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#34021 Lack of Screen Presence on the Parts of 'Stars'

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 21 August 2010 - 08:39 AM in Silver Screen

[blockquote].Acting for the most part is less of an art now, you can phone the shit in and the studios don't really care[/blockquote] Exactly...or on the flipside, they are too much into the craft of it til they are in way over there head and the pheriphery of a performance takes presedence over the actual substance i.e. OMG, CHRISTIAN BALE LOST 100 MILLION LBS FOR THE MACHINIST or OMG, JARED LETO TURNED HIMSELF INTO A FATTY FOR CHAPTER 27 but it's these things that sort of become the performance as opposed to the acting involved. Loads of great actors did things like that, Marlon Brando for example in The Godfather with the black hair and the cotton wool in his mouth and the croaky voice but that was just things to develop the character, it wasn't the extent of the character y'know? So there's a balance involved that people seem to miss.

#34014 UFOs yes or no?

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 21 August 2010 - 07:01 AM in Survey Central

I think that logic dictates that there must be SOME form of other life out there, whether it's more or less intelligent than us, who knows. As a general thing, i'd say i don't know whether they're out there or not but i definitely think there is some form of life out there. Thats the beauty of the universe though, perhaps our levels of perception aren't correctly disposed to see or understand all forms of life. Which further begs the question, if you can't percieve it does it exist as far as you're concerned?

#34013 Lack of Screen Presence on the Parts of 'Stars'

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 21 August 2010 - 06:38 AM in Silver Screen

Does anybody find this? It occurs to me that, after a certain point in cinema a lot of stars don't actually have any screen presence. They don't command attention. Most of the actors around today, even, relatively, some of the quite well known ones such as Al Pacino and Robert De Niro don't seem to have that thing that James Stewart or Robert Mitchum or Oliver Reed or Henry Fonda or Jimmy Cagney had where you were just WAITING for them to appear on screen. I dunno why this is. With a simple face value assessment, you could say that perhaps it has something to do with the desire of everyone to be the actors actor and not having a good understanding of their strengths and playing on that. Actors beforehand had this thing where, now, for instance, John Wayne couldn't act for shit but he had amazing presence and forged a place for himself in the history of cinema for better or worse (i say better) by having a distinct understanding of his capabilities and how to accentuate them and also his limitations and how to work around them. Everybody can't be Marlon Brando and they shouldn't try. James Dean, another example, if we're realistic, the jurys out on how good he actually would've turned out if he had've continued but, just on the basis of the three movies he made, he had this intense smouldering screen presence. Also, perhaps the old Studio/Star System and a lot of the post studio system thing had a thing where they cultivated personalities. There are very few real characters amongst actors anymore. People like Myrna Loy, Brando, Oliver Reed again or Tallulah Bankhead, Richard Harris, Steve McQueen, people that are just interesting in and of themselves. People like De Niro, for all their talents, seem like the most BAWWWWWWWW-RING people in the fuckin world, they seem to be such wet rags, no discernible personality at all...Pacino too, he could put an insomniac to sleep. Johnny Depp has a sort of understated screen presence i think. Why do you think this is the case nowadays? Or do you even think this is the case?

#34011 Films that were made for the story and not the money

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 21 August 2010 - 04:54 AM in Silver Screen

I don't think there has been a mainstream hollywood production yet where story took prescedent over profit. It's a business, i don't think it works like that. if you mean like it was made by a director that was uncompromising in terms of being true to his particular vision of what the movie should be like then i think thats an eternal producer director struggle and with most movies or most directors worth their salt it's a back and forth battle where both sides kinda get their word in depending on the tenacity of the parties involved. Y'know i'm not sure i understood the question :lol:

Wait, just re-read the post, i think i kinda get it now, in that case, just about any movies Lars Von Trier ever made, uhhh, Once Upon A Time in the West, Apocalypse Now, most of the movies John Huston ever made...hmmm, i think this'd be an interesting thing to approach from a director point of view. Easy Rider i'd say? Quemada with Marlon Brando, most definitely, Last Tango In Paris is another...loads of em. In fact i think it's part of the criteria for making a good movie if not totally exclusively. Three Colors Trilogy. A friend of mines always going on at me to watch Mystic River but i never get around to it.

#34010 Drunk thread

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 21 August 2010 - 04:50 AM in Main

Ginger Ale is best with Brandy although it's sort of an old mans drink

#34009 Goodbye Iraq: Last US combat brigade heads home

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 21 August 2010 - 04:45 AM in News, Current Events, Politics

Fuck me, they were letting go for an awful long time, weren't they? I guess they had arthiritic fingers. You could argue that they were dismantling their empire because they didn't have the wherewithal to sustain it and Congress knew this and all this work that had been done by Indians towards independence was a part of it. People think Gandhi was just an idealistic pacifist but i think one could make a good case for his being a very shrewd politician. Other colonies were released, sure but that doesn't negate the work that was going on in India. I think a lot of it had to do with it being the tailend of WW2 and England being too drained in terms of resources to really put up a good fight for the empire. Also, wasn't there a Labour government at the time? Not sure but i think so, could be wrong. The Empirical mentality was very much a Conservative thing by then.

#34008 All NEW "What are you Listening to?"

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 21 August 2010 - 04:14 AM in The Amphitheater

Bankrobber - The Clash

#33919 Jesse Ventura for US president in 2012/16?

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 20 August 2010 - 09:46 AM in News, Current Events, Politics

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sarah Palin, Jesse Ventura, George W Bush?!?! Feels like there's somebody out there or up there that is intent on making America the laughing stock of the world.

#33912 All NEW "What are you Listening to?"

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 20 August 2010 - 03:17 AM in The Amphitheater

Wrote for Luck - Happy Mondays

#33737 Drunk thread

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 19 August 2010 - 10:49 AM in Main

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZMXIxIQmPw[/url]

How to do another interview drunk by Oliver Reed

#33725 I Play The Guitar

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 19 August 2010 - 08:44 AM in Main

Shit, might as well be the first to start a topic. Any guitar players here? What do you play? Are you any good or are you as shit as me? Do you play in a band or just for your own amusement? What kinda guitar do you play?

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#33724 All NEW "What are you Listening to?"

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 19 August 2010 - 08:30 AM in The Amphitheater

Step On - The Happy Mondays

#33723 Goodbye Iraq: Last US combat brigade heads home

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 19 August 2010 - 08:28 AM in News, Current Events, Politics

Or found the phantom weapons of mass destruction...lets call it what it is, we basically went in and invaded a country, turned the fucker upside down and left in the name of a pretty much completely unrelated terrorist attack.

#33722 Alternative and unusual music tastes?

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 19 August 2010 - 08:25 AM in The Amphitheater

I know right? it's such a beautiful thing because you get to hear different kinds of music that it might've taken you a lifetime to get around to and get into. its ridiculous that artists are so against it, it's free exposure. you find out which ones are about the money and which ones are about the craft, the art. @artcinco: The Smiths are fabulous

#33718 Mongolian Nazis

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 19 August 2010 - 06:36 AM in News, Current Events, Politics

whats next, The White Nation of Islam?!?!

#33717 Goodbye Iraq: Last US combat brigade heads home

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 19 August 2010 - 06:33 AM in News, Current Events, Politics

Well...that was worth it Posted Image

#33716 Who likes porn the most?

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 19 August 2010 - 06:32 AM in News, Current Events, Politics

Whilst it is pretty foul it'd be interesting if there were some surveys or statistics to show which countries the porn in questions originates from, then perhaps we might get a real idea of who the dirty little fuckers/bastards really are...

#33714 Fucking Rapist everywhere

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 19 August 2010 - 05:11 AM in Main

fucking rapists? what other kinds are there? *ba boom chee*

#33713 Drunk thread

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 19 August 2010 - 05:10 AM in Main

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPXMHZ4XEs0[/url]

How To Do An Interview Drunk by Oliver Reed Posted Image

#33712 Dennis Hopper, creator of hit 'Easy Rider,' dies (AP)

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 19 August 2010 - 05:07 AM in Silver Screen

Dennis Hopper was a fucking brilliant actor, acted with so many legends, Brando, James Dean, John Wayne, If you watch a lot of older movies you see him in his very younger days with loads of bit parts in classic westerns and teen rebellion flicks and all sorts. Rebel Without a Cause, Giant, Gunfight at the OK Corral, The Sons of Katie Elder, Cool Hand Luke, Hang Em High, True Grit...and these are all pretty much before he hit big with Easy Rider. Brilliant actor though, Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet, Straight to Hell, Rumblefish, True Romance, he just had this knack of always getting with the hip people of any given era.

#33711 Lets find the best drinking music.

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 19 August 2010 - 04:52 AM in The Amphitheater

I've found as i've gotten older that the people that listen to more amped hyped music during a particularly protracted drinking session are the ones who don't make it to the morning. I always equated The Blues & Jazz with drinking.

#33710 Vanilla Ice, Suprisingly Successful Real Estate Developer

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 19 August 2010 - 04:30 AM in The Amphitheater

Vanilla made to look a dick by interviewer (Nardwuar)

#33709 Alternative and unusual music tastes?

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 19 August 2010 - 04:29 AM in The Amphitheater

I never tend to dig music by way of genre? I think thats the key. It really depends on what you look for in music. Do you hear a cool band and go "cool, i'd like more of the same" or is it attitudes or approaches that float your boat? I just like music and i like it's ability to evoke/convey emotion, it's a tool of communication and i think it's often a good exercise to listen to the unlistenable, it really broadens your horizons, music is basically the profession of noise manipulation and it's an endless source of fascination for me the different ways people approach creating music. But yeah? Unusual? Charlie Parker, Theolonious Monk, i suppose they'd be pretty unusual...lots of old blues stuff, Jimmy Reed, Bukka White, Son House, i suppose not so unusual being that GnR are a guitar based blues rock n roll band. Lots of dub reggae i like, reggae in general actually, Peter Tosh, King Tubby, Prince Far I, U Roy, I Roy, just all the different genres like Dub and Dancehall and Calypso and Ska and Nyabinghi...hip hop i just flat out adore, lots of old school shit like Slick Rick, Eric B & Rakim, Run DMC, EPMD, lots of the gangsta shit too....i like a lot of the arty punk bands like PiL and Sonic Youth & Gang of Four. I dunno, it's a weird thing, i guess i could go on for days and put a whole lot of people to sleep. I just love music, i love different sounds, it's a source of endless fascination to me, i love to go into restaurants and hear some like...cuturally specific music being played by the proprietor, it's part of entire identities and cultures and your understanding of said cultures and identities is all the worse off for not knowing about them. I like a lot of punk also, the 70s/80s stuff generally. I dunno, it's really a never ending question.

#33708 The Screamers

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 19 August 2010 - 04:17 AM in The Amphitheater

I've heard of The Screamers, early L.A. punk band

#33707 Albums which are supposed to be great but you just can't get into

Posted by winstonlegthigh on 19 August 2010 - 04:13 AM in The Amphitheater

Pretty much everything Led Zeppelin ever did. I dunno why but there's just something so trite about it all, i feel a little patronised and insulted everytime i give em a chance. i wouldn't go so far as to call The Stooges first album hyped though. I mean it's considered a pretty funky little album and a sign pointing the way to potential but it's very much considered a gateway album i think.