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Helpful•11
Take a famous (or infamous) person's life. Condense it into 90-min. Focus on their pain/agony and ultimate triumph or ultimate demise. Hire a 'method' actor who loses themselves in the role. Then wait for the awards to start rolling in.
Such is the master plan for this movie.
Sure, they try hard and the lead is passable. But we've seen it all before.
In fact, we remember the true story of someone with so much promise and watching them, self-destruct. Any artificial representation will pale in comparison.
So how about we stop trying to cinematize these celebrities. We tire of this same tired formula being rehashed over and over.
Such is the master plan for this movie.
Sure, they try hard and the lead is passable. But we've seen it all before.
In fact, we remember the true story of someone with so much promise and watching them, self-destruct. Any artificial representation will pale in comparison.
So how about we stop trying to cinematize these celebrities. We tire of this same tired formula being rehashed over and over.
Helpful•12
Once again Cooper put so much effort into creating and inhabiting a character that he forgot the main thing. He forgot that entertainment is not all about him.
Maybe it's this ridiculous adherence to the method. It is certainly the reason why so many performances labelled as ''great' these days are downright boring.
Which is a shame with the opportunity to explore the music Bernstein created and the double life he lived.
But Cooper is an a-lister with power in Hollywood. So no one is there to tell him no.
Once again it's a shame that there wasn't a studio who demanded that he get out of his own way and out of his own @55.
Maybe it's this ridiculous adherence to the method. It is certainly the reason why so many performances labelled as ''great' these days are downright boring.
Which is a shame with the opportunity to explore the music Bernstein created and the double life he lived.
But Cooper is an a-lister with power in Hollywood. So no one is there to tell him no.
Once again it's a shame that there wasn't a studio who demanded that he get out of his own way and out of his own @55.
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