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In Reply to: RE: Bogart was a personality...NOT an actor of great skill.... posted by TWB on March 19, 2008 at 11:12:48

fashionable to damn the great but Bogart was versatile, playing villains, heroes, and lovers all with nonpareil skill. I think you're forgetting that for many years, Warner Bros. cast him in dozens of gangster films and he had a hell of a time breaking out of that stereotype.
Anyhow, Bogey is Bogey: the list of his great films is surpassed by none.
One hears your same hooey about many great actors, including Olivier: one critic said that Sir Lawrence seemed to think that every film line was written by Shakespeare.
I think what happens is that actors with extremely powerful personalities and that have long careers make it difficult for some viewers to see them as other characters.
I mean, can you forget that Alec Guiness was the Colonel in Kwai while watching him in Star Wars? I guess you could say he's playing the same guy?
How about Brando?
Wayne?
Cooper?
Mitchum?
Grant?
Davis?

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The Treasure of Sierra Madre and his descent into - Wendell Narrod 09:21:28 03/20/08 (2)
paranoid insanity. A great, great performance. I agree he was a personality but his acting ability, even within the stifling studio system, shines through. Fifty years after his death the performances still tower above many of his peers. I wonder if the same will be said or Danial Day-Lewis and other contemporary actors in another fifty years after their demise. I won't be around to find out.
- Daniel Day-Lewis has not the intense personality, the - tinear 10:48:10 03/20/08 (1)
  necessary charisma to play strength. Notice his ridiculous overacting, the arching brows, the leering eyes, the very old-fashioned acting apparent in his last effort or that Scorsese thing.
  Some think he's the second-coming but all I see is scenery chewing. I'm not necessarily right, of course, since how we respond to human character intensely is personal.
  - I thought I was the only one who felt this way. I've hated - Wendell Narrod 10:54:16 03/20/08 (0)
    every one of his performances, for the reasons you offer, after "My Left Foot".
    
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