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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 22, 2020 20:56:14 GMT
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Post by dickens38 on Oct 22, 2020 23:23:24 GMT
To me a good actor or actress is able to become the person they are portraying - I know, state the bleedin' obvious! Example: When I watch Benedict, I am never reminded of Sherlock or Doctor Strange or Alan Turing. David Tennant on the other hand, even though I like him very much, whilst watching Good Omens I could See Doctor Who in every mannerism.
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 23, 2020 0:02:44 GMT
Agreed. There was a time when some people claimed he always played the same character or more perplexing that he played himself! (Do they really think someone like Sherlock exists in real life?!). I don't think there is anything bad with having a strong film persona. That was/is very common with Hollywood actors, French stars in the New Wave films and in general in film style acting! But that's not the case with BC, he comes from a British theater tradition and he gives transformative performances. The "issue" is that some people judge performances based just in the descriptions of the characters! He is playing another scientist so that means he only can play scientists and we all know that all scientists talk, walk and move in absolutely the same way! And if you watch his performances it's clear that he talks, walks and moves different in each role. I mean both Sherlock and Christopher Titjens are called the "smartest man in London" but one talks fast and moves like a dancer meanwhile the other has an extremely old fashioned posh accent and is slow and kind of heavy.
This also reminds me to another simplistic comment I once read: someone saying that Tom Hardy was a physical performer meanwhile BC was the opposite: an intellectual! Again he was mixing the character and the actor (probably because he is so good so he really think BC *is* what he is playing!). He is a very physical actor! He is always using his body. Sometimes it's very obvious like when he did that twisted and dark dance in the nude for Frankenstein and others much more subtle (again the subtle ways he changes his walking and moving with every role)
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Post by dickens38 on Oct 23, 2020 1:11:41 GMT
I couldn't have put it better myself sgev1977. So far, I have only noticed one mannerism which he does at some time during a performance - and I cannot describe it.
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Post by queenzod on Oct 23, 2020 2:02:12 GMT
Throw Patrick Watts, Martin Crieff, Rory Slippery, David from Wreckers, the Grinch, and Paul Marshall into the mix and you get an idea of his range. It’s not bad or wrong to have a niche, either. People get so twisted about things like this and they don’t pay careful attention to each individual character.
Although he does have a few mannerisms like you said Dickens, but since he’s so immersed in his character I don’t think of them as “Ben” as much as an expression of the character.
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Post by dickens38 on Oct 23, 2020 9:00:33 GMT
Spotonski queenzod!
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 23, 2020 13:11:51 GMT
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Post by miriel68 on Oct 23, 2020 20:44:29 GMT
I went to see it yesterday (yeeeh!) in spite of virus raging in Rome and I enjoyed it very much, more than I expected, in fact (I am not that much into spy movies). The audience liked it very much, as well, there was applause after the end and many people voted it for the audience prize.
So B. was excellent, as always, but what's even more important the film is really well made (bravo Dominic Cooke!) and all performances are top-notch, especially Wynne's Russian counterpart, Penkovsky. Yes, it is still very much a classic spy-movie with all its canonic elements, but it emphasises the human dimension of the whole affair. After TCW which I found watchable but on the whole mediocre, and Brexit, which was interesting but mostly for the topic, not so much for the role B. played, here finally I could see a new challenge accepted and won, a character he had never played before.
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