Comments | carolinelamb: For your pleasure: Coriolanus (2011)

carolinelamb

For your pleasure: Coriolanus (2011)

Jul 02, 2013 02:38

Unfortunately I was too late and couldn't get tickets for Coriolanus with Tom Hiddleston in London at the Donmar, so I did the next best thing and watched the movie "Coriolanus" with Ralph Fiennes (who also directed it) and I am impressed ( Read more... )

tom hiddleston, ralph fiennes, william shakespeare

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hysterichotel July 1 2013, 18:06:19 UTC

Dropbox gives me an error notice when I click!

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carolinelamb July 2 2013, 02:44:20 UTC

I have to admit I never found Ralph Fiennes handsome-but I like his acting in every movie, because he always does fantastic work, even in movies I don't like.

I think to remember that you were not fond of "The Reader", but Ralph Fiennes was so good in this one-a very problematic figure, andI have to say, especially knowing the book, I admired how he can flesh out a character, make him so real.

By all my uncritical, adoring love for Hiddleston, Fiennes' fierce, unrepentent, violent Coriolanus won't be easy to match, esp. with Hiddleston's favorite method to lend his characters fragility and vulnerability by empathising with them. (Or maybe this is exactly why he took this role-to break out of his usual method!)

carolinelamb July 2 2013, 02:39:16 UTC

I am so terribly sorry!

(Note to myself: Must not do computer stuff while completely drunk!)

I fixed the link, so it should be okay now!

Hopefully you can watch it now! It's really worth it! Everyone does a great job, and Vanessa Redgrave is just great! And Ralph Fiennes is such an amazing actor-by all my adoration for Hiddleston, he'll really have a rough time ahead, though I suspect he had hsi reasons for picking this part!

Apologies again for your troubles!