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RIP Paul Scofield
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:44 am
by NellyLunatic1980
Age 86. This has not been a good week for British celebrities.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080320/ap_ ... t_scofield
Re: RIP Paul Scofield
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:07 am
by fantine33
I used to always get him mixed up with Paul Winfield.
One of these days I'm actually going to watch A Man for All Seasons. Maybe they'll run it on one of the movie channels now before I cancel them.
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:32 am
by silverscreenselect
My favorite film of his was The Train, in which he played a German WWII officer trying to get looted paintings out of France on, surprise, a train, while railroad man Burt Lancaster tried to stop him. It's a terrific action film, probably the last big budget black&white action film, and a sequence in which they actually wound up crashing two trains is a classic bit of effects work (it was done with actual trains, not miniatures or, of course CGI). Scofield's demise at the end of the film is a cleverly written scene as well.
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:40 pm
by Sir_Galahad
The Train is one of my all-time favorites. I am, though a big fan of Burt Lancaster's earlier films. It's right up there with From Here to Eternity and a movie that was harshly panned called Trapeze. But, Scofield was excellent in The Train. I got bored with A Man For All Seasons even though it is definitely a classic and he definitely earned his Oscar in that film. I have a hard time sitting though artsy films like AMFaS where there is little action, and little suspense.
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:51 pm
by PlacentiaSoccerMom
I really liked him in Quiz Show.
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:34 pm
by SportsFan68
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:I really liked him in Quiz Show.
Me too. He totally deserved the Oscar nomination. He probably deserved the Oscar too, but I don't know what won.
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:44 pm
by mellytu74
SportsFan68 wrote:PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:I really liked him in Quiz Show.
Me too. He totally deserved the Oscar nomination. He probably deserved the Oscar too, but I don't know what won.
I am thinking that was the year for Martin Landau in Ed Wood.
I loved the scene where he and Ralph Fiennes are discussing the money involved and taxes and he tells his son that he never thought of himself as having a level.
And the sheer look on his face when he realizes exactly how much money Charlie has made.