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Question about SHINE

  • 25-01-2004 1:45pm
    #1
    Pigman II
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    Can someone explain to me how Geoffrey Rush won the 'best actor' Oscar for the film Shine? Don't get me wrong I'm not saying he put in a bad performance in the movie, but where my qualm comes from is the actual amount of time Rush appears in the film. By my reckoning Rush isn't in even half of the movie and if anything Alex Rafalowicz (who plays the younger version of Rush's character in the movie) actually has MORE screen time as the real-life pianist David Helfgott than Rush himself does.

    (sorry for putting this on music, it's meant to be in films. I've tried deleting this post but the system won't let me get rid of it for some reason. Could a mod please move this to films?)


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  • #2
    beardedchicken
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    Dame Judy Dench won a best supporting actress oscar for her role as Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love, which involved a total screen time of about 8 minutes. in both of those cases, i would assume that it's the quality of the performance that counts, and not the length of time that the actor spends on screen.

    in rush's case, i would think that the difficulty of the performance lay in treating helfgott's mental breakdown in a sensitive and subtler than usual manner (by hollywood standards), and therefore warranting an oscar.


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