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Originally Posted by dissention
I would hardly call it inspired & complex. Good performance? Yeah. Nothing earthshattering or revelatory, especially by his standards. That would have to be his performance in Love, Liza. His take on Capote is what I would have expected from a gifted actor who studied Capote for a bit.
I don't agree and think you're giving Lee more credit than he deserves. The man has made **** movies for the past five years, but seeing a lot of them again after seeing Brokeback Mountain, I truly believe that he's got a range that's immeasurable. He disappears into the characters he plays like almost no other actor I've seen and it's almost jarring to see an interview with him because it becomes even more obvious how true that is. It's just a shame that he hasn't picked projects that, for the most part, are on par with his talent, especially since he seems so in love with acting. And it's a shame that it took this one movie for me to see what an actor he is.
We all watch movies in a way that's colored by our own preferences and experiences, and I personally never saw a performance by another actor that affected me as deeply as his in Brokeback Mountain. Watching him was like an out of body experience. It set the bar for me.
Meh.
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We just have different point of views. You don't see Lee as a great director I think he's one of the best of his generation, and made my thesis at university about him. The only movies in his filmography that I find irrisolved, Ride With the Devil and Hulk, are for me more interesting that 90% of Hollywood nonsense.
2) You just discovered this immense talent that Heath Ledger is, although I can't forget that in 2005 he was non existent in The brothers Grimm (at least Damon was decent), and transformed Casanova in a demented Alfie (better that Law, but still...).
Time will tell who's right.
Romy