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trvscrosley — 10 years ago(February 23, 2016 06:19 AM)
Yeah, Lars tends to be a hit or miss but when its good, he has the ability to really scar you emotionally which allows the film to sit with you for years afterwords.
Melancholia, Dancer in the Dark, and Dogville (my favorite) all had really complex characters that allowed the female lead to shine. The only problem is they all share a component of huge suffering and harsh treatment. That's mostly what I meant about her not wanting to gravitate towards that type of role, but it would certainly allow her to do something she could never do anywhere else. -
trvscrosley — 9 years ago(April 14, 2016 11:14 AM)
I would love to see her in a Gone Girl type character; I can't think of any books I've read recently like that though (besides Girl on The Train which is already filming with Emily Blunt). Maybe if Gillian Flynn comes out with another novel with a strong female character Saoirse would get involved. Almost all of her books have been adapted so far, except Dark Places was a horrible movie.
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Poetswan — 9 years ago(April 14, 2016 01:15 PM)
You sure don't like Nina! Well, i don't think she was that bad, for me she was simply a foolish girl, who wanted to follow her dream of been an actress and get out of that village, in the end she is lured by the charming Trigorin to a miserable life. For me, in her ending monologue with Treplev she shows to have learned her lesson.
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Poetswan — 9 years ago(April 14, 2016 03:15 PM)
She is probably unlikeable if you see it by Treplevs side,but i don't think she is a nasty bitch, she is an imature girl like Jlent said and at the end she ends up destroyed. I agree with you that Saoirse needs to play a radically different character from Eilis, It would be great to see her play an Abigail like character in film.
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jlent — 9 years ago(April 14, 2016 02:42 PM)
Nina's my favorite character in the play. She's not the manipulator, and not even close to being a bitch. It's her faithless lover, Trigorin, who is the manipulator. He admits he's going to be before even starting the affair with her.
Trigorin and Nina are by the lake at the end of Act 2. Heartbroken, Treplev earlier had deposited a dead sea gull he killed at her feet and stomped off.
Trigorin and Nina banter, he all world weary fake humbleness designed to impress, she all dewy-eyed star-struck infatuation with the "great man."
Trigorin spots the dead gull and star5b4ts writing in his notebook. Nina asks him what he's writing.
"An idea occurred to me, an idea for a short story. A young girl grows up on the shores of a lake, as you have. She loves the lake as the gulls do, and is as happy and free as they. But a man sees her who chances to come that way, and he destroys her out of idleness, as this gull here has been destroyed."
Nina eventually is destroyed emotionally, and returns in the last act in the middle of a nervous breakdown. But she has done nothing wrong except to be young and gullible. It's in that last scene Saoirse will show what stuff she has. -
Poetswan — 9 years ago(April 14, 2016 03:04 PM)
Yes Jlent, what he writes in his notebook is what he knew was going to happen to Nina. I think he saw her as a source for writing, as we can see, the only thing he loved was writing, he didn't care about people.
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Poetswan — 9 years ago(April 19, 2016 05:00 PM)
In this site:
http://moviepilot.com/posts/3684744
Saoirse was fancasted as Stargirl, I am not familiar with this super hero, but it looks like a great blockbuster role for her. -
purple_lemon — 9 years ago(April 19, 2016 08:08 PM)
Seeing that Saoirse has expressed an interest in doing comedy I have long thought that the old Peter Sellers film 'The Party' from 1968 could be successfully updated and remade. I suggested this on the Jennifer Lawrence board last year as well.
In the film Sellers played a very accident prone man from India who is trying to beak into the film industry in Hollywood. After ruining a film production with his bumbling the Director fires him and phones the Producer to tell him about the disaster. The Producer vows to make sure the bumbler never works in Hollywood again! But he inadvertently writes his name onto an invitation list for an A-Lister party he is throwing at his hi-tech mansion. The bumbler duly receives his invitation, attends the party and hijinks ensue!
There is no reason that the Sellers role couldn't be played by a young woman from Ireland and at the same time that would remove any concerns about the old film having "racist" overtones.
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GanzEhrlich — 9 years ago(October 22, 2016 08:21 AM)
I honestly don't think Persona needs to be remade, but Saoirse would kill it as either Alma or Elisabet (or both!). Personally, she would have been perfect in an Ingmar Bergman film.
And that's how Tom Ripley created and defeated Two-Face