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inuyasha_king_of_tetsusaiga — 21 years ago(December 14, 2004 03:45 PM)
Best perfomance is easliy in Gandhi. I am surprised some of you put sexy beast and house of sand and fog ahead. That performance easliy and also one of the best performances in the history of cinema.
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patrick72-1 — 20 years ago(April 20, 2005 02:56 PM)
Hard to go aroung Ghandi or Schindler's List, but if you guys never saw "Death and the maiden", i suggest you give it a shot. A Roman Polanski movie with Kingsley and Sigourney Weaver. I wouldn't put the performance over the others mentioned, but a definite must.
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Camargue — 18 years ago(August 14, 2007 09:10 PM)
Fact: The Chinese are experimenting on ways to poison us all to death. Fact: Islam is planning to blow us up or wage war until we are all dead.
Fact: The Democrats are planning to tax us to death and beyond, including inflicting upon us a worse health care system than Canada.
Fact: The Republicans are on a hate campaign against our second greatest trading partner because the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq aren't weakening our economy fast enough.
Fact: Americans are getting fatter, are saving less, are too sedentary, and now have a shortened lifespan.
Yet YOU are concerned because someone (on a Ben Kingsley web site, for Pete's sake) used the secondary spelling of a long dead, perennially complaining, work-avoiding socialist who did less for India than the average British Viceroy.
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SkaterSoren-1 — 14 years ago(July 21, 2011 07:16 AM)
Sorry to go off-thread, but what Camargue wrote was just to crazy to ignore.
Camargue, you say that "Islam is planning to blow us up or wage war until we are all dead."
And I ask how can a religion do that? Perhaps some islamic extremists are doing what you accuse them of, but not the entire religion.
It would be just as saying that Christianity was responsible for WW2 just because Hitler was Christian. Or saying that Christianity threw the Nakasaki and Hiroshima bombs in Japan, just because Harry S. Truman was Christian. This has nothing to do with the religion, just because the men behind are religious.
I'm not religious in any way myself and in fact I hate religion and the negative effects it has had on humanity.
As to your other facts and your hating on Gandhi; They are just as full of bigotry as the above so-called fact, but I won't bother answering them now. Maybe another time.
As for Sir Ben Kingsley, I haven't seen that many films starring him, but as others have said, I would also say that his role in 'Gandhi' and 'Schindler's List' are his best work. -
DanielCrakehole — 21 years ago(November 29, 2004 10:27 PM)
What isn't he good in? In Gandhi he is a clone of the real man. In Schindler's List he trumps Neeson as the best actor in the movie. As Logan in Sexy Beast he surprised me further more. I never knew he could be so aggressive.
You had a few drinks and you got laid. The next day you were alone again. Sober and once more trying to redeem purity you could feel the emptiness inside. Your thoughts repeated themselves "There's someone out there who means a lot to me". You prayed for angels. -
califlipmix — 21 years ago(January 01, 2005 03:11 AM)
Considering how awful british actors are at portraying american characters I would have to say his role as Meyer Lanski in Bugsy is his most memorable performance I mean seing the guy most well knows for being Ghandi switch into the role of one of americas most well known gangsters was amazing He is a genius..
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Osip — 19 years ago(June 26, 2006 08:13 PM)
I agree Kingsley is a spell-binding Feste. His Feste appears to be full of humanity, of melancholy about the transience of love and life, of a sad sympathy for the other characters' struggles to find their way through a maze of passion and love. At the same time, Kingsley's Feste is inscrutable; one always suspects him to be in the know about the various secrets of Shakespeare's play, most notably Viola's identity. A wonderful performance that, under Trevor Nunn's direction, makes Feste into the play's central character. It's amazing how much Kingsley achieved with his in this film rather low-key acting.