Playing Against Type/Film/Film Acting: Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
(update links) |
mNo edit summary |
||
| Line 275: | Line 275: | ||
* [[Anthony Hopkins]], typically known for serious or villainous roles, portrayed the happy-go-lucky motorbike racer Burt Munro in ''The World's Fastest Indian''. Hopkins was on record saying that the role of Burt Munro was one of his most enjoyable, because Munro's outlook on life was not much different to his own. |
* [[Anthony Hopkins]], typically known for serious or villainous roles, portrayed the happy-go-lucky motorbike racer Burt Munro in ''The World's Fastest Indian''. Hopkins was on record saying that the role of Burt Munro was one of his most enjoyable, because Munro's outlook on life was not much different to his own. |
||
* [[Jamie Lee Curtis]] did this twice. The start of her film career was playing the [[Final Girl]] in the original slasher films, then she did an about face and played a prostitute in ''[[Trading Places]]''. The 1985 ''Perfect'' made her a sex symbol but that didn't work out so well and she switched to playing quirky housewife characters in various genres. |
* [[Jamie Lee Curtis]] did this twice. The start of her film career was playing the [[Final Girl]] in the original slasher films, then she did an about face and played a prostitute in ''[[Trading Places]]''. The 1985 ''Perfect'' made her a sex symbol but that didn't work out so well and she switched to playing quirky housewife characters in various genres. |
||
* Bubbly and cheerful [[Reese Witherspoon]] who stars in ''[[Legally Blonde ( |
* Bubbly and cheerful [[Reese Witherspoon]] who stars in ''[[Legally Blonde (film)|Legally Blonde]]'' and similarly feelgood romantic comedies plays the violent, white-trash and vicious [[Villain Protagonist|Vanessa]] in ''[[Freeway]]''. |
||
** Don't forget that she was also the [[Alpha Bitch]] in ''[[Election]]'', a character type that she does not seem to have played since. It would appear that her overall screen persona underwent a gradual [[Heel Face Turn]]. |
** Don't forget that she was also the [[Alpha Bitch]] in ''[[Election]]'', a character type that she does not seem to have played since. It would appear that her overall screen persona underwent a gradual [[Heel Face Turn]]. |
||
*** Her character was absolutely NOT the [[Alpha Bitch]], she was a frumpy, overachieving and much-maligned, manipulative and psychotic nerd. |
*** Her character was absolutely NOT the [[Alpha Bitch]], she was a frumpy, overachieving and much-maligned, manipulative and psychotic nerd. |
||