Favourite actor, best scene, memorable performance

Favourite actor, best scene, memorable performance

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okgo

38,605 posts

201 months

Sunday 23rd June
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Can’t have a thread like this without this classic surely



There’s been some great stuff mentioned, love Margin Call and that scene.

Jim H

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984 posts

192 months

Monday 24th June
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Dead Man’s Shoes is another favourite of mine.

Paddy Considine is an extremely versatile performer in pretty much everything he’s done.

wolfracesonic

7,178 posts

130 months

Monday 24th June
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Orson Welles in the Third Man is the gold standard for turning up late and stealing the show, surely?

biggbn

24,276 posts

223 months

Monday 24th June
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Walken and Hopper for True Romance for sure, but also James Gandolfini from the same film...'The first time you kill somebody...'


2 GKC

1,945 posts

108 months

Monday 24th June
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The Hypno-Toad said:
Charlie Sheen - Ferris Bueller Days Off.

Steals the entire movie.

I have always thought that Martin Sheens performance in Apocalypse Now was incredible. Not only for the mirror scene but also for the moments where he stares down lens at the viewer as if to say “can you believe this st?”
Steals the movie in the three minutes he’s in it? He was good but not that good.

Wacky Racer

38,445 posts

250 months

Monday 24th June
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wolfracesonic said:
Orson Welles in the Third Man is the gold standard for turning up late and stealing the show, surely?


loughran

2,789 posts

139 months

Monday 24th June
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gruntmonster said:
Ben Kingsley (don logan) in sexy beast

Robert shaw (quint) in jaws

Edited by gruntmonster on Sunday 23 June 23:23
This is a great interview with Ben Kingsley but particularly interesting to hear how he went from playing Gandhi to playing Don Logan.

From 7,30

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rl...

Skii

1,637 posts

194 months

Monday 24th June
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Gary Oldman as Norman Stansfield in Leon

Radec

4,051 posts

50 months

Monday 24th June
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Pitt, Spacey and Freeman in the end box scene in Seven.

vxr8mate

1,656 posts

192 months

Monday 24th June
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Anthony Hopkins: Silence of the Lambs and The Father

Clint Eastwood: The Unforgiven

Michael Caine: Get Carter

Sidney Poitier: Heat of the Night

Jack Nicholson: As Good as It Gets

Kenneth Branagh: Conspiracy

I will stop there as I could go on all day.

CHLEMCBC

271 posts

20 months

Monday 24th June
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okgo said:
Can’t have a thread like this without this classic surely



There’s been some great stuff mentioned, love Margin Call and that scene.
Why isn't Paddy Considine in EVERYTHING? I guess it must be personal choice. I've never seen a poor performance from the man.

MBBlat

1,710 posts

152 months

Monday 24th June
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Rutger Hauers dying speech as Roy Battey in Blade Runner, a couple of minutes that totally changes the audiences view of both the protagonist and antagonist.

Jim H

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984 posts

192 months

Monday 24th June
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MBBlat said:
Rutger Hauers dying speech as Roy Battey in Blade Runner, a couple of minutes that totally changes the audiences view of both the protagonist and antagonist.
Yeah, great one. I was fairly certain I’d learned from somewhere that Hauer ad-libbed it.

Not quite, however more info here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_in_rain_mono...

C5_Steve

3,660 posts

106 months

Monday 24th June
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Some great mentions already above, a few from me. Hopefully a little left field with some.

Timmy in Dune Part 2 for this specific scene:



Robert Shaw for Jaws, could be the whole film of course but this famous scene specifically, awesome on it's own but once you learn about how hard a time they had with him and this scene specifically, Dreyfuss said after his reaction was genuine as he was in awe:



This scene from Into the Spiderverse is probably one of if not the best "character becomes the hero" moments from anything. The worm riding scene from Dune 2 is also in the same category but I have Dune part 2 already. The score, the animation, perfect:



The chase scene from The Dark Knight (the whole film is a masterpiece but this scene is breathtaking). Too long to find on YouTube, unfortunately.

The end of Constatine (spoilers):



Any scene in Heat with Al Pacino, but these two specifically:







gt40steve

737 posts

107 months

Monday 24th June
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Richard Attenborough as Regimental Sgt. Major Lauderdale in The Guns at Batasi 1964.

Winner of Best British Actor in the 1965 BAFTA's.


Legend83

10,050 posts

225 months

Monday 24th June
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It's hard to steal a scene with Tom Hanks in it but Paul Newman managed it in one of my all time favorite scenes in film history - "I'm glad it's you":

https://youtu.be/5OjRI2AKVpQ?si=x3pm9dBQQF5B0XXx


okgo

38,605 posts

201 months

Monday 24th June
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Excellent!

Edited by okgo on Monday 24th June 14:04

C5_Steve

3,660 posts

106 months

Monday 24th June
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okgo said:


Excellent!

Edited by okgo on Monday 24th June 14:04
Never seen the film but have seen the ABC scene. Classic.

remedy

1,679 posts

194 months

Monday 24th June
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Jack Nicholson for me. I see he has been mentioned a few times.
He just excels as an actor and everything he has ever done, I think, has been wonderful.

Stand outs are Batman, as Joker (Ledger was incredible), As Good as it Gets as the autistic/OCD character and A Few Good Men.

Olivera

7,362 posts

242 months

Monday 24th June
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