Yep! I just saw that! I think i’ll watch it again this afternoon. I need some good laughs & some good sex scenes! LolIt's on prime now
Yep! I just saw that! I think i’ll watch it again this afternoon. I need some good laughs & some good sex scenes! LolIt's on prime now
Do you remember Jane Fonda in Klute? Academy Award Best Actress Baby! You want an award- play a sex worker!!!!There's a long tradition of Hollywood actresses playing Oscar-nominated & winning roles as sex workers. I mean a lot ... including the first ever Best Actress winner Janet Gaynor
Just off the top of my head, a few other very notable performances that didn't win would include Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver & Elizabeth Shue in Leaving Las Vegas.
Love that film!Do you remember Jane Fonda in Klute? Academy Award Best Actress Baby! You want an award- play a sex worker!!!!View attachment 90419
As good an actor as Montgomery Clift was, it's hard for me to watch a scene like that and separate the gay dude that he was from the heterosexual guy he is playing in that scene...........also in the 1950s homosexuality was intensely closeted, so that guys like Clift could get parts like this (playjin guys who wanted pussy rather than dick) from studios, and not have them ask those same questions. He is said to have been one of the best at dating women to camouflage his homosexuality. An actor on screen and off, 24/7/365. Tragically, he is also called "Hollywood's Longest Suicide", dying of a heart attack brought on by 9 years of an intense pain pills addiction after a serious 1956 car accident left him with numerous broken bones and other injuries.Oscar-winning Donna Reed's character is explicitly a SW at a brothel, but in the film, she is changed to a "hostess" at a "private social club."
Nevertheless, the effect is much the same ...
OMG, I never thought I would read this! Anora is a movie I found unbearable to watch. People were screaming for a whole hour (okay, with some funny scenes but they were not enough to pique my interest again), and then there was a long, boring search for a stupid young guy, a character that no one in the audience feels compassionate for. Then an end that never ends. It could have lasted 1h30 and we wouldn't cut anything important. It started well, but every scene was too long starting when the tough Russian guys came to the house. A movie I will never watch again.Anora is one of the best movies of the century. It's in my top 10 and also Poor Things which I have seen many times. All these movies about sex workers are winning tons of Oscars and are so entertaining and fun to watch. Both these Actresses won the Oscar for Best Actress for playing Sex Workers and they do it so well. I will watch Poor Things and Anora again this weekend because its just so well made. Also Pretty Woman is still great to watch from time to time.
I absolutely loved ‘From Here to Eternity’ and it remains one of my all-time favorite classics. Frank Sinatra won an Oscar for his great performance in that movie. And who can forget the beach love scene between Burt Lancaster & Deborah Kerr? What a great movie! Monty Cliff at his best along with his performance in ‘A Place in the Sun’.A good example is From Here to Eternity, one of the most famous Hollywood films of the 1950s.
In the souce novel by James Jones, Oscar-winning Donna Reed's character is explicitly a SW at a brothel, but in the film, she is changed to a "hostess" at a "private social club."
So i suppose you were never fan of Cary Grant & Rock Hudson’s movies?As good an actor as Montgomery Clift was, it's hard for me to watch a scene like that and separate the gay dude that he was from the heterosexual guy he is playing in that scene.
Doesn't have anything to do with my fanhood of those actors, as opposed to me as a viewer taking Clift seriously in the scene Meta posted with Donna Reed, acting as a horned up heterosexual man.So i suppose you were never fan of Cary Grant & Rock Hudson’s movies?
While i do agree that the poster referring it as one of the greatest movies of the century was ridiculous I’m surprised you didn’t enjoy it. But of course you’re entitled to your opinion. Maybe it’s simply not your favorite genre of movie? One thing about it is that although i enjoyed it a lot when i first saw it & was happy as hell to see it win the Oscar my guess is that years from now people will say that it was ridiculous that it won the Oscar over such and such movie. Just like when ‘How Green was my Valley’ won the Oscar over the fantastic ‘Citizen Kane’ in 1942 which today is highly regarded as an absolute travesty. Other travesties include ‘Saving Private Ryan’ losing to ‘Shakespeare in Love’ in 1999, ‘Pulp Fiction’ losing to ‘Forrest Gump’ & ‘ET’ losing to the extremely boring ‘Ghandi’, among other upsets.OMG, I never thought I would read this! Anora is a movie I found unbearable to watch. People were screaming for a whole hour (okay, with some funny scenes but they were not enough to pique my interest again), and then there was a long, boring search for a stupid young guy, a character that no one in the audience feels compassionate for. Then an end that never ends. It could have lasted 1h30 and we wouldn't cut anything important. It started well, but every scene was too long starting when the tough Russian guys came to the house. A movie I will never watch again.
What about "Ordinary People" beating the Scorcese-DeNiro masterpiece "Raging Bull", and "The English Patient" winning over the Coen Brothers epic classic, "Fargo"? Weren't those films unjustly deprived of an Academy Award?Just like when ‘How Green was my Valley’ won the Oscar over the fantastic ‘Citizen Kane’ in 1942 which today is highly regarded as an absolute travesty. Other travesties include ‘Saving Private Ryan’ losing to ‘Shakespeare in Love’ in 1999, ‘Pulp Fiction’ losing to ‘Forrest Gump’ & ‘ET’ losing to the extremely boring ‘Ghandi’, among other upsets.
You are absolutely correct. Another one is that movie about the human fish some girl falls in love with. The movie’s name was ‘The Shape of Water’. I’ll be honest i never bothered to see it. Other questonable winners over the past few years were ‘Moonlight’, ‘Parasite’, ‘Nomadland’, ‘Coda’ & ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’. I mean JFC were all the other movies who were nominated all this bad?What about "Ordinary People" beating the Scorcese-DeNiro masterpiece "Raging Bull", and "The English Patient" winning over the Coen Brothers epic classic, "Fargo"? Weren't those films unjustly deprived of an Academy Award?
The Shape of Water was decent (I'm a huge fan of Guillermo Del Toro).You are absolutely correct. Another one is that movie about the human fish some girl falls in love with. The movie’s name was ‘The Shape of Water’. I’ll be honest i never bothered to see it. Other questonable winners over the past few years were ‘Moonlight’, ‘Parasite’, ‘Nomadland’, ‘Coda’ & ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’. I mean JFC were all the other movies who were nominated all this bad?
OMG, I never thought I would read this! Anora is a movie I found unbearable to watch. People were screaming for a whole hour (okay, with some funny scenes but they were not enough to pique my interest again), and then there was a long, boring search for a stupid young guy, a character that no one in the audience feels compassionate for.