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Post by notacrook on Mar 12, 2018 11:54:44 GMT
Mine's gotta be Charlize Theron in Monster. Goes so far beyond the 'model-gone-ugly' box that some people like to put her in.
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Post by cherry68 on Mar 12, 2018 12:20:03 GMT
I cannot choose between the real people played by Gary Oldman. A ranking might be
Lee Harvey Oswald Ludwig Van Beethoven Joe Orton Sid Vicious
Winston Churchill n/s yet.
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Mar 12, 2018 13:33:55 GMT
denzel washington / malcolm x marion cotillard / la vie en rose cate blanchett / elizabeth
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2018 13:43:02 GMT
Isabelle Adjani, The Story of Adèle H. (My favorite performance, period.)
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 12, 2018 13:47:25 GMT
There's a lot of great ones here : Hoffman as Lenny Denzel, Malcolm X DeNiro, Raging Bull Pacino, Serpico, Phil Spector, etc. Oldman, Sid Vicious, and many others But two of my absolute favorites would be Depardieu as Danton because I wouldn't have any idea what he was like except for the film and Irons as Von Bulow because he plays him almost like a ghastly vampire, you can't really believe him except that you do
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Post by stephen on Mar 12, 2018 13:48:14 GMT
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Mar 12, 2018 13:51:58 GMT
It depends if I take into account whether the actor perhaps had footage / photos to use as a reference for their performance or in some cases even opportunities to meet the living real person.
If they didn't have the above, then it would be F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus, but if they did have some or all of the above, then perhaps Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot or Meryl Streep in Silkwood.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Mar 12, 2018 15:37:42 GMT
That picture is so beautiful.
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Post by stephen on Mar 12, 2018 15:39:43 GMT
That picture is so beautiful. One of the most ethereal, haunting performances I've ever seen, and the fact she was only on-screen for maybe five minutes is a testament to how magnificently impactful Mia Kirshner is. I genuinely believe she came on the scene at the wrong time: she would've been a mesmerizing silent-film actress (imagine her playing Joan of Arc!) or she might've been a modern auteur's muse.
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Post by ibbi on Mar 12, 2018 16:29:19 GMT
I don't know that I have an outright favourite, as there's just far too many to choose from, but I'd have to put Day-Lewis' Lincoln up there. It's one of those roles that has been played so many times that it starts to become boring, but Kushner wrote it, and he played it in such a way that kind of totally reinvented the idea of who he was in a way more fascinating than ever before, less monument and more man.
What I'm trying to think of is a favourite portrayal of someone famous from the mid 20th century onwards. Someone that has been recorded and filmed to such an extent that everyone knows exactly what they looked and sounded and moved and acted like, and yet the portrayal works tremendously anyway... That's one to ponder on... I think Foy in The Crown would be up there, let off though she is by how secretive so much of that life and how for show so much of what we see of it is.
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Post by stephen on Mar 12, 2018 16:31:27 GMT
Oh, wait, I forgot the all-timer:
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2018 16:43:28 GMT
Daniel Henshall as John Bunting Klaus Kinski as Lope de Aguirre Michael Rooker as Henry Lee Lucas
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Post by Drish on Mar 12, 2018 16:56:26 GMT
No order:
John Hurt - The Elephant Man The Amadeus duo (if it counts) Wagner Moura - Narcos Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich Naomi Watts - Fair Game Claire Foy, John Lithgow, Vanessa Kirby & Matt Smith - The Crown Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln Reese Witherspoon - Wild and Walk the Line Charlize Theron - Monster Robert De Niro - Raging Bull Dustin Hoffman - Lenny Helen Mirren - The Queen Goodfellas ensemble?
I'm forgetting so many..
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Post by Miles Morales on Mar 12, 2018 17:01:03 GMT
Claire Foy, John Lithgow, Vanessa Kirby & Matt Smith - The Queen You mean The Crown?
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Post by Drish on Mar 12, 2018 17:03:46 GMT
Claire Foy, John Lithgow, Vanessa Kirby & Matt Smith - The Queen You mean The Crown? What are you talking about? 🤔 😋😋
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Post by Viced on Mar 12, 2018 17:04:54 GMT
Sissy Spacek - Coal Miner's Daughter
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2018 17:07:22 GMT
Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia.
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Post by thomasjerome on Mar 12, 2018 17:29:16 GMT
Val Kilmer - The Doors Woody Harrelson - People vs. Larry Flynt Johnny Depp - Ed Wood Billy Crudup & Donald Sutherland - Without Limits Catherine Keener - An American Crime Richard Attenborough & John Hurt - 10 Rillington Place
and if it counts: Willem Dafoe - Shadow of the Vampire
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Post by ingmarhepburn on Mar 12, 2018 19:29:08 GMT
Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf in The Hours / Ralph Fiennes as Amon Göth in Schindler's List.
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Post by ltravs54 on Mar 12, 2018 21:22:34 GMT
Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote
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Post by FrancescoAbides on Mar 12, 2018 22:24:12 GMT
Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln
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Post by countjohn on Mar 12, 2018 22:28:56 GMT
Probably Peter O'Toole in L of A
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Post by cinemagirl16 on Mar 12, 2018 23:48:43 GMT
Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose and Natalie Portman in Jackie
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Post by mhynson27 on Mar 13, 2018 1:56:31 GMT
Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network
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Post by ingmarhepburn on Mar 19, 2018 9:38:30 GMT
That picture is so beautiful. One of the most ethereal, haunting performances I've ever seen, and the fact she was only on-screen for maybe five minutes is a testament to how magnificently impactful Mia Kirshner is. I genuinely believe she came on the scene at the wrong time: she would've been a mesmerizing silent-film actress (imagine her playing Joan of Arc!) or she might've been a modern auteur's muse. I agree with everything you said about Kirshner. I first met her through 'The L Word', a TV show created by Ilene Chaiken. She was by far the MVP of the first three or four seasons, until a point when the writers somehow ruined her character completely. From that moment on, I just couldn't care and eventually stopped watching. Mia would have been an icon in the silent era. She could tell a whole narrative just with her beautiful, expressive eyes.
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