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In Reply to: Re: Please Give Me Your Evaluations of .......... posted by caa on September 02, 2000 at 22:56:10:
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
Follow Ups:
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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