Originally Posted by
TheMotownManiac
how cool you met Babs!
my favorite scene in the film, that shows her potential as a screen star, is the scene in the campaign office when she’s on the phone. It doesn’t show her doing histrionics, or out of darkness dramatics, instead it shows how deaf she is with simple dialogue, props and blocking while still projecting through her character’s personality, everything she’s coping with, cooly in a work environment. She is engaging in a simple scene, and that’s easier said than done. As an ex actor, I can still see in performances The qualities and techniques I laughed and that led me to seek, wisely, another career. Getting cast is a whole lot easier than being proud of your work. I often see seems like that in films, even great films, where the mundane day-to-day tasks required that don’t come across anywhere near as well as that scene. She is fully committed and buying into what her character is experiencing. It appears simple, but that’s what makes movie stars. We know she can handle the histrionics, and her very convincing performance at Café Manhattan before good morning heartache.
anyway all of the Tony Richardson scenes, to me, come across as exactly as they are intended. Unfortunately, the rest of the film, I’m not going to comment on. But I will say that given some of the terrible terrible dialogue she was given in Rome, she makes some of it work a little bit, but I did cringe quite a bit. It probably has a lot to do with her relationship with Berry Gordy because, especially in her first scene in Rome with Anthony Perkins, she is not into what she’s doing and I’m going to venture to guess that issues with her Director might be the culprit.
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