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DeSica

DeSica

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I love this film. The book was good , too.

Directed by John Schlesinger, with Laurence Olivier, Dustin Hoffman, Roy Scheider, Richard Bright, William Devane...and a screenplay by William Goldman based on his novel.

You can't go wrong, but...."is it safe?"
 
This film is really good, and about the ONLY time Olivier was ever good on screen...but man, did he knock this one out of the park.
 
well, I feel like he is one guy who just never really got screen acting. His early work at the studios is sooo ham-handed that it's almost silly. He definitely got better as he got older, but as great as he must have been on stage, I just don't feel like he ever really got what screen acting is about. Unlike many others, even of his early years, like Gregery Peck, Spencer Tracy(one of the greats).
 
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yeah, more than once, and I think that is not a great performance from him. Just my opinion.

I'll put it in my netflix cue and check it out again to see if my mind changes on it...

I would compare it to Cary Grant. Grant walked, acted, and spoke like no human being ever has in the history of Man. But he was so expert at just being that thing, that creation he came up with, effortlessly. A more modern example is Gene Hackman. He might be one of the greatest screen actors ever, so amazingly adept at just being there, and not acting at all.

Side note, Selznick often accused Olivier of acting good only in his CU shots to force the studio to use those :)
 
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