Daniel Day Lewis - Discuss

[butchersapron]

Have you got Best Defence on DVD?

I've actually got less Murphy than Vigo DVDs. We could go the pub though?

 

[butchersapron]

Ken Campbell believes Jackie Chan is the greatest actor in the whole world. He believes this after extensive research of his films, after being told this by Laurence Olivier via a spiritualist medium.

He's better than d-day lewis as he has a facial expression for evey emotion - all of them. Shock, anger, cutting finger off etc

 

[Blagsta]

Apparently I look like him.

 

[Orang Utan]

Apparently I look like him.

nah, but you do look like Christopher Meloni

 

[Blagsta]

I've been told by 3 people that I look like Daniel Day Lewis. I've also been told I look like Johnny Vaughn and John Malkovich and now this Meloni bloke.

 

[Orang Utan]

I've been told by 3 people that I look like Daniel Day Lewis. I've also been told I look like Johnny Vaughn and John Malkovich and now this Meloni bloke.

at the first Google Image of Christopher Meloni - I won't post it

At least you don't get compared with the likes of Anthony Worrall-Thompson, Chris Evans, Mick Hucknall and Robin Cook

 

[Badgers]

I've actually got less Murphy than Vigo DVDs. We could go the pub though?

Damn my January booze ban

Will stay in and watch My Left Foot instead

 

[Reno]

Daniel Day-Lewis is about as great as an actor can be. He frequently gives very stylised performances, which is not the same as giving a bad performance. His performance in There Will Be Blood is the best I've seen all year, but it's not about naturalism, it's pure expressionism. To say that the only right way an actor should act is to be 100% naturalisitc is the same as saying that all paintings should be as realistic as a photographs. There is tremendous artistry and thought in what he does, but as with all great art it also demands a bit of work on behalf of the audience to figure out what he is doing.

 

[butchersapron]

He can do his own own thing sure. I wouln't say different. I don't think pointing this out and that it can negatively effect the films he's in means that we argue that there's only one way to act.

If i wanted to see a clown i know where to go really. They think about stuff too.

 

[Reno]

He can do his own own thing sure. I wouln't say different. I don't think pointing this out and that it can negatively effect the films he's in means that we argue that there's only one way to act.

If i wanted to see a clown i know where to go really. They think about stuff too.

Fuck knows what you are on about. Anyway, I'm off to bed....

 

[butchersapron]

It's not that complicated. Is it? Anyone?

 

[Orang Utan]

Expressionist actors can be fun to watch - look at Peter Lorre, Vincent Price and Klaus Kinski hamming it up. Sometimes can truly grate though

 

[*Miss Daisy*]

he doesn't do it for me,,,

seems abit of a pansy really - not in a gay sense, In a ewww i dont want to get my nails dirty or a mememememe sense iykwim,

 

[Orang Utan]

Is Laurence Olivier an expressionist actor or just a ham?

 

[*Miss Daisy*]

vincent price on the other hand.....

 

[butchersapron]

Every ham has one great roll (sic)

 

[Badgers]

Guess it does not mean much but Best Actor Golden Globe for the lad...

 

[Chairman Meow]

He's a total ride. I so would.

 

[foo]

he was good in the Ballad of Jack and Rose i think. some of it was quite uncomfortable, and i thought he played the part realisitically and sensitively.

and i like his wicked grin.

 

[killer b]

i was reading at the weekend all the wanker stuff day lewis does to 'get into' a role. what a fucking tosser... isn't the whole point of acting to inhabit the role of someone who's had different experiences to you?

 

[Orang Utan]

Maybe, but it helps some actors to experience those things, so they can give a better performance - nowt wrong with that

 

[killer b]

oh, i understand the point of method acting... i just suspect, if they were any good in the first place, it'd be a pretty redundant exercise.