Did you know, going in, that he plays a villain? Because I'm slightly envious re: the contemporary audience getting that surprise unspoiled. As I heard, Fonda first thought he'd wear a mustache and brown contact lenses, which Sergio Leone immediately nixed - he wanted the famous blue eyes and Henry Fonda's unmasked face for this character.
Splinter of ice: yes, I know that Greene quote. Of course, Kai when gtting his from the Snow Queen thereafter wasn't able to recall anything, or even replicate feeling something.
Of course, sometimes it happens in reverse for actors, first the acting, then the actual experience. On the lighter side, Laurence Olivier in his memoirs writers how he went to Ernest Jones of Freudian fame to figure out Iago's motives etc. for his first performance in the role (when he played it with Ralph Richardson on a rotating basis - they switched between Iago and Othello), and then, years later when serving in WWII, he couldn't stand his superior officer, and found himself thinking "hm, he has an attractive wife..." until he realized what that meant, ever after concluding Jago should be taken at his word when stating it's for being passed over for promotion. :)
On the sader side, Corin Redgrave in his book on father Michael movingly describes Michael coming out to him, and how that sentence "I am, to say the very least, bisexual" (to which C.R. said "I know", because he and his sisters had figured it out in their adolescence without being told by either of their parents) was followed, after hearing the reply, with a shockwave of emotion, outburst of tears. And that he only much later realised he'd seen it before, whem Michael Redgrave played Arthur Crocker-Harris in "The Browning Variation" - the reaction when he gets the Browning with the "to a kind master" dedication was this exactly. But the film had come first, and only years later the reveal.
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Date: 2018-07-04 05:32 pm (UTC)Splinter of ice: yes, I know that Greene quote. Of course, Kai when gtting his from the Snow Queen thereafter wasn't able to recall anything, or even replicate feeling something.
Of course, sometimes it happens in reverse for actors, first the acting, then the actual experience. On the lighter side, Laurence Olivier in his memoirs writers how he went to Ernest Jones of Freudian fame to figure out Iago's motives etc. for his first performance in the role (when he played it with Ralph Richardson on a rotating basis - they switched between Iago and Othello), and then, years later when serving in WWII, he couldn't stand his superior officer, and found himself thinking "hm, he has an attractive wife..." until he realized what that meant, ever after concluding Jago should be taken at his word when stating it's for being passed over for promotion. :)
On the sader side, Corin Redgrave in his book on father Michael movingly describes Michael coming out to him, and how that sentence "I am, to say the very least, bisexual" (to which C.R. said "I know", because he and his sisters had figured it out in their adolescence without being told by either of their parents) was followed, after hearing the reply, with a shockwave of emotion, outburst of tears. And that he only much later realised he'd seen it before, whem Michael Redgrave played Arthur Crocker-Harris in "The Browning Variation" - the reaction when he gets the Browning with the "to a kind master" dedication was this exactly. But the film had come first, and only years later the reveal.