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Date Posted: 04:10:34 12/09/03 Tue
Author: foxy
Subject: not many.
In reply to: Silk 's message, "Best modern-day cinematic villains..." on 02:42:56 12/09/03 Tue

i always know i hate a villain (when a villain is really well played) when i get my own personal feeling of satisfaction when the hero kicks the shit out of him at the end of a film. that really guttoral, internal feeling.

i always liked alan rickman's villain in die hard. no surprise he did such a great job as he was an accomplished shakesperean stage actor. articulate, sophisticated, with that german twang.

dafoe did ok in spiderman, i thought. overplayed & over-wrought & therefore great because it's true to the comics. though that's the great thing about the movie (though i don't know much about the comics) - it's so obviously a labor of love from a real spiderman fan. watch the film closely & you realise the director probably used the exact storyboard provided by the comics themselves. & no matter how many times i see it i'm always less interested in the action (particularly the goblin subplot) that in the AMAZING chemistry between maguire & dunst. REALLY, really great stuff. aided, again, by the fact all their (brilliantly written) conversations are shot in comic-book format - one actor's face fills the screen, the other actor's face fills the screen. & dunst gets those romantic reactions DEAD RIGHT. & maguire NAILS those lines. hospital-room scene where maguire indirectly relates his love for dunst is one of the better scenes to come outta hollywood for a decade. superbly written (because the love is so INDIRECT & still so DISTANT) & wonderfully rendered.

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Saw that in Spiderman. -- Silk, 04:39:30 12/09/03 Tue
You really NAILED those two Foxy (NT) -- They were the first two I thought of when I first read Silk's post, 16:17:23 12/09/03 Tue
- Ooops -- Macho, 16:27:45 12/09/03 Tue
  - hopper in speed was decent. -- foxy, 17:23:15 12/09/03 Tue