The finest acting in a film.....ever!

[Thomk]

It's a tricky one. My vote goes to Meryl Streep (possibly the finest actress of all time) in Sophie's Choice.

Spoiler alert - This clip is the "choice" in question which appears near the end of the film and until then is not revealed.

Additional alert - It may be one of the most horrific, saddest scenes in film history - be warned!

If you still want to have a look - Sophie is a holocaust survivor who has been hiding a guilty secret throughout the film and this is a flashback which reveals the cause of her ruinous mental state. It shows her queuing to enter Auschwitz with her children where some people are being taken into the camp and some directly to the gas chambers...


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaPBzhEsCL0

 

[Globalti]

Yes, I remember that as being an extremely upsetting film.

EDit: damn. Shouldn't have watched that clip.

 

[pplpilot]

The whole of this film -
Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey.

A masterpiece of dialogue.

 

[Thomk]

The whole of this film -
Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey.

A masterpiece of dialogue.

Possibly my second choice would be Jack Lemmon from GGR!

 

[ianrauk]

Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

 

[rich p]

Kenneth Williams in Carry on Cleo, takes some beating...

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

The mention of Kevin Spacey makes me remember how good this scene is...


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS4EJGh9mIg

 

[numbnuts]

My Ex in divorce proceedings

 

[Fnaar]

Fenella Fielding in Carry On Screaming.

Or Ray Liotta (et al) in Goodfellas.

 

[Drago]

Richard Chaves in Predator. He builds up the paranoia in a wonderfully Roy Scheideresque way.

 

[GM]

Michael Clark Duncan, in The Green Mile. How he made those flies come out of is mouth, truly amazing!

 

[matiz]

Dustin Hoffman ,Rainman

 

[EltonFrog]

The whole of this film -
Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey.

A masterpiece of dialogue.

This is a master-class in film acting, scriptwriting and directing. A superb movie, and Spacey is a bona fide genius. I have been lucky enough to see him in two plays in the west end, Speed The Plough & Clarence Darrow at The Old Vic.

 

[User269]

Oh Think, I wish you would Thomk before starting yet another post which results in yet another 'list thread'.

 

[Ern1e]

Tom Hanks in Saving private Ryan.