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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 29, 2021 13:18:20 GMT
And Tennant fans are now feeling threatened! Why can we all be friends?! Lol
Sorry but no, Tennant isn't more internationally famous than BC nor HBO is synonymous of bad quality! (Surely they are more than that but the first thing I think when I read ITV is on soap operas!) And it's personal taste but I obviously prefer BC as actor.
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 29, 2021 13:25:46 GMT
Also a Tennant fan is saying that HBO apparently had the sudden idea of the series after reading about the Tennant one. It doesn't work like that and how the Black List from 2009 shows, the early script has years out there. Imagine working on this for years and wasting money on it and then suddenly having to abandon it apparently because some "random" UK channel (not even the BBC!) decided to make a modest series about the same theme! They won't and it's not bad faith nor anything obscure. It just happens!
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 29, 2021 13:46:20 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 29, 2021 14:56:25 GMT
I haven't watched too much of DT and I'm sure he is a great theatrical actor but I tend to think he is exactly what BC's haters think BC is but he is not: someone full of tics and too much theatrical for the screen.
Probably I just haven't watched the right performance by him, tho. He just do too much fantasy and over the top stuff. I mean Sherlock wasn't the first thing I watched BC and I never was a big fan of it so I never identified BC with that kind of stuff. I identify Tennant with THAT kind of things and with some over the top Shakespeare adaptations.
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 29, 2021 15:10:14 GMT
More "serious" criticism but still unwarned because this guy haven't watched the thing!
Why it would be "awkward"? He is just gaining acclaim for playing a bad guy who harass his sister in law and tries to seduce his teenage nephew!
Also I'm just beginning to read the book this is based but in the very first page of the prologue it mentions the he used to "interrogate ragged child prisoners from Chechnya"
I know that the guy probably just have a political agenda but I just remembered that the beloved musician Rubén Blades plays a Salvadoran interrogator and torturer from a real paramilitar group in a... a zombie series and no one felt "awkward" about it!
Of course, it would be a shame if his "dirty" past is erased from an adaptation but that isn't known yet.
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Post by Hannah Lee on Oct 29, 2021 15:37:04 GMT
I haven't watched too much of DT and I'm sure he is a great theatrical actor but I tend to think he is exactly what BC's haters think BC is but he is not: someone full of tics and too much theatrical for the screen. Probably I just haven't watched the right performance by him, tho. He just do too much fantasy and over the top stuff. I mean Sherlock wasn't the first thing I watched BC and I never was a big fan of it so I never identified BC with that kind of stuff. I identify Tennant with THAT kind of things and with some over the top Shakespeare adaptations. Tennant was excellent in Broadchurch (UK) in a much more down to earth performance. He’s done quite a bit of sci-fi and fantasy and does it well, but he’s got other capabilities as well.
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Post by Hannah Lee on Oct 29, 2021 15:41:53 GMT
Isn't HBO the best place to do a series? I hated when Patrick Melrose was with Showtime, I think it would have had a lot more eyes on it on HBO. It depends on what you mean by “best”. I think HBO has more subscribers but in the streaming age that’s becoming less of a thing … people can add streaming versions of different‘networks’ easily And Showtime, like HBO, has a reputation of making prestige content.
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Post by roverpup on Oct 29, 2021 16:29:22 GMT
I enjoyed Tennant in Broadchurch but really I thought Olivia Coleman was equally as good in that, so he didn't run away with that series for me at least.
Then we saw him on stage in London in Don Juan in Soho and honestly I thought he was highly overrated. We were staying in England for a month and saw 5 plays and without any hesitation I would say that production was my least favourite by far!
I thought Tennant was SO hammy you could have sliced him up and served him with a pineapple ring and a maraschino cherry! He was irritating and really wore on my nerves the more I thought about it.
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 29, 2021 17:20:45 GMT
There's this British actor whose name I don't remember but he is a very acclaimed in the UK. I remember I watched a political thriller from early 1990s and supposedly he was great in it. He won a lot of British awards but he was so exaggerated theatrical in a production that did not asked for that. I remember I read an interview with him and he said he found difficult to do the crossover to American cinema (he has done a few small roles, tho.) and I thought it was because that. He was clearly more a theatre actor than a film one. British respected that but Americans were probably perplexed by his style.
Again, I have seen people criticizing actors from BC generation for supposedly being too theatrical but like the LA theater critic once wrote, they are a generation that grew old watching and admiring both style of acting and they can easily adapt to both of them depending what the material is asking for. That's not always the case with a few slightly older British actors and that's my impression with Tennant. It doesn't mean they are bad but I can see why they haven't being fully embraced by American/International audiences like other British actors.
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 29, 2021 17:26:52 GMT
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