Fiennes was born for the part. Has he ever smiled in a movie?
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1. Re: NYT (Mike Godwin)
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Message: 1 Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 00:15:46 -0700 From: Mike Godwin mnemonic@gmail.com To: Michael Saenger saengerm@southwestern.edu Cc: Shakespeare at Winedale 1970-2000 alums winedale-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Winedale-l] NYT Message-ID: CAKFh3H-QOGM2B6AkNg8cxT29BFb+ES8h+=eaiudxZ_c7Wy-DjQ@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
In light of this discussion, I watched Ralph Fiennes's film adaptation of CORIOLANUS today. Emphasis, of course, on "adaptation" -- the text is radically reduced from the source. Fiennes does an amazing job as a screen actor of attempting to fill in the gaps that the text does not fill regarding Coriolanus's -- by my count, he smiles only at one moment in the whole film, when we first see him with his "sweet silence" of a wife and his child after his return from routing the Volscians. His performance doesn't make fix the problem that the text leaves us with -- too little information about his inner life, what drives him, how he got this way, and what changes in him. But it is certainly watchable.
What I really liked, though, is Brian Cox's take on Menenius. Here's a good interview with Cox in the Telegraph that underscores Cox's and Fiennes's interpretive choices with that role: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/9027156/Brian-Cox-in... .
--Mike
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