What are the highlights of Francis McDomond and Sam Rockwell's performances in "Three Billboards"?

Kristin 2021-10-13 13:08:06

It's just that you look at them and think that they are indeed the roles they played, like a living person, but the experience makes them different from ordinary people. First of all, it shows that the acting skills are very natural and vivid. Secondly, their roles are extreme and normal people, that is, you won't look at them more when walking normally, but you can't help but stare at them as soon as they speak and do something. Both of them interpret this complex subtlety very well, and they are also very consistent with the style of the film. It is far less difficult to play a completely madman than a normal person with a little madness, because this kind of role requires both real-life experience and artistic characterization. It is logical at the right time and somewhat at the right time. God logic, this timing is difficult to control. For example, if the role of a mother is a mother who is simply driven mad by her daughter's death, she will often be in a state of hysteria and begin to collapse when she mentions her daughter. After reading, we will deeply sympathize with this mother, saying that she is really too miserable, then what? We will ignore her behavioral logic, and we will all be obscured by a state of "she was crushed by her daughter's death". She is abnormal. In an abnormal state, people's words are not worth thinking about but worthy of sympathy, ah, look at her. They were all hit and set on fire. The mother in the film is calm, restrained, and feels like she knows what she is doing, she knows the consequences of doing this, her IQ is online, she doesn’t need us to sympathize with, she needs justice, truth, murderer , For this purpose she made all kinds of things. The actor came to her performance, and sometimes she even made us forget the sympathy of the town residents in the film, and began to think about whether she was doing this right. If the mother is completely mad, she finally thinks in the car whether to sanction the murderer or not, it will not cause the audience to think the same way, but will only feel that this is a kind of revenge for the justice messenger, the incarnation of the mad mother. But revenge is obviously not the director's intention. The role of Dixon is also complicated. Many people say that his transformation is too abrupt, but it is actually because of the complex and simple personality of this character. Dixon is easily influenced by others. He is like a child. His mother said, why don't you threaten her friends? He went. And as his father's sheriff said, you go to be a good man, and he goes too. Good or bad is just a guide for him. He didn't care about other people's life and death, very violent, he also didn't care about his own life and death, so he fought with the murderer for his life, so he didn't hate that mother because of disfigurement, not because other people became better, he just didn't care that much. Sam Rockwell, an actor who is good at comedy, perfectly blends Dixon’s tyranny and innocence. From various details and expressions, we can Brain fill up the background of this role. He was fierce when fighting with the murderer, fell in love with his tyrannical mother, was in awe of the sheriff's obsessive brother, and lost selflessness as soon as he listened to a song. This role is very complicated, but when the actor plays, you will feel that there is indeed such a person alive. This is his acting skills. Because all he can perform is the iceberg exposed at the end of his cognition of the role behind him.

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  • Mildred Hayes: [Upon discovering Denise got arrested] Rat bastards.

    [Mildred then enters the police station house]

    Mildred Hayes: Hey fuckhead!

    Dixon: What?

    Desk Sergeant: Don't say "what", Dixon, when she comes in calling you a fuckhead, and don't you come in here...

    Mildred Hayes: Shut up!

    Mildred Hayes: [to Dixon] You, get over here.

    Dixon: No! You, get over here.

    Mildred Hayes: Alright.

    Desk Sergeant: What? Don't, Dixon!

    Dixon: What? I'm...

    Desk Sergeant: You do not allow a member of the public to call you a fuckhead in the station house!

    Dixon: That's what I'm doing, I'm taking care of it in my own way, actually. Now get out of my ass! Mrs. Hayes, have a seat! What is it I can do for you today?

    Mildred Hayes: Where's Denise Watson?

    Dixon: Denise Watson's in the clank.

    Mildred Hayes: On what charge?

    Dixon: Possession.

    Mildred Hayes: Of what?

    Dixon: Two marijuana cigarettes. Big ones.

    Mildred Hayes: When's the bail hearing?

    Dixon: I asked the judge not to give her bail on account of her previous marijuana violations and the judge said sure.

    Mildred Hayes: You fucking prick!

    Dixon: You do not call an officer of the law a fucking prick in his own station-house, Mrs. Hayes. Or anywhere, actually.

    Mildred Hayes: What's with the new attitude, Dixon? Your momma been coaching ya?

    Dixon: No. My momma didn't do that.

    Dixon: [as Mildred leaves the police station house] Take 'em down, you hear me?

    Desk Sergeant: You did good, Dixon.

    Dixon: Yeah, I know I did.

  • Dixon: What the hell is this?... Hey, you. What the fuck is this?

    Jerome: What the fuck is what?

    Dixon: This! This

    [pointing at the billboard]

    Dixon: .

    Jerome: Advertising, I guess.

    Dixon: Advertising what?

    Jerome: Something obscure?

    Dixon: I'll say. Yeah.

    Jerome: Don't I know your face from some place?

    Dixon: I don't know, do you?

    Jerome: Yeah. Yeah, I do

    [spits on the ground]

    Jerome: .

    Dixon: I could arrest you right now...

    Jerome: For what?

    Dixon: For emptying your bucket... That's being bad against the environment laws.

    Jerome: Well, before you do that, Officer Dixon, how about you have a look at that first billboard over there? And then we can have ourself a conversation about the motherfucking environment... How about that?