It may mean that I don't fully appreciate great acting, but I think it's stupid that Day-Lewis always stays in character the entire time on and off the set during filming. He started doing that around the same time he quit appearing onstage. I don't really care for most of his performances since, although some are tolerable.
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To each his own.Hustler wrote:His performances really constitute quality acting. I`m so impressed by them! It´s like travelling through an intense ocean. Of course that´s not a silly comment. I´m not talking as a fan. I´ve studied and performed, to get a basis that helped me to value what means a great perfomance.
I think Day-Lewis's is the kind of acting that works much better on stage than on film (Kevin Kline is another actor for whom this dichotomy applies).
Among recent performances that I'm in awe of are Gordon Pinsent in Away From Here, Casey Affleck in The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, David Strathairn in Goodnight, And Good Luck, Kazunari Ninomiya in Letters From Iwo Jima and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Mysterious Skin. I think Daniel Day-Lewis in There WIll Be Blood is awful.
"Y'know, that's one of the things I like about Mitt Romney. He's been consistent since he changed his mind." -- Christine O'Donnell
His performances really constitute quality acting. I`m so impressed by them! It´s like travelling through an intense ocean. Of course that´s not a silly comment. I´m not talking as a fan. I´ve studied and performed, to get a basis that helped me to value what means a great perfomance.Damien wrote:Bog wrote:Is this bitterness or do you really think he sucks?
I have nothing to be bitter about. I just think its kinda silly that the critical establishment (and then the award givers) get bamboozled by the sheer force of it into thinking that Day-Lewis's nutty emoting constitutes quality acting.
He transforms into another being. He could play a stapler and it would be an amazing performance.Damien wrote:I have nothing to be bitter about. I just think its kinda silly that the critical establishment (and then the award givers) get bamboozled by the sheer force of it into thinking that Day-Lewis's nutty emoting constitutes quality acting.
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Bog wrote:Is this bitterness or do you really think he sucks?
I have nothing to be bitter about. I just think its kinda silly that the critical establishment (and then the award givers) get bamboozled by the sheer force of it into thinking that Day-Lewis's nutty emoting constitutes quality acting.
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"Y'know, that's one of the things I like about Mitt Romney. He's been consistent since he changed his mind." -- Christine O'Donnell
Is this bitterness or do you really think he sucks?
I think Day-Lewis was quite good and all that and whatnot, if not just ridiculously over the top, but I totally agree with someone here who said in another thread that it seems ass backward that he was the runaway for the longest time (even sight unseen) and Julie Christie always had a struggle, and the latter...eventually a disappointment.
I did find it a little peculiar, though not surprising, that when interviewed on the red carpet, and asked of her relationship with Day-Lewis having had worked with him, Cameron Diaz responded that she did not really know him, that for the 6 months she spent with him in Rome, he was exclusively Bill the Butcher.
I think Day-Lewis was quite good and all that and whatnot, if not just ridiculously over the top, but I totally agree with someone here who said in another thread that it seems ass backward that he was the runaway for the longest time (even sight unseen) and Julie Christie always had a struggle, and the latter...eventually a disappointment.
I did find it a little peculiar, though not surprising, that when interviewed on the red carpet, and asked of her relationship with Day-Lewis having had worked with him, Cameron Diaz responded that she did not really know him, that for the 6 months she spent with him in Rome, he was exclusively Bill the Butcher.
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