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ON ACTING
" Actors do play their own lives. What else do they have ? It's not more painful, in some ways it makes it easier "
Jack NIcholson |
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In 1995 he teamed up with one of Hollywoods most opinionated actors turned director. He agreed to star in Sean Penn�s The Crossing Guard. He played a bleak individual by the name of Freddy Gale who is hell bent on murdering the drunken motorist who has already spent six years in prison for his killing his little daughter in a drunken collision. Nicholson brings depth and emotion to such a character as torn apart as Freddy Gale. This may well be a result of Jack immediate life at the time. He too had settled down with Rebecca Broussard. His relationship with Angelica Houston had ended when it was revealed that Broussard was carry Nicholson�s child. Another impending factor is the fact that Angelica Houston appears as Freddy�s ex-wife who is also the mother of his children whom he is distant from as a result of the death of his daughter, their sister. Their is a lot of tension in each scene that they share making it the film a whole lot more believable. This is one of Nicholsons more restrained performances yet it is one of his better over the previous ten years.
In 1997 Nicholson teamed up with his Terms of Endearment director James .L. Brooks for the bitter sweet Romantic Comedy As Good As It Gets. After spending the previous seven years taking bit parts in films and fooling around with the idea of retirement, Nicholson opted to stay and do what he does best. He beat John Travolta for the role of a sexist, racist, surly, compulsive obsessive romantic novelist Melvin Udall. Nicholson struck gold in more ways then one with this great role. Taking a role that had absolute no charm or charisma in it, he injected these and made us one of the memorable screen characters in world cinema history. When you watch this film and you are watching a � Best of Jack�s past �, you are reintroduced to all the characters that Jack has played over the last three decades. All these characters have been chopped up and mixed together to create Melvin Udall. |
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In 1998 Jack Nicholson enjoyed his third oscar win. This marked his eleventh time to be nominated and his second Best Actor. Since then he has teamed up with his good friend Sean Penn to make their second collaboration The Pledge which shows that Nicholson is far from finished. Many scowled at the fact that Nicholson was left out of the oscar running for 2002, because of the strength of role but under the direction of Hollywood�s resident loud mouth Penn it was unlikely. However 2003 could see Nicholson achieve his 12th oscar nomination for Alexander Payne�s About Smidt However he lost out to Adrien Brophy. Despit this Nicholsons 60th feature film starring Adam Sandler shot straight to the top of the U.s Box Office in April 2003 |
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As good as it gets |
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Written by Vinny Mc Hale |
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Copyright 2003 |
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