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I can't even start to express my "blown-away-ness" of his performance, it's AMAZING!
agree?
i reccomend the film "The Wackness"
Ben Kingsley turns another good performance as a pot smoking Shrink
has some really memorable lines in this film too for example
"Try to f_ck a black girl, i never had the chance to in college"
frighteningly hilarious.
Yo, bartender, Jobu needs a refill.
Just watched it tonight. I was blown to pieces. I'm still picking myself up.
no i am db
Everyone goes on about Kingsleys performance, and it is a great performance.
But honestly, all of the key actors in this film are equally superb imho, Ray and Amanda especially. Really fleshed out and believable. Perfect casting with a beautiful script. I've watched this film soo many times and I always love it just as much each time.
Agreed. Winstone is always good. The role of Gal was a nice shift from the violent, troubled men he had been playing up to that time. If we don't buy the strong love between Gal and Deedee there is not so much at stake. The two worked very well together with chemistry to spare.
While Kingsley rightly receives kudos for his performance, Ian McShane is just as frightening, albeit in a subdued fashion.
It is a wonderful film with a great cast. The heist genre gets a fresh, creative treatment in Sexy Beast.
i admit kingsley's performance really got me at the first viewing, but over the years i've begun to think he wasn't the best one for the role, for several reasons
i think he played it too over the top, came off like a caricature
he's physically very small, which belies the effect of his LARGE personality on screen. to me it does. i can't say who should have been cast, a lot of factors would have to be addressed. but i think it woulda been far better if someone 'david prowse big' had played the logan character. (and i'm not conceding that small guys can't fight. i am not saying that. i'm talking about cinema effect)
kingsley was playing against type and he knew it and we all knew it, which made it a bit cheesy and clliche for me
i think an unknown would have been more scary. i kept thinking 'that's ben kingsley' ...his name is too established
but mainly just that he's small. or maybe they shoulda taken pains to conceal that size in the shooting of it. (angles etc)
it's hard to be THAT scared of a 5'3" 120 pound guy no matter how loud he screams. nuisance, yeah definitely. but fear? not overt; maybe latent fear or after the fact (again i am n ot saying don couldn't do damage)
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I was impressed from the very first shots of him, striding through the airport and just radiating a barely-suppressed sense of menace. I couldn't believe that this intimidating psycho Cockney gangster was the same diminutive little fellow who was playing the role of Gandhi. Some people think he overacted the part, but I think it was awesome acting.
Even so, I have to also give props to Ray Winstone, whose laid-back and intimidated retired safe-cracker was very different from his usual tough guy roles and perfectly captured the tense relationship with Don.
"You've got lovely eyes Dee-Dee, never noticed them before, are they real?"
a terrific actor, stole every scene he was in
so many movies, so little time
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