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In Reply to: About a boy... posted by patrickU on January 23, 2003 at 06:07:14:
Patrick,I think of Hugh Grant as a kind of English Jimmy Stewart- the self-effacing but game "everyman" thrown into unusual situations from which he dramatically emerges victorious- but exactly the same person.
And thats' the problem- he and his characters have almost no range of development.
Still, in the right role he can be quite enjoyable such as- "The Englishman Who went up a Hill and came down a Mountain." A quiet and charming movie as usual, as usual.
I have a similar problem with the previous English Jimmy Stewart- Jeremy Irons- always the same person from beginning to end and in every film.
As you say VERY English.
Where is the modern Charles Laughton when we need him?
Cheers,
Bambi B
Follow Ups:
Rehlein,Jimmy was an real actor, he had a lot more of possibillity as Hugh has, look at his filmoghaphy....From all the Hitch ( Vertigo )
to the Harvey ( boring ) to Capra the great....Boy ô boy, that´s it !
Yes the Hill is one of his better film and it is gaining after more viewing and I still hopes that one day it may become an classic.
No, Iron is very dark and black & introverti....I would say the opposite of the two cited above.
But your third point I fully agree, who are they the theatrale Charles, who could magnify sooo good his sissyness....
Witness to prosecution.....every time I look at it, I take my best cigar....
Patrick,Je suis d'accord certainement avec vous au sujet de Stewart étant l'acteur plus bon comparé à Grant. En outre, Stewart a eu une gamme bien plus étendue de compétence.
Avec des fers de Jeremy, vous êtes correct qu'il soit foncé et introverted. J'ai voulu dire avec la comparaison de te avec le Stewart que les fers exécute également souvent un rôle de l'everyman- réticent souvent un genre de spectateur.
Avec Laughton- il y avait le plus grand acteur de film anglais du " "Hobson's Choice" "Mutiny on the Bounty"," Hunchback of Notre Dame," "Witness for the Prosecution", émoin pour la poursuite, sa forme enjambée par carrière les années 20 au 60s tôt. Il ahd les gestes les plus de raffinage et les plus subtiles. Et personne n'a aujourd'hui cette flexibilité de l'esprit
Cheers,
Bambi B
Rembrandt, was not bad ....But his masterpice is the one " Night of the Hunter " poor Charles, nobody ( almost ) did not like it...
And Elsa is pseudo wife for so long, in this highly hypocritical society, another time another place, now only shadow of the past, the last negative left...
A last word on him....his role in Hitch´s " The paradine Case was more than flamboyant !
Pour le reste de votre missive je suis completement d´accord.
Patrick
...and has been married to his wife all his life?Right...
I think there is ocean of difference between the two. (Pun intended)
Or should he takes only ONE* woman.* I thought of you more like an kind of Rasputin, who failing two dry up the Volga, finally draw up in it.
* Dark Blue world..and to the memories of all this young kids, who flew...
Victor,I like to understand actors somewhat through their personal lives- it puts their performances in perspective- how much of the character is the actor behaving as usual but for substituted words and how much is given to a new, individual personality.
With Hugh Grant, I began to believe that his personality in his private life and the personality given to film characters is very similar, i.e, not much energy is given to creating the sensation of new charcters. He can afford to do this as he rapidly set into repeating his one successful character. His formula sold so many tickets he need only maintian that charming, seemingly vulnerable fellow set upon by such painful tasks of having Julia Roberts throw herself on "only" a bookseller.
Grant's aw-shucks personality in his works and style of adolescent self-indulgence in personal life are both so like a little boy's.*** Stewart too cultivated the aw-shucks little boy to help increase the contrast for the point at which he takes matters into hand. "The Man Who shot Liberty Valance" uses that technique.
****[There was a recent American President with these same features.]
I admire Stewart greatly for signing up that very quickly at the very outset of WWII. At his age, I don't think anyone would have criticized him for not signing up and he did this without seeking any publicity for it. He flew numerous bombing missions- the real thing- which I can hardly bear to watch in "Memphis Bell".
There were many well-known actors that jumped in right away- Victor Mature, Tyrone Powers were absolute AAA stars at the time. And director George Stevens took scrapnel in his cameras right at the front.
One might contrast this with the actions of John Wayne who, younger than many who went, chose to stay in Hollywood and build up his movie career by acting a hero and shooting quitters- always others. Ronald Reagan too lived at home in Beverly Hills for the duration while doing token propaganda movie work.
Let's see if Arnold Schawzanegger signs up for duty in Iraq? He drives that Humvee that gets 6 miles per gallon...
Cheers,
Bambi B
In the mean time, I am quite certain that the role actors plays, are not...roles.
Hitch, was a genius for putting them in his films, the way he saw them in reality....
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