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Great and entertaining film! A film classic. Every man's and every person's emotional nightmare. Calculated but you forget all about it when the actors bring life to it. The story carries you away.Very well crafted story. Acting is superb and spot on, all of the time!
There is an interesting, special feature of rehearsal footage between Douglas and co-stars Glenn Close and Anne Archer, shot on video in producer Stanley Jaffe's office. It's amazing to actually see how well the actors grasp the script, and still have it right for shooting.
It's roles like this that show how great an actor Douglas is.
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great acting in a mesmerizing plotloved the allusions to de Nero in "Cape Fear"...
haven't seen anything this clever since
"What's up Tiger Lilly?"
I think it's fair to say that some disagree with your perspective on this.Michael Douglas seems to have learned his acting technique from his father. But his father had the real chops for scenery-chomping. Michael doesn't.
Glen Close's best role by far was as Cruella Devil in the excrable Disney "1001 Dalmatians" The cartoon was rather charming; Close's head-over-heels-over-the-top performance was witless and artless and made watching the "live action" version of the story rather like eating a layer cake that didn't rise -- hard to swallow. What's worse is they made a sequel and Close accepted the role.
I guess Close and Douglas deserve each other in a perverse sort of way; maybe they can do a sequel to "Fatal Attraction" after they've both hit 60 and actuall die in the film. What a concept!
The proof, to me, is in the rehearsal footage here. I was very surprised at what I saw.To me, it proves he and she are no lightweights in the acting department. One gets to see the acting process at it's most basic and unadorned by set and costume. Here they are both just working out what they will do in the film. It's a unique prospective.
Another secret favorite of mine was his performance in "Black Rain" with Andy Garcia, and of course, Oliver Stone's "Wall Street".
Explain, if you can, the differences in behavior characteristics between the characters Douglas plays in these three films. Are they not the same person? I.e. Michael Douglas.Now, take a look at the characters Gene Hackman protrays in "The Conversation," and "The French Connection."
See the difference?
yep, I kept waiting for the ex-marine Hackman to leap out of character in "The Conversation"...the tension was gripping. Too bad he's fallen into a regular type-cast so often. Did you see him in "Under Suspicion"?and don't you just love Bill Bob Thorton, who's so good at character you could watch four or five of his films and not know it was the same guy!
most amazing transformation in a single film: DeNero in "Raging Bull"
right you are. Billy Bob Thorton is so zen, I forgot about him!Sounds like I need to add to my "2C" list of Hackman films: "Under Suspicion."
BTW, for what its worth, my wife, who has worked as a silent bit part in a Hackman film, sez, he's just "one of the gang" with the extras and other assorted cinematic peasants on the set. Which is nice.
Biggest jerk? Cruise. "Peasants" have been kicked off the set for even looking at him.
Biggest disappointment? William Hurt -- dozens of takes required for his scenes in "Accidental Tourist."
I don't understand your point.
if you think that these scenes prove that these actors are " no lightweights ."
A classic of what?Man, I better shut up, don't want to be brutal.
Be brutal. FA deserves it.When Glen Close came up outa that tub...*I* wanted to murder somebody...I just wasn't sure whom...the director, the producers, the studio??? All of 'em?????
I won't see this flick by choice again. Ever. It's been years and I'm still mad.
PS: I really like the bat!
It may not be French or of furr-enn origin for your taste, but the film possesses those special universal emotional elements, that reaches an emotional core we can all identify with. The film transcends language or cultural and social barriers, and genre. It communicates to us all.Besides the fact, the film uses classic suspense film language, to play on our emotional heart strings. Surprising that a US film can do something like this in it's day and age without becoming overdone, isnt it ?
In this respect, this is what I meant by classic.
Film doesn't need to be French to be good, and believe me, my taste is quite wide. But it is not nearly wide enough to include a cliche-driven pathetic excuse of a suspense. You watch it and you see things you have seen hundreds of times before, and none done in any refreshing way. If you call a drowned person jumping back to life "classic suspense language" then I think we do have different expectations on what "classic" is.The film is so bad I could never watch it in its entirety. Man, I would take any of Cheech & Chong's movies over it any day, or even Dumb and Dumber. Now... those are classic!
you've elucidated your intellect better than a thousand other posts could have. "Dumb and Dumber" a classic. OK, Vic! (Perhaps Cheech and Chong movies are the cause.)
As for Fatal Atraction, I knew the film was headed for disaster when they showed a close up of the cute little rabbit. I said to myself if it shows up dead later they've played their hand. The fact that it showed up in the stew demonstrated that the film makers tasteless attempts to manipulate the audience with no concern for the suspension of disbelief exceeded my already very low expectations.
As for Dumb and Dumber, it is a laugh out loud unpretentious popcorn comedy. Any analysis of this movie only extends the joke to those making the analysis. Farts are funny. It's an irrefutable scientific fact.
Dumb & Dumber? Nawwww...
A classic ? never, this film is sticked for ever in his period-the AIDS-Years.
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