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actor who has done a better job than these three roles in the past...30 years.
Dead Ringers
Reversal of Fortune
The French Lieutenant's Woman.
(And what's happened to Ralph Fiennes? Well, that's another thread...).
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Ralph Fiennes does a lot of stage work - he has won several awards for projects and I think he's just finished with doing Ibsen in London over the last year. He has a bucket of films coming out over the next while:He is the villain Lord Voldemort in the next Harry Potter film 2005.
He's also starring or supporting in:
The Chumscrubber (is a darkly satiric story about life crumbling in the midst of a seemingly idyllic suburbia) Directed by Arie PosinLead in The White Countess ( Set in 1930s Shanghai, where a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd -- and sometimes illicit -- jobs to support members of her dead husband's aristocratic family) Directed by James Ivory. (Merchant-Ivory)
Chromophobia (Unknown) Directed by Marth Fiennes.The Constant Gardener (Ralph Fiennes stars as Kenya-based English diplomat Justin Quayle, whose wife is murdered, along with a man she's suspected of having an affair with, a local human rights activist. When Quayle starts investigating the killings, he discovers a connection between local politicians and a large Western pharmaceutical conglomerate.) Directed by Fernando Meirelles.
Lord Victor Quatermaine in The Wallace & Gromit Movie: Curse of the Wererabbit.
Those are slated for 2005.
2006:
Land of the Blind (A soldier (Fiennes) recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner (Donald Sutherland) attempting to overthrow their country's totalitarian government). Directed by Robert Edwards.
Disgrace (Filming to be in Africa - no details released).
Theatre Projects: Julius Caesar, April 15-May 15 Barbican Theatre, London, England, also touring Paris, Madrid, Luxembourg.
our of an award for Schindler's list, but they didn't wanna give it to someone who played such a bastard of a part. Only seen him in that and strange days.
Yes giving the award to an actor playing a nazi -- an unknown actor at the time versus Tommy been in Hollywood 25 years and never won Jones. His role as Goethe was one of the ten best performances of the Decade - he managed to embody more than than the real Amon Goethe bringing the role a humanity -- which in turn made it scarier.He was nominated in The English Patient - and could have been nominated for:
Oscar and Lucinda
Sunshine
SpiderStrange Days is an underrated flick.
tinear,I have to say I alternately love and loath Irons. He and Hugh Grant all remind me a bit of Jimmy Stewart- excellent and entertaining when acting in something that already suits them, but thrust into a broader arena, the lack of real acting range starts to appear.
When Irons (or Grant, or Stewart) is the Everyman, a slightly wide-eyed, ineffective observer- like "Brideshead Revisited" or his cypher/chameleon-like Von Bulow, he does well, but sometimes he ends up with ridiculous parts like his villain in "Die Hard with a Vengance".
Irons may take on projects with this poor casting because becoming the movie's "name brand" actor usually comes with a too- large- to- pass- up cheque. [Look also at Maggie Smith and K. Branaugh doing the "Harry Potter" disasters, Judi Dench in "Bond" stuff.]
If Irons had a bigger acting range and was more selective in the parts he accepts, he would have a more even critical position.
Cheers,
Bambi B
..that maybe it's 'ok' for actors to have a limited range, to excel at what they do, rather that insisting they have to fulfill a complete range?
Is excelling at what they do 'type-casting'?
This maybe separates the great actors from mere 'character' actors, but I feel certain actors have certain roles down to a 't'.
A great actor, for me, is someone like Montgomery Clift in the Misfits, playing a macho cowboy when in reality he's a fragile gay.
Even Orson Welles never really escaped the roles that he played.
Thinking about versatlity, how about Tim Roth (Little Odessa, Planet of the Apes) or Chris Cooper (just look at his pedigree: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0177933/)?
JS,Yes, I think it's a sign of the better brand of actor when they know their limitations and choose parts accordingly. It's the discrimination combined with self-knowledge that steers them into good roles that they can play effectively.
Katherine Hepburn, who was described at the time as "...running the emothional gamut all the way from A to B" eventually found her niche and did very well. For some actors like Steve McQueen, who must have had the smallest range of anyone I can think of, there would have been no career without his finding that exact niche. Today, I think Johnny Depp always chooses roles that suit him.
You're right about the great versatility of Tim Roth. I kind of pair him with another free-ranger: Gary Oldman. Those two can do Shakespeare to Sci-Fi. English actors generally seem to have a higher proportion with a larger range.
Cheers,
Bambi B
I saw The Magnificent Seven again the other day.
What a great film.
Steve McQueen really knew how to present himself, limits and all, in front of a camera.
Maybe 'charisma' can't be learned????
He had a way with props that made his characters convincing.
You said it all.
He was quoted somewhere as saying something about taking on roles as a macho thing, a challenge. Maybe he's not been offered any challenging roles. Maybe he's getting a bit long in the tooth for a romantic lead and hasn't had the opportunity for character acting. Has he ever done comedy?I saw him in person once. He was attending a classical recital at Wigmore Hall in London.
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----Be right there, Mom.
until I saw a full length shot. Movies are about fantasy, and the fantasy in this movie was sex. I had sex on my mind when I saw her face, I had sex on my mind when I saw her body . . . but when I saw the legs . . . my mind reverted to chess.Bad legs, Grits. And I do mean Baaaaaa-aaa-aa-d
It is a matter of fantasy. The instant I got the full length shot . . . oh, well. Been deflated before!
But then, legs are my "thaing".
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----Be right there, Mom.
...finally got around to seeing Cronenberg's 'Spider'.
He gave a remarkable performance although Gabriel Byrne still comes across as too 'educated' for the role of Spider's father.
Mirand Richardson was great and the decors had me seeing my London suberbia upbringing again.
An excellent Cronenberg film d'auteur.
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