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proximoceptionIt was also nice to see Ed from The Assassination of Jesse James show up in Deadwood (twice!), though it suggests the poor actor was typecast for a while there.
I feel I can judge whether writing's good at this point, if that was ever terribly difficult, but I'm thoroughly unqualified to judge acting. But he was so good in that movie. Pitt was quite good too, maybe better than in anything else he'd done till then (Tree of Life's his movie), but he was outclassed there. No idea why I think so. It's not like good acting is an intrusion of reality into fiction, presumably much the opposite, but it feels like one, like you're brought in or the scene's brought out.
Who else does that? Harriet Andersson passim, but I'm not sure if that's acting skill or if I've just always been in love with her. I thought Cotillard had in Nine, basically to no end, but maybe she would've made less of an impression in a more impressive movie? At any rate I'm not going back to check if that impression's ephemeral. Huppert in The Piano Teacher, where it's like she forces the movie to be impressive with her. Streep and kline in Sophie's choice, where they almost do. People praise De Niro in Jackie Brown and I agree. Swinton held the Kevin film together, and seems consistently pretty great. Williams in Blue Valentine, Cage in Bad Lieutenant. Lots of performances in Lynch, Coen and Kurosawa movies, such that you assume it's the direction. Peter Lorre in M one doesn't forget, but is that the acting? I guess these mostly fall into two groups: load-bearing performances where something extraordinary is asked and without its being given the film would suffer, supplementary performances where you didn't need to be impressed at all and are thus astonished that you could be. Maybe excellent acting's all over the place and you need quite high or low stakes to make it stand out.
I feel I can judge whether writing's good at this point, if that was ever terribly difficult, but I'm thoroughly unqualified to judge acting. But he was so good in that movie. Pitt was quite good too, maybe better than in anything else he'd done till then (Tree of Life's his movie), but he was outclassed there. No idea why I think so. It's not like good acting is an intrusion of reality into fiction, presumably much the opposite, but it feels like one, like you're brought in or the scene's brought out.
Who else does that? Harriet Andersson passim, but I'm not sure if that's acting skill or if I've just always been in love with her. I thought Cotillard had in Nine, basically to no end, but maybe she would've made less of an impression in a more impressive movie? At any rate I'm not going back to check if that impression's ephemeral. Huppert in The Piano Teacher, where it's like she forces the movie to be impressive with her. Streep and kline in Sophie's choice, where they almost do. People praise De Niro in Jackie Brown and I agree. Swinton held the Kevin film together, and seems consistently pretty great. Williams in Blue Valentine, Cage in Bad Lieutenant. Lots of performances in Lynch, Coen and Kurosawa movies, such that you assume it's the direction. Peter Lorre in M one doesn't forget, but is that the acting? I guess these mostly fall into two groups: load-bearing performances where something extraordinary is asked and without its being given the film would suffer, supplementary performances where you didn't need to be impressed at all and are thus astonished that you could be. Maybe excellent acting's all over the place and you need quite high or low stakes to make it stand out.
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