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29 minutes ago, titanic2187 said:
A quiet place
Children of the lesser God
The list go on....and on.
Indeed, hollywood is never about meritocracy, but that shouldn't be the excuse of why we should stop aspire to be.
Keep hiring a disabled actor in the name of representation doesn't help. The pace must be supported by commercial mean. People be like criticize for lack of representation of disabled in film industry but they never really care. They are just simply criticise it so that they looked better and have a higher ground of morality ..
Hiring a disabled actor involve logistic issue, money(how to convince studio hiring a disabled make money) and of course general public appealing, the proper training for disabled actor/actress and the director and crew that know how to cooperate with disabled. Yet, people assume all those micro-level problem will get solved instantly if we shouted loud enough.
Two names... where is the list?
& can you tell me why Marlee Matlin failed to have a career like her fellow 80s Oscar Best Actress Winners Jodie Foster or Sally Field? Is it because she's an inferior actress?
Besides, "shout loud enough" is exactly what's needed as the first step to solve problems, micro or otherwise. It's been working for #MeToo and has worked for #OscarSoWhite. I don't think that sit back and watch while saying "it's all about the performance" contributes to any good. As far as I'm aware of, no critics has said "Bryan Cranston gives an amazing performance in The Upside", yet somehow he still got the damn job.
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57 minutes ago, titanic2187 said:
There was no value judgement in my argument, nothing about should or shouldn't,
My stand is always the acting skill come first for the criteria.
If a mute or deaf can play Freddie mercury convincingly through lip sync, why not? Hiring a disabled for a disabled role doesn't mean the acting will become better by default and no one should be discarded by default too because she or he playing something that he/she is not in real life.
Looking for a disabled to play a disabled role, how sure you are that is not a form of humiliation or discrimination to the community?
if we discard a person just simply because of he/she is not disabled in real life , you can never expect a disabled actor/actress to come out and shine in a non-disabled role.
What kind of misguided argument is this? Hollywood is never about meritocracy & everyone who uses this forum should know it. The problem we have now is not that disabled actors can't play abled characters, but they have no roles at all.
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2 hours ago, titanic2187 said:
You do realise it is much easier to ask an actor to pretend to be disabled instead of asking a disabled pretend to be non-disabled physically right? It's an matter of convenience and making sense.
Why people have to insist a person profile to be an criteria of authentic acting? It is matter of professional.
U know what's easier than abled actors pretending to be disabled? Actually hiring a disabled actor. Saves u all the efforts on prosthetics SFX.
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44 minutes ago, LouisianaArkansasGeorgia said:
Are you saying that only women are good looking people?
& let's be real the gayz talking about women waaaaay more often than straight guys. When will a straight guy watch Good Looking WomanTM Nicole Kidman's entire filmography and realize Birth & The Portrait of a Lady are masterpieces? Nevah.
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The real trade of Aquaman has spoken
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This film is a mess. Basically, the whole point of this film is blaming audiences for not being smart enough -- or as smart as Adam McKay -- to see through Dick Cheney. However, "Dick Cheney is evil" has been the general consensus on the Right for years so this film doesn't really add any new insights to the narrative nor is it half as smart as it thinks.
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SAG snubbed King and if BAFTA snubs Adams, there's a path for Weisz winning support actress i.e. 2007:
GG - Blanchett (King - critics favorite)
SAG - Ruby Dee (Adams - overdue veteran)
BAFTA - Swinton (Weisz)
Oscar - Swinton (Weisz)
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Isn't Rebecca Ferguson supposed to be in this? How come she's not in the trailer at all?
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A movie both the left AND the right hate? All hail Adam McKay, the great uniter. Vice is the bridge we need in 2018.
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Hopefully, the success of Peter Rabbit and Instant Family (Juliet, Naked did decent w/ limited release as well) will finally convince Hollywood to offer Rose Bryne more leading parts. As much as I enjoyed her supporting turns in Bridesmaids and Spy, she really should've been a bigger star.
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Nic Cage in two critically-acclaimed movies in a year, whew, Cagenaissance is upon us.
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Can You Ever Forgive Me's slow rollout has been working wonderfully so far. When the award season comes, it will be the most successful indie drama of the year by a long shot.
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2 hours ago, 75Live said:
the queen is 92, not much should bother her these days 😛
No, we're talking about the royal one here.
53 minutes ago, GraceRandolph said:Imagine coming for Beyonce's vocals while defending Gaga's SCREECHING.
Let's not belittle either of them.
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2 hours ago, La Binoche said:
I just remembered Beyonce was supposed to be in ASIB. It would have been so awful. Being talentless (don't believe what the media says- she has no talent outside of a decent-at-best singing voice) she wouldn't have been able to contribute anything other than bootyliciousness, fiercely strutting around on stage and doing hair flips. In other words, she would have been her unbearable "Queen Bey" self for 2+ hours. Gross.
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Give me a break... so now an actress can't dislike a trash project just because there were other people who fought for the part? It's not like her Elm Street co-stars Jackie Earle Haley and Kyle Gallner have since become A-listers now thanks to the Elm Street remake. Even Mara's bit part in The Social Network is more iconic than the entire Elm Street movie.
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Actually, all the non-Marvel/Pixar Disney movies this year have either straight-up bombed (Solo, A Wrinkle in Time, and now Nutcrackers) or underperformed (Christoper Robin), so Disney might want to consider producing even fewer movies on their own.
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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | October 18 2019 | Now on Disney+
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Jolie is a much bigger star than Mia Whatshername so it's gonna do better than Alice 2, especially internationally.