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Jul 13, 2014 - 12:35 PM
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nuts_score
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Noah co-starred Jennifer Connelly, whose mother is Jewish, and Logan Lerman, who is 100% Jewish. Surely they can play Old Testament characters. Surely anyone can play Old Testament characters. But these two delivered limp performances for underwritten characters, so at the end of the day it was a loss in my opinion. The Old Testament and other ancient sacred texts and religious poetry take place in a time beyond any which we can comprehend. Seeing the same white, Anglo actors (of which Ms. Connelly and Mr. Lerman certainly look in appearance) filling up the casts is becoming old hat. It's bland, it's un-involving, and to many it is plain anachronistic. These types of epics need to abandon the old Hollywood formulas which worked so well for Cecil B. DeMille and Nicholas Ray (who for my money made the best Biblical movie in that period), and instead cast actors who look interesting and can inhabit the characters based upon their own instincts. I want to see Javier Bardem. I want to see Denis Lavant. I want to see Isaach de Bankolé. I want to see Lupita Nyong'o. Or Tahar Rahim. Any of these bankable and known international actors are still worth our time as an audience for these pictures. Even Mel Gibson and Martin Scorsese knew to fill their controversial Biblical films with interesting actors. If I even consider the two leads of Scott's new opus, and their strongest roles, neither even graces the surface of Moses and Rameses II. Bale excels at portrayed introverted, sociopathically-inclined loners (Empire of the Sun, American Psycho, The Dark Knight trilogy, The Fighter) and his worst roles are the ones which have traits of Moses. Think about his leader of men, John Conner, in the abysmal Terminator Salvation. Nothing! Edgerton was a great addition to the casts of The Great Gatsby, Animal Kingdom, and Warrior. But here again, his good performances in these pictures do not lead me to think he would make a convincing Rameses II, no matter how hard they try to sell his similarities to someone like Yul Brynner. I want to see these actors in more complex roles than these, and I want to see actors with more complexities in these roles.
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