This role originally belonged to Naomi Watts. I believe that if she were to play, the texture and emotional details of the film would be completely different. Naomi’s pitiful face, which may be frightened at all times, will instantly dissolve the restrained tension of the story—you can hardly believe that she will succeed in the end, and all the audience’s emotions will be drawn to pity one. How Meirener suffered a "sacrifice for a lifetime" (the words of the heroine's son in the film) at such a flowery age.
Swank was different. Even though she was crying in pain, I didn't have any pain in my heart, because the role she conveyed was that she would definitely be able to defeat everything and succeed.
No matter how good an actor's acting skills are, it can never offset the temperament brought by hits.
Another obvious example is Julia Roberts, who has retreated from the Queen's position to the second line. In fact, "Never Compromise", which won the Oscar for her at the time, has many similarities with "Conviction": Poor women investigate, overthrow the system, and win the big consortium-this is Roberts in "The Beautiful Lady in Wind and Moon." After that, the most correct role choice was that in "Beautiful Lady in Wind and Moon", she acted as a virgin prostitute, and in "Never Compromise", she acted as a prostitute as a civil rights fighter-I am not a high-level black, in fact , This is completely compliment. It is this prostitute-like treatment that makes the audience smell the flesh and blood of the character. At that year’s Oscar, Julia was better than the contacts for many years, and the second was the choice. The triumph of the corner-every actor has his own best type and processing, but not every actor can realize and discover this truth, which also requires experience and talent.
So, thank you Swank for taking this play. If it is Naomi Watts, I believe that the temperate handling of the whole scene will be completely washed away by tears-temperance and multiple blanks for plot handling are the most worthy of four stars in this movie.
The last thing I want to say is that a woman who has done such a great thing in such a lifetime, what regret is there?
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