(September 30, 2015 at 9:50 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: I think he's right on the money actually. As a actor your a chemoleon by trade. The less people know about you the less they see you and the more they see what your trying to portray. Look at the greatest performance in our time, heath ledgers joker. When you saw him did you see heath ledger? Or even an actor? No you saw an insane pyschopath that wanted to watch the world burn. Would that have been possible if we had preconceived notions of heath ledger?
I concur 100% with SOW; I DEFINITELY had preconceived notions of Heath Ledger. I knew him from not-great movies like 10 Things I Hate About You and A Knight's Tale and one actually good performance from Brokeback Mountain. His performance in Dark Knight superseded the preconceived notions I had of him and I forgot that he was an actor with some bad credits to his name and some personal problems in his real life and just enjoyed what he was doing in that movie.
The actor's personal life is ultimately immaterial when the actor gives a good performance, that's why I don't personally buy Damon's "just be more personal" statement.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
