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Well, thanks to the vagaries of movie availability, tonight I'll either be watching The Iron Lady, or Hannibal. Yup, it's a choice between a chick-flick, or a movie about a steely-eyed, cold-blooded mass-murderer (played by Meryl Streep).
Here's the trailer for the psychopath movie:
I really can't bloody stand Meryl Streep, but apparently she does a good Maggie impersonation, so maybe I'll be able to suffer through it. In addition, I just noticed in this trailer the voice of Anthony Stewart Head, who played Giles on Buffy TVS... that'll be nice, to see him in a movie.
And, after all, at least in this movie she gets to kick the shit out of those swarthy bloody Argentinians, defending the British empire from invasion by foreign scum. So I can cheer for her when it gets to the Falklands War.
Chat later.
By coincidence, I was reading this interview of footballer-turned-actor (successful at both) Eric Cantona.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/mar/25/king-and-i-eric-cantona
He said something about the psychokiller movie that nailed it down:
"I don't like this current trend in cinema for biopics – The Iron Lady with Margaret Thatcher, the Edith Piaf film, Marilyn Monroe… Every year there's two or three and the actors are great impersonators and great actors, of course. But there's a very big difference between impersonating somebody and making people believe that you are involved in creating something.
"Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now was creating a character. An unforgettable character. That is very different from imitating somebody. You have people getting Oscars and Césars for these performances, but they're not using the imagination to create something, like Brando did in Apocalypse Now or The Godfather. He created the voice, the way he stood, the haircut, everything."
Very good interview, btw.
Well, I guess he should go talk to Shakespeare about all the time he wasted making those annoying biopics on Caesar, Cleopatra, Coriolanus, and the various Henries and Richards.
ReplyDeleteThe story of a historical figure is always incomplete, just like the script portrayal (or novel portrayal) of a fictional character is incomplete. Actors make it all happen. And besides, it's all good clean fun.