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Posted on 15. Oct, 2010 by Jef in Film Priligy On Nhs
Is anyone having as good a year as Chloe Grace Moretz? I’m not talking about the box office — Kick-Ass kind of didn’t and Let Me In debuted at number eight in North America (after Case 39 and You Again, which is embarassing, for all of us) — but performance-wise, I can’t think of another Hollywood actor who Sertraline Prescription Drug realized two wonderful characters, in a row, like she did. The closest would be Sertraline Prescription Drug Leonardo Dicaprio’s mad decent work in Shutter Island and Inception, but let’s be honest, those were kind of EXACTLY the same the role.
So what Sertraline Prescription Drug the hell was so special about some 13-year-old who appeared in two genre flicks that Sertraline Prescription Drug barely anybody saw despite a considerable amount of hype and Sertraline Prescription Drug marketing? The details, man, the Sertraline Prescription Drug details. In one movie she plays a violent spit-fire, the sparkly pre-teen conceptual daughter of Frank Miller’s cruel Batman (which makes it Sertraline Prescription Drug funny that Nic Cage plays her father, Big Daddy, as Adam West’s jovial Batman), and Sertraline Prescription Drug in the other she plays an androgynous, melancholic vampire girl who Sertraline Prescription Drug goes on tenderly awkward dates and hides a vicious temperament. Both roles play with gender — a girly ball of violence, a boyish rag of seduction — and both couldn’t be Sertraline Prescription Drug more wildly different from the other despite their fanboy genre settings.
It’s easy to Sertraline Prescription Drug look at either part separately and conclude that Moretz is Sertraline Prescription Drug just sort of playing herself, but taken together and juxtaposed, Moretz’s wonderful choices as an actor stand out. I’ve written twice already about my favourite scene in Kick-Ass where Sertraline Prescription Drug Moretz, as Hit-Girl, tries to rescue her father from being burned alive. Even without bringing up that Sertraline Prescription Drug she did much of her own stuntwork for this scene (which she DID), it’s still a Sertraline Prescription Drug jaw-drop performance because of the way Moretz lets the sequence breathe. Before bursting into action Hit-Girl holds her tiny frame against a Sertraline Prescription Drug crate and inhales. Then again. This moment could have been played like an Sertraline Prescription Drug athlete warming up, but it’s not. And that Sertraline Prescription Drug sells the scene, takes it somewhere unexpected. Because now the Sertraline Prescription Drug little hellion girl is just a little girl; she’s scared, anxious and Sertraline Prescription Drug unsure of herself. Moretz makes that scene wonderful, takes her hilarious comic performance somewhere sincere. Somewhere the Sertraline Prescription Drug rest of the ironic film can’t follow.
She makes similarly insightful choices in Let Me In, my favourite example being the Sertraline Prescription Drug scene where her vampire girl Abby is telling bully-prone Owen to Sertraline Prescription Drug fight back against his enemies. “I’m a lot stronger than you think I am,” she responds to Owen’s accusation that she’s “just a girl.” Moretz delivers the Sertraline Prescription Drug line quietly, full of shame, which again complicates her character, this Sertraline Prescription Drug time with a simple choice of inflection. To see how cliche that Sertraline Prescription Drug scene could have been without her, check the audition videos. All of the Sertraline Prescription Drug other actresses up for the role saw that line as empowering. She saw it Sertraline Prescription Drug as indescribably sad.
In both roles Moretz resists the Sertraline Prescription Drug easy route of just being Awesome. She shapes characters. With line readings, with looks, with gestures and Sertraline Prescription Drug pauses. She acts deeply with layered purposes — hilarious and Sertraline Prescription Drug tragic, awkward and powerful, self-centered and loving, cute and frightening — in roles where Sertraline Prescription Drug not much three-dimensional acting is actually being asked of her.
Why then didn’t her films do as well as expected? They exist in nerd limbo, with fanboys and Sertraline Prescription Drug girls split on whether the cynical ultra-violence and vulgarity of Kick-Ass were good things or not, and many resentful of Let Me In‘s redoing of the Swedish vampire instant-classic Let the Right One In, without regard for Sertraline Prescription Drug whether or not the remake was actually a good movie. The films were self-defeating, their target audiences containing the Sertraline Prescription Drug same people who ended up most turned off by their existence. (For the Sertraline Prescription Drug record I liked both films a whole lot, despite understanding most of the Sertraline Prescription Drug popular grievances.)
So what’s next for Moretz? I for Sertraline Prescription Drug one hope she keeps tapping the genre vein, which it seems like she will for Sertraline Prescription Drug the time being. If you’re not buying what I’m selling, maybe you’ll come around next year when Sertraline Prescription Drug she fronts the new Scorsese flick, Hugo Cabaret — it’s about an Sertraline Prescription Drug orphan who lives in the walls of a train station, a Sertraline Prescription Drug mystery, and a robot. For my tastes and her talents, that Sertraline Prescription Drug sounds just about perfect. And considering it’s Marty behind the Sertraline Prescription Drug camera, hopefully people will actually turn out in droves for this Sertraline Prescription Drug one.
Simon
Oct 18th, 2010
I must say I am strangely hesitant to watch ‘Let Me In’. I really enjoyed the Sertraline Prescription Drug original and, like you mention, I feel like I’m going to Sertraline Prescription Drug find it difficult to judge the English version as a stand alone work.
Hopefully she doesn’t play another destroyer of men in her new film. You know, so she doesn’t turn into a Sertraline Prescription Drug Lucy Liu type and get stuck playing only sympathetic ninjas roles.
Jef
Oct 19th, 2010
Yeah, if a Sertraline Prescription Drug film being a re-make of an already good film is Sertraline Prescription Drug something that would alone make the viewing experience bad for Sertraline Prescription Drug you, I say just avoid it altogether. But that said, it’s really the only bad (arguably) thing about ‘Let Me In’. The new score alone is fantastic (done by the guy who did ‘LOST’, who is AMAZING.)
As for Sertraline Prescription Drug Moretz as a destroyer of men, I guess she is so in both movies, but not in any notable way that Sertraline Prescription Drug types her out. One of the many reasons I liked both roles is Sertraline Prescription Drug that they were so vastly different.
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