"Don't cry, Jane, they'll hear you."

[mooging]

I completely blame you for this, missfoxie

Can some kind person/people please recommend me a Helen Mirren film? All I have in my home is Gosford Park, which I watched yesterday while lying in a pool of my own illness (metaphorically speaking only, there was no actual pool) and promptly fell head over heels with her. 

So. Aaaaaany film at all, preferably with some form of angst. Thanking you all very kindly, oh wonderful people I know.

There would have been an accompanying poll but lj screwed around with me and I have to go and lie down again now, so instead I shall give you the questions and maybe you can tell me in the comments? With your helpful Helen Mirren film suggestions? *puppy eyes*

1) Favourite actor/actress (or one of them, I know it's difficult to choose!)
2) Favourite scene said person has done.

I was going to put this next bit behind a cut, but I feel it's important for you all to read:

I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the last couple of memes I've done, because they've meant I've conversed with all of you lovely people and you all really do make me smile and giggle and make me feel better when my own body is conspiring against me. I guess what I mean is that I'm glad I've met youuu, all of you crazy people, even the ones I've not spoken to a lot or have just met recently, and that talking to you or reading things you've written genuinely does make me all yaye. So thank you, for being brilliant people. That is all.

I'm very sorry. I'm hormonal and emotional and my head hurts. Sorry if that last paragraph sounds a tad crazed.

 

Comments

[nyuszi.livejournal.com]

i'm so sorry you're feeling ill. hopefully it'll go away and you'll be healthy and happy again. :)

hmmm... helen mirren... well, i loved her in the queen, and def check out calendar girls. also, the cook the thief his wife & her lover, and make sure you get a hold of the shakespeare stuff she's done. :)

a) meryl streep and mary mcdonnell (pls don't make me chose!) and ralph fiennes
b) meryl - everything, but my favourite scene would have to be her breaking down in front of jeff daniels' character in the hours. the "unraveling" scene, as i call it. mary - her breakdown in the morgoue by billy's side (bsg) and overall, her breakdown right toward the end of an american clock. simply brilliant! ralph - carrying katherine's body out of the cave in the english patient

apparently i really like them angsty and depressed. :D

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

I bought myself Calendar Girls today, to cheer myself up! I'm thinking of buying The Cook... later, when I have some more money.

Okay, I really try to understand what it is about Meryl Streep that people like but I just can't see it. What am I missing? I just don't engage with her when she acts...tell me something to watch to change my mind? Keep in mind that I've seen The Hours and didn't see anything special! *ducks for cover*

And I've seen the Mary moments you've mentioned and particularly agree with The American Clock moment - superb. I think if I had to pick a favourite Laura scene, it would either be the scene with Adama in LDYB part 2 or the short scene in Valley of Darkness, where she's in the brig and the cylons can be heard shooting the crap out of stuff in the distance and she raises her voice just that bit more to shout at the guard to let her out of the cell. Brilliant.

Oh, and Ralph Fiennes? So. Pretty. I liked The English Patient as well; I'm a Kristin Scott-Thomas girl ;-)

[nyuszi.livejournal.com]

yay for calendar girls. it's such a pretty movie. and funny... and sweet in a... well, sweet way. :)

i can't explain meryl. i can't. try out of africa, if you haven't seen it yet. also, sophie's choice and the french lieutenant's woman. she's great in both. you know that thing i like about mary, about how she can transform herself and become the character, well, i think that's what meryl does, but in a slightly different way. neither are afraid to change the way they look, or take up a part that goes against what they are as people. that is, i think, what draws me to both actresses. plus meryl always looks stoned when giving interviews. :D

oh gods yes! that scene in valley of darkness was great. i also loved the way she called after lee "may the gods protect you". i dunno why, but that's one of my all time fave bsg scenes.

I'm a Kristin Scott-Thomas girl

ZOMGS! you too? i have SUCH a girl-crush on her! i always make sure to see everything new she does. and when she speaks french with that nearly flawless accent, i just melt.

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

I knoooow, Kristin is amaaaazing. Have you seen Keeping Mum? I love and adore it to tiny little pieces. Her role is just so different from her others and the plot is cracktastically brilliant and yes.

And of course I also love Four Weddings and a Funeral. For obvious reasons - hi, Richard Curtis, you wrote it! - and also because Kristin is so gorgeous and there's also Anna Chancellor. It's like someone just decided to throw a big bundle of good at the page and came up with it!

I am sad to say that I have never heard her speak French! I keep meaning to do something about that, but somehow...it doesn't happen.

Back to BSG: it is usually the little scenes I end up liking. I mean, the big, dramatic give-Mary-a-goddamn-award scenes are, of course, wonderful, but the little ones with little Laura moments are just the icing on the Mary cake.

That analogy seems wrong somehow ;-)

[nyuszi.livejournal.com]

she IS! and of course i've seen keeping mum! because! ZOMGS! i adored her in cromophobia too! you seen that? ralph is in it as well. yummmy yummmy ralph! :D

and, zomgs, you'll have to check out arsene lupin. the movie itself is fun, kinda campy, but she's just breathtaking in it. i keep re-watching it because i love to hear her speak french. she was also in la doublure, but her part was rather small. i'm gonna have to find more of her french movies, i only have a couple.

i love anna chancellor, but somehow i haven't managed to catch four weddings and a funeral. i've no idea why!

i adore the little laura moments. like the way she touched the wall to steady herself in the morgue by billy's side, or how she arranged his hair, the way she shifts her weight from one leg to the other when she's nervous, the way her eyes narrow just a little bit when she doesn't trust someone or isn't sure about something, the way she got adama to do exactly what she wanted in water and he didn't even realize he was being had.

mmmmmmm... mary cake! sounds yummy!