Beauty vs Beast: The La-Di-Da Lady
Monday, January 5, 2015 at 8:09PM JA from MNPP here, back from the holidays and welcoming everybody to the year 2015 with a brand new round of "Beauty vs Beast." This week we're tackling one of our most favorite actresses and her maybe probably most definitely most iconic role - yup it's Diane Keaton's 69th birthday today and so la-di-da la-la y'all...
So all of you left-wing Communist Jewish homosexual pornographers have got one week to make your voice heard - vote and then tell us in the comments which neurotic you wanna chase lobsters with. And happy birthday, Diane Keaton!
PREVIOUSLY I wasn't here last week and so Nathaniel took over and man, did he come up with a doozy - in The Battle of the Tildas, the winner was... Tilda! Snowpiercer Tilda, to be specific - the Minister Mason made like a good shoe and trounced over Wes Anderson's old-lady-drag competition. (For the record, Mason's my pick too.) Said commenter Marsha Mason:
"I think Tilda in Snowpiercer was the supporting performance of the year. Showy and even a little cartoonish maybe, but it meshed perfect with the art design and surreal feel and everything else about that movie. It was perfect for a fantasy world take on real sociological problems."
Reader Comments (11)
"Seems like old times..."
Tough one. Going with Annie.
Going with Annie, because she grows up whereas Alvy stays the same.
But Alvy's just much more entertaining.
(PS just now realizing Minister Mason's first name is....Marsha!!!! mwah-ha-ha!)
Alvy because I was a lot like him during my teenage years.
i can't choose between the two because i'm anal
[so i guess that puts me on team alvy]
I am team Alvy, but that's because I'm one of the few people in this planet who really didn't see what was so great about Keaton in the film. She's funny and sweet in it, but her quirkiness wasn't as astonishing as say, Winslet's quirkiness was in "Eternal Sunshine." I much prefer Keaton in "Reds" or "Shoot the Moon" or even in "Manhattan." (For the record, I thought Liza Minnelli should easily have taken the Oscar for "New York New York").
I love Allen in this movie, however.
@ BVR: If only she (Liza) had been nominated...
Annie Hall isn't my favorite Keaton performance (that year even), but it's a damn good one.
@ BVR:
Keaton was only the first person ever to exhibit that kind of behavior on screen, which was somewhat representative of that era, but it was still something new, which makes the performance that much more current and groundbreaking. You cant's compare Annie and Clementine because the first has a point of view and is whole while the latter is supporting the man's point of view and is not fully realized (though Winslet adds a lot of -sometimes strained - life to her).
I think some people think Keaton is getting by on charm in this role, but it's so much more than that. The seeming effortlessness in this performance is what makes it so special and enduring.
I do love Liza in NYNY, she would have been my No. 6 that year.
Have to go with Annie. She did rescue Alvy from the cast of The Godfather.
Annie's a cunt.