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her confused with Tilda Swinton (Orlando, The War Zone, Narnja, etc.) and Kate Winslet, too.
Julianne Moore, also, physically resembles this tallish, thin, sensitve, and pale lot of very good actresses.
I don't see how one can separate them much, though Julianne may be the weakest.
With "Sunshine.....," Winslet cemented her memberhip.
That leaves, since we're generally discussing great actresses, my favorite of the bunch: Nicole Kidaman who reminds a bit of... Naomi Watts.
I wish one of them would get a deep tan and remove all this confusion.
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OK. Discussing Winslet, Swinton, Moore and Blanchette...Three have light or blond hair. But Moore has auburn hair. Not blonde. Definitely not.If you add in Kidman and Watts...well...all these actresses are good at a variety of accents - but only one of them (Moore) is an American and is cast primarily as an American accented English speaker. (As you know, Winslet & Swinton are Brits and Blanchette, Kidman and Watts are Aussies.)
Physically they are A) tall and thin (Blanchette), B) taller and thin (Kidman), C) taller and really really thin (Swinton), D) medium sized and moderately slender w/curves (Winslet), E) medium to short sized and very thin (Watts), and (F) short and thin (Moore). There is at least 5" difference in Kidman's height and Watts'. Personally, I think Watts has more versatility and range but your adoration of Kidman is well known.
Honestly, these fine actors don't look a thing a like. Their faces aren't remotely similar, and neither are their acting styles or physiology.
Try staying awake through those flickers.
then I'd have to repeat to you what I once heard at a New York Rangers game. "Hey Ref!! If you had one more eye you'd be a Cyclops!"Winslet confused with Blanchett and Swinton? Wow!
Don't piss on my shoe and tell me it's raining.
You'd have to define what makes one actress better than another. Can we go by the Academy awards? No because people pick favorites instead of the work -- well some do. The actors award is better because their peers choose - same with the Director's guild but there is still favorites.Too much of this industry is who you know and who you blow to get the part because some actors like Keanu Reeves can't act his way out of matrix paper bag and he's managed to become a big star.
Cate is a very good actress who I have followed since her wonderful performance in the sorely overlooked "Oscar and Lucinda." Also starring Ralph Fiennes in one of his better works and Geoffrey Rush excellently narrating.
I can't fault you here for your choice - but best is impossible since many actresses have done some terrific and varied work.
I would very much like to see what the recent British best TV actress winner for the new Dr. Who, Billie Piper can do when she breaks into films. She is already the number one selling female pop star in the history of Britain and she dumped to act and she is far better as an actress than she is as a singer. Very few television efforts generate emotion and she has done in England.
I would also like to see more of Sophia Myles.
I would also like to see Jodie Foster get into something better than she has been selecting of late.
I quite like Oscar and Lucinda and thought Cate was wonderful in it. Great cast and even a fine soundtrack.I can't buy Kidman as a great actress.
A great beauty maybe.
But great thespian? Nope. Talented, yes - great, no.
I am not in the Kidman camp either -- I don;t see her as much other than a "star"I don't mind "stars" though -- that is why I defend Julia Roberts. There is nothing wrong with a personae and often times the actors are typecast into doing certain things over and over and they are said to be one note performers -- some are of course but I think many stars get unfairly knocked when they're much better than the slagging they get on forums. Sure Emily Watson is a better actress than Julia Roberts and sure it may frustrate some that Julia makes a kabillion dollars more for playing "safer" romantic comedies but that is just the way it is.
And after watching Ralph Fiennes in Maid in Manhatten and in films like Schindler's List, Sunshine, and Spider -- he said the romantic comedy is the hardest thing to pull off and gave a lot of credit to people like Cary Grant. Of these films he was easily the worst in Maid in Manhatten. The main problem is not him or the actors in such miscast roles...but actor's actors need deep characters or in the case of Amon Goethe deep psychological issues or political juiciness to play. Give Fiennes a cardboard cutout cartoon character like that in a dimbulb romatic comedy and he has nothing to work with.
Conversely a Jack Nicholson who mostly shows up as Jack Nicholson has such overpowering personae that he can simply be Jack and that can get him through dysmally written characters.
Drama is easy comedy is hard. Jodie Foster is considered a great actress on the backs of films like Silence of the Lambs, the accused, Taxi Driver but IMO when she truly showed me she could act was in the movie Maverick.
...also was very good as the fixer in Spike Lee's Inside Man, a role which called for a light touch as well as dramatic moxie. (And she got to show off her great gams.)The light touch doesn't come easily to Fiennes, however.
Oddly enough, as a voice actor in Wallace & Grommit/Curse of the Wererabbit, he was loose and quite funny.
when I was at university I lived in a share house. We had this one total loser of a flatmate, Andrew, a spoiled brat who was supposedly studying English, but did nothing really except get drunk all the time. He had dreams of getting into theater.He got into theater all right.
Cheers,
John K
"Natura abhorret a vacua"
Women Love Wasters
...OK OK I apologise.
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Kate Winslet is about 100x prettier than Blanchett and a very different kind of actress. Agree with you re Swinton though.
... need new glasses mate.
Blanchett to me has a way of filling the screen like Hepburn.
Kidman presumably got the parts as a condition of marrying Cruise.
The others you mentioned are good supporting but I cannot see any comparison to Blanchett who is in a very rarified class to me.
all have carried movies, been the stars. Watts shared the screen with Sean Penn in 21 Grams and more than held her own without scenery chewing. She was quite spectacular in Mulholland Drive, as well.
Kidman needed Cruise to further her career? Hardly.
She showed in "The Others" that she has few peers. Yes, she blundered badly in "Cold Mountain" but what woman could be in an onscreen relationship, believably, with Jude Law.
I can understand a fascination with an actress removing all sense of proportion... I feel that way about Wynona Ride-her, though I'm the first to admit she's no Winslet or Blanchett.
... being his beard. And surely for an actress... do we notice a pattern in his curious succession of wives... it can only be for a contract for a certain number of films.
...I think she is a great actress, certainly as good as any of those you mention, in spite of Tom Cruise.
you love her or you hate her.
I confess to not understanding the overly strong reactions to either...
Puzzling to me also. I like her in her good films. She seems to have made some good choices.Rod
You have to be kidmaning...She is just a middle of the way as an actress.
I recognise she try hard.
MY favourit is Kate Winslet of the bunch.
Patrick, Patrick, Patrick. For once me and Tin agree.
(1) Paradise Road - plays a prisoner of war. No glory, makeup.
(2) Elizabeth I - from a convincing prisoner of war plays the convincing Queen of England. Without looking at the credits you would not have known she was the same actress.
(3) An Ideal Husband - though also a period piece, now she plays light comedy - very well
(4) Pushing Tin - now she is very convincing in playing an American wife (dare I say with a little hint of white trash). Again, had you not looked at the credits, the name Cate Blanchett never would have come to mind, having nothing to do with the hair color.
(5) The Talented Mr. Ripley - now she is the waifish innocent. Completely convincing. Funny how she completely lost that American schtick.
(6) The Gift - now she is playing an American clairvoyant from New Orleans. Funny thing is I thought she was from New Orleans.
(7) Bandits - Now she is back to her rogue role playing the "chick." Back to red hair.
(8) LOTR - not a big role, but miles from Bandits.
(9) Charlotte Gray - now back to Europe, very convincing as a Scotish woman, very convincingly playing a woman largely out of her league in circumstances she was not cut for. And Blanchett sold the goods.
(10) The Shipping News - now to Newfoundland. Playing a person of some sourness - very well. Check out the scowl which raises the cheekbones. Same actress?
(11) Veronica Guerin - The Irish journalist way in over her head. I smell the fear and determination in her performance.
(12) Coffee and Cigarettes - a small role, but miles from Veronica Guerin. And she was the best part of this film.
(13) The Missing - now she is in the old west. Any hint that she is British. Hell no. With that dirty brown hair, her desperation is perfectly balanced between hysteria and control.
(14) The Life Aquatic - now she is the eager reporter, just like we imagine eager reporters to be. Convinced me.
(15) The Aviator - whatever one thinks of the film, her performance captured the look, sound, and more importantly, the independence of Hepburn. Who would have thunk that the actress in Life Aquatic could have pulled this one off.
Patrick, I am not sure there are any other actresses working today that have more range. I'd be interested in hearing about some.
I was speaking of Kid-man!
I like Cate.So sorry no differences-
I guess I wasted some time. What else is new?
Has this film not had much exposure outside Australia?
Blanchett plays a woman recovering from a heroin habit whose ex reappears and suddenly all the old wounds are opened.
An extraordinary look at the underbelly of Australian society.
In my view Blanchett is capable of transforming herself into vastly different characters and not just look like Blanchett playing a role.
That is what makes her different to the regular "stars".
I know a lot of people like KIdman but all I ever see is that forehead glowing like th dome of St Paul's in the sun...
When I was looking over her list of films, I noticed this film, one that I had not seen. I will be on the look out.
But my combination of bad typing and an old keyboard provides endless alternatives.
This is one a of a number of very good Australian films over the past few years. Look Both Ways. 3 Dollars. Jyndabine. All very recommended.
Errr, Somersault (which I didn't like very much but a lot of people do).
And now Suburban Mayhem.
These films will give a very different view of Oz than the sunshine and beach bbq image of tourism.
More time wasted?
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