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In Reply to: Re: Do I HAVE to see any more Penn films? posted by Gee LP on February 2, 2005 at 14:18:01:
an amazing performance. He grows, in the space of an hour or two, from a boy to a man. Walken delivers one of the most amazing evil characters in film history, as well. See HIM in Comfort of Strangers if you want to see him portray another very interesting strange personality. Both films are extremely under-rated.
Why Sean doesn't portray well-educated or rich yuppie kids? There aren't too many starring roles of that type and who'd care if there were????
BTW, Bob Dylan came from a fairly priveleged background and sang hobo songs pretty well...Pete Seeger also wasn't a poor guy.
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Yes, Bob Dylan said he had traveled all over the country on the rails like a hobo or tramp. And he sang the "hobo" songs, too. For about 3 years. As soon as he started writing his own songs, the "hobo" thing was over. "Crimson flames tied through their ears" just doesn't convey that hobo experience very well, y'know!What I was trying to point out is that Penn does not play a wide range of characters. Even Bogie was a science-fiction vampire! Look at the wide range of characters Brando essayed. It just seems to me that Penn limits himself to a narrow range of character portrayals. I brought up his background to point out that he is certainly very aware of other kinds of life in these United States. Maybe after the movie with Madonna, he just doesn't get offered those other kinds of roles! But just for example, one of my favorite Alec Baldwin roles is the husband in "Beetlejuice". When I say that to friends, they are shocked to remember that, yes, that was Alec.
Chris Walken...I...love that...guy! A very good actor who can also dance. I wonder how many actors could do his monologue in "Pulp Fiction"?
What about "Sweet and Lowdown" and "The Game"?
Three roles out of a career that spans 25 years. But perhaps I should not use range of roles as a factor in looking at Sean Penn's career. After all, between 1915 and 1936, how many different roles did Chaplin play? (Although what Chaplin did and what Penn does today are two vastly different things). Sean Penn just lost me somewhere in the mid 80s. He has done some things that have interested me since. But they are just moments, flashes here and there. One could have said the same thing about Brando at one time. But then Brando did "Reflections of a Golden Eye," "Candy," "The Nightcomers," (the last two not good films but very good performances in them) and a couple of other films we all know about.
Penn is not an actor I look forward to seeing in a movie at this time. But who knows what is around the pike? "All the King's Men" might be interesting to see, and as a Louisiana resident who remembers the end of the Long/anti-Long days, I want to see it. As I said, Penn hopefully has years to go to give many performances and reignite my earlier opinion of his work.
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