In both versions they resist injecting any sexual tone to Leon's attitude, but the precocious young Portman does suggest it ever so subtly in her character. Shes remarkable. Agreed! If you like Portman here, DEFINITELY check out the film from around the same period titled, "Beautiful Girls". Absolutely outstanding performance on her part. Damn good film too. My favorite recent roll of hers is in "Closer". I'm surprised Albert hasn't joined in here...Don't get him started on Natalie! |
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I like Gary O... He's one of the few I usually can't pick out in a film right off...even by his voice.
Got the Commitments, and a couple others named here. I'm becoming awed by these titles. i don't subscribe to international films... i've found too few flicks which are worth me spending a couple extra hours to view as the subtitles are more so an issue as of late... I gave up on doing Babel, and some others because of it. I might as well just get the book instead. But I keep trying like with Tommy Lee Jones’ Missing, and 3 Funerals for m Estrada, which I really enjoyed… and bought.
Saw a couple Jimmy Stewart films lately which were good. One by Hitchcock, Rope… the other by Preminger, “Anatomy of a Murder”… Otto did a fine job with that one given when it was filmed. Very cutting edge that one. |
Agreed! If you like Portman here, DEFINITELY check out the film from around the same period titled, "Beautiful Girls". Absolutely outstanding performance on her part. Damn good film too. My favorite recent roll of hers is in "Closer". I'm surprised Albert hasn't joined in here...Don't get him started on Natalie! Is there any way to post photo's of Natalie here at Audiogon? |
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posting pics.... uh, there's always that 'virtual systems' area I suppose... Could she be labeled as a 'vital component'? |
She belongs in the category: "Perfect System." Music for the eyes and intelligent too. This from USA Today, 2002 The 20-year-old actress is a junior at Harvard, a straight-A student (she reportedly aced her SATs while appearing on Broadway in "The Diary of Anne Frank") who sprinkles her conversation with phrases such as "social Darwinism" and "interdependent sense of self" and knows more about Kant than Cannes. But she's cool enough in between exams to hang with her friend Moby, attend Britney Spears' birthday party and dye her hair bright "Run Lola Run" red for Halloween.
Straddling the line between celebrity and normalcy, no small feat for anyone, is even more daunting for adolescents. Rehab centers are littered with former juvenile actors. Heartbreak, unscrupulous agents and legal tussles with family members are footnotes to many a career. But if anyone can keep her wits, it's Portman, even as her face graces billboards for the latest "Star Wars" summer blockbuster, in which she reprises her role in 1999's "Phantom Menace" as Amidala.
Here, in her "bubble," as she calls it, Portman is just another highly accomplished, fiercely smart student who has a cellphone in her pocket, is multilingual (she speaks Hebrew, French and Japanese), likes to make lists, says she's "not good with boys," has Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" on her night table and says her favorite movie of last year was the sweet French farce "Amélie."
Her petite stature (she's just over 5 feet tall) and nubile, almost luminescent beauty give her a vulnerable quality.
"You should have checked me out when I was 13," Portman says, laughing. "I was locking myself in the bathroom, threatening to kill myself -- being so mean to my mom and fighting with her all the time. Girls are horrible. I hope I have boys." She was 13 when she played Mathilda in the film, "Leon" across from Jean Reno, an assassin who takes her under his wing. This is one of my all time favorite movies. Natalie and Jodie Foster both hold a special place in my heart, |
