--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > 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.
Have you seen "Snatch" yet? It's directed by Guy Ritchie, a British director, who did "Lock, STock and two smoking barrels", both Indie hits. > > 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? No, I don't think so. > > You know who's another underappreciated actor? > Jason Scott Lee, who played Bruce Lee (no relation) ...and not to be confused with the white-American actor Jason Lee... > 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. He starred in a favourite of mine that takes place in Northern Quebec...Scott plays an Inuit and Ann Parrillaud a Metis (half Indian on the mother's side and half White)...it's called "Map of the Human Heart" and he's wonderful in it. Hard to find but netflix has it http://tinyurl.com/kqnl5 . I don't want to tell you more so as not to ruin it for you in case you ever rent it. Highly recommended. 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/
