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Re: First n Last
« Reply #930 on: October 02, 2014, 07:16:37 PM »
You got it!  Hope you have some screenshots!
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Re: First n Last
« Reply #931 on: October 02, 2014, 11:01:43 PM »
Oh damn! I know this movie! It's like my dad's favourite movie of the last 5 years for some reason. :))

Dan in Real Life! I enjoyed it.

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Your dad gets it! For as messy as the movie is, there's greatness in it. Glad you liked it.

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Re: First n Last
« Reply #932 on: October 02, 2014, 11:16:43 PM »
:)

I'll get something up soon. Or someone else can go before then.

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Re: First n Last
« Reply #933 on: October 04, 2014, 12:59:24 AM »
Oh damn! I know this movie! It's like my dad's favourite movie of the last 5 years for some reason. :))

Dan in Real Life! I enjoyed it.

:))

Your dad gets it! For as messy as the movie is, there's greatness in it. Glad you liked it.

I need to edit this. I just watched Dan in Real Life again today and each time I do, I find it is less messy and more right, really right. So much of that hinges on Steve Carell's timing and how he embodies the character. My respect grows with each viewing.

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Re: First n Last
« Reply #934 on: October 12, 2014, 02:31:00 PM »
First


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Re: First n Last
« Reply #935 on: October 12, 2014, 03:08:20 PM »
I just watched Dan in Real Life again today and each time I do, I find it is less messy and more right, really right. So much of that hinges on Steve Carell's timing and how he embodies the character. My respect grows with each viewing.

I guess maybe it's one of those performances that's such a natural fit, and seems so effortless for the actor, it makes it easy to take it for granted. I know I did. But when you consider, as you did, all the other things that work because the performance is good, it's more impressive.

I think about a character like Adam Sandler's in Punch Drunk Love. A character that's really not that dissimilar, he just happens to be in a PTA film... "the least romantic romantic comedy" as valmz put it. When you think of the two though, the way Carell is relegated to the cot in the laundry room, and the way Adam Sandler is teased by his older sisters, they are both kind of the odd man out in their families.

I think both actors could probably have done both roles just as well, but it's Sandler who gets the attention because the role is out of character for him. I'm not sure if it's objectively fair, but that kind of seems to be the way it is.

I guess this is just a long way of saying I agree. :)

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Re: First n Last
« Reply #936 on: October 13, 2014, 12:33:57 PM »
 :)

I enjoyed reading that.

And then, I went and watched clips from Punch Drunk Love to see your comparison and like how you picked up on those similarities. I agree that sometimes when things look so effortless, a performance can get overlooked and often it's precisely the hard work that makes it so. My son works in audio and lighting production and his job is to be completely invisible/unnoticeable when it comes to concerts and plays. It takes a great deal of work to pull that off. Steve Carell's quiet choices are pretty remarkable.


Oh, my guess for your movie clips is Donnie Brasco.
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Re: First n Last
« Reply #937 on: October 13, 2014, 08:12:05 PM »
Not Brasco. :)

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Re: First n Last
« Reply #938 on: October 13, 2014, 09:24:32 PM »
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Re: First n Last
« Reply #939 on: October 13, 2014, 11:59:48 PM »
Robocop? Oh wait, have you seen that yet?
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