acting drunk well: the ile canon

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Dan I. doesn't like Sterling Hayden as Roger Wade in The Long Goodbye, but I do (= I think the character is one I wd rather die than meet, but he plays drunk well... )

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Who acts drunk well in what? And who doesn"t?

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

haha jackie chan in drunken master!!

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

use other facts please: richard e. grant is ALLERGIC to the alcohol!!

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.netstate.com/states/peop/people/images/pa_wcf.jpg

― Dan I., Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Jimmy Stewart in The Philadelphia Story.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 16 August 2003 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the woman who plays Kat in Eastenders does drunk well.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 16 August 2003 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Dennis Quaid in Far From Heaven - a very convincing drunk.

― jed_e_3, Saturday, 16 August 2003 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Lee Marvin.

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 16 August 2003 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Anne Heche.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 16 August 2003 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Incidentally, The Philadelphia Story is on TCM in 10 minutes.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 16 August 2003 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, I didn't know Anne Heche was in that.

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 16 August 2003 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

She plays Philadelphia. It's a real postmodern remake.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 16 August 2003 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Nicole Kidman not to thread.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 16 August 2003 06:08 (twenty-two years ago)

As long as you're not talking about her acting high.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 16 August 2003 06:12 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah ... what is Tracer referring to? I'm not a big current movie buff, so I've certainly not seen all of Kidman's appearances, but I've gotta say the stoned scene in Eyes Wide Shut is pretty much OTM. I thought she was fuckin' GREAT.

Anyway, it's funny .. I'm sort of an expert drunk but I've been racking my brane to think of a response to this thread!! I really like the way Steve Buscemi rendered the life of the drunk/alcoholic in Trees Lounge. That movie has a lotta faults, but all of the bar scenes are scarily accurate. Actually, any time anyone is drinking or getting fucked up in that movie it's pretty much OTM.

Hmm.. christ I can't think of anything else... there are others.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 16 August 2003 07:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Jason Schwartzman in Rushmore (haha, this = me when drunk, I am told)
Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses
Joseph Cotten in Citizen Kane (most underrated actor ever?)

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 16 August 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

hmm, having a hrad time thinking of ppl, but before got to far apart wanted to comment that i found Nicole Kidman's stoned scene in Eyes Wide Shut painfully bad and overacted - and unlike the behavior of any of the stoned ppl i know.

― H (Heruy), Saturday, 16 August 2003 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Where was the snack munching?

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Saturday, 16 August 2003 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know if you'd consider it "acting drunk well" but I hope me and my eventual wife will act EXACTLY like Liz Taylor & Dickie Burton in Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 16 August 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Mptv/1273/3817-0255.jpg

best drunk film couple evah

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 16 August 2003 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Oliver Reed in, well, everything.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 16 August 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Philip Seymour Hoffman in the recent Broadway prod of "True West" channeled The Simpsons' Barney, to great and lachrymose effect

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 16 August 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anyone here seen Barfly? I haven't, but it sounds interesting and Bukowski was a drunk's drunk. Does anyone recommend it?

― Aimless, Saturday, 16 August 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Before I had actually heard the term, I thought the movie title was pronounced 'barf-ly.'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 August 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

wasn't that the name of the dog on Sesame Street?

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 16 August 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend

http://www.movieactors.com/wincovers/lostweekend.jpeg

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 16 August 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i highly recommend barfly. though arguably mickey rourke playing bukowski =/= "acting" (i.e., being a drunken and smelly dirtbag comes naturally to mr. rourke).

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 16 August 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

James Stewart in Harvey.
Johnny Depp in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

― David Steans, Saturday, 16 August 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Les Battersby from Coronation Street acts drunk really bad.

― Freedom Dupont, Saturday, 16 August 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

The first time I went to my high school boyfriends house we put in a movie his dad or brother or someone owned -- IRONWEEDS with Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson. The whole point of the night (and the movie in the VCR) was for us to make out, obv, but I just sat there riveted to the movie and wound up too depressed to get down with the boyfriend. I don't really remember the acting-drunk sequences so much as the sequence where Meryl Streep, in the advanced stages of chronic alcoholism, walks down the street babbling crazily to herself from DT's or something. It will haunt me to my grave.

― jewelly (jewelly), Saturday, 16 August 2003 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anybody seen Under the Volcano? I haven't, but I remember dave q had some complimentary things to say about it on some other thread (and I trust his opinion). ALbert Finney supposed to be really good in it.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 16 August 2003 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Also what do people think about Leaving Las Vegas? It's been too long since I saw it; I seem to remember Cage being pretty believable. Also what about Michael Keaton in Clean and Sober? I haven't seen that one either, I'm not sure if it even features many drunk scenes.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 16 August 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

(maybe we shd start also discussing what it is constitutes believability)

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 16 August 2003 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

my acting teacher sez the best way to act drunk is to "try not to act drunk."

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 17 August 2003 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Peter O'Toole has the best method of acting drunk: He gets drunk.

― jewelly (jewelly), Sunday, 17 August 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Peter O'Toole vs. Oliver Reed for the method acting crown, then.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 17 August 2003 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Carribbean counts? Not quite drunk, not quite coherent..

― Alexis (Alexis), Sunday, 17 August 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Under the Volcano the movie is brilliant, but the book is even better.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 17 August 2003 05:41 (twenty-two years ago)

No, that's the joke in POTC. He's permanently drunk.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 17 August 2003 05:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Brando in Last Tango in Paris

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 17 August 2003 05:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm very reliably informed that K@thleen Turner is plashtered throughout Serial Mom. Like fifth-of-Scotch blootered.

― suzy (suzy), Sunday, 17 August 2003 06:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"PUSSY willow!"

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 17 August 2003 06:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm very reliably informed that K@thleen Turner is plashtered throughout Serial Mom. Like fifth-of-Scotch blootered.

Be hilarious if this was 1) encouraged by Mr. Waters or 2) specifically known and incorporated.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 17 August 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Unless the Kidman character in 'Eyes Wide Shut' has scored like the world's strongest ever weed, it is a v. v. poor stoner performance - she goes from straight to hysterical-baked in abt 30 secs

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Sunday, 17 August 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

What's 'The Days of Wine and Roses' like?

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Sunday, 17 August 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I just saw a film called All or Nothing, I can't remember the actor's name but she plays the alcoholic mother. And she did drunk well enough that I speculate she actually was drunk. In all th scenes except the kareoke one which was overdone, but maybe if you were drunk and trying to act drunk you would overdo it.

― isadora (isadora), Sunday, 17 August 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

off topic a lil, but one of my good friends becomes a tex avery-esque cartoon of a stoned person when stoned.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 17 August 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The Days of Wine and Roses is very hysterical, very overacting, very kitschy, very Jack Lemmon melting down in his parents-in-law's garden after failing to unearth a buried bottle of scotch. A must see! Witness the desperate alcoholic come unhinged! View the perils of withdrawal! See Lemmon writhing in excruciating pain!

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 18 August 2003 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Kidman's scene also notable for Cruise's rejoinder: "I think the pot is making you aggressive" (emphasis mine)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 18 August 2003 05:41 (twenty-two years ago)

there was an earlier Days of Wine and Roses with Cliff Robertson in the Lemmon role that's supposed to be better, actually.

the real undeniable choice: Dumbo!

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 18 August 2003 05:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I like drunk scenes where a character is acting totally normally, or maybe even more focused and intense than normal, and then knocks the glass right off the table with her elbow, or just falls over unexpectedly.

Dumbo?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 18 August 2003 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Orson Welles in Touch of Evil?

Pete Posthelwaite as an evil raging drunk in Distant Voices, Still Lives?

Victor MacLagen in innumerable Ford movies? He's playing a caricature, but playing it to the hilt.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 18 August 2003 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Dumbo! If not the best acting, at least it has the best drunken scene in the history of cinema.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 18 August 2003 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.classicphotos.com/celebs/misc/f-440.jpg
"Urm oh thawts lurverly dawling!"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 18 August 2003 06:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Hehe -- actually the scene where he goes to Liza Minelli's apartment in the middle of the night is actually pretty great .. and pretty accurate.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 18 August 2003 06:16 (twenty-two years ago)

DAT'S WUT I'M SAYIN DAWG!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 18 August 2003 06:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Unless the Kidman character in 'Eyes Wide Shut' has scored like the world's strongest ever weed, it is a v. v. poor stoner performance - she goes from straight to hysterical-baked in abt 30 secs

well it's not like they had all the time in the world to show... never mind

― Dave M. (rotten03), Monday, 18 August 2003 08:29 (twenty-two years ago)

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