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Post by Zeb31 on Apr 9, 2018 15:58:57 GMT
Bless you. I will say, though, I am thankful we live in a world where he won for The Theory of Everything (shitty as it is) over The Danish Girl. If he'd won for the latter, he would crash like a meteor to the bottom of my Best Actor ranking list. I hate The Theory of Everything and I think that Anthony McCarten is the worst screenwriter working, but Redmayne did what he could with what he was given and he was physically very convincing in the part. It's just that there was nothing there for him to really do other than wither in a chair. He was a living prop. The Danish Girl, by contrast, is transphobic horseshit. 100% agreed. I concede that Redmayne's physical transformation was very impressive and it's no mystery why he got so much praise for that performance, but there wasn't much more to his work than that. That's very much McCarten's fault, because he reduced his lead character to a medical condition instead of making him complex and three-dimensional, but I'm not inclined to give Redmayne too much praise here because everything else I've seen from him has been surface-level mugging (with the exception of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, for which I thought his shtick was appropriate). The Danish Girl was a horrible misconception from the get-go, a terribly ill-informed, regressive script landing in the hands of an inept director with absolutely no subtlety and no clue how to approach this subject matter, and Redmayne's performance managed to make the whole thing even more unbearable. It's not just affected and theatrical to the point of being laughable, it's actually offensive. You hit the nail on the head, there's no better way to describe that mess than transphobic horseshit. All things considered, his wasn't an egregious win, even if he pales in comparison to the then presumed frontrunner that he managed to overtake. At least the physical aspect of the performance deserves its kudos. It's also much better than the Oscar bait he served the following year, so if Keaton losing meant we managed to avoid a Redmayne make-up win in 2015, I'm all for it. Not that I think DiCaprio was ever gonna lose, but still.
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Post by Drish on Apr 9, 2018 16:04:06 GMT
We love to shit on Eddie Redmayne, don't we? 😋
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Post by stephen on Apr 9, 2018 16:13:09 GMT
Bless you. I will say, though, I am thankful we live in a world where he won for The Theory of Everything (shitty as it is) over The Danish Girl. If he'd won for the latter, he would crash like a meteor to the bottom of my Best Actor ranking list. I hate The Theory of Everything and I think that Anthony McCarten is the worst screenwriter working, but Redmayne did what he could with what he was given and he was physically very convincing in the part. It's just that there was nothing there for him to really do other than wither in a chair. He was a living prop. The Danish Girl, by contrast, is transphobic horseshit. 100% agreed. I concede that Redmayne's physical transformation was very impressive and it's no mystery why he got so much praise for that performance, but there wasn't much more to his work than that. That's very much McCarten's fault, because he reduced his lead character to a medical condition instead of making him complex and three-dimensional, but I'm not inclined to give Redmayne too much praise here because everything else I've seen from him has been surface-level mugging (with the exception of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, for which I thought his shtick was appropriate). The Danish Girl was a horrible misconception from the get-go, a terribly ill-informed, regressive script landing in the hands of an inept director with absolutely no subtlety and no clue how to approach this subject matter, and Redmayne's performance managed to make the whole thing even more unbearable. It's not just affected and theatrical to the point of being laughable, it's actually offensive. You hit the nail on the head, there's no better way to describe that mess than transphobic horseshit. All things considered, his wasn't an egregious win, even if he pales in comparison to the then presumed frontrunner that he managed to overtake. At least the physical aspect of the performance deserves its kudos. It's also much better than the Oscar bait he served the following year, so if Keaton losing meant we managed to avoid a Redmayne make-up win in 2015, I'm all for it. Not that I think DiCaprio was ever gonna lose, but still. Exactly. The thing is, I think everyone involved in The Theory of Everything was so afraid to portray Stephen Hawking as anything other than this great icon that they forgot to humanize him. When he gets diagnosed, we only see the physical toll it takes on him but never get any insight into how it affected him emotionally or psychologically. Compare that with what Daniel Day-Lewis was given in My Left Foot. Sheridan and Connaughton were not afraid to show Christy Brown’s rough edges, and I think that refusing to pare down Christy’s explosive rage and frustration at the world and at his own body was absolutely the right way to go, because we immediately empathize with him as a man rather than pity him as a cripple. But in the course of The Theory of Everything, a film ostensibly about the wonderful love between Stephen and Jane, it just glosses over the humanity of the characters, and conveniently just overlooks the way the marriage ended and just kinda goes, “Well, we introduced this potential love interest for Jane earlier, so we’ll tie everything up neatly in the end.” Fuck that. I will give Redmayne and especially Felicity Jones all the credit for working with a garbage script, but they aren’t miracle workers. Yeah, no one was beating DiCaprio that year, although I could definitely see a late-stage Redmayne surge (especially with Vikander in the mix as the eventual winner as well). So I guess if Keaton’s Oscar chances had to die so that we might live, then I think we should nominate Keaton for sainthood.
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Post by FrancescoAbides on Apr 9, 2018 16:24:09 GMT
We love to shit on Eddie Redmayne, don't we? 😋 That's only fair
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Post by LaraQ on Apr 9, 2018 16:24:47 GMT
Denzel Washington.
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Post by jakesully on Apr 9, 2018 22:03:22 GMT
Viggo Mortensen would be my choice . He seems like quite the perfectionist (haven't seen a lot of his early filmography though) .
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Post by Zeb31 on Apr 11, 2018 21:39:29 GMT
We love to shit on Eddie Redmayne, don't we? 😋 I'll make it up for this by posting a rave review of The Killing of a Sacred Deer when the subject comes up.
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