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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-08-26 07:04 pm

[ SECRET POST #3157 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3157 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2015-08-26 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
An actor should be able to use their acting skills to bring nuance to a shitty script and/or shitty characterization.

That is literally an actor's job, ffs.

[personal profile] cbrachyrhynchos 2015-08-26 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
No, sometimes a shitty script is just a shitty script. See Star Wars: Episode III as an example.

(Anonymous) 2015-08-26 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
You're comparing an unsalvageable mess to a mess that could have been salvaged if the cast had had more competent actors.

Not really the same.

(Anonymous) 2015-08-26 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
again, you literally cited her hair and makeup as one of the ways in which she ruined Mystique

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(Anonymous) 2015-08-27 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
lol. why don't you go back to ur cherik a/b/o barista mpreg au, xmfc stan?

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(Anonymous) 2015-08-27 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
lol are you for real bro

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(Anonymous) 2015-08-27 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
is ur face for real?

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(Anonymous) 2015-08-27 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
it's for real

real handsome

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(Anonymous) 2015-08-27 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
pics or gtfo

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(Anonymous) 2015-08-27 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
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[personal profile] fingalsanteater 2015-08-27 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
No, XMFC was a terrible movie separate from the cast. Even Hoult couldn't save it.

(Anonymous) 2015-08-27 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Even the worst movies can still be enjoyable if the actors can actually act for shit.
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[personal profile] fingalsanteater 2015-08-27 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
Having seen a lot of movies, terrible and otherwise, I can tell you that this is assuredly not true. If your story and directing is shit, even the best actor can't make a failure a success.

[personal profile] cbrachyrhynchos 2015-08-27 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Which one? Revenge of the Sith wasn't an actor problem, it was a director problem. George Lucas has a tin ear for performance and manages to get the worst out of the best. We've known this since Star Wars, which was saved from Lucas by brilliant post production and Marcia stepping in as an uncredited editor.

For X-Men: First Class, we can blame a script that turned Raven into Xaver's little sister, sidekick, and love-polygon plot device for the development of three different male characters. There's almost nothing to salvage from that movie other than Xavier/Magneto slash subtext and Kevin Bacon's swinging bachelor submarine.

(Anonymous) 2015-08-27 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Episode III was a mess because Episodes I and II were fractured catastrophes without conflict. Of the three of them at least Episode III had an explicit conflict with actual tension to it on the screen. Whether or not you cared about it or it was a good conflict that made best use of the characters by that point is another matter entirely.

[personal profile] cbrachyrhynchos 2015-08-27 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
I think Episode III had great ideas. Unfortunately George's tin ear for dialogue and performance made it feel like undergrad Macbeth. That is reasonable if you're doing a small-studio art piece, but not when you have Oz, Lee, McGregor, Portman, and McDiarmid on your cast.

Compare any of the Lucas-directed and written episodes to Empire Strikes Back, a Kasdan/Kershner film. Kershner's instinct to let Fisher and Ford develop the nuances of their performance in rehearsal rather than micromanaging them paid off.
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[personal profile] diet_poison 2015-08-27 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
...not really.

They should do the best with what they're given but if actors could magically un-shittify a shitty script, nobody would need scriptwriters/directors/other people who aren't actors to put on a show or movie.