[Film] Your best ever acting performance in a film

[Algernon]

Hans

 

[hitony]

It was one of Steve Seagals lesser known films.
Even Rotten Tomatos wouldn't touch it

My best ever was...Noddy DOES Big Ears in Toyland........It really is a Classic!! the 2 of them bond so well together......Most of the film is very clever "one to one" acting, Mr Plod does make the occasional appearance, but in his own words he does prefer the Dogging scenes....... and to be fair when "Bumpy Dog gets going.....he really is amazing!!

 

[Insel affe]

Don Logan.

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[Questions]

Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKie_34cpJI

I always struggle to reconize outstanding individual performances when a film is as dreadful as Schindler’s List was.
I’m totally with Kubrick on his take on the film. Spielberg can’t even show any Jewish prisoners as anything other than just extras.

Kubrick :

“Think that was about the Holocaust? That was about success, wasn’t it? The Holocaust is about six million people who get killed. Schindler’s List was about six hundred people who don’t.”

 

[Gabbafella]

Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips
Edward Norton in American History X
James McAvoy in Split
Jack Nicholson in OFOTCN
Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the lambs
Gary Oldman in Leon

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I always struggle to reconize outstanding individual performances when a film is as dreadful as Schindler’s List was.
I’m totally with Kubrick on his take on the film. Spielberg can’t even show any Jewish prisoners as anything other than just extras.

Kubrick :

“Think that was about the Holocaust? That was about success, wasn’t it? The Holocaust is about six million people who get killed. Schindler’s List was about six hundred people who don’t.”

I think Spielberg tried to show what happened. He is a Jew after all. For me it was a film that showed the horror of what happened. That quote seems very unkind and wrong. Spielberg showed events as they unfolded that was and is shown now as a testament against evil

 

[Me and my Monkey]

Kevin Bacon in the Woodsman - played the part of a paedophile with real empathy and intelligence. A very thought provoking film.

 

[AmexRuislip]

My best ever was...Noddy DOES Big Ears in Toyland........It really is a Classic!! the 2 of them bond so well together......Most of the film is very clever "one to one" acting, Mr Plod does make the occasional appearance, but in his own words he does prefer the Dogging scenes....... and to be fair when "Bumpy Dog gets going.....he really is amazing!!

Wow, sounds like a critique out of Barry Normans book
I did take a look at Wikipedia, and it's full of innuendo!

Big Ears*is a fictional character from*Noddy*series books by*Enid Blyton. In*Noddy Goes to Toyland*he introduces himself as a*brownie*"or a sort of a hob, or*hobgoblin". He explains that though he "hobnobbed" with Noddy who lived in Toytown, he lived in the "hilly, lumpy, bumpy part of town outside of town". He describes his ears as too big, and his striped trousers with the cap which was "either too pointy or not pointy enough".[2]*Together with his brother Little-Ears, he is the only non toy in Toyland and Noddy's helper and father-figure. He is described as having a white beard, red cap, blue jacket, red-and-white striped jumper and yellow-and-green trousers.[1]*His catchphrase is "You funny little Noddy!"

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I always struggle to reconize outstanding individual performances when a film is as dreadful as Schindler’s List was.
I’m totally with Kubrick on his take on the film. Spielberg can’t even show any Jewish prisoners as anything other than just extras.

Kubrick :

“Think that was about the Holocaust? That was about success, wasn’t it? The Holocaust is about six million people who get killed. Schindler’s List was about six hundred people who don’t.”

Also Kubrick entrusted him to AI. His baby. Can't see him saying this. Got any proof ?

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Agreed gary Oldman as Churchill was magnificent.
Another vote for Nicholson on OFOTCN. When I went to see it on Oxford in 1976, the whole audience stood up and clapped at the end.
Orson Welles in The Third Man.

 

[Garage_Doors]

Alan Ford in Snatch.

 

[The Kid Frankie]

Travolta and Nick Cage in Face/Off

Honourable mention for Lesley Nielsen in the Naked Gun trilogy.

 

[miffy6]

Tom Cruise in Collateral.

 

[Wellesley]

Julian Clary in 'Carry on Columbus'.

 

[marlowe]

Not forgetting the classic British kitchen sink drama performances of
Laurence Harvey : Room at the Top
Simone Signoret : Room at the Top
Tom Courtney : The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Albert Finney: Saturday Night Sunday Morning
Richard Harris : This Sporting Life

 

[Razzoo]

Paddy Considine is top notch in Dead Man's Shoes.

 

[Questions]

I think Spielberg tried to show what happened. He is a Jew after all. For me it was a film that showed the horror of what happened. That quote seems very unkind and wrong. Spielberg showed events as they unfolded that was and is shown now as a testament against evil

Its kitsch Uncle. It loses any power as a serious piece about the holocaust because it’s about Schindler and his epiphany - the child in red - and the portrayal of Goeth as a one dimensional psychopath, whereas that sort of evil is rarely as unclothed as Fiennes portrays. Where the evil is hidden as with people like Mengelin or even Goerbils you get a truer depiction of the dangers of what mans inhumanity to man is capable of.
I must add I think Steven Spielberg’s has made some great films but in my opinion SL isn’t one of them.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

James Stewart in The Rope. The denoument is devastating.

 

[METALMICKY]

Paddy Considine is top notch in Dead Man's Shoes.

Quite possibly the most powerful and threatening use of the C word ever committed to film.

Can I vote for a double double? Pacino and De Niro in Godfather II closely followed by Heat.

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

Just back from seeing 'Darkest Hour'. Fantastic film and such a great performance form Gary Oldman. Definite Oscar candidate.


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