--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > > wrote: > > > > > <snip> > > > Sadly, it's also unfair. Both Cruise and Brad Pitt don't get > enough > > > credit for their acting because of their good looks. > > > > I don't care much for Cruise, but I'm a huge > > Pitt fan. My favorite film of his is "Meet Joe > > Black." It's very long and very slow and very > > talky, and you have to be *very* relaxed to sit > > through it. But he has some genuinely transcendent > > scenes that give me goose bumps. > > I enjoyed that film, too. > > Funnily, the thing that strikes me most in that film is the scene > near the beginning where the pre-death Pitt character gets hit by a > bus. It's one of the most real and horrific scenes I have ever > seen at the movies.
My favorite's the one with the old Jamaican lady. That just blows me away. But those are the showy scenes, relatively speaking. There are lots of subtle moments that are just astonishingly good. Pitt *underplays* the role; I don't think I've ever seen Cruise underplay, and I'm not sure he could. His acting is all on the surface, it seems to me, whereas Pitt's comes from the inside. Not that Cruise doesn't usually do a good job, but imagine him trying to play Joe Black! Pitt (or the director) was smart enough to know flash would kill it, and that he had the stuff not to have to rely on flash. On the other hand, I don't know if Pitt could do Jerry McGuire as well as Cruise. I'd like to see Clint Eastwood direct Pitt. They haven't done anything together yet, have they? You know who's another underappreciated actor? Jason Scott Lee, who played Bruce Lee (no relation) in "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story." The film is kind of a potboiler, but Lee's performance is worth sitting through it. (I'm sure martial arts people are not entranced; Lee had never done any before the film). Great scenes with good old Nancy Kwan, much better as a character actress than she ever was as an ingenue. Anyway, he's Chinese-American, so I guess there aren't many lead roles for him, which is a shame. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
