Susan's facial expressions distracting?
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jmax7 — 10 years ago(August 25, 2015 08:52 AM)
I enjoyed the movie, although it would have been fine at 2 hours and 30 minutes. I think Claire Forlani is beautiful and an excellent actress, and I enjoyed her in this role.
But I wanted to ask if anyone else was distracted by the way she, as Susan, changed her facial expression 5-10 times in a single take. I understand that many different thoughts and feelings would be appropriate during the course of this film given the plot. But wouldn't it have been better to express them at different times instead of every feeling in every take?
Was this by direction? I was distracted by expressions of joy, wonder, sadness, disbelief, betrayal, curiosity, affection, surrender, resistance, all within 20 seconds.
Anyone else? I still liked the movie. -
interestedparty2013 — 10 years ago(October 26, 2015 11:12 AM)
Agreed. Especially when she and Joe were intimate. There was one view from the top where one eye is sticking out from under Joe and darts, seemingly, erratically to the right. Made me wonder if she had some muscle problem involving the eyes.
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amykersh — 10 years ago(November 16, 2015 08:32 AM)
I came to this board specifically to see if anyone else was irritated by her face. To me it looks like she's purposely holding her eyes in a half squint for the entire film. And that is beside the near constant change in her facial expression. Nice to know I'm not the only one.
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maraki_mant — 10 years ago(November 27, 2015 09:06 PM)
Yes, yes, Thank you, YES! I mean her takes felt like 3 minutes each of "eye games". Great movie though overall, she had good chemistry with Pitt and that score of Thomas Newman So beautiful and haunting! Unbelievable!
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mkeithddc — 9 years ago(December 25, 2016 12:03 PM)
I'd reply to the OP, but it looks like he never came back once to reply to anybody.
So I get what you all are saying, HOWEVER..
I think what you guys are missing is that she was playing off of Brad Pitt.
Brad was acting like a child almost, everything he did the entire movie was
like it was for the first time. So as he looked thoroughly confused the entire
time, she was also confused at his confusion. If anything I was more
distracted by Brad Pitt's direction than her.