Comments on: The Private Parts Of Pippa Lee

By: a tanned rested and unlogged lørd sükråt wötsît

a tanned rested and unlogged lørd sükråt wötsît — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:33:43 +0000

keanu is grebt in bill&ted 1&2, and many of his other films wd be improved by tedding it up ESPECIALLY THE MATRIX

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:23:28 +0000

A film where they thought they were using Keanu well, but weren’t was The Remake Of The Day The Earth Stood Still. Sure, he was fine as an otherworldly alien masquerading as a human, diffident like Michael Rennie. But when they wanted the role to subtly change and become more human, he seemed even more alium.

Film which use Keanu well but he is often derided for (possibly for the films themselves aren’t much cop) : Much Ado About Nothing and Dracula. In both the characters as written ARE A BIT RUBBISH (Don Pedro needs to be a rubbish villain for the play to remain light, Jonathon Harker is a wet weekend in the book) so Keanu’s bemusement works in their favour.

By: Martin Skidmore

Martin Skidmore — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:46:54 +0000

It comes into it if you want an actor to do certain things, like play a character with complexity and depth – Keanu would be little use at that, but some can do it. There are also good-actor points for being able to cover a wide range. Those are usually what people mean by “a good actor”. I do think that is a dangerously reductive interpretation of what constitutes good acting, which may be what you meant. Keanu is in the tradition of Movie Star rather than Movie Actor, if you see what I mean, a Rock Hudson rather than a Rod Steiger. That is a sometimes underappreciated value.

By: Mark M

Mark M — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:33:23 +0000

“Its one of those films that knows exactly how to use Keanu Reeves”

This is a notion about how we talk about actors that I lean towards more and more heavily over the years: I think people use the idea of someone being “a good actor” as if it were a much less subjective business than it really is. But then Keanu, widely described as a terrible actor, as often been as asset to a film (and equally, often been a bad thing) – does acting quality come into it?

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:27:59 +0000

It could have been something like that, but everyone else around her talks incessantly and the flashbacks have sparing, but deliberate voiceover. And at the heart of it is a melodramatic plot which is anything but workaday. Its not a bad comparison, though one that Pippa Lee would fall down badly on (whereas it is robust next to say Sunshine Cleaning – though Alan Arkin survives that one).

By: Tracer Hand

Tracer Hand — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:19:52 +0000

The way you describe this it sounds almost Taiwanese, i.e. Edward Yang or Tsai Ming-Liang, with their wordless disquisitions on the privateness and intensity of workaday experience.