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Post by TylerDeneuve on Jul 3, 2024 22:43:47 GMT
In preparation for her (sure to be ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/6692321/images/VX9qBdLG_XyugpFkNIU4.gif) ) Oscar-nominated performance as Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín's Maria... What do you think is her best-ever performance? I think it will always be her fearless yet fragile work as the tragic supermodel Gia Carangi for me... That performance announced her as a star. My second choice would probably be A Mighty Heart. What's yours? ![](https://images.metadata.sky.com/pd-image/3e337418-b647-4db7-b8d9-26e0d8bb7091/16-9/900)
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Post by stephen on Jul 3, 2024 22:57:10 GMT
I would say my top five of hers would be the following, in some order:
Gia George Wallace The Bone Collector A Mighty Heart Changeling
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Post by mhynson27 on Jul 4, 2024 0:32:27 GMT
It's taken this thread for me to realise that I've only see her in Eternals, Shark Tale and Kung Fu Panda ![:laugh:](//storage.proboards.com/6692321/images/30ulL7PvEvGt97femFHx.gif)
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Post by countjohn on Jul 4, 2024 1:09:50 GMT
IDK, good in Girl, Interrupted, Good Shepherd, and Changeling, solid in movie star stuff like Bone Collector and Lara Croft. Still a pretty thin filmography for her stature as a star.
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Post by thomasjerome on Jul 4, 2024 4:27:56 GMT
Playing by Heart Gia Foxfire Changeling George Wallace
Such a magnetic screen presence ("Mr. and Mrs. Smith", "Lara Croft" etc.). Even in weaker films like "Life or Something Like It", she's never the problem.
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Post by sophiefox on Jul 4, 2024 5:45:45 GMT
Gia, Girl Interrupted, Changeling, Salt & Maleficent for me. Changeling is prolly my all time fav performance of her, if i had to choose.
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Jul 5, 2024 20:24:41 GMT
I wish I loved her in Changeling as much as the rest of the world seems to... Her trademark intensity serves the role well, but... I definitely think it could have been reined in a bit. To my mind, Gia is the best example of her rawness being used at its most effective and haunting.
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Post by taranofprydain on Jul 5, 2024 23:53:07 GMT
Changeling
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Post by ibbi on Jul 6, 2024 8:11:39 GMT
The one she won her Oscar for.
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Post by sophiefox on Jul 6, 2024 10:29:26 GMT
I wish I loved her in Changeling as much as the rest of the world seems to... Her trademark intensity serves the role well, but... I definitely think it could have been reined in a bit. To my mind, Gia is the best example of her rawness being used at its most effective and haunting. i think i get that and i really would have to rewatch Changeling to refresh my memory on the nuances of her performance, i just know and still remember that she was very believable as a desperate mother constantly on the edge and i recall especially one particular shot in one scene that had her calling all her acting chops and she did so well that she just broke my heart in that moment. that's powerful stuff that stayed with me ever since. it's probably not a coincidence that i count it as one of my favourite Eastwood directed films as well, at least at this point. as for the others, i have watched Gia just last year for the first time, so that's the one that is freshest in my memory. while i was rather lukewarm to the film on the whole which looked like a terribly aged 90's hallmark production in washed out colours and clumsily looking, cheap set-design, Angelina is already knocking it out of the park in her first big engagement. her unconsumed talent is a diamond in the rough, so i'd pick Gia as probably my 2nd favourite performance of her career. with her two most memorable charactor actor roles, in Girl, Interrupted & Maleficent, she turns in her most jarring, bigger-than-life, over-the-top, career-defining performances. i already know that these two will be the ones i will always think of first when i'm asked about Angelina Jolie films i know, bc these roles are among her most memorable. Salt is my pick bc i just wanted to include a fast-paced badass dynamite performance from her action-thriller oeuvre, a genre which she is doing particularly great in imo. i love me some Angelina-kicks-asses-left-and-right-while-always-looking-super-hot-at-it action flick every once in a while and her work in Salt is the one that stands out to me. ok, so i'm sorry, you didn't ask, and idk if you needed to hear all this, but here we are. ![:laugh:](//storage.proboards.com/6692321/images/30ulL7PvEvGt97femFHx.gif) these are my 5 top performances from La Jolie. Changeling will get a retreat tho and i'm curious to see how it's gonna hold up on a second visit.
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Jul 6, 2024 11:07:05 GMT
TOP 5
GIA GIRL, INTERRUPTED THE CHANGELING PLAYING BY HEART GEORGE WALLACE
Talented and magnetic actress but needs to choose her movies more carefully.Maybe she's not as ambitious as she used to be.
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