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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 31, 2024 23:45:57 GMT
This is sort of based on TylerDeneuve who used it to contrast Blanchett / Moore today...who are actors that you'd describe this way but NOT as a negative...whose technical mastery impresses you the most and doesn't seem cold? Who makes you "cry" or affects you emotionally the most? Technical for me are DDL & Blanchett, Streep (I think Huppert is a mix of both things tbh)..............emotionally Pacino ......Brando.......and especially Magnani........and also Rowlands.  |
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Apr 1, 2024 0:42:07 GMT
The actors I've had the strongest emotional reaction to are invariably (beautiful) women: Isabelle Adjani, Maggie Cheung, Julianne Moore, Charlotte Rampling, Romy Schneider...
Every so often, a man will engage me in the same way - I'd say Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain is the paramount example.
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 1, 2024 0:56:02 GMT
One of the interesting things about DDL & Blanchett - often seen as similar - is they are highly skilledd technical actors who incorporate the technical into some of their work - ie the technical becomes necessary to the work.......Phantom Thread for one.......I remember that one of the times I saw Tar a woman in the row in front of me was raving about how perfect Blanchett's German accent was when she spoke German........  |
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Apr 1, 2024 2:46:23 GMT
pacinoyes - I'd argue that Moore's naturalism actually makes her more believable than the technicians... She is completely warm and luminous in the Sirkian homage of Far from Heaven, and to my mind, she is far more credible as a British person than, say, Streep. The clip below is emblematic of that... she's just so natural. Sorry to beat that word into the ground. 
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Post by TheAlwaysClassy on Apr 1, 2024 3:01:42 GMT
Technical- Oldman, Bale, DiCaprio, Bardem, Steiger
Emotional- Stewart, Phoenix, Ledger, Casey Affleck
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 1, 2024 3:16:12 GMT
pacinoyes - I'd argue that Moore's naturalism actually makes her more believable than the technicians... She is completely warm and luminous in the Sirkian homage of Far from Heaven, and to my mind, she is far more credible as a British person than, say, Streep. The clip below is emblematic of that... she's just so natural. Sorry to beat that word into the ground. I think it's a good thread because technician is almost always a putdown - or usually anyway - and Emotional can be seen as sappy. - and Magnani was accused of leaning into emotion too hard even......one of the things I think is like "Blanchett's Hands" is Moore when she is eating....I'm not kidding - I have never seen an actress eat as convincingly or act "around" food as strikingly and in the moment as her........and it is entirely natural.........in Mary & George she has a few scenes of this..........I am going to try to find some clips of this one day I swear |
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 1, 2024 3:41:08 GMT
Technical- Oldman, Bale, DiCaprio, Bardem, SteigerEmotional- Stewart, Phoenix, Ledger, Casey AffleckWhat's interesting is Steiger in his best performance is a technical tour de force - in its control - who lets it all out at the end with great emotive playing of The Pawnbroker........Affleck in his best performance has a scene with Williams - that is totally HER showy scene - that he somehow steals by underplaying so much it just breaks your heart ...............those 2 would be a good acting double feature |
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