You know who's a great actor? Anthony Hopkins.

This is the thread where we discuss Anthony Hopkins.

Saw a bit of the end The Lion in Winter this morning, and he's just soooo good.

IMO his best work was in The Remains of the Day. I should really read that book.



So... do you think he's great or just very good? Favorite roles?

Hopkins, Judi Dench, Peter O'Toole, Alan Rickman and a few others.

Hopkins is a god!

Incredible as Hanibal, brilliant as Titus, perfect as the butler in that movie in which he was a butler... brilliant. Pure brilliance.

though, was amazing.

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Much, more than a butler... a tragic hero in a doomed romance... oh I love that character so. Every single scene he did was absolutely perfect.

which wasn't a great movie, but he definitely made it more believable

THAT is how brilliant he is. :)

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That was his first film role.

He is a superb actor. He transcends the occasional junk he appears in.

And yes, "The Remains of the Day" is his best work. No, his best work is NOT "Silence of the Lambs"

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and what a performance... he shared the screen with equal intensity next to Hepburn and O'Toole... imagine that!

So pleased that you also liked Remains of the Day... I think that movie is underrated.

Meet Joe Black. I think he raised the bar for Brad Pitt...

Anthony Hopkins was born on 31st December 1937 in Margam, Wales. Influenced by Richard Burton he decided to study at College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965 he moved to London and joined the National Theatre, invited by Laurence Olivier, who could see the talent in Hopkins. In 1967 he made his first film for television, "A Flea in Her Ear".

From this moment on he enjoyed a successful career in cinema and television. In 1968 he worked on "A Lion in Winter" with Timothy Dalton. Many successes came later, and Hopkins remarkable acting style reached the four corners of the world. In 1977 he appeared in two major films: "A Bridge Too Far" with James Caan, Gene Hackman, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Billy Elliott and Laurence Olivier, and "Audrey Rose". In 1980 he worked on "The Elephant Man". Two good television literature adaptations followed: "Othello" (1981) and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1982). In 1987 he was awarded with the Commander of the order of the British Empire. This year was also important in his cinematic life, with "84 Charing Cross Road", acclaimed by specialists. In 1993 he was knighted.

In the 90s Hopkins made movies like "Desperate Hours" (1990) and "Howard's End" (1992), "The Remains of the Day" (1993, nominee for the Oscar), "Legends of the Fall" (1994), "Nixon" (1995, nominee for the Oscar), "Surviving Picasso" (1996), "Amistad" (1997, nominee for the Oscar), "The Mask of Zorro" (1998), "Meet Joe Black" (1998) and "instinct" (1999). His most remarkable film, however, was "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991), for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor. He also got a BAFTA for this role.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000164/bio

The absolute last person in the world you'd think of to play Richard Nixon is Anthony Hopkins. But damn...he pulls it off. Nixon's meanness, his paranoia, all comes through in Hopkins' performance. A very good one.

that I didn't enjoy. Some are stronger than others, I admit. A lot depends on the rest of the cast.

just cause they're in it.

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God... why can't I talk right? I hope that made sense. :blush:

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I kid the Academy Award Winner; he's one of my favorites!

Remains of the Day... what a great film. Understated performances by Hopkins and Thompson were the key to illustrating the British stiff-upper-lip, suffer-in-silence routines.

I think his best performance was in Shadowlands (ya think?), but it was offset by a merely mediocre Debra Winger performance.

Those Brit actors who came up through the industry via stage and classical performances are always head and shoulders above even the best of the A-list Hollywood actors.

he's still my favorite. :)

I loved how the generational change was illustrated... especially the difference between the way the two younger staff members who fell in love behaved, as compared with Hopkins' and Thompson's characters. I'm always miffed at the end of that movie... sometimes moreso at his character and sometimes at hers. :P

Get tears in my eyes just thinking about that movie. Excellent performance by an excellent actor

The first film I remember seeing him in. A made-for-TV flick from way back when. Having to go to bed for school, I never saw the end - like The African Queen, Sand Pebbles, The Naked Prey and others. But eventually I read the end in the book.