Jessica Lange Is AWFUL In This Film.
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cocumaluzzi — 15 years ago(August 08, 2010 12:00 AM)
I didn't think she was that bad although I'm not a huge fan of short-haired broads. Juliette was her usual "cringeworthy" self though. God she sucks. And yeah, now that I think about it I guess Jessica sucked pretty bad too. God I hate short-haired broads!
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monty_106 — 15 years ago(August 26, 2010 06:38 PM)
Yeah, I agree; she was a pain in the arse. She was like an overly-enthusiastic 5 year old trying to get someone's attention. What was up with her breathing? It was like she was enduring an incessant asthma attack for the entire film. Her eyes kept rolling around all over the place as well, like she was having some kind of seizure. Weirdo.
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dsgoorevitch — 15 years ago(September 04, 2010 10:18 AM)
What was she supposed to do? The writer had it all wrong. The Nick Nolte character had to be both cold and controlling to make the women do what they did. And he was neither. And it was partly Nolte's fault for not being able to decide who he was but it was mostly Scorcese's fault. Women are not his strong point. He knows nothing about them and I think this is obvious about him looking at his other movies. Lange is a superb actress when given proper lines and direction. "Frances" was really something, for example.
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MisterHex — 10 years ago(December 10, 2015 08:25 PM)
And it was partly Nolte's fault for not being able to decide who he was but it was mostly Scorcese's fault. Women are not his strong point. He knows nothing about them and I think this is obvious about him looking at his other movies.
I've always thought the same about Michael Mann, who never really wrote or portrayed women very realistically in his films. More than a coincidence that Mann and Scorcese specialize in male-dominated crook movies -
arman0612 — 14 years ago(May 14, 2011 11:00 PM)
What? I thought she was amazing, a wonderful performance, I really liked how her character was a little crazy and very weird and she had some funny scenes at the beginning. I also think she played the scenes where she was scared in a very convincing way and her tears were amazing as well, one of the best performances I've seen by her.
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tightspotkilo — 13 years ago(April 25, 2012 09:04 AM)
I've NEVER thought Jessica Lange was all that. Well, other than her first film, King Kong in 1976, where she was basically eye candy. Way way WAY overrated as a "serious" actress. So her stinking up Cape Fear is pretty much par for the course for her.
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TheAnimalMother — 12 years ago(May 20, 2013 02:31 AM)
Personally I think she plays the character bang on. Her character is suppose to be overcome with emotional instability, and the friction her and Nolte create is amazing in this. It feels like they truly are married. I don't see how you can miss this with an open minded perception. I think you've misjudged this totally. It's the character that you likely hate, not the performance. It's like Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire. It's hard to like Vivien Leigh because the character she plays is such an unbelievable douche bag. Vivien did win the Oscar for it, but she probably would never have if she was not already a super star actress.
There is also tons of subtlety in her performance. Such as the scene when her and Nolte are in bed sharing a cig and they are waiting, expecting Cady to break in. It's the beginning of a great suspenseful lead up to a dead maid in the kitchen, etc. "every one of her lines are delivered in an overexaggerated format" B.S! Don't you think Scorsese and his people picked the person who delivered the character the way he wanted? Of course they did. Her part fits the movie, but yes, she is hard to like. Her acting however in my view, is definitely something to like. She's great!
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rascal67 — 12 years ago(July 03, 2013 09:37 PM)
The whole movie was filled with heightened performances..
I would rather say 'exaggerated' and 'overdone', rather than 'heightened' performances in this awful excuse for a thriller. As far as I am concerned, Juliette Lewis is the only one who gave a decent performance in this mess of a movie. This is quite a revelation, considering she was the least experienced of the actors.