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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 30, 2021 1:20:43 GMT
Imo James McAvoy is excellent. I hope that with Split he gets more attention. Didn't he started younger than BC? I remember him in Children of Dune. He was getting Hollywood leads with Angelina Jolie when BC was still doing humble BBC miniseries! I still remember my big “fight” with a McAvoy fan on the IMDb forum who got angry when I called McAvoy traditionally handsome in comparison with BC! She somehow interpreted that as me saying he was a bad actor or something! I repeated a few times that I thought he was excellent but it didn’t help! (TBH I also said Atonement was a conventional probably good but not great film) She then told me McAvoy was working class and because that, he had have a very difficult path to achieve success in acting, the poor guy at certain point had to woke up very early in the morning to go to his apparently very humiliating job as a baker. Meanwhile, BC had it very easy because he is posh and had never worked in his whole life. I told her that he actually worked as waiter and a perfume store clerk to pay his acting career and that maybe McAvoy had it easier considering that in his 20s, he was already doing Hollywood flicks meanwhile BC’s breakthrough in Hollywood was a whole decade later! She told me it was much more difficult for McAvoy because HE WAS A BAKER AND HAD TO WOKE UP VERY EARLY IN THE MORNING!!! Lol! For the record, if I had to choose I would prefer to work as baker than a waiter! I am used to early mornings anyway and without doubt I would prefer to work behind doors in a kitchen with just a small group of people than dealing with a huge number of hungry and probably rude individuals in a restaurant! BC is very sociable so he probably didn’t suffered a lot! At least not like poor McAvoy during his very early mornings when he was a teenager! Apparently! |
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Post by mllemass on Jul 30, 2021 3:55:58 GMT
I know I’ve said it before, but I really think that JM doesn’t get leading-man roles simply because of his height. Just like with Tom Cruise, shorter actors who are good-looking seem to play youthful characters even when they’re way past that age. I’ll bet Benedict didn’t play a teenager even when he was a teenager!
When the public wasn’t buying TC as youthful anymore, he switched to action movies. JM has done that too - which is fine.
I like JM, but Benedict is a much better actor (if it’s a competition, which it isn’t).
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 30, 2021 9:48:37 GMT
It isn’t a competition!
You may have a point but I think it’s mostly about having a youthful face and complexion than being short. I mean Al Pacino is short and he didn’t have any problems to play adults!
There was a time in which being short was considered an advantage in cinema, supposedly it was easier to film short people than tall people!
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Post by mllemass on Jul 30, 2021 11:33:27 GMT
I just googled it, and JM and TC are both listed at 5’7”. I remember discussing Tom Cruise’s height at work one time, and a male co-worker (who was short) told us that men lie about their height all the time. He said TC is probably 5’6” or even 5’5”.
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Post by mllemass on Sept 10, 2021 13:35:16 GMT
I didn’t know this!
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Post by sgev1977 on Feb 14, 2022 2:34:52 GMT
I will take this like a compliment,
The other day I read a tweet by someone saying she used to hate him because that role and refused to watch his films until she got it and understood her visceral reaction to him was because he is a great actor! I recently read something similar about TPOTD but the woman still didn’t get it and just said he made her feel uncomfortable so she stopped watching the film! She claimed she liked “art films” but he and her “uncomfortableness” was the reason she didn’t like this one! C’mon, art films doesn’t give concessions and usually is uncomfortable. She sounded more like a soap opera fan!
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Post by mllemass on Aug 14, 2022 15:39:01 GMT
Atonement, the book, has been ranked #24 in the top 50 novelsof the past 100 years. I can’t see the whole list.
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