Great job in Transformers

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Your opinion, fine. But I logged in specifically to disagree. My GOD her acting was stand-out, sore-thumb, CRAP! Transformers 3 was bad enough, but when she came on screen is was the equivalent mental distraction of having every colour in the scene suddenly invert! She looks like a model - no more, no less. I couldn't see myself going out with her, she's far too self aware and expecting a form of attention I'm not willing to give to 'my equal' if I was in a relationship.

You have a bright future, regardless of what the haters say.

Her acting never felt forced or fake. It's like she was playing her "playful" self.

None of the other actors in TF3 did that much better than she did, for this to have been her first film.



Very well said, OP. Thank you.

Most of us have favorites, and there are some musicians, painters, thespians, etc. who send me further than the rest. Since Rosie Huntington-Whiteley entered my mind from TF3, she's become a catalyst for wondering, more than ever, what makes our favorite artists deliver such brilliance.

It's like she was playing her "playful" self... You've traced an impression of Rosie and nailed it.




We all come to the theatre with baggage. The baggage of our daily lives, the baggage of our problems, the baggage of our tragedies, the baggage of being tired. It doesn't matter what age you are.

But if our hearts get opened and released - well that is what theatre can do, and does sometimes, and everyone is thankful when that happens. -- Vanessa Redgrave, seeing both sides.



If our hearts get opened and released... While speaking to the potential wealth of receiving performances, Ms. Redgrave could easily have been describing the best of giving performances/creating too. The purpose of art and how it gets here...




The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes:
translation is the other side of a tapestry. -- Leonardo Sciascia



They say we lose something at each step between feelings, thoughts, and words. Saying what we think isn't always as easy as we expect it to be. And to say or do or become what we feel--with music, paint, or on film--these are the achievements of artists.

Several weeks ago, I saw The Conspirator (2010), and though I was drawn in by several members of the cast, I remember thinking about two in particular: Robin Wright and Kevin Kline. I was noticing certain qualities--subtle parts of themselves--their unique depths that are given to a spectrum of utterly credible and very different characters.

Maybe artists such as these have the ability to offer extra layers of themselves, and though I may (objectively) remember them most as playful (Kline) or soulful (Wright), these two (for example) have it all and can do anything. Among the best at their art, Ms. Wright and Mr. Kline have both laid claim to a wide range of roles, and yet they leave impressions of playing themselves.

Consider the conventional wisdom: "Write what you know." By extension, TF3 is a great start for Ms. Huntington-Whiteley, as she's very much at home in a role that so welcomes her smooth radiance and magnetic charms. Rosie seems engaging and fun off the set, and she brings her playful (and soulful) energy to Carly Spencer. We can look forward to many more of Rosie's visceral translations of herself.




... your playing, as I recall, has about it an exceeding sweetness. -- Dr. Robert Merivel
(Robert Downey Jr.) hitting on Celia Clemence (Polly Walker)/Restoration (1995)



To Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, with gratitude, for all that you are:




Ana Vidovic - "Cavatina" (Stanley Myers), theme of The Deer Hunter (1978):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr9mirFYuVE&feature=related

Ana Vidovic - "Altiplanos" (Pierre Bensusan):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2a_yfT84KQ&feature=related