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Good film stars aren't always 'great' actors. Errol Flynn and Roger Moore are two good examples. Great stars in some exceptionally entertaining movies, but great actors? Not to say they COULDN'T act. I defy anyone who's seen The Man Who Haunted Himself to tell me Moore can't act. But it's his star qualities folks hire him for.
Ford's the same. Blade Runner is a great example. Acted off the screen by Rutger Hauer, but the guy's still the star of the show. Personally I like him.
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miss u dan the man
i didnt mind him but where was all this support when 22 mad threads of his a day arrived like spam and sank faster than a Bill carson-started thread??!! ha ha.
and he did go down some rather extreme dodgy directions on contentious issues and upset a few people, did he not?Eccentric yes, but he sort of wouldnt drop the bone if he was on thin ice, even if you tried to gently steer him to safety.
as for harrison, hes not the worst. Not even close. And hes been the right man for the job in plenty of roles.
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Funny, I never was aware of him in the past, but I thought his first post on this thread was plenty mean-spirited all by itself.
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Getting back to his topic:
Yes, there are actors, and there are movie stars, but it's not a "never-the-twain-shall-meet" proposition. Don't we all know some thespians we personally think are both?
Also, there's acting, and there is acting. For a grown man to wear green tights in the forest and convince an audience for two hours that he's a revolutionary leader of men requires a certain specialized kind of acting all its own, and I'd say Flynn was its leading exponent.
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Appreciate your clarification, Octoberman, because of course I do appreciate the difference you describe. I guess I wanted to suggest why I wasn't surprised to learn that occasionally the guy started to veer off the deep end...
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Jeff Goldblum lived downstairs in my apartment building when he and his first wife Patty Gaul, (a very talented actress who's done way too few films), first moved to Hollywood. A sweet couple, with their vegetable juicer. He was appearing onstage in the burlesque EL GRANDE COCA COLA, and it was right around this time that he broke into films with his famous one line in ANNIE HALL. (My building has hosted a lot of other Hollywood history, but that's another story.)
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I had a few brushes with history in my childhood, as well, such as the day Jackie Robinson and his family moved onto our Cascade Road in Stamford, CT. I'm surprised no one but my friend Chris Kinsinger has brought up "42," clearly a non-leading-man portrayal if ever there was one. I, too, was moved by the film, by the way, only in part because of my personal nostalgia. It would be interesting to compare Ford's Branch Rickey with Minor Watson's Branch Rickey, presumably an authentic characterization, as he was playing his scenes opposite Jackie himself in THE JACKIE ROBINSON STORY, (a film I first saw, with all the other neighborhood kids, on 16mm in the Robinsons' rec room).
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I completely agree. He is the actor I hate most in all of hollywood, and this rarely happens. I didn't mind him at first after watching star wars and Indy, but now after pretty much seeing every single movie he's been in, I can't tell one character he plays from another. It always seems like he didn't actually WANT to play it, so he's the grumpy cool guy who doesn't put any effort in. Tbh I don't get how anyone can find that appealing, he's a perfect example of success through complete luck not effort.
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I completely agree. He is the actor I hate most in all of hollywood, and this rarely happens. I didn't mind him at first after watching star wars and Indy, but now after pretty much seeing every single movie he's been in, I can't tell one character he plays from another. It always seems like he didn't actually WANT to play it, so he's the grumpy cool guy who doesn't put any effort in. Tbh I don't get how anyone can find that appealing, he's a perfect example of success through complete luck not effort.
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