Chewing the Scenery...

[Quatermass]

After discussing the term with ChristianBecker elsewhere, I thought that I might dedicate a thread to connosieurs of actors who go the whole hog and chew the scenery.

For those of you unfamiliar with the term, it basically means acting to such a degree that it can be either extremely dramatic, or just plain OTT.

Post examples if they are available on YouTube. I'll let people post a few. And no, the vast majority of examples that I post will NOT come from Doctor Who, if I can help it.

 

[Tonyblack]

I know some people think he's great, but I can't bear to watch anything with Dustin Hoffman in. I think he's a dreadful actor - always goes way over the top. I've got the DVD movie of him in Death of a Salesman and there is some brilliant acting in it - but not by Hoffman. He totally hams it up and spoils the whole movie.

 

[meerkat]

He is brilliant in Hook!

 

[Quatermass]

I know some people think he's great, but I can't bear to watch anything with Dustin Hoffman in. I think he's a dreadful actor - always goes way over the top. I've got the DVD movie of him in Death of a Salesman and there is some brilliant acting in it - but not by Hoffman. He totally hams it up and spoils the whole movie.

Examples, please? Or can't you bear to watch them?

Anyway, here's one of the most infamous recent scenery-chewing moment from the English dub of Death Note, "I'll take a potato chip *heh-heh*...AND EAT IT!"

 

[Quatermass]

He is brilliant in Hook!

You know what? That's the only film that I think I have ever seen Dustin Hoffman in. And the last time I saw that was years ago...

 

[Tonyblack]

He is brilliant in Hook!

Yes, but he's supposed to be over the top in that one.

Phil Collins was in that one, if I remember correctly.

 

[BobtheDrog]

Bruce Campbell, the master of over the top
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NexJro6w3Js


however think the award for the most over the top performance should go to Christopher Walken in "The Rundown" aka "Welcome to the Jungle"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWWo_9bqKKo

 

[DaveC]

I am at work and can't view/post YouTube on my phone.

I will just say this.
Malkovich.

 

[DaveC]

Bruce Campbell, the master of over the top
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NexJro6w3Js


however think the award for the most over the top performance should go to Christopher Walken in "The Rundown" aka "Welcome to the Jungle"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWWo_9bqKKo

Love him in that. 'Do you understand the concept of the Tooth Fairy?!?!'

 

[Sjoerd3000]

Nicolas Cage in Wicker man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo

 

[Quatermass]

Nick Nolte chewing the scenery in Hulk, with Eric Bana picking at the remnants.

 

[Pearwood]

I think William Shatner puts everyone to shame.

 

[Quatermass]

I think William Shatner puts everyone to shame.

Okay, you asked for it. :twisted:


KHAAAAAAAN!!!! KHAAAAAAAN!!!!


WHEEEEEATONNNNNN!!! WHEEEEEATONNNNNN!!! WHEEEEEATONNNNNN!!!

 

[raisindot]

Don't have the clips, but in nearly every scene in I Cladius in which he appeared as Augustus Q's favorite, Brian Blessed, didn't just eat up the cheap BBC scenery--he regurgitated it.

 

[Quatermass]

Don't have the clips, but in nearly every scene in I Cladius in which he appeared as Augustus Q's favorite, Brian Blessed, didn't just eat up the cheap BBC scenery--he regurgitated it.

Actually, I saw some of it, and he was actually quite subtle in it, most of the time.

But then he learns of Julia...

"IS THERE ANYONE IN ROME WHO HAS NOT SLEPT WITH MY DAUGHTER?!"

 

[meerkat]

Such a GOOD series, I Clavdivs!

 

[raisindot]

Such a GOOD series, I Clavdivs!

I agree. Since first seeing it when it came to the U.S. in the 70s (bare boobs and bums 'n everything!) I've owned it in VHS and two DVD versions.

What an amazing cast, considering how many of them were relatively unknown at that time and went on to bigger things.

 

[deldaisy]

I know some people think he's great, but I can't bear to watch anything with Dustin Hoffman in. I think he's a dreadful actor - always goes way over the top. I've got the DVD movie of him in Death of a Salesman and there is some brilliant acting in it - but not by Hoffman. He totally hams it up and spoils the whole movie.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Finally someone who agrees with me!!!! I loved Death Of A Salesman as a "work" and then they put Dustin Hoffman into the freaking MOVIE for all time and totally screw up what should have been a brilliant movie I could have pulled out and shared with my children over the years! ARRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DaveC]

Such a GOOD series, I Clavdivs!

Every Tuesday, when I was going through my first set of driving lessons in 2001, my dad would sit me down and we'd watch an I Claudius. He'd still got his original copy, taped off TV when they first aired. We both have them on DVD now. I gave his as a Christmas present one year. I got mine from a charity shop for £4

 

[DaveC]

By the way: DUSTIN HOFFMAN RULES