Day #18 of the 30 Day Film Challenge

[shadowkat]

Day #18 of the 30 Day Film Challenge.

A film that stars a favorite actor/actress (it said your favorite, but I changed it to a favorite - because I don't have one favorite. And it varies.)

Now, I've got to pick one...

Ah three actors for the price of on..I'll watch Christian Bale in anything, although I do love Michael Caine and Hugh Jackman, but Bale is by far the most versatile actor I've ever seen.

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Oh here's his first film, which blew me away..

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Christian Bale is the rare actor who has managed to jump from child star to adult star and still have a wide variety of roles, and be acclaimed. A feat that few others have managed.

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[cjlasky7]

The pertinent question: do I even have a favorite actor or actress? Is there any one person who can bring me into the theater (or stops me from turning the channel)?

I went back and forth on a number of modern choices: Steve Buscemi's oddball charm is almost always entertaining; Nicholas Cage acting on screen is like a high speed car chase (that ends in a flaming wreck half the time); and Sam Rockwell just quietly steals movies away from established movie stars.

But in the end, I had to go with Cary Grant, because he was great for comedy and suspense, he was a favorite of Hawks and Hitchcock, and he starred in more classic movies than anybody else I could name. Pick one? Sure...

[Moves finger over list of classic movies from 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, with eyes closed]

That one!

https://youtu.be/F25nzu6hh0Q

[shadowkat]

Well, there's a reason I said "a" favorite or one you happen to like - as opposed to "the" favorite or "favorite" - because I can't pick one. And they change with my moods.

You managed to pick the only Cary Grant film that has never worked for me or my least favorite...LOL!

All the others I love.

Anyhow agreed, Grant was a master.

Cage - is a mixed bag. When he's good, he's very good, when he's bad - he's unwatchable. (Oh, a side note? I have a six degrees of separation thing going on with Nick Cage. My parents best friends from Chicago, their son - was best friends with Nick Cage. But back when he was Nick Coppola. He used to sneak with Nick into Nick's grandfather's house to watch movies in his huge movie theater. They were in acting school together. I saw the film Purple Rain with this guy, and he was telling me all these stories about his pals, John Cusack, Nick Coppola, before I knew who they were - because this was way back in 1982 or thereabouts. WAY before Cusak's film career took off - and Cusack and Cage had tiny cameos in films like Sixteen Candles.)

Steve B - is a bit like Cage, he's either really good, or annoying.

Cary Grant on the other hand was never annoying or bad - even in the film Bringing Up Baby, he managed to be okay. The material was...eh, but Grant pulled it off. Hepburn struggled more. But Grant saved it. Even more extraordinary is Grant managed to create Cary Grant. It wasn't who he was at all. His persona was an act in of itself. He created a role and played it constantly.