It's interesting to note how many other people you can find just by following one actor.
I originally saw Michael Fassbender in First Class, and his performance in key sequences blew me away. I wasn't expecting scenes like Magneto Hunting Shaw or the Satellite Moving, or the acting to accompany them, a credit to the writing and directing too.
So right from 2011, you can look back at performances like Inglorious Basterds (admittedly an awful film, but everybody involved in THAT scene was fantastic, including Tarantino) and especially Steve McQueen's Hunger. Shame follows later in 2011, Prometheus the year after, 12 Years A Slave and narration of "1" (a Formula One documentary, fantastic btw) in 2013, and Frank in 2014.
Then you get to 2015, and the renaissance has begin. Slow West, Macbeth, and Steve Jobs all in one year. Slow West reveals actor Ben Mendelsohn and director John Maclean. Macbeth introduces director Justin Kurzel, and his brilliantly haunting jazz musician brother Jed, as well as Sean Harris (who co-starred in Prometheus, and the later project Trespass Against Us). Steve Jobs becomes what is arguably Fassbender's best performance, utilizing Sorkin's script and fantastic co-star performances from Winslet and Jeff Daniels.
It just keeps happening. He comes in to give the only worthwhile performance in X-Men Apocalypse in 2016 and play a tragic gypsy in the aforementioned Trespass Against Us, where Brendan Gleeson and Sean Harris (among others) also shine. Followed by dual roles in Alien: Covenant, showing an even extended vocal range and some of that Shakespearean delivery between David and Walter.
Pre-release for The Snowman (presumably later this year) is pretty low key so far, but I'm optimistic given the source material and the crew as well as the cast.
Nice blog post
>>85819751
Interestingly, if you watch Shame, you also have me hanging out of the back of your mother every fucking night this week. She's a classy bitch, she won't take it up the arse for less than three bucks.
>>85819894
This, fuck off retard
>>85819751
>but I'm optimistic given the source material and the crew as well as the cast.
I'm a bit skeptical and tired of scandinavian noir. It might have something to do with the fact that I am from scandinavia and just have been overexposed to it, but I fail to see what this will bring to the table that The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Broen and a whole other films and series didnt 5-8 years ago.
According to these films, we only seem to have two seasons, drab autum and eternal snowstorms.
>>85819751
He's a tiresome muppet-looking sod.
>>85819751
We get it you want to suck his dick jesus
>>85819944
Is this a reference or just a pitiful attempt at humor?
>>85820600
"Scandinavian noir." What a specific fucking subgenre for it to be something you're fatigued of. Are there even any other examples of Scandinavian noir besides the, uh, TWO films you listed?
>>85821324
this lmao
Yeah I'd fuck Fassbender too, OP
>>85821207
>>85822006
He's the rare actor that's both handsome and actually talented at acting.
Was it kino, lads?