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good horning!

But his titanic presence and legacy in American cinema make it obvious I'm missing something, or simply haven't seen him in anything I liked. Love Notorious and NXNW but don't like him in them. Can't stand His Girl Friday. I forget what else I've seen him in.

Cary grant has the best delivery of the word “oops” in all of cinema

film acting can be good but often its not this is true

After, say, 1950 there's a sense in which Cary Grant reached max Grantness, therefore he didn't need to 'act.' But cinema performance isn't acting in any traditional way either -- it's the projection of a persona or humors (anger, sadness, charm, etc) that the camera happens to catch. Lots of stage actors are awful onscreen because they have no concept of what cameras capture.

You could put a batman mask on Daniel Craig and only need to change 10 lines in the film.

"And you are...?"

"Man. BAT Man."

Film acting isn’t really acting

And this is a good thing because stage acting is the worst thing ever.

now there's a good movie, titanic

Alfred please change my mind: best Cary Grant performances?

Can't stand His Girl Friday

ok i can't top this, humbled at last

Early Grant: Holiday, one of the queerest of films; he's beautifully modulated.

Middle Grant: Notorious

Late Grant: Charade

bond movies are just generic well-made Hollywood action movies these days

if they are well-made then why are they so incredibly bad

Cary Grant is very very good at saying words in front of a movie camera and being entertaining, whether or not he can ever be found doing anything technically classifiable as "acting"

if flapster doesn't like His Girl Friday this might be an unturnable ship

Read that as Eddy Grant: Holiday

this ship is set for port disappointment

I like screwball! Just not HGF

I will check out Holiday and Charade asap, Alfred.

saying words in front of a movie camera and being entertaining, w

all you need imo

The words are optional

bringin up baby is one of the best comedies ever made

notorious is really bad

Cary Grant is the best actor in the history of movies.

Gene Hackman and Ed Harris are my top two. Grant was an ideal movie star (not the same thing as actor) for his era, but his style wouldn't fly today.

notorious is really bad

??????????

sorry i should be clearer

notorious is a bad, shoddy, lazy, nah fuck this of a movie

he means bad not good

to be absolutely clear

i miss gene hackman :(

last name is fitting tbh

thread delivers

aw no not gene! gene and dustin 4 lyfe

lol dustin is bad not good

his style wouldn't fly today

now enjoying thinking of Grant replacing a prominent male actor in almost any new release I've seen this year, bar Leave No Trace

Hearts Beat Loud would certainly have been elevated by his presence, even if only in the Danson role

cary grant as the male lead in mandy would fucking rule

Cary Grant IS... Venom

Grant as the suspected serial-killer nice-guy cop neighbour in Summer of '84, instead of Rich Sommer

Grant as either the harried, struggling pizza place operator or the harried, at-one-point-decapitated-but-still-struggling mayor in Slice

Grant swaggering around, mocking Tom Cruise, and leaping out of planes

Grant being semi-swindled to some teenagers' back-of-a-bar film festival, instead of Burt Reynolds

Grant as a white cop whose voice and mannerisms Ron Stallworth has to imitate in order to convince redneck Klan members that he's a great guy

pls someone deepfake cary grant as thanos, stat

Grant wearing a grill and shouting at white people for gentrifying Oakland before pissing on their driveway

Grant as a DJ that Gillian Jacobs fucks in Ibiza

Cary Grant as Gaga in A Star is Born

Cary Grant-Man & The WASP

He'd make a good Deadpool.

Grant either as James Corden or as every single member of the heist team in Oceans 8, wearing all the same dresses

He'd make a good Deadpool.

he could be CGI-swapped in for Rob Delaney with no discernible impact on the film whatsoever

okay i'll admit that BlackGrantsman would actually be kind of amazing.... washington and driver struggling to precisely match their preposterous mid-atlantic affectations, creating a fictitous english actor named "cary grant" in order to infiltrate a well-concealed kkk cell in 1940s hollywood. topher grace as ronald reagan... it could work.

BlackGrantsman

:D :D :D


also

"Well I say, my dear, can't you keep that baby hushed? There are giant ear-monsters out there, don't you know, and I'm trying to find something to listen to on the radio!"

dustin is great not bad nor good

he was good as screech in saved by the bell, true

thread rescued from some very furrowed-brow stanning there

topher grace as ronald reagan..

*signs executive order*

i liked him in That 70s Show, but he should have gone back to school or something 4 real

topher grace, the original screen venom, lest we forget

he was fine as David Duke