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January 25th, 2019 at 3:00:56 PM permalink

Pacomartin

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Quote: petroglyph
Has Laurence Fishburne done any other parts as great as he played Morpheus?

Fishburne did excellent work in Othello (1995), I would put him on par with Laurence Olivier (who made the move when it was still acceptable to do it in blackface). I would highly recommend it.

Othello contains a few lines which most people would call the most classic racist lines ever written. But for myself, I don't consider Othello to be about racism, and I think people are contorting the play to make it about racism. I don't think Fishburne makes it a play about racism,

Quote: Iago Telling a father that his daughter is married to Othello

Even now, now, very now, an old black ram
Is topping your white ewe. Arise, arise;
Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,
Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you:
....
I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter
and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.
....
'Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not
serve God, if the devil bid you. Because we come to
do you service and you think we are ruffians, you'll
have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse;
you'll have your nephews neigh to you; you'll have
coursers for cousins and gennets for germans.
....
As partly I find it is, that your fair daughter,
At this odd-even and dull watch o' the night,
Transported, with no worse nor better guard
But with a knave of common hire, a gondolier,
To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor--

I haven't seen it, but his role as Ike Turner in "What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)" was highly praised.

January 25th, 2019 at 3:39:12 PM permalink
Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744	Quote: petroglyph ...Has Laurence Fishburne done any other parts as great as he played Morpheus? hehe... I keep thinking he's playing a character named, "Samuel L. Jackson"...

January 25th, 2019 at 4:57:37 PM permalink
aceofspades Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 83 Posts: 2019	Quote: Wizard *EXCERPTMy least favorite living actor is either...Keanu Reeves. Keanu Reeves is, was and always will be

January 25th, 2019 at 8:18:19 PM permalink
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095	Quote: aceofspades Keanu Reeves is, was and always will be... That was good. He does seem to look and act always the same. The eternal California beach boy. Somehow I can never picture him old, even though he is supposedly older than me. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber

January 25th, 2019 at 8:30:23 PM permalink
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11792	Quote: Wizard That was good. . My reaction That's it? Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World"

January 25th, 2019 at 8:39:07 PM permalink
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095	Quote: terapined My reaction That's it? What was I supposed to say? Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber

January 25th, 2019 at 10:48:27 PM permalink
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011	Quote: Wizard That was good. He does seem to look and act always the same. The eternal California beach boy. Somehow I can never picture him old, even though he is supposedly older than me. Reeves is 54. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.

January 26th, 2019 at 8:28:29 AM permalink
JimRockford Member since: Sep 18, 2015 Threads: 2 Posts: 971	Quote: Wizard With Matthew McConaughey, his accent sounds like a bad forced southern accent, but I will grant that is really how he talks, at least in interviews. It's interesting you think his accent sounds forced. It's not the accent that you hear in Dallas, Houston or Austin, but it's pure Texas. He sounds as familiar as my grandma's cornbread. The mind hungers for that on which it feeds.

January 26th, 2019 at 10:56:08 AM permalink

Evenbob

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Quote: JimRockford
It's interesting you think his accent sounds forced. It's not the accent that you hear in Dallas, Houston or Austin, but it's pure Texas. He sounds as familiar as my grandma's cornbread.

I dated a girl from Texas for a few
months long ago. Her accent drove
me up the wall, I dumped her before
I had to kill her. She loved sex, that's
the only reason I kept seeing her. As
soon as that got boring, bam, she
was gone.

If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.

January 26th, 2019 at 1:26:16 PM permalink
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095	Quote: JimRockford He sounds as familiar as my grandma's cornbread. I love good homemade cornbread. Even at the BBQ places in Texas it is pretty good. They don't know how to make it properly in California. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber

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