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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2019 14:39:27 GMT
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 8, 2019 14:44:10 GMT
Sad. He was wonderful in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Charlie Bubbles - two of my very favourite films.
RIP.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 8, 2019 14:44:33 GMT
We've still got Tom Courtenay...
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Feb 8, 2019 14:56:09 GMT
I'll have to watch 'Two For the Road' this weekend.
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Post by Sneelock on Feb 8, 2019 16:31:54 GMT
it's hard for me to get used to hearing people that I admired died via the internet. you'd think I'd be used to it by now. I don't really watch the news on TV anymore but it still seems like the proper way to know somebody died.
I adored him. I thought he was a splendid actor. I used to watch "Charlie Bubbles" & "Two for the Road" on TV a lot growing up. That's weird because they're both pretty offbeat movies when you get right down to it.
My dad was a movie projectionist so I could visit him in the booth and sit in a little seat off to the side. this is the way I watched "Scrooge" & "Murder on the Orient Express" multiple times. I like how he was a "hammy" actor - he could bluster and yell yet he had a firm commitment in his eyes. He was a solid movie actor.
when I was a young man going to cheap movies by myself I'd see him in things like "Wolfen" & "Looker" - movies that might need defending in many ways but not in the casting of Finney. you could see him thinking on screen. you could see that "aha" moment when the character would feel something that would change how he behaved.
I was glad to see him working so often these last few years but the first role I thought of when I read this thread was "Shoot the Moon". I'm not sure why I've seen it so many times. it was about divorce and my parents were divorced. I suppose what I like about it is that you can sympathize with him. This is all on Finney's firm shoulders. He knows he's fucked up his marriage but what's done is done. time marches on but it hurts. there's a scene where he's eating dinner with his EX (Diane Keaton) and he feels like shit but he keeps eating. LOL. it's funny the things you remember.
He had a lot of "star quality". "Tom Jones" was a pretty big deal. he wasn't exactly Peter O'Toole but he was charming and handsome and had an international success. it's weird the path his career took. I guess he saw himself as a character actor and he most certainly was a good one.
Another scene that stands out for me is the "Danny Boy" sequence in "Miller's Crossing". He firmly and deliberately marches to what could very well be his death.
man, he was good.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2019 16:52:38 GMT
the best scrooge ever
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Post by DarknessFish on Feb 8, 2019 17:11:44 GMT
Another scene that stands out for me is the "Danny Boy" sequence in "Miller's Crossing". I just posted that on my facebook page. Probably my all-time favourite film. I actually think that scene's slightly ruined by the use of "Danny Boy", it pushes it to the edge of cliché, but his performance in that film is superb. A crime-lord with an iron grip on a city, throwing everything away for a woman he loves. He switches from being hard as nails to a broken shell at the drop of a hat in that film. "Tom Jones" was another great performance. Not seen it in many a year, I should rectify that sometime soon.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2019 18:45:19 GMT
I knew of him without really knowing much about him. He was more prolific an actor than I thought he was.
five-time Oscar nominee!!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2019 21:44:35 GMT
Karaoke. Wonderful.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2019 9:17:53 GMT
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