoken member of the Union Army's all-Black regiment. Despite a few big verbal confrontations with fellow future legends Morgan Freeman and Andre Braugher, Denzel doesn't speak a word in Glory's most memorable scene, as Trip is punished with a flogging. He never blinks, staring right through Colonel Shaw (Matthew Broderick), and eventually having one tear run down his otherwise stoic face. The performance, only his seventh film credit, earned him the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. 3. Philadelphia (1993) The biggest objection to this legal drama is that Denzel didn't get nearly as much love as costar Tom Hanks, who won the first of his back-to-back Oscars. Hanks has the juicier part as Andrew Beckett, a lawyer dying of AIDS and suing his old firm for dismissing him because he's gay, but Denzel's supporting turn as Beckett's initially homophobic counsel Joe Miller is just as important, painfully showcasing the uninformed views and beliefs of the early AIDS-era. While Denzel is right at home in the courtroom, he especially stands out while riding an emotional rollercoaster during a pharmacy run-in. At first, Joe is beaming with pride when his work is recognized by a Black law student, only to be in shock when the young man hits on him. He's in such disbelief that he literally does a full 360-turn, before publicly snapping on his admirer. The scenes manages to be both hard to watch and impossible not to watch at the same time. 2. Training Day (2001) This isn't a film that you win an Oscar for. Especially when competing against Will Smith in a Muhammad Ali biopic, Russell Crowe in Best Picture victor A Beautiful Mind, and Sean Penn in usual awards catnip like I Am Sam. But that's the power of Denzel. What could have just been an entertaining, by the numbers cop drama, he elevates to a history-making level. From the first minute we're introduced to corrupt Det. Alonzo Harris, Denzel is electrifying, and that magnetism only grows as he and his new recruit Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) make their rounds through the gritty streets of Los Angeles. But it's the final 10 minutes, when his badge is literally and figuratively stripped from Alonzo, that Denzel unloads his Oscar-winning sequence. The defiant tirade has so many quotable lines (King Kong indeed doesn't have s--- on him), but, as Alonzo comes to grips with this being the end for him, Denzel brings it home with a cigarette, a hop, an evil chuckle, and a hoarse and resigned delivery of "What a motherf---in' day." And what a motherf---in' performance. 1. Malcolm X (1992) There's been plenty of infamous Oscar injustices over the years (Forrest Gump over Pulp Fiction, really?!), and that tradition will surely live on forever, which is also how long it will take us to get over Denzel as Malcolm X being snubbed in favor of what can only be described as a career-achievement win for Scent of a Woman's Al Pacino. No pair was better suited for this 200-minute epic than Denzel and frequent collaborator Spike Lee, who, unsurprisingly, doesn't turn in a traditional biopic. Whereas Kingsley Ben-Adir's version of the revolutionary activist in 2020's One Night in Miami is much more subdued, Denzel blends that nature with a fire and force, whether in his private moments with Malcolm's wife Betty (Angela Bassett) or in fervent speeches that showed why so many were drawn to the towering figure. "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock," he famously declares in one such instance. "Plymouth Rock landed on us!" Well, it was easy to land on Malcolm X as the greatest performance from one of our greatest actors. Honorable mention: Remember the Titans, Inside Man, and Roman J. Israel, Esq. ew.com/movies/denzel-washington-best-performances-ranked/ That’s a great list..those are pretty much his slate of his greatest performances. Would’ve had Roman in there and change the order, but that’s pretty much the cream of the crop there. I don’t think he will ever surpass his Malcolm X performance..which makes it more egregious that he didn’t win for it.
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Post by pupdurcs on Jan 28, 2021 3:56:04 GMT
Entertainment Weekly just published one of the best top 10 lists of greatest performances of the GOAT I've seen. Good to see Man On Fire getting that mainstream respect. Loved the inclusions of He Got Game and American Gangster as well. My ranking would be different, but respect for putting Philadelphia in their top 3. I'd have had Roman J Israel Esq in there, but they at least had it as an honorable mention. Denzel Washington's best performances, ranked By Derek Lawrence January 27, 2021 at 10:45 AM He got game. There's no movie star quite like Denzel Washington. The career of the two-time Oscar winner (and nine-time nominee) has now spanned 40 years, and he's managed to seamlessly navigate an ever-changing Hollywood landscape, bouncing back-and-forth between prestige dramas and popcorn action vehicles. But, no matter the genre, every Denzel movie is an event (not to mention that every mom loves him). So, as the 66-year-old actor returns with his first film in almost three years, The Little Things (premiering Friday in theaters and on HBO Max), it's the perfect time to have the great debate about the magnificent 10 performances of a legendary run. And yes, King Kong ain't got s--- on these rankings. 10. Man on Fire (2004) Some respect needed to be paid to Denzel's impeccable track record in B-level action thrillers, especially his collaborations with the late great Tony Scott. The actor's turn as dedicated bodyguard John Creasy gets the nod for many reasons. While it's technically one of his quieter performances, he lets his badassery do the talking. But what really separates Man on Fire from the Unstoppables or Safe Houses is his adorable and heartbreaking chemistry with a then-10-year-old Dakota Fanning. Plus, bonus points for quintessential action lines like when Creasy is asked what he's going to do to Pita's (Fanning) kidnappers: “What I do best: I’m gonna kill 'em.” Truly on fire. 9. American Gangster (2007) At the 2008 Oscars, no one was going to beat Daniel Day-Lewis and his iconic turn in There Will Be Blood, but it's still shocking that Denzel didn't at least get a nomination for starring as infamous drug kingpin Frank Lucas in Ridley Scott's crime biopic. Denzel is all business as Lucas, highlighted by a chilling sequence where he's giving a speech in a diner, only to then spot a rival (Idris Elba) outside, walk up to him, fire a shot through his head in broad daylight, walk back, sit-down, and calmly ask his shocked family, "So, what was I saying?" Gangster, indeed. 8. He Got Game (1998) Denzel and Spike Lee's basketball drama is far from your classic inspirational sports movie, but its legacy has only grown over the years since its release. Alongside the unforgettable name that is Jesus Shuttlesworth (Ray Allen), much of the longevity is thanks to Denzel's Jake Shuttlesworth, the poster boy for overbearing, pushy sports dads, and one of the actor's most flawed characters. The film builds to a climactic game of one-on-one between father and son that Jesus was supposed to win 11 to 0. That is until Denzel decided to go off script without telling anyone, surprising Allen, a rookie actor and pro basketball player, by playing for real and getting a few points of his own. We told you that he got game. 7. Flight (2012) Years before Tom Hanks took flight as Sully, Denzel beat him to the air as alcoholic pilot Whip Whitaker, who finds himself trying to conceal his addiction following a miraculous crash landing. Often actors play into their worst tendencies when portraying a drunkard, going way too big, but, like Whip's plane, Denzel manages to ground his performance, whether when turning a plane upside-down or finally coming clean to himself — and the world. 6. Fences (2016) Denzel had a lot of things working to his advantage on this adaptation of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize winning play, considering he was serving as director and previously took home a Tony for starring on Broadway as unfaithful husband, stern father, and 1950s garbage collector Troy Maxson. Like the recent Wilson film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, which Denzel produced, it's impossible not to see the stage origins, and yet, the confined space and setting also allows Denzel to have a hurricane of powerful, intimate showdowns with Jovan Adepo (The Leftovers), Russell Hornsby (The Hate U Give), and Viola Davis, his Broadway partner and Oscar-winner for Fences. 5. The Hurricane (1999) Speaking of hurricanes, Denzel closed out the 20th century with a knockout performance as Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter, a boxer fighting for his freedom after being wrongfully imprisoned for murder. Denzel is tasked with playing multiple versions of the real Carter (and inspiration for Bob Dylan's protest song "Hurricane"), from a troubled soldier returning home to a young man at the top of his sport to an angry and volatile prisoner to a thankful, and freed man. It's hard not to wonder if the biggest hit The Hurricane took was soon being followed by Will Smith's much-bigger and louder Ali. 4. Glory (1989) Just one year after wrapping up his six-season run on the NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere, Denzel gained big screen glory as Private Silas Trip, the most outspoken member of the Union Army's all-Black regiment. Despite a few big verbal confrontations with fellow future legends Morgan Freeman and Andre Braugher, Denzel doesn't speak a word in Glory's most memorable scene, as Trip is punished with a flogging. He never blinks, staring right through Colonel Shaw (Matthew Broderick), and eventually having one tear run down his otherwise stoic face. The performance, only his seventh film credit, earned him the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. 3. Philadelphia (1993) The biggest objection to this legal drama is that Denzel didn't get nearly as much love as costar Tom Hanks, who won the first of his back-to-back Oscars. Hanks has the juicier part as Andrew Beckett, a lawyer dying of AIDS and suing his old firm for dismissing him because he's gay, but Denzel's supporting turn as Beckett's initially homophobic counsel Joe Miller is just as important, painfully showcasing the uninformed views and beliefs of the early AIDS-era. While Denzel is right at home in the courtroom, he especially stands out while riding an emotional rollercoaster during a pharmacy run-in. At first, Joe is beaming with pride when his work is recognized by a Black law student, only to be in shock when the young man hits on him. He's in such disbelief that he literally does a full 360-turn, before publicly snapping on his admirer. The scenes manages to be both hard to watch and impossible not to watch at the same time. 2. Training Day (2001) This isn't a film that you win an Oscar for. Especially when competing against Will Smith in a Muhammad Ali biopic, Russell Crowe in Best Picture victor A Beautiful Mind, and Sean Penn in usual awards catnip like I Am Sam. But that's the power of Denzel. What could have just been an entertaining, by the numbers cop drama, he elevates to a history-making level. From the first minute we're introduced to corrupt Det. Alonzo Harris, Denzel is electrifying, and that magnetism only grows as he and his new recruit Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) make their rounds through the gritty streets of Los Angeles. But it's the final 10 minutes, when his badge is literally and figuratively stripped from Alonzo, that Denzel unloads his Oscar-winning sequence. The defiant tirade has so many quotable lines (King Kong indeed doesn't have s--- on him), but, as Alonzo comes to grips with this being the end for him, Denzel brings it home with a cigarette, a hop, an evil chuckle, and a hoarse and resigned delivery of "What a motherf---in' day." And what a motherf---in' performance. 1. Malcolm X (1992) There's been plenty of infamous Oscar injustices over the years (Forrest Gump over Pulp Fiction, really?!), and that tradition will surely live on forever, which is also how long it will take us to get over Denzel as Malcolm X being snubbed in favor of what can only be described as a career-achievement win for Scent of a Woman's Al Pacino. No pair was better suited for this 200-minute epic than Denzel and frequent collaborator Spike Lee, who, unsurprisingly, doesn't turn in a traditional biopic. Whereas Kingsley Ben-Adir's version of the revolutionary activist in 2020's One Night in Miami is much more subdued, Denzel blends that nature with a fire and force, whether in his private moments with Malcolm's wife Betty (Angela Bassett) or in fervent speeches that showed why so many were drawn to the towering figure. "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock," he famously declares in one such instance. "Plymouth Rock landed on us!" Well, it was easy to land on Malcolm X as the greatest performance from one of our greatest actors. Honorable mention: Remember the Titans, Inside Man, and Roman J. Israel, Esq. ew.com/movies/denzel-washington-best-performances-ranked/ That’s a great list..those are pretty much his slate of his greatest performances. Would’ve had Roman in there and change the order, but that’s pretty much the cream of the crop there. I don’t think he will ever surpass his Malcolm X performance..which makes it more egregious that he didn’t win for it. Yeah, that EW Top 10 + Roman J Israel Esq is probably his cream of the crop, but he is quietly magnificent in Devil In A Blue Dress and his work as a completely shattered and mentally distraught man in The Manchurian Candidate is undervalued. To be fair, he has a lot of performances that you could slot into his top 10 and they wouldn't seem out of place. Few would blink an eye if you threw Crimson Tide or Cry Freedom in there.
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Post by sirchuck23 on Jan 28, 2021 5:02:24 GMT
That’s a great list..those are pretty much his slate of his greatest performances. Would’ve had Roman in there and change the order, but that’s pretty much the cream of the crop there. I don’t think he will ever surpass his Malcolm X performance..which makes it more egregious that he didn’t win for it. Yeah, that EW Top 10 + Roman J Israel Esq is probably his cream of the crop, but he is quietly magnificent in Devil In A Blue Dress and his work as a completely shattered and mentally distraught man in The Manchurian Candidate is undervalued. To be fair, he has a lot of performances that you could slot into his top 10 and they wouldn't seem out of place. Few would blink an eye if you threw Crimson Tide or Cry Freedom in there. Yep..Inside Man and Mo Better Blues as well. I loved the American Gangster mention and write up as well.
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Post by franklin on Jan 28, 2021 11:03:18 GMT
I expect that top 10 to be updated when he'll come out this year with the Coen's new Macbeth film.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 28, 2021 11:48:49 GMT
I expect that top 10 to be updated when he'll come out this year with the Coen's new Macbeth film. I hope so but I wouldn't be so sure of that where I'd say I "expect" that .........maybe............ but he's a 65 year old Macbeth opposite a 62 year old Lady Macbeth - the oldest major Macbeth combination EVER.......there's a lot of obstacles to overcome there. He might overcome them, I expect him to be better than McDormand who is the bigger question mark in that piece but.......Macbeth is not the equal of Hamlet, Richard III, Lear, Othello (arguably) or Iago ..... and doesn't get the luster that those roles do. Anyway, for me - he has more like a "top 8" - 2 really great ones, a lesser set of great ones, and the last 3 great-ish ones with some reservations ........he has a few good ones to fight for the other 2 spots: 1. Malcolm X
2. Fences
3. Training Day 4. Flight (until the last few scenes) 5. He Got Game
6. The Hurricane (particularly the last hour of it) 7. Glory 8. American Gangster
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Post by fiosnasiob on Jan 28, 2021 12:56:44 GMT
His work in Philadelphia is a thing of beauty. Charismatic, flawed, conflicted, angry, funny, vulnerable...Joe Miller is a lot of things (and he could easily had his own TV show) and it's all brought on screen with incomparable truth and magnetism. And the acting choices he makes in several scenes are particularly inspired. No wonder why Hanks said he learned more about acting when he worked with Denzel on Philadelphia than from anywhere else. It might be THE performance of his that I always feel bad to not put higher when doing such top lists. But I'm rarely satisfied when doing a top 10 anyway and I'm sometimes more impressed by what he's able to do in lesser materials movies than in something where you expect an actor of his caliber to deliver a great performance. I remember listening to Demme's audio comment on the 10th years anniversary DVD, it was Mr Washington this, Mr Washington that...all long, to the point that it was almost embarassing for his oscar winning co-star. And they worked again together soon after.
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Post by pupdurcs on Jan 28, 2021 13:07:43 GMT
I'm sometimes more impressed by what he's able to do in lesser materials movies than in something where you expect an actor of his caliber to deliver a great performance. Using that specific context you mention, John Q may low-key be one of his most impressive performances. Because nothing about the script, direction or even performances of his co-stars ( Robert Duvall, Ray Liotta and James Woods, great actors all seemingly on autopilot) suggested he should have been delivering a performance of such heartfelt conviction. To do something this good and genuine in a film that hacky and unremarkable in every other aspect is pretty special;
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Post by stephen on Jan 28, 2021 13:15:10 GMT
I expect that top 10 to be updated when he'll come out this year with the Coen's new Macbeth film. I hope so but I wouldn't be so sure of that where I'd say I "expect" that .........maybe............ but he's a 65 year old Macbeth opposite a 62 year old Lady Macbeth - the oldest major Macbeth combination EVER.......there's a lot of obstacles to overcome there. He might overcome them, I expect him to be better than McDormand who is the bigger question mark in that piece but.......Macbeth is not the equal of Hamlet, Richard III, Lear, Othello (arguably) or Iago ..... and doesn't get the luster that those roles do. You keep drilling down on the age aspect of this, but I still don't know why. It's not like McDormand and Washington are in nursing homes, for God's sake. They are still hale and hearty enough to play roles like this on paper, and I am sure that they and Joel Coen have something up their sleeve to play around with convention. I mean, it's not like they're in their late seventies playing Jimmy Hoffa, who vanished at the age of 62. (Kidding, of course, but what's good for the goose ought to be good for the gander.)
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 28, 2021 13:30:29 GMT
I hope so but I wouldn't be so sure of that where I'd say I "expect" that .........maybe............ but he's a 65 year old Macbeth opposite a 62 year old Lady Macbeth - the oldest major Macbeth combination EVER.......there's a lot of obstacles to overcome there. He might overcome them, I expect him to be better than McDormand who is the bigger question mark in that piece but.......Macbeth is not the equal of Hamlet, Richard III, Lear, Othello (arguably) or Iago ..... and doesn't get the luster that those roles do. You keep drilling down on the age aspect of this, but I still don't know why. It's not like McDormand and Washington are in nursing homes, for God's sake. They are still hale and hearty enough to play roles like this on paper, and I am sure that they and Joel Coen have something up their sleeve to play around with convention. I mean, it's not like they're in their late seventies playing Jimmy Hoffa, who vanished at the age of 62. (Kidding, of course, but what's good for the goose ought to be good for the gander.)But it's not what's good for the goose is good for the gander - it's rather, being a contrarian for the mere sake of it - and I love ya buddy, but prior to The Irishman I said it was a huge risk - I said so, no? - You see how it played it out and in Pacino's case it was a triumph for him whether someone likes the movie or not..........risks sometimes work, sure But in this case it's a question mark and a risk for BOTH actors - it doesn't matter that they are "hale and hearty" (um, come on) - it matters that this is an IN PERIOD piece where people died at 60 and this plot involves specific machinations characters would make in MID-LIFE not at the end of it. That's why "40" is the right age - no? Not saying they can't pull it off and this is maybe my most anticipated film of 2021 too but .........the pollyanna attitude you and others (um) are taking is kinda of ridiculous tbh.
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Post by stephen on Jan 28, 2021 13:38:26 GMT
But it's not what's good for the goose is good for the gander - it's rather, being a contrarian for the mere sake of it - and I love ya buddy, but prior to The Irishman I said it was a huge risk - I said so, no? - You see how it played it out and in Pacino's case it was a triumph for him whether someone likes the movie or not..........risks sometimes work, sure But in this case it's a question mark and a risk for BOTH actors - it doesn't matter that they are "hale and hearty" (um, come on) - it matters that this is an IN PERIOD piece where people died at 60 and this plot involves specific machinations characters would make in MID-LIFE not at the end of it. That's why "40" is the right age - no? Not saying they can't pull it off and this is maybe my most anticipated film of 2021 too but .........the pollyanna attitude you and others (um) are taking is kinda of ridiculous tbh. People die at 60 now. Our leading politicians today are in their seventies and eighties, desperate to cling to power and not to let their generation pass into obscurity. I could absolutely see that being the timbre of Coen's Macbeth, where instead of a couple who see the opportunity to seize rule as the younger upstarts against the aged King Duncan, it's a couple who have been routinely passed over for power and who have seen their opportunities slip through their fingers time and again simply by abiding by others' rules, and they have had enough. Mortality is an essential component of the play which is often overlooked in favor of morality. I really liked Kurzel's version particularly because he took the time to lay the groundwork for it (Macbeth's dead child, which seems to precipitate the whole mess). This time, though, it would be front and center. They're not looking for building their lineage now. They're just desperate to have the power while they still can. I find that compelling, and makes for a unique take on the play rather than the same old song played again.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 28, 2021 14:11:21 GMT
But it's not what's good for the goose is good for the gander - it's rather, being a contrarian for the mere sake of it - and I love ya buddy, but prior to The Irishman I said it was a huge risk - I said so, no? - You see how it played it out and in Pacino's case it was a triumph for him whether someone likes the movie or not..........risks sometimes work, sure But in this case it's a question mark and a risk for BOTH actors - it doesn't matter that they are "hale and hearty" (um, come on) - it matters that this is an IN PERIOD piece where people died at 60 and this plot involves specific machinations characters would make in MID-LIFE not at the end of it. That's why "40" is the right age - no? Not saying they can't pull it off and this is maybe my most anticipated film of 2021 too but .........the pollyanna attitude you and others (um) are taking is kinda of ridiculous tbh. People die at 60 now. .................I could absolutely see that being the timbre of Coen's Macbeth We don't disagree much and I agree that's how they'll have to do it.......but much of the text fights against that approach specifically and this apparently uses "85% of the text" - what does that even mean and why am I the only one asking that ? - check the Macbeth thread even: "85% of the original text"? or "85% of the text in this film is merely from the play" - which is NOT the same thing at all. Either way, it's a big deal - if it's the first - that's tough to sell on the page..........if it's the second, you better have been judicious in what you kept and what you cut. Regardless, it's a challenge to overcome in SOME way, that's all I'm saying............. and the fact that it's Joel Coen's "approach" does not in and of itself make it a better conception than the "same old, same old" of having actors who fit the source text more easily. It may be........and............yes, I hope that is the case....
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Post by pupdurcs on Jan 28, 2021 19:01:11 GMT
Hmmm...both Jared Leto and Michael B Jordan calling Denzel the GOAT today.
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Post by sirchuck23 on Jan 28, 2021 19:16:14 GMT
Hmmm...both Jared Leto and Michael B Jordan calling Denzel the GOAT today. I wish there was a picture like this with Denzel and all his awards behind him.
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Post by pupdurcs on Jan 29, 2021 6:59:43 GMT
The interviewers on Good Morning America start off this segment praising Denzel for being named the Greatest Actor of the 21st Century by the NYT. Denzel makes some jokes about it, deflects and goes on to praise his kids (and wife) who are all working in the industry:
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Post by pupdurcs on Feb 14, 2021 20:07:05 GMT
Didn't want to start a new thread for this, so felt it'd fit best here. Rotten Tomatoes published a cool video this week pitting Tom Hanks vs Denzel (the narrarator appropriately deemed it America's Dad vs America's Thespian ). Basically compared them in terms of box office, characters, Rotten Tomatoes filmography average/ Audience Score Average, Iconic moments etc. They give the win to Denzel overall, but probably the most interesting thing was finding out that Denzel's filmography has a combined higher average RT and Audience Score than Hanks filmography, so he won the filmography round based on those metrics.
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Post by sirchuck23 on Feb 14, 2021 20:25:26 GMT
Didn't want to start a new thread for this, so felt it'd fit best here. Rotten Tomatoes published a cool video this week pitting Tom Hanks vs Denzel (the narrarator appropriately deemed it America's Dad vs America's Thespian ). Basically compared them in terms of box office, characters, Rotten Tomatoes filmography average/ Audience Score Average, Iconic moments etc. They give the win to Denzel overall, but probably the most interesting thing was finding out that Denzel's filmography has a combined higher average RT and Audience Score than Hanks filmography, so he won the filmography round based on those metrics. Shows that the general movie going audience likes how he has an entertaining filmography with the Tony Scott films, etc. He mixes it up with different genres and just doesn't do the oscar bait films or arthouse cinema. That's why you can get such varied replies when people give you their favorite Denzel films. One person may like the serious drama movies where he's oscar-nominated, another may like his work with Spike Lee, and another may like his Tony Scott stuff or pulp genre films like The Book of Eli, etc.
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Post by pupdurcs on Feb 14, 2021 20:40:11 GMT
Didn't want to start a new thread for this, so felt it'd fit best here. Rotten Tomatoes published a cool video this week pitting Tom Hanks vs Denzel (the narrarator appropriately deemed it America's Dad vs America's Thespian ). Basically compared them in terms of box office, characters, Rotten Tomatoes filmography average/ Audience Score Average, Iconic moments etc. They give the win to Denzel overall, but probably the most interesting thing was finding out that Denzel's filmography has a combined higher average RT and Audience Score than Hanks filmography, so he won the filmography round based on those metrics. Shows that the general movie going audience likes how he has an entertaining filmography with the Tony Scott films, etc. He mixes it up with different genres and just doesn't do the oscar bait films or arthouse cinema. That's why you can get such varied replies when people give you their favorite Denzel films. One person may like the serious drama movies where he's oscar-nominated, another may like his work with Spike Lee, and another may like his Tony Scott stuff or pulp genre films like The Book of Eli, etc. Yeah, it's incredibly impressive that his movies have a higher average Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes than Tom Hanks, who has been pumping out succesful and well regarded crowd pleasers for the better part of 4 decades. Even I was slightly surprised by that, but as you say, it's not a total shocker either.
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Post by futuretrunks on Feb 14, 2021 22:34:14 GMT
I think it's because Hanks has diluted his filmography in recent years. The Circle, Greyhound, A Hologram for the King, Ithaca,...who has even seen these movies?
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 14, 2021 22:51:02 GMT
I think it's because Hanks has diluted his filmography in recent years. The Circle, Greyhound, A Hologram for the King, Ithaca,...who has even seen these movies? Yup and that overall comparison isn't ever the point anyway - the point is Tom Hanks has a dozen movies that people own and love and stuff like that and Denzel has ..........well a lot less than that to be kind - there's not a comparison between who's lame movies were rated higher on RT to jack up an overall "average".
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Post by pupdurcs on Feb 14, 2021 23:09:59 GMT
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