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Post by mllemass on Feb 22, 2018 12:49:10 GMT
And don't forget the wonderful Brokeback Mountain, where I first saw her.
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Post by sgev1977 on Feb 22, 2018 12:53:04 GMT
I first saw her in Dawson's Creek! Can't you believe! I made fun of the show for the way teens spoke: like very serious dramatic soap opera actors! So I wasn't exactly a fan but yes, I watched it!
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Post by onebluestocking on Feb 22, 2018 18:03:18 GMT
I think she's just as famous as the others, but probably isn't in a main role.
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Post by sgev1977 on Feb 22, 2018 22:45:51 GMT
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Post by roverpup on Feb 23, 2018 3:16:26 GMT
Sounds like this is getting ready for “lift off”!!
Great news!
:-))
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Post by igs on Feb 23, 2018 7:36:17 GMT
I first saw her in Dawson's Creek! Can't you believe! I made fun of the show for the way teens spoke: like very serious dramatic soap opera actors! So I wasn't exactly a fan but yes, I watched it! I first saw her in Dawson's Creek as well. Never expected her to become the biggest star of the cast! Katie Holmes really shot herself in the leg with the whole Tom Cruise business. I really liked Dawson's Creek but I guess I was the right age for it. It was the first teen show I watched I'm pretty sure and one of only a few I remember watching regularly. (Interestingly and extremely randomly, the show made me more interested in movies in general. Dawson worked at a film rental store and somehow I got obsessed with working in one too haha so I started frequenting them and renting out a ton of films!) But yes, Brokeback Mountain I think was her breakthrough in terms of movies. I do hope she's still attached to "Rio", maybe they didn't mention her simply because BC and JG are the main characters? I do think she's just as famous as they are, though in a different way perhaps. Although I think JG and MW probably are more similar, neither has had the same kind of explosive internet fame as BC had circa 2012, theirs rose more steadily.
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Post by sgev1977 on Feb 23, 2018 11:54:11 GMT
I think JG was promoted as a Hollywood leading man for a time after Brokeback Mountain. He did a few very commercial stuff; The Day After Tomorrow, Prince of Persia and probably others that I don’t remember! Internet was different then but he had/has fangirls in a way an Internet phenomenon has (also there is the gay stuff in Brokeback Mountain that it’s always loved by little girls!). In some moment Heth Ledger, who before the movie was a teen idol, was the serious actor and JG, who before it was an indie child actor, was the one “wanting” to be a a Hollywood Star. Suddenly he also had a few movie fans haters meanwhile HL was adored! Then slowly he returned to indie stuff. He has admitted this trajectory in a few interviews.
Michelle Williams has been more interested in artistic projects during practically all her movie career. I think Venon is her first big franchise. Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t remember other!
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Post by onebluestocking on Feb 23, 2018 13:22:31 GMT
She was in Oz the Great and Powerful, which made almost $500M. I'm not sure if it counts as a franchise, since there weren't any sequels.
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Post by sgev1977 on Feb 23, 2018 13:29:52 GMT
She was in Oz the Great and Powerful, which made almost $500M. I'm not sure if it counts as a franchise, since there weren't any sequels. Yes, that was a big movie. Still maybe because she is female but it never felt she was pushed by Hollywood to be a leading lady as certain kind of male actor are/were to be a leading man, including for a brief period JG.
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Post by roverpup on Feb 23, 2018 15:00:37 GMT
I think it has more to do with the type of roles she has pursued not the fact that she is female. John Cusack is somewhat similar in my mind. He is very well respected in the business. Well known name to the general public. Starred in some big movies. But always kept his footing in the “indie” film world and hasn’t gone into the “next level” of Hollywood as a result.
But I still don’t think she is on the same level of fame (or name cache) as BC. Just my personal opinion. I doubt she could have carried off a “Hamlet” event phenomenon like BC did and that was “name recognition” to the max!
:-))
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