This is fun. Same scene, different actors. Watch James Earl Jones and Denzel Washington perform the same scene from fences with two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT dramatic tones. Both scene just as affecting. James 1stpic.twitter.com/YJ4VPPS84x
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Replying to @VanLathan @donwinslow
I wonder how much of Denzel’s performance comes across as humor to the crowd simply because of the difference in times. I wonder if a father being abusive and threatening towards his son, seemed more like a real threat to audiences that grew up in the 60’s-70’s.
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I think Denzel Washington made a misstep when he chuckled at Chalk's question. It gave the audience permission to laugh away their discomfort. Jones made them sit and sweat in it and no laughing matter.
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Replying to @MulcaheyPatrick @casper_holloway and
From my experience that laugh (more assoc with disbelief than humor in this case) was always a warning that we're approaching dangerous territory. That nuance can be lost in certain audiences.
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Replying to @MissBleuFour @MulcaheyPatrick and
Also, just the physicality of both of them and how they holding themselves. JEJ is more squared up to Vance when he's addressing him. DW is shrugging a bit, and give's his opposite a kind of pat on the back when get pulls him over, little things that lighten the tone a bit
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Replying to @ElamBend @MissBleuFour and
Am I'm not actor, but I'm a big guy and you gotta learn some of this to make sure people around you don't think you're coming on too strong.
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And some big and big-name actors learn those same strategies ("Uh-oh, in this scene I have to say some things that aren't very nice, how can I do that and keep the audience from hating me?")
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