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11-09-2007, 10:21 PM
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Re: What makes a great performance to you?
Good acting is when I do not get the feeling I'm watching actors. I want to experience a story, not see some people read lines. Also, I think my emotional commitment to a scene or character is also directly related to their acting. So if I tear up during a scene, the acting was good.
I also value actors much more if I've seen them perform various (very different) roles well. This is the reason I think Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio are great actors, especially the former. I've seen Robert de Niro do the same character for dozens of movies. I think he is great as that character, but I don't necessarily think he is an exceptionally good actor. 
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#12
11-09-2007, 10:22 PM
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Re: What makes a great performance to you?
When I see an actor playing a role and I can't typecast that actor.
Leonardo DiCaprio Harrison Ford Tom Hanks Morgan Freeman Everytime I see Michael Richards, I think racist first, then Kramer. Alan Alda will always be Hawkeye, even 30 years later. Good actors make you believe they are actually real. It's extremely rare to find.
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#13
11-09-2007, 10:24 PM
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Re: What makes a great performance to you?
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Alan Alda will always be Hawkeye, even 30 years later. [/ QUOTE ] I used to think this until the West Wing. He was great in that.
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11-09-2007, 10:27 PM
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Re: What makes a great performance to you?
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This is the reason I think Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio are great actors [/ QUOTE ] this is why my favorite movie is What's Eating Gilbert Grape? awesome performances.
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#16
11-09-2007, 10:32 PM
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Re: What makes a great performance to you?
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When I see an actor playing a role and I can't typecast that actor. [/ QUOTE ] Well, the problem with this is that there are some very good actors that simply have played a specific role for a large portion of their (popular) career, so even though they act well, I will always associate them with that character. This is especially true if I haven't seen the actor in anything else except that role and most prevalent with actors from TV-series.
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11-09-2007, 10:32 PM
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Re: What makes a great performance to you?
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matt, re: kramer, i'm pretty sure if harrison ford had starred in 65 hours of star wars films you'd find it hard to look beyond that as well. [/ QUOTE ] Meh, I've seen the Star Wars movies over 100 times each so I disagree.
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11-09-2007, 10:37 PM
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Re: What makes a great performance to you?
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[ QUOTE ] When I see an actor playing a role and I can't typecast that actor. [/ QUOTE ] Well, the problem with this is that there are some very good actors that simply have played a specific role for a large portion of their (popular) career, so even though they act well, I will always associate them with that character. This is especially true if I haven't seen the actor in anything else except that role . [/ QUOTE ] If they are so good, why haven't they gotten more roles? I mean, no director is going to cast an actor like Michael Richards in a lead role playing someone like Tony Soprano; but you could see Harrison Ford pulling it off.
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#19
11-09-2007, 10:47 PM
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Re: What makes a great performance to you?
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If they are so good, why haven't they gotten more roles? I mean, no director is going to cast an actor like Michael Richards in a lead role playing someone like Tony Soprano; but you could see Harrison Ford pulling it off. [/ QUOTE ] I actually don't think Ford could pull that off but I don't particularly like him as an actor. He just doesn't do it for me but I guess that's besides the point. One example off the top of my head is Anthony Edwards. I think he did a great job in E.R. and even though I saw him in Zodiac, and probably a dozen other stuff I can't remember, he will always be Dr. Mark Green to me. Then again, maybe a trait of a good actor is the ability to play a wide variety of roles. So if I have seen an actor on an x-year running tv show, I can't qualify him as a good actor even though his performance as that character was good.
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#20
11-09-2007, 10:48 PM
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Re: What makes a great performance to you?
When I can't tell she's faking it.
Also, when I begin to feel the same emotion as the character. Like in a sad scene, I start crying. Or in a battle scene, I wanna slay something. An example would be Jason Alexander on Seinfeld when he makes a joke and I smile or George does something pathetic and I pity him.
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