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[zombres]

Of the movies you love (or the movies critics love) what are some of the great overlooked performances? They can be from great actors with small parts (Donald Sutherland in Pride and Prejudice), or the supporting cast, or even extras in the background! (You know, like those great stuntmen who die the dramatic falling-over-the-railing-while-screamin

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[siochembio]

Clifton Collins Jr. as Perry Smith in Capote! Because I'm Capote-crazy! AAAHH!!!!!!!!!!!! no, seriously, his performance was amazing, and no one's talking about it anymore.

re: music. Into the West from Return of the King. I cry every single damn time I hear it. It's sad enough as it is, but then when I think of Frodo and the dead kid filmmaker the song was written for, I bawl like a baby.

I love Jodhi May. She's so beautiful. And talented, of course.

I'll have to think more about overlooked performances...

[siochembio]

I just saw Crash this week. (husband's funny quote: "why did everyone have to be rascist? I wish EVERYONE wasn't a rascist." uh, honey... that was kind of the whole point of the film... he still loved it, despite that funny quote.) I thought Terrence Howard's performance in it was amazing - absolutely unbelievable. I'm surprised that Matt Dillon got the oscar nomination for supporting actor over Howard from this film.

[siochembio]

I JUST thought of another song I immediately associate with a film!

It's Puccini's "Humming Chorus" from Madame Butterfly. Peter Jackson uses it to absolutely BRILLIANT effect in the premurder scene in Heavenly Creatures. I truly believe in my heart of hearts that that scene is one of the most perfect scenes every put to film, and the Humming Chorus is a large part of that. It's just so painfully beautiful and painfully sad. I hear it and I want to cry, but I don't know if I want to cry from despair or happiness or loss or what. And I always think of the two girls walking down the stone steps with the mother... always.

Puccini's Humming Chorus