On January 23, Daniel Day-Lewis won the 90th Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his "Phantom Sewing". This is his sixth Oscar nomination for Best Actor.
Prior to this, he won three Oscars for Best Actor for "My Left Foot", "The Blood Is Coming" and "Lincoln". He is the first actor to win the Oscar three times in film history.
In addition, his starring "Blood is Coming" was selected by AVClub as the number one performer of the decade of the 2000s.
This time, he has contributed master-level acting skills.
He played the role of Reynolds, a tailor in the British fashion industry, as an artist in "The Phantom of the Seamstress".
Daniel Day-Lewis didn't need to use his fist. Once he stopped there, the artist's temperament, demeanor, elegance and dignity would be there.
At that moment, he was not playing Reynolds, he was Reynolds.
When he is at work, he is attentive, gentle in communication, thoughtful when silent, and aggressive when he is angry. All kinds of states are properly interpreted by him.
On the surface, Reynolds is just an ordinary person. In fact, his character is very complicated and it is very challenging to play such a role.
Reynolds' complex personality is reflected in his gentleness and hostility, strong yet fragile, straightforward and disguised.
He is very gentle. He has been in aristocratic circles for many years, and he has cultivated a gentleman's demeanor and noble temperament, so he behaves elegantly and politely most of the time.
He is also hostile, because he has his own principles. If you follow his principles, he will treat you well; if you break his principles, he will immediately turn his face and deny others. For example, when he is working, he does not allow others to disturb him, and no noise is allowed; when guests sleep in their own skirts, he will swear if they don’t agree; Alma asks everyone to leave and wants to create a two-person world, but he feels uncomfortable. Happy.
He was strong. Before Alma was poisoned, he always behaved very strong, and verbally said that he was strong.
He is also very fragile. He is worried that people will leave him; he always misses his mother and hopes to be with her wherever he goes, so he sewed a strand of his mother's hair to his clothes so that his mother will always be with him. Especially after he was poisoned, he looked at the monologue uttered by "mother", which showed his vulnerability.
He is blunt, never circumspect, he must say what he doesn't like: "I don't want to eat slimy food" "I have no time to fight with you" "Please don't make such a big movement, this is like riding a horse It makes no difference across the room."
He also pretends that he shows a strong and tough side, in fact, to cover up his inner fragility and low self-esteem; he is personable, and he just hides his thoughts in his heart.
In addition, he has a strong desire for control and possessiveness.
He wants to control everything, and if he loses control, he will be very angry. For example, when Henrietta Harding goes to another tailor's shop, he becomes furious.
He wants to possess his mates, does not allow them to have their own ideas, and must adapt to their own habits.
After Alma was poisoned, he changed from loving work to obsessing with lover, from pretending to be strong to tender, from pretending to be honest to each other...
Such a complicated role may only be held by an actor like Daniel Day-Lewis who has won the actor three times. If another person is used to perform, the effect will be greatly reduced.
I don’t know when, when an actor frowns, screams, frenzied, hideous, and muffled, someone will say that his acting skills are "exploded."
I don't know when it started, there were actors with "explosive" acting skills everywhere.
In my opinion, this kind of performance is too hard, too much too much, it can only be regarded as a second-rate acting, because you can feel that he is "acting".
And Daniel Day-Lewis abandons exaggeration, showoff, contrived, deliberate, and replaces it with introverted, restrained, implicit, and truthful. You can no longer see the traces of "acting", so you won't feel anything in his performance at the beginning. Special, but at the same time he infects you from the inside out and subtly, you will sigh from the bottom of your heart: This is the first-class acting!
What others are acting like, what is he acting like.
If you use one word to describe it, it is returning to the basics.
Vicki Cripps, who played Alma, also performed very well.
Many young actors recite their lines very well, but they lack emotion when they say it, as if they are memorizing a text.
In fact, it is impossible to speak fluently, especially when quarreling requires thinking.
Vicki Cripps has a strong foundation in her lines. For example, when arguing, she interprets the state of "thinking how to fight back against each other" and "has been frustrated, but still has to organize language".
Alma also has a complex personality.
She has a little birdie side. She often shows femininity and tenderness, such as her shy posture and shy smile when she first met Reynolds; especially when she faced Reynolds’s marriage proposal, the other party asked three questions. She agreed all the time. In fact, she had agreed already in her heart, but she didn't say it for the first time. This is often the case when people face good news, immersed in joy and forgetting to speak. The same is true for Alma. When her biggest wish came true, she was in her throat, with mixed flavors. She couldn't believe it was true. She finally smiled after a long time of psychological preparation. This acting is simply amazing.
She has an independent side. Everyone says this fabric is beautiful. She still says she doesn’t want to change her taste. Cyril said that Reynolds doesn’t like surprises. Alma still insists on using her own way to understand Reynolds. Noble life pays attention to etiquette. Education, but she doesn’t care what others think of her, she always dared to tell her true thoughts; especially when other partners just obey Reynolds, only she dared to make a breakthrough, using poison to create a balance between the two, So that we can grow old together.
From this, we can conclude that Reynolds has a tough attitude and Alma is slightly weaker.
Love is about a close match, and the two sides are equally balanced to be stable.
As we mentioned earlier, Reynolds has his own principles, and has zero tolerance for others' behavior that goes beyond the principles.
Therefore, Alma can only fundamentally change his principles and establish new rules.
As a result, she used poison to create a balance between the two, so that Reynolds was no longer stubborn, tough, and disguised, showing a fragile, gentle and honest side, and becoming forced to need her to take care of, thus creating opportunities for her to be a wife. .
As Alma said: He only becomes gentle, fragile and honest when he lay down.
Reynolds's "step" is too fast, and she needs to let the other party "slow down" so that the two can go hand in hand.
Reynolds said that he was cursed, he was destined not to get married, and the poison became the antidote to the curse.
The meaning of "poisoning" is abstract. It represents all the methods to make the two lovers evenly matched, to make the tough one weaker, and the weak one stronger, so that the two can help each other, understand each other, and make both parties genuine. Become the other half of the other party in the sense.
Therefore, this is not a simple love story. The director also explored human nature and rights.
In recent years, most of Chong'ao films have high-minded ideas, such as freedom of speech, racial discrimination, disadvantaged groups, political shady, public opinion, LGBT, etc., among which there are many excellent and even great films, but "The Phantom of the Seamstress" has one of them. Missing trait: detachment.
Paul Thomas Anderson did not pursue political correctness, focused on hot topics, did not incite fandom, did not attract the attention of judges, but restored the beauty of the film and calmly told a love story. Reject all routines and impress the audience with sincerity.
The performance is the first return to nature in this film; the content is the second return to nature in this film.
The performance and content complement each other, the best of both worlds, and their combination makes the whole movie exquisite and beautiful. Wash away the lead and return to the basics.
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