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asato_muraki) wrote2010-07-12 10:20 pm
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The meme:
01. Comment to this post and I will give you 5 actors and 5 actresses.
02. Then have a post in your Livejournal, with 1 picture of your favourite movie for each person.
03. Repost this so your friends can play too.
I got this from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
splix and she gave me the following folks:
1. James Franco - Okay, as much as I hate to admit this, of the ones I've seen him in, I found him most surprising in Pineapple Express. Yes, a stupid drug movie. But, imagine the shock of seeing the brooding boy from Spiderman transformed into a blond stoner.
2. Cary Grant - for him, I'm torn. Mostly between North by Northwest (classic!), Charade (I do love me a caper flick) and Notorious. He had class, and snark and smolder. *sigh* I guess I'm going with Notorious, because I love Ingrid Bergman and Claude Raines, too.
3. Bill Murray - Again, I am torn. He's quite charming in most everything, but my favorite movie with him in it is either Lost in Translation or the Fantastic Mr. Fox. (I always get the two directors with the last name of Anderson confused, but he works with the one I tend like more.) He has done very little voice work, but Mr. Badger is wonderful. And Lost in Translation captures the isolation and strangeness of being in a foreign country so well. I mean, I used to travel with my husband sometimes when would have to go somewhere awesome for work, and being left to one's own devices in Bermuda or Anchorage (when dawn happens at 10am) is kind of odd.
4. Steve McQueen - Never really got into him. I think it's because I find him singularly unattractive for a movie star. *shrug* So I'll go with The Great Escape, which is one of his I've actually seen. It was very good, and I think he's a great actor. For some reason I just find him difficult to look at. I generally like old movies, so my disaffection for him is fairly inexplicable.
5. Adrien Brody - I got the Pianist for free from someone, then didn't get to watch it and moved, and then was put off by the Polanski thing, and may have actually given away the dvd I had when we moved - I got rid of a lot. I saw him a few other things and liked him very well. He's quite talented. But this one has been in my head for a while now. So,I will give you my favorite Adrien Brody film, in its entirety:
1. Michelle Pfeiffer - So much to love! Ladyhawk is a classic of course, and Scarface, and the Fabulous Baker Boys, even White Oleander, which was kind of edgy for her. Still, I'm going to go with Stardust because it was fun, and it was such courage move to play Lamia and have her beauty be eroded in screen, casting doubts about where along the continuum of age her actual appearance might lie. Plus, she seemed to really be having fun.
2. Jennifer Connelly - She's been in a lot of great stuff, and I lover to bits. But she's only in one of my top ten favorite movies, so I have to pic that one. Dark City. I know, I know. Her part in it is minimal.But this is one of those movies that you can deconstruct to the tiniest detail and it still holds up. The themes and ideas presented are so pervasive that they can be taken from the tiniest detail. Sure, it's creepy and scifi (and therefore somehow less worthy the average masterpiece) but it's still an interesting deconstruction of identity and free will. Plus, it starts off with Rufus Sewell in the buff, so how can you go wrong? Yes, her role in it isn't huge, but she sings and is altogether lovely.
3. Cicely Tyson - Wow. So much good stuff. I guess it would be between Sounder and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman, but really, what hasn't she done? Still, I guess my first and most formative impression of her was from "Roots" as Kunta Kinte's mama. I was quite young, and I'm kind of surprised my folks let me watch Roots with them, but they did. I guess they thought it was important. Of course it was.
4. Judi Dench - I couldn't possibly pick. I mean, I love her to pieces as M in teh Bond movies, but she's wonderful in everything, pretty much. Shakespeare in Love was pretty overrated, but she was awesome in that. She does the best character roles. Then again, Iris was really something. Let me see what I can get a picture of...
5. Scarlett Johansson - Also been in a lot of great stuff, and been great in a lot of 'meh' stuff. So I'll go with Lost in Translation again. I really loved that film, and she was just so spot on in that role -- a person more than just a love interest or object of lust. Hm.
01. Comment to this post and I will give you 5 actors and 5 actresses.
02. Then have a post in your Livejournal, with 1 picture of your favourite movie for each person.
03. Repost this so your friends can play too.
I got this from
splix and she gave me the following folks:1. James Franco - Okay, as much as I hate to admit this, of the ones I've seen him in, I found him most surprising in Pineapple Express. Yes, a stupid drug movie. But, imagine the shock of seeing the brooding boy from Spiderman transformed into a blond stoner.
2. Cary Grant - for him, I'm torn. Mostly between North by Northwest (classic!), Charade (I do love me a caper flick) and Notorious. He had class, and snark and smolder. *sigh* I guess I'm going with Notorious, because I love Ingrid Bergman and Claude Raines, too.
3. Bill Murray - Again, I am torn. He's quite charming in most everything, but my favorite movie with him in it is either Lost in Translation or the Fantastic Mr. Fox. (I always get the two directors with the last name of Anderson confused, but he works with the one I tend like more.) He has done very little voice work, but Mr. Badger is wonderful. And Lost in Translation captures the isolation and strangeness of being in a foreign country so well. I mean, I used to travel with my husband sometimes when would have to go somewhere awesome for work, and being left to one's own devices in Bermuda or Anchorage (when dawn happens at 10am) is kind of odd.
4. Steve McQueen - Never really got into him. I think it's because I find him singularly unattractive for a movie star. *shrug* So I'll go with The Great Escape, which is one of his I've actually seen. It was very good, and I think he's a great actor. For some reason I just find him difficult to look at. I generally like old movies, so my disaffection for him is fairly inexplicable.
5. Adrien Brody - I got the Pianist for free from someone, then didn't get to watch it and moved, and then was put off by the Polanski thing, and may have actually given away the dvd I had when we moved - I got rid of a lot. I saw him a few other things and liked him very well. He's quite talented. But this one has been in my head for a while now. So,I will give you my favorite Adrien Brody film, in its entirety:
1. Michelle Pfeiffer - So much to love! Ladyhawk is a classic of course, and Scarface, and the Fabulous Baker Boys, even White Oleander, which was kind of edgy for her. Still, I'm going to go with Stardust because it was fun, and it was such courage move to play Lamia and have her beauty be eroded in screen, casting doubts about where along the continuum of age her actual appearance might lie. Plus, she seemed to really be having fun.
2. Jennifer Connelly - She's been in a lot of great stuff, and I lover to bits. But she's only in one of my top ten favorite movies, so I have to pic that one. Dark City. I know, I know. Her part in it is minimal.But this is one of those movies that you can deconstruct to the tiniest detail and it still holds up. The themes and ideas presented are so pervasive that they can be taken from the tiniest detail. Sure, it's creepy and scifi (and therefore somehow less worthy the average masterpiece) but it's still an interesting deconstruction of identity and free will. Plus, it starts off with Rufus Sewell in the buff, so how can you go wrong? Yes, her role in it isn't huge, but she sings and is altogether lovely.
3. Cicely Tyson - Wow. So much good stuff. I guess it would be between Sounder and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman, but really, what hasn't she done? Still, I guess my first and most formative impression of her was from "Roots" as Kunta Kinte's mama. I was quite young, and I'm kind of surprised my folks let me watch Roots with them, but they did. I guess they thought it was important. Of course it was.
4. Judi Dench - I couldn't possibly pick. I mean, I love her to pieces as M in teh Bond movies, but she's wonderful in everything, pretty much. Shakespeare in Love was pretty overrated, but she was awesome in that. She does the best character roles. Then again, Iris was really something. Let me see what I can get a picture of...
5. Scarlett Johansson - Also been in a lot of great stuff, and been great in a lot of 'meh' stuff. So I'll go with Lost in Translation again. I really loved that film, and she was just so spot on in that role -- a person more than just a love interest or object of lust. Hm.
