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Quite a few would grant her the ascendant position on the pedestal of modern actresses.
I remain very impressed with her earlier work. Has a bigger bitch ever been portrayed so cunningly as in "Kramer vs Kramer?"
How about the faithful, kind girlfriend of "The Deer Hunter?"
In "French Lieutenant's Woman," however, I believe she did her best work: a bravura performance.
"Silkwood" began her descent: neither she, nor any other actor, can play all roles. She seemed like a Yalie trying to mimic a working class woman. (Bette Davis, otoh, did a masterful job of it in "Of Human Bondage.")
From then on, it was a series of "accent" roles.
So, in answer to my own question, I'd say early Meryl deserves the accolade "great," but for the past several decades, she has been a sort of mimic, both of dialects and emotions.
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...none other than Julia Roberts. Great smile, mediocre actress, not worth anywhere near what she is paid. However, she does have a talent for selecting roles that show her at her best.Meryl Streep was absolutely great, by the way, in "Defending Your Life," a highly underrated movie. My $0.02.
"Silkwood" has more problems than just Steep's misconceived performance. Howard Kohn's articles in "Rolling Stone" did a pretty good job of capturing her...but Nichol's film thought she was a working class girl...which she wasn't!I lived in Nederland in the late 60s/early 70s and went to school with Karen Silkwood's sister. Middle class kids, all of us, even if our dads worked in the refineries and on the railroad. Union wages!
One of Karen's traits was putting on the working class gal act when she was raised to be a middle class girl who was supposed to get her MRS. She loved getting the job at Kerr-McGee and working in the union and all of that stuff!
I know of another girl from nearby Port Arthur did something similar. Her name was Janis something.
She was the best thing about "The Hours," IMHO.Now, Jennifer Jason Leigh... THAT's an overrated American actress.
And does Binoche act? She just sort of looks pensive now and then, keeping that beautiful face of hers as immobile as possible.
Jeffery
or Blanchet.Streep is a good actress that to me always seems to be acting - she may be more apt to the stage. It's tough for REAL actors to film because the spontanaity is lost.
Of course there is a reason Theater is a vastly superior art form than film.
In point of fact the medium I most like is vastly superior to the medium you most like. Why? Because I like it better!
eb
yes the way I said came off pompous didn't it.Theater has a vibrancy - a life - films don't have because films are trapped in a one time event. Plays involve the audience - their is life between actor/audience that film can't approach. Depends a lot on the play and on the film plenty of good and bad of both.
Can't we just agree that film and theater are different from each other? Why does one have to be better? It's really like comparing apples and oranges.
Would you name a couple of actresses you consider better?
Was she not on " Sophie´s Choice ". Well for the rest I agree with your view on her.
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