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Post by stephen on Jun 26, 2022 13:45:01 GMT
Bruce McGill in The Insider The stenographer in that scene always kills me -- it's like she's seen McGill do this before and she always enjoys it.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jul 6, 2022 6:57:51 GMT
Robert Duvall - The Road
An 8-minute performance (not all of it is shown below, but it's the meat of it), playing a frail, nearly-blind man who has a kind of mythical aura in the film, like a figure who will always be around to observe in judgment of the world. In the scene before this, he's initially suspicious and untrusting when he first meets Mortensen's character, jaded and wearied by the cruelty of others, which has become routine for him, so he's mystified by the kindness shown towards him. The character's deep conviction of having known what the world was coming to somewhat evokes his character from The Apostle, and the way his speech sometimes slips into a whisper suggests him working through his own thoughts to himself.
There's a great physical gesture he does here where he puts up his hands and hides behind them while laughing as he talks about what if you were the last man left alive. Duvall (not just here) often does this great thing where he chuckles to himself as he speaks when he’s not necessarily being funny. There's another moment earlier when he laughs to himself thinking about the improbability of seeing another child again. When he talks about seeing the boy, he's struck by the boy's innocence and goodness, and how he seems so "other" and heavenly to him, while also emotionally triggered by the memory of his son and the pain of loss (and that moment of him mentioning his son is apparently improvised!). You learn so much about this character in the brief screentime he has, and Duvall is just perfectly cast here.
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