In Reply to: Favorite single acting job posted by NuWave on March 18, 2005 at 07:45:51:
...where he does an incredible job: nuanced, loaded with humanity, and being able to transmit an incredible palette of feelings and emotions from behind a very thick mask which makes him practically unrecognizable!Lawrence Olivier makes a most scary villain of his character in "Marathon Man". And his Moor in "Othello" is still at the top, despite his non-blackness: that scene when he takes a rose, smells it and recites is priceless...
Derek Jacobi in "I, Claudius" is simply superb: he has left no room for anybody else to play that role...
And terence Stamp played the best role in his whole life in "Billy Budd", looking to a giant like Peter Ustinov, and to the well-seasoned Robert Ryan face to face, and not blinking: unforgettable!
Then Robert Mitchum, as the widow-murderer in Charles Laughton´s only, and most poetic film "The Night of the Hunter" becomes the scariest incarnation of evil...
There are more, of course. But these were the ones immediately coming to my mind.
Regards
BF
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Follow Ups
- John Hurt in "The Elephant Man"... - orejones 10:27:34 03/18/05 (4)
- Terence Stamp, I suggest, was - tinear 17:08:45 03/18/05 (2)
- You don't think the scene where... - C.B. 05:01:35 03/20/05 (1)
- Yes, a brief interlude within a bog of pitiless hatred. nt - tinear 16:21:09 03/20/05 (0)
- Hurt is awesome in everything.... - NuWave 11:17:17 03/18/05 (0)