Way more than Jennifer Lawrence.I'm not saying that she didn't do good,but Cooper was extraordinary,absolutely mesmerizing.Does anyone else agree?
shareI absolutely agree, Jennifer Lawrence was too young (21) when she was filming SLP, and it showed, despite her great work in Winter's Bone, Bradley Cooper outshined her in most of their shared scenes, and individually he left a stronger impression than her.
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He absolutely deserved it! I haven't seen a whole lot of his movies, but from the ones I have seen, his dynamic range is impressive
shareDaniel day lewis was so good in Lincoln
shareI agree Bradley deserved an Oscar win for this role, but that has nothing to do with Jennifer Lawrence. He didn't lose because Jennifer won in a completely separate category. He lost because the Academy thought Daniel Day Lewis's performance in Lincoln was slightly better.
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I agree ! I thought Lawrence and Cooper did a fabulous job, but Daniel Day Lewis was outstanding in Lincoln and probably deserved it. My favorite Bradley Cooper role was in The Place Beyond the Pines- he is fabulous in it!!
shareI can't comment Daniel Day Lewis's performance because I haven't seen Lincoln, but I agree with you that he probably deserved it the most. It takes a truly exceptional actor to convincingly play a real person.
SLP is my favorite Bradley Cooper performance, but he was good in The Place Beyond the Pines too. That's one of my favorite films.
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His opponent for the oscar was, as mentioned, Sir Daniel Day Lewis, in a movie from Steven Spielberg, about the star spangled American Icon Lincoln.
That's like running the 100m against Usain Bolt...the poor boy never had a chance.
If you accept the premisse that the Oscar should go to the best actor of that year, then no, Cooper didn't deserve it (he was good though!)
He was good, but playing the mentally ill seems easy. There don't seem to be that many poor performances of this kind.
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Probably because most people don't really know what mental illnesses are about, so they judge the acting, not per se the portrayal of the illness. I for one thought the movie was good, but his portrayal of a bipolar disorder was terrible. Not his acting, his acting was good, just the portrayal that is miles away from any truth.
I suffer from paranoid schizophrenia and was committed 8 times, each time about 3/4 months and met a lot of people with different mental ilnesses. When I watch movies about mental illnesses I have to shut the part of my brain out that compares it to the reality, cause up untill now I honestly have never seen anything that came close to how it really is.
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The movie begins after Pat has been institutionalized for 8 months, so we aren't seeing him during his mental health crisis. He also begins taking medication fairly early on so I wouldn't judge Cooper for not portraying it correctly. Besides mental illness is different for everyone. The movie has to be entertaining and too realistic may be too disturbing for some viewers.
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