It struck me at lunch the other day (with Peggy actually) that three of the five noms for best picture are “real life” movies.
And I find myself wondering whether it’s easier to recount real life? Whether it’s harder to portray a real person? We treat them as the same genre: the dramatic film. But one is really biography, isn’t it?
I find myself fascinated (weird though it is) in the comparisons. And, I’ll be especially interested as I see more of the movies… And, I’m sure I’ll have more thoughts!
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I would think it is more daunting to play a real person. Think of Cate Blanchette last year playing Kate Hepburn, or Jamie Foxx's Ray Charles. Perhaps that is why they get recognized? To act beyond mimicry?
Hmm. That is a thinker, and we'll have to bring this back up after we've seen the other "true" movies (although, I guess we didn't really know the assassins from Munich as well as Murrow or Capote).
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