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[–] 40 points 1 week ago (15 children)

The man is a chameleon, able to disappear into any role.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

    A person of culture: "He is able to play everyone."

    A noob: "Everyone?"

    " ...EEE-VERY-OOONE!"

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  • [–] 25 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    I can practically smell him through the screen.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago*

    His character in that show is so good. I love how you get tiny glimpses of his past as an agent and slowly over several seasons start to realize that this dude is a legit MI5 legend. Dude is actually competent as fuck lol.

    I also love how he's like the polar opposite of his portrayal of Smiley in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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    I just watched this for the first time the other day. The last quarter has got to be some of the worst screenplay I have ever seen.

    How does something like that even get written? I know there's some lore with an original cut, but man. It's so bad

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago

    a combination of studio interference, budget overruns, going over schedule, test screening bollocks and director's hubris.

    Coppola wanted to do both an accurate-in-spirit adaptation, pay homages to Murnau/Herzog, Universal and Hammer Draculas, do some of his own stuff and then some as it goes - all at once in no particular order. so the film is overstuffed and it shows. then there is studio with an expectation of a Dracula movie that is slightly more sophisticated than usual but essentially a vampire movie with vampire stuff, then Coppola delivers this Ken Russell-coded lavish mystic melodrama that moves at glacial pace and studio goes "whoa easy big feller" and because that's post One from the Heart Coppola he is not in the position to argue so gotta compromise - which led to choppy choppy because the storytelling is too cerebral, there is too much gore stuff, too much sex stuff, too much vibes stuff and so on - and there's a runtime cap on top of that.

    As a result, there is like half an hour of deleted scenes on DVD that should've been in the movie and the workprint showcases how the ending was originally supposed to unroll - basically - it got very heavily streamlined to fit the runtime and communicate the basic point - so it falls apart narratively and stops making sense as a ritual it was meant to be.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Yup. I remember at the end of Batman Begins I was thinking "the guy they got to play Gordon was really good, I don't think I've seen him anything before, I need to check the credits to see who that was... oh, it's Gary Oldman? Yeah... I think may have seen that guy in a few things before."

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)
  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Book-accurate Dracula was basically Oscar Wilde - just like book Willy Wonka.))

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    Dunno about that. If I can just steal the e-notes summary:

    Count Dracula, as described by Jonathan Harker in Bram Stoker's novel, is a tall, old man dressed entirely in black, with a long white moustache. He has an aquiline face, a high-bridged nose, arched nostrils, a domed forehead, bushy eyebrows, and a cruel-looking mouth with sharp white teeth. His ears are pointed, and his skin is extremely pale. Additionally, his hands are coarse, broad with squat fingers, and there's hair growing out of his palms.

    Oscar Wilde was a good-looking guy; also, straight-nosed, clean shaven, full lips. Not noticeably tall, and alas, never got that old, either.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)
  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    ah come on, it is a great movie that actually tried to adapt its source material properly with some of the most creative visual effects of its era.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    I wanted those sunglasses sooooooo bad when I saw this film in the theater.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Bohemian chic

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  • Gary Oldman is pure sex.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    If only he wasn't supposedly quite the asshole IRL, 'cause he's one hell of an actor.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Someone is killin' mah Joes!

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