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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 23, 2021 13:02:40 GMT
Another person without a Birthday Thread (wtf, as far as I can tell?) ..........she may not get a lot of chatter since she's been talked about a lot recently but she deserves one...............Happy 64th to a Triple Crown winner and 3 Time Oscar winner. That's two 3 time Oscar winners born a day apart (Streep yesterday).......... Thoughts? ...................Best Performance..............Underrated..........I don't want to do Overrated because this is a birthday thread and I just want to do positive things and create a safe space for all actors/actresses and their fans so please nothing negative. ............nah, just kidding .........overrated is fine.......or not  Thoughts looking ahead to Macbeth this year in just a few months? Oscar nod #7 .......? Will this be the most "transformative" and "stretching" role ever for her - maybe in her film career? Best Performance: Fargo........but Olive Kitteridge & Three Billboards are real close
Most Underrated: Burn After Reading - weirdly wonderful and inspired - you could make a whole other movie about just her and Pitt
Overrated: City By The Sea - a big let-down with a male co-star heavyweight and as flat and dull as I ever remember her in anything
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Post by stephen on Jun 23, 2021 13:21:00 GMT
The thing about McDormand is that she puts her money where her mouth is. She creates her own opportunities, takes risks on directors and shapes the projects. She's a titanic talent in front of the screen, but there is a very real chance that she will stake her legacy on the films she produces. Nomadland could very well be the start of a fruitful career in that regard.
She is also a rarity in that all three of her Oscar wins are for her three best performances, and two of those performances are flat-out landmark stuff. Her Marge Gunderson is iconic and there's no disputing that, and Mildred Hayes is solidifying as sort of the signature McDormand-in-later-years performance that people actually start to associate her as gruff and cynical, though I think that assumption does something of a disservice to McDormand, whose chief stock in trade is emotional honesty. That emotional honesty came into play for her Fern, which is one of the most atypical wins ever, but it's a beautiful tone-poem of a performance that packs a huge wallop without dipping into conventional big moments.
She's never cared for the glamour of Hollywood, eschewed the general trappings, rarely played the game. McDormand is a consummate artist, one who cares about the work and what that work means, and she's not afraid to speak her piece when it comes to an industry that marginalizes talents even today. It's why I think she's one of the best role models one could have for an actor today.
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Post by TerryMontana on Jun 23, 2021 14:11:18 GMT
Happy birthday!!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2021 14:20:23 GMT
For me, her best is Nomadland. I always connect with these "acting as being"-type performances - she's simply sublime in the film. Edit: Before 2020, my favorite of her performances was Almost Famous - "Rock stars have kidnapped my son!"  |
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 24, 2021 1:10:34 GMT
HBD! I'm a longtime Fran fan... I remember being excited at 15y/o to see her in Burn After Reading... I remember the big cardboard display they had of the movie in the theater lobby with the cast's heads each sticking out of it, and no they couldn't be removed, trust me  It's odd bc at that point what perf did I love but Fargo? I'd seen the Coens stuff and her bits in other movies - her presence however quick was enough, it seemed to be an automatic reward. But now we're spoiled, dammit......a GOAT level tv perf in Olive Kitteridge and then Three Billboards and now Lady Macbeth?? C'mon! What happened to my three-scene comfort from Wonder Boys !At this point, she's a concreted Top 10 living American actress. In the middle turf of that list for me, but btwn the Coen and Wes this year, may click up. Underrated - Not much, but not long ago I watched Hidden in America where she was Emmy nom'd - not a special perf but she does play a mechanic named Gus and looks like Billboard's Mildred - and I followed that movie with Chattahoochee where she's totally different and has at least one great scene visiting Oldman in prison. Also I don't remember it well but I wonder why Paradise Road with that cast isn't more liked.... one of the few non-American Fran roles as she plays German. Overrated - Nomadland. She's alright, I call it an open, admirable perf - but Oscar win worthy? Anyone could've done it and there were at least 15 better Lead Actresses last year. With former roommate and biffle Holly Hunter, the almost Thelma and Louise (I'm serious) :  |
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Post by MsMovieStar on Jun 25, 2021 12:14:28 GMT
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Happy Birthday, Fran! 