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NOW THERE is the Oscar winner--at least for Daniel Day Lewis as best actor. Is the score up for an Oscar? It should be.
I keep going to all these disappointing movies and then something like this comes along and I suddenly remember why I love the Cinema so much.
Its been over a year since I have seen this strong a movie.
Attendance was high too.
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Lewis reprising his "Gangs of N.Y." role is Oscar worthy? Absolutely, considering how bad are most Oscar choices. Lewis delivers all the goods in this one -- one notes every labored breath of the actor, every strained feature, etc., -- in other words one sees "Acting" but does not get lost in the character.
Not that there is much interesting character for Lewis to portray in this movie. A monomaniacal crazy, from beginning to end. Compared to other P.T. Anderson films this was very thin on character development, very little in the way of character interaction, etc. What little plot this movie had also makes little sense. Why would he initially snub the would-be preacher when he is shown in the very beginning of the picture as a PR con artist who knows how to sway the locals?
I may sound a bit harsh in my critique of this movie, but this is because I like P.T. Anderson and was expecting more.
In Gangs of N.Y. he had a N.Y accent. Totally different than the accent in this movie. Most people now do not have the patience to watch a movie unless it has 50 percent car chases and explosions. As I said before, Daniel's own peers voted his performance best of the year and I tend to agree with them.
...John Houston.
"The performance by Day-Lewis may well win an Oscar nomination, and if he wins he should do the right thing in his acceptance speech and thank the late John Huston. His voice in the role seems like a frank imitation of Huston, right down to the cadences, the pauses, the seeming to confide."
I was just thinking of Chinatown as a movie with similar themes. Huston was the bad guy in that film trying to steal another valuable California resource (water, not oil).
Certainly Daniel Day Lewis' performance, whether over-the-top or not, was interesting. He certainly was not as ridiculous as James Dean was playing Jett Rink in Giant, but is he a match for Orson Welles doing Foster Kane?
long has been considered a pinnacle of the art.
Heck, even Dennis Hopper acknowledged his untouchable genius, and Dennis isn't known for his small ego.
The test of wills, decent into madness, Man lonely and alone in a wilderness of his own making.
I've seen TWBB twice now and I can see how some would hate it or at the least come away unsatisfied, for me it is an example of what North American cinema can do.
Oh and the music is excellent.
J.B.
...have given him two awards (Gangs of NY and There will be Blood) which are variations on the same theme. I really REALLY want to see this great actor in something completely differenent next time around. I've had enough over the edge, scenery chewing finales from him for now. He IS a great actor...and these roles are far from the actor himself. But I've been the4re.
I disagree somewhat on your take of PTA, the film and DDL's performance. There are beathtaking moments in this film for me. A lot of it is visual storytelling, and much of it is incredibly staged and acted.
But I too was a bit disappointed in PTA's handling of his actors, somehting he's normally brilliant at: DDL's character descends into cliche by the end of the film - totally over the top, Ciaran Hinds is woefully underused and Paul Dano needed to be reined in a bit as well. I realize the script and style of TWBB is very different from PTA's previous material, but this films doesn't seem to have the same emotional trith at the very end, which was the hallmark of his earlier film.
That said, this is a bold risk taking movie that I loved for about 2/3rds of the way through.
FYI - you do know there were two brothers, the twins played by Paul Dano??? The one who provides the tip, Paul, isn't seen again, the preacher is Eli.
I also think there have been mseveral fine performances by actors this year, and DDL's doesn't seserve the Oscar ot anything else.
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...that Cruise mistook the act of staring intently for the art of acting.
Tonights my night so tomorrow it gets the DUI treatment.
Seriously, I hope you enjoy it.
There's a muscle on her arm
With a red and blue tatoo
That says
Fort Worth I love you
I know all you DDL lovers will swoon with worship but the movie was just, er, pointless.
Couldn't wait for it to be over and I surely don't think he deserves an Oscar for that role.
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wasn't impressed either. 'old country for old men' - now that's more like it.
...must be your illness.
How are you doing?
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I have never heard a score so original and fitting with the mood and feel of the movie. Great film.
...yes, I found both the score and the film to be very irritating.
Couldn't wait for them to end.
Yes, Lewis' performance was great, but I'm sorry I wasted the 2-1/2 hours.
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It is not to entertain you so you can buy the soundtrack and sit and listen to it on your home stereo. It is to set a mood in a movie. It does not necessarily have to be music. The background score in this movie fit perfectly with the mood of the movie. This was not a feel good movie that you want to buy or watch numerous times. It did convey the sacrifices necessary to go from a poor man to a rich man though all was folly. When the film ended I wanted to scream, everybody love their job now.
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