Fiennes was born for the part. Has he ever smiled in a movie?
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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-i…
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--Mike
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