Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Capote.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Capote really impressed me with his performance after finally watching the film from beginning to end after only seeing bits and pieces over the years. What  impressed me the most is that a lot of  Bio Pic performances of them just come off  as just an over the top Impersonation.

 Well Hoffman is one of the few great ones that brakes that , he gets what a great Bio Pic performance right as he is never over the top  and never out of character.  On top of making Capote a very interesting character at that.

Hoffman also caries this film on his shoulders and has a lot of emotions to go threw and mannerism and even a voice that he could have failed with but he still does all of these flawless and not braking out of character.

In the film Capote , he is writing a book , In Cold Blood , about a murder case of two men , Perry Smith and Dick Hickock , a good bit of the film  shows Capote in prison talking and befriending one of the man to get his story.

A lot of the film really brings out his personally , even when he is just joking around and smoking you can not take your eyes of him. He also as a very emotional scene at the end that is just amazing.


I can go on about this performance but I would be setting here all day , but I will say that this is EXACTLY how a Bio Pic performance should be and Hoffman nails it.



 

Terrence Howard in Hustle and Flow

Terrence Howard got his first Oscar Nomination as D Jay in Hustle and Flow. 

                                       

Howard plays D Jay , a pimp that wants to change his life and does it threw Rap Music. I honestly use to shake my head at this performance when I first saw and it mostly has to do with more of the fact that some people and some critics actually picked him for their personal win on top of me just thinking how awful I thought his performance was and me not even caring about him as an actor. 

 Well after re watching Hustle and Flow I will give my honesty and fairness of what I think.  

After taking aside my past view and bias aside , I tried to be as open minded to see what people think was so great about his performance and will list the good and the bad.  Well most people that do love this performance say it is because he had the most interesting changes in his character and as even film critic Roger Ebert said he thought the changes he went through made him the most complex out of the Best Actor nominees. Okay fair? Well after really overlooking it I must admit he does , but on paper but the D Jay we got in Hustle and Flow was playing this character yet he was not playing it as one would think and it is do to Howard's performance. 

The D Jay I  saw was a little bit of the D Jay as written yet more over the top and uneven ... Sometimes he was just flat annoying and it had a lot to do with his dialogue , every other word out of his mouth is MAYNE which is supposed to be MAN and sometimes when needs to show emotion or anger it you just do not feel it from him like you should and those are  Howard's biggest problems ...

 On the other hand I will give him some credit, the rapping he does in his film is really from him and there are 2 scenes where he is pretty good in. The first being his opening scene and the second is his whole scene with Skinny black  , this scene is actually a little touching and he actually seem to be playing him the way D Jay should be. I do not hate it as much as I use to but as great as it seems to some it really is uneven do to Howard. 

Best Actor 2005

and the Nominees were


Joaquin Phoenix in Walk the Line



Heath Leger in Brokeback Mountain



Terrence Howard in Hustle and Flow


David Strathairn in Good Night and Good Luck




PhillipSeymour Hoffman in Capote

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