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Oct 22, 2021 17:46:02 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 22, 2021 17:46:02 GMT
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Oct 22, 2021 19:14:47 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 22, 2021 19:14:47 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 26, 2021 11:53:24 GMT
I just did something obsessive although I don’t think I did it obsessively enough! Just spend a few minutes on it! Yesterday, I read something that bothered me. A critic who clearly is a Claire Foy fan called BC, “the king of the biopics” Really?! I mean I know British actors tend to do, in general, a lot of biopics (they are good playing real people and guess what? Being transformative!) but is BC really the “king”? And can you call him the actor famous for playing fictional characters like Sherlock and Dr. Strange that meanwhile ignoring that your “fave” breaking role was Queen Elizabeth?
Well, I actually did a quick not exhaustive research (I could be ignoring some random real life person who I don’t know are/were real, especially in the case of Foy whose career I haven’t followed so close) on their IMDb pages and well, BC indeed has slightly a few more real life titles (not necessarily bios) but he is much more prolific than her. In a big way! Of 90 titles (not counting Magik) he has played only 21 real life people and I’m counting Humphrey Bogart in a surrealist short about a group of Hollywood icons going together to a movie theatre (It’s like saying Playing Again, Sam! was a biopic!), Shakespeare’s Richard III and multiple films with him playing small roles (The Other Boleyn Girl, for example); Foy, on the other hand, has 11 films about real life people in a career with only 32 titles. That’s 32 % versus BC’s 23% so yeah the girl famous for playing the Queen is a bigger biopic monarch than BC! Then why this idiot said that? Well, probably because he is thinking on TIG (which I can actually allege that it has more a thriller structure than a biopic) and the damned Edison film (a movie that’s far from being significant in BC’s career but pathetic critics read about it on some tabloids so that’s all they known). Maybe also TFE (another thriller/biopic), I guess. That’s the extend of all their knowledge. And again, nothing bad with doing biopics but it’s almost ridiculous how BC is ALWAYS ONLY “playing geniuses”, “doing biopics”, “doing Second World War movies”, “First World War films”, “playing super heroes” and, of course, “always giving his best performance”! Cool but go watch Patrick Melrose (which I also counted as a biopic even when it’s a fictional character, by the way! I was generous!), The Child in Time, The Hollow Crown or Parade’s End! I didn’t checked but it seems to me he is more an “Adaptation King” than anything else!
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 26, 2021 12:08:28 GMT
I also counted Dante Alighieri! He didn't play him in a bio! He read The Divine Comedy verses in a documentary and was credited as Dante! I was THAT generous to the guy!
EDITED And the documentary is about corruption in modern Italy not about the life of Alighieri!
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Post by queenzod on Oct 26, 2021 13:23:01 GMT
Omg sgev. 😂
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Post by mllemass on Oct 27, 2021 21:12:31 GMT
My sister told me yesterday that our local newspaper had a review for Louis Wain, and I just read it. It’s actually from the New York Times, and the reviewer just loves Benedict. And I love that the review takes up more than half a page, and has a nice picture to go with it. The movie is only playing here one more day, so I hope that review got some people interested in catching it before it’s gone.
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 30, 2021 17:12:23 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Nov 1, 2021 14:17:04 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Nov 1, 2021 14:39:11 GMT
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Post by mllemass on Nov 1, 2021 14:39:28 GMT
What a strange review! The movie was perfectly coherent to me. Once again, a reviewer watches a movie expecting something, and is bewildered when it turns out to be something else.
It’s nice that he liked Benedict, but it’s crazy to say that Benedict somehow saved the movie. He thinks the similarity between the style of the movie and Benedict’s portrayal of Louis is a fortunate accident.
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