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To: DIRTYSECRET

YucK I can’t stand Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford. Terrible actors.


4 posted on 05/06/2025 7:17:54 AM PDT by yldstrk (Nothing like the truth)
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To: yldstrk

I couldn’t disagree with you more about Harrison Ford. Yes, he makes Indiana Jones and Han Solo seem very similar... but that’s what makes Raiders of the Lost Ark so damned funny: Even though Dr Jones is in the role of being ice cool, inhuman superhero, he persistently deviates from that trope to humanize himself but does so subtly, he doesn’t undermine the characterization. In the very interaction that establishes him as a James Bond-type ladies’ man, he’s comically unsettled by the clever forwardness of a man-hungry student. The chops to pull that off is way rarer than the sort of bawling your eyes out that routinely wins Oscars. (Sometimes, he’d be a little broad, like with snakes.)


17 posted on 05/06/2025 8:19:32 AM PDT by dangus
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