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In Reply to: posted by AudioHead on August 29, 2000 at 15:17:32:
Nichoson was probably right in saying he's 75/25. My favorite actors who seem to be absorbed in whatever they play include Dustin Huffman, Robert Duvall, and Marlon Brando. Bobby Deniro does carry his own body language styles across many of his works, but with such a texture that makes them much more memorable than many roles played by completely absorbed actors.
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John Wayne, Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson.
I'm not familiar with John Wayne's work at all, as I'm too young and his films aren't much interesting to me. Charles Bronson is similar that way. I vaguely remember him in The Great Escape, and Red Sun, which I watched a long, long time ago. I probably liked them too much not to pay attention to the acting.Clint Eastwood, I think, is somewhat one dimensional, probably because the kinds of movies he mostly plays in. Eastwood is however a jazz lover and tries to include it in whereever he can. He actually sings on the soundtrack of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" which he directed.
Speaking of western movies, it's best put by Paula Cole, "where have all the cowboys gone?" The last good western I saw was Wyatt Earp. Kevin Cosner was good. Dennis Quaid was terrific.
Wayne, Eastwood and Bronson all have limited range due to their
emotional constitutions; however, they all play the macho type
characters very well. Wayne was confined mostly to either a cowboy,
or a soldier, usually an errant, fiesty junior officer. Eastwood
mostly to a cowboy or detective; however, Clint won an Academy Award
as Director ("The Unforgiven"), something that had eluded him as an
actor. Bronson had more flexibility in a variety of toughguy roles,
he was good in the film you mentioned, "The Great Escape", other good
roles were "The Mechanic" and "Telifom"; he also played a private
citizen viligante in the "Death Wish" series.
I also liked "Wyatt Earp", but I liked "Tombstone" even better. If
you like actors who get absorbed into their characters, check out
British actor Charles Laughton in "Mutiny On The Bounty"-1935, as
Captain Bligh, in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"-1938, as Quasimodo,
and in "The Island of Lost Souls"-1933, as Doctor Moreau. - AH
Check out John Wayne in "Red River". He gives quite a multi dimensional performance. I also thought his performance in "The Shootist", his last movie, was quite compelling. Mostly, of course, he was this macho, larger than life character, which is what the public and the studios wanted. He was a better actor than generally given credit for.
I think most actors have potentials of being "multi-dimensional" as they have the opportunity to. I think the key is to be able to choose the right project and work with the right people. We have the technology and skills to make good movies. We'll just have to put everything together nicely, as a whole. A weakness in modern movies is the incohesiveness. The story is often distracted by special effects, current politics, cat phrases, and even the acting itself. Take The Sixth Sense for example, they had a great, original story to tell, but ended up serving as the young actor's (Osborn???) talent show. Not a bad movie, but could have been much more powerful.When a story is well told, together with great acting, music, and photography, we have beauties like The Piano, Amadeus, and the likes.
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