LAWRENCE OF ARABIA is my
second favourite film of all time (next to TAXI DRIVER). It is perhaps the best made movie I have ever
seen. At its center, in order to deliver
its epic story of colonial betrayal and universal loyalty, is the acting of
Peter O’Toole. He creates an icon,
becomes an icon, and has the acting chops, the spoken gravitas, to back it up.
O’Toole was the greatest
actor never to win an Oscar. His eight
losses are a record. This was more bad
luck than anything else. In particular what
made O’ Toole great was his pronunciation, his diction, his enunciation. He had one of the greatest speaking voices of
any actor.
He was also a larger than
life character The blurring of the actor
with his real life, the role and the man, was a key component of his embrace by
pop culture and he told a great drinking story http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-editors/peter-o-toole-80-best-drinking-stories-132719697.html
And aside from LAWRENCE another
great O’Toole performance is, his sixth best actor nomination, is THE STUNT MAN....Demonic,
mysterious, he keeps the audience guessing, in the palm of his hand.
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