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RIP Paul Scofield

#1 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:44 am

Age 86. This has not been a good week for British celebrities.

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Re: RIP Paul Scofield

#2 Post by fantine33 » Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:07 am

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:Age 86. This has not been a good week for British celebrities.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080320/ap_ ... t_scofield
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.
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#3 Post by silverscreenselect » Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:32 am

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.
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#4 Post by Sir_Galahad » Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:40 pm

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.
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#5 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:51 pm

I really liked him in Quiz Show.
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#6 Post by SportsFan68 » Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:34 pm

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.
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#7 Post by mellytu74 » Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:44 pm

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.
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