I don’t know how long this trend has been going on but there appears to be a very strong belief right now that difficult roles should be played in an extremely subtle yet serious manner. It’s almost as if the goal of this style of acting is to give the sense that someone really is acting. That they’re reckoning with the source material in a way that affects them personally. This is especially true when the script deals with heavy topics, and the scripts that demand this style of acting almost always do. Take for instance Jonathan Glazer’s new film
I can't understand where you're coming from with footnote 1. That movie had so much detailed, never repeating sound design happening throughout all those outdoor scenes!
Yeah, Dave, I think you needed the Dolby atmos experience, here. The sound was probably the most compelling element of the film?
To your point, I think I agree that I wasn’t thrilled with the banality of friedels acting, but I do think it helped to build a stronger portrayal of a guy who is so unbelievably invested in being Good At His Job, in a way that a less subtle Holocaust film wouldn’t have been able to accomplish.
I can't understand where you're coming from with footnote 1. That movie had so much detailed, never repeating sound design happening throughout all those outdoor scenes!
Idk maybe the Hollywood theater didn’t have their sound up enough but it felt mostly lost on me
gotta go to AMC Theaters for Sound That I Can Feel
Yeah, Dave, I think you needed the Dolby atmos experience, here. The sound was probably the most compelling element of the film?
To your point, I think I agree that I wasn’t thrilled with the banality of friedels acting, but I do think it helped to build a stronger portrayal of a guy who is so unbelievably invested in being Good At His Job, in a way that a less subtle Holocaust film wouldn’t have been able to accomplish.