Overrated
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MissMargoChanning — 3 years ago(June 16, 2022 03:17 PM)
About the only Burton movie performance I ever actually enjoyed was him as George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. He let Liz do most of the screeching.
I loved him in North Sea Hijack. Excellent line!
Mason: "No, I'm afraid that thought didn't occur to us."
That was great.
He was just so controlled, and yet, entertaining… even when you knew he was deadly.
The art of survival…
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
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TonTon — 3 years ago(July 02, 2022 03:52 AM)
Anything Mason said just seems to roll off the tongue.
What a lot of people don't mention is that Mason was the most popular box office star in British cinema in the 1940s. From 1944-1947 he ranked number 1. It seems that this is overlooked quite often.
Mason also helped change the image of the leading man in English cinema. Before he came along the leading men were more cerebral [Ivor Novello, Robert Donat], but Mason was sexy, sinister and dangerous. The credit usually goes to Anthony Steel for making English men virile, but there were others before that, but I think Mason started that trend. -
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ToastedCheese — 3 years ago(June 08, 2022 10:42 PM)
These polar opposite scales of tagging his acting abilities do not really apply to Mason. He was one of the greats and compared to the drek we see paraded before us now, many millennial and zoomer acting clowns are the over-rated ones. It would be hard to find someone under-rated today.
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TonTon — 3 years ago(August 28, 2022 03:37 AM)
Mason's box office popularity shows that he was highly regarded. He was the number one box office star in England from 1944-1947. His longevity and three Oscar nominations also show that he was a well respected actor.