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In Reply to: RE: Hollywood to Mickey Rourke: You didn't suffer enough! posted by ElDragon on February 23, 2009 at 07:26:52
Penn's role in Milk is his best ever, and he truly disappears into another character, that of Harvey Milk. This is by far his best, most subtle and most touching, work. And this is from someone who admires his talent but is not always a fan.
Milk is also an excellent, film - so why haven't you seen it???
Rourke was great in The Wrestler. But I suspect many voters overlooked the performance thinking that the role and the actor were too close. I think MR walked a fine line, and delivered a fantastic, iconic performance, a lot more delicate and restrained than AMPAS apparently gave him credit for. Maybe they want to see him stick around and show his commitment for the craft before they give him a statue.
France will be outraged no doubt.
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great performance. If Mickey can follow up with a damn good one, not necessarily as great but in the ballpark, he'll win.
I don't know. With Penn's baggage, he just seemed like a white guy in black face.
The Oscars don't really mean that much in the greater scheme of things. They're industry awards, and a commercial segment of the industry to boot.
AMPAS is more about film business than film art. The best picture of the year???? Usually not. Sometimes good movies win, sometimes not. The one thing you need to determine the "best" of any given year - time - you don't have with annual awards. So I don't get too invested in the Oscars except for fun and handicapping.
As it happens, this year I thought Penn gave his best film performance ever, a very fine one by anyone's standards. As I said, I'm not especially a Penn fan, but I found his Harvey Milk totally believable, subtle, 3 dimensional and convincing. I'm able to ignore an actor's personal baggage if they don't bring it along, which in this case, Penn didn't. Mickey R had a great, iconic role,and if he sticks around, he'll eventually get his statue. In the meantime, he got plenty of other awards this season.
That's just the way the Oscars work and I refuse to get very excited about it
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