i just saw the movie for the first time last night (loved it) and her character was so obnoxious and weird and I didn't like her. But WOW. I did not expect to come on here and see she won a freaking ACADEMY AWARD for the role. That's ridiculous! I mean good for her, but I would never give it to her for that.
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it was so over the top... I crack whenever she opens her mouth
I read where the real Blanche was devastated at the way she was portrayed
she also said the script Warren Beatty showed her to get her approval was very different then what endedu p on screen
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She absolutely deserved the Oscar. She was brilliant!
shareI completely agree with you, Sleeth!
shareOh really? I guess screaming with annoying voice like she's in a stupid comedy movie when actually it isn't a comedy is good acting. Go figure. She was awful, I'm surprised she even earned a nomination, let alone win. I don't know what they were smoking when they voted for best sup actress.
shareHer acting wasn't that over the top. It was how the character was written. And Estelle won the gold because throughout most of the movie she is screaming but she has such great comedic timing it wasn't infuriating. Her performance is funny as well as annoying when it could easily slip into just annoying. That takes talent.
We Choose to Go to the Moon-- JFK
Blanche said "She made me look like a screaming horse's ass up there".
I happen to think Parsons is marvelous, and fits right in with the comic adventure tone of the first part of the movie. As for her character, she clearly is not in favor of the murder and mayhem at first, but comes to enjoy being part of the "fun". She's as much an idiot as the others.
About the Oscar: Never forget that winners are often chosen because voters are avoiding other choices. Parsons was surrounded by nominations for comedy (Carol Channing and Mildred Natwick). Comic performances rarely win Oscars. Then there was the ingenue that most people found stiff and weakly acdted (Katherine Ross in THE GRADUATE), and a well meaning nod to a veteran actress, Beah Richards, for playing Sidney Poitier's dignified mother in GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER.
That leaves Parsons, whose originality and fearlessness are admirable. Also remember that none of the other actors in BONNIE & CLYDE won. Parsons was the stand in for the full team.
Her character was supposed to be obnoxious and weird, therefore, she nailed the part.
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we watched this in film studies and me and friend repeatedly turned to each other saying we wanted to smother her.
she was the most irritating character in any movie i have ever watched! her voice was just grating, it actually pained me.
and i am in complete and utter shock as to how she got an academy award! anyone could have screamed that horrendously!
'all that glisters is not gold'
we watched this in film studies and me and friend repeatedly turned to each other saying we wanted to smother her.
she was the most irritating character in any movie i have ever watched! her voice was just grating, it actually pained me.
and i am in complete and utter shock as to how she got an academy award! anyone could have screamed that horrendously!
In Blanche's own memoirs, she acts similar during the first raid in Joplin, running and screaming outside, with her small, white dog barking at her heels. Later, during the tourist camp shootout in Platte City (where she and Buck were wounded) she describes herself as "jumping up and down, screaming, and holding my hands over my ears like a person gone mad." She also mentions several times how much she hated guns and was deathly afraid during the gun battles. So it wasn't unfair or inaccurate portrayal. I think her comment that they made her "look like a horse's ass" was out of embarrassment. Perhaps she didn't realize how ridiculously she reacted until she saw Estelle Parson's performance.
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Please watch the scene where she's being interrogated, face covered in bandages and completely devastated, and tell me how she DIDN'T deserve that Oscar. End of discussion!
shareDitto, wearyourlove. I think that's the scene that nabbed her the award. It was real and touching. Parson's Blanche wasn't just one-note; her character changed throughout. Compare her first appearance to the end. When we first meet her, she's a respectable, prudish preacher's daughter, dressed like a housewife in her little hat. But as the movie progresses, she begins wearing slacks and smoking. Her character changes, too. Instead of talking through Buck, she starts speaking out, even confronting Bonnie at one point. I thought she was gonna fight her had it not been for Clyde asking them to get dinner.
shareToo each his own, but I thought her performance was BRILLIANT! Yes, she VERY MUCH deserved the Oscar (IMHO.)
shareShe also had that lovely moment in the car with C.W. when they went to pick up dinner. You could sense the sadness and regret in her face/eyes/voice; there was no going back.
If screaming is all people remember her by (which only occurred during the gunfights, btw), then that's a shallow viewpoint. Parson's Blanche had many layers, as well as several touching and (I emphasize) non-screaming moments in the film, as pointed out by me and others in this thread.
Estelle's Oscar-winning moment is now on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXKBCFosizM
(Sorry, I don't know how to make it clickable)
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Parson's Blanche wasn't just one-note; her character changed throughout. Compare her first appearance to the end. When we first meet her, she's a respectable, prudish preacher's daughter, dressed like a housewife in her little hat. But as the movie progresses, she begins wearing slacks and smoking.I agree. The Blanche metamorphosis appears to be lost on those who only hear the ' runs screaming from the house into a fusillade of bullits carrying a spatula.' sequence.
I wished Bonnie would slap her, she looked like she wanted to.
Bazinga
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I wished Bonnie would slap her, she looked like she wanted to.