Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2005 16:13:37 GMT -4
I saw Cinderella Man yesterday and I can recommend it.
The movie script is formalistic---you can buy a book on how to write a script and this one follows the book's advice slavishly. That said---the performances were great.
How does Russell Crowe, who must be one of the great Assh***s of All Time, make his character so humble and so believeably humble and honest and so much the lower caste but higher karmic evolved? Mr. Crowe has unbelieveable talent. He is one of the three best working actors in film today. He can criticize whomever he likes (Mr. DeNiro) because he can deliver.
Mr. Crowe is almost as skinny as Renee Zellweger. I last saw him in Master and Commander when he was chowing down on Seabiscuits. And all that salt air was puffing him up as big as Miss Zellweger's face and lips. Mr. Crowe is musclely and slender and he has a better body than he had in Gladiator when he wore the skirts in the family. I like that man's face and the way that he uses it. He is not pretty but he is compellingly attractive.
Miss Zellweger made all the right and rote moves that the script required---but can't she do better than playing wives?
I remembered Paddy Considine from that lovely movie about the Irish immigrants in New York with the lovely little girls. I want to see more of him. His character was not really well written, but Mr. Considine made me like him and despair over his fate.
Paul Giamatti can't do a bad performance---he uses his common, ordinary face and body (his instrument) to make us believe in his character. And I love the guilt that he brings to the screen.
I agree that the Max Baer character came off worse than he probably was because the picture needed a villian, but I adore Craig Bierko. I wish that I saw more of him (though he was HUGE in this film---MG! how wide was that back of his? He made Mr. Crowe look fragile---and very much the giant killer).
In my theater, some of the people applauded at the end. I didn't; but it was good enough.
The movie script is formalistic---you can buy a book on how to write a script and this one follows the book's advice slavishly. That said---the performances were great.
How does Russell Crowe, who must be one of the great Assh***s of All Time, make his character so humble and so believeably humble and honest and so much the lower caste but higher karmic evolved? Mr. Crowe has unbelieveable talent. He is one of the three best working actors in film today. He can criticize whomever he likes (Mr. DeNiro) because he can deliver.
Mr. Crowe is almost as skinny as Renee Zellweger. I last saw him in Master and Commander when he was chowing down on Seabiscuits. And all that salt air was puffing him up as big as Miss Zellweger's face and lips. Mr. Crowe is musclely and slender and he has a better body than he had in Gladiator when he wore the skirts in the family. I like that man's face and the way that he uses it. He is not pretty but he is compellingly attractive.
Miss Zellweger made all the right and rote moves that the script required---but can't she do better than playing wives?
I remembered Paddy Considine from that lovely movie about the Irish immigrants in New York with the lovely little girls. I want to see more of him. His character was not really well written, but Mr. Considine made me like him and despair over his fate.
Paul Giamatti can't do a bad performance---he uses his common, ordinary face and body (his instrument) to make us believe in his character. And I love the guilt that he brings to the screen.
I agree that the Max Baer character came off worse than he probably was because the picture needed a villian, but I adore Craig Bierko. I wish that I saw more of him (though he was HUGE in this film---MG! how wide was that back of his? He made Mr. Crowe look fragile---and very much the giant killer).
In my theater, some of the people applauded at the end. I didn't; but it was good enough.
