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Post by Lucky Dan on Nov 29, 2022 19:22:49 GMT
I remember someone (can't think who) describing a couple this way: He's got nothing to say and she hangs on every word. I don't think I've had a vivacious moment in my life but I admire those who have the goods. |
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Post by Andrea Doria on Nov 29, 2022 19:34:13 GMT
After all the deep and interesting posts above, I'm going to step right in with a shallow note -- before I can feel on-screen chemistry, they have to look good together.
Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon are a perfect example. They both have unusually large faces that might seem a bit overpowering with other stars, but together they fill the screen and seem just right together. TopBilled's picture of Lucy and John Hodiak is smoking hot because they are both incredibly good looking.
Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr? Two tall beautiful people. Yes, of opposite types. but it's easy to feel how they would attract each other.
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Post by Lucky Dan on Nov 29, 2022 19:37:40 GMT
After all the deep and interesting posts above, I'm going to step right in with a shallow note -- before I can feel on-screen chemistry, they have to look good together. Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon are a perfect example. They both have unusually large faces that might seem a bit overpowering with other stars, but together they fill the screen and seem just right together. TopBilled's picture of Lucy and John Hodiak is smoking hot because they are both incredibly good looking. Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr? Two tall beautiful people. Yes, of opposite types. but it's easy to feel how they would attract each other. |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Nov 29, 2022 22:56:28 GMT
I remember someone (can't think who) describing a couple this way: He's got nothing to say and she hangs on every word. I don't think I've had a vivacious moment in my life but I admire those who have the goods. Which makes a good point about chemistry; it doesn't all happen in the chatter. And it doesn't always have to be romantic. It could be like Claude Rains and Bette Davis in Now Voyager. He not only recognizes something in her without words but he has to simultaneously sift through all the negative verbiage the mother is throwing at him. But the mother's words don't mean much compared to what he can see in her eyes, the quiet ""chemistry" which is beginning to happen. That may not be the best example but I have to get supper now so I'll try thinking of better ones. |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Nov 30, 2022 0:05:39 GMT
After all the deep and interesting posts above, I'm going to step right in with a shallow note -- before I can feel on-screen chemistry, they have to look good together. Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon are a perfect example. They both have unusually large faces that might seem a bit overpowering with other stars, but together they fill the screen and seem just right together. TopBilled's picture of Lucy and John Hodiak is smoking hot because they are both incredibly good looking. Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr? Two tall beautiful people. Yes, of opposite types. but it's easy to feel how they would attract each other. Not shallow. The movie industry was built on it, to get us in the door and to eat all that popcorn while we watched beautiful people, the more "smoking hot" the better. It can also be entertaining when all that careful planning, the "formula" studios used for their "chemistry" experiments, went awry and the beautiful bodies they put together generated no heat at all. I'm thinking of Maria Montez and Jon Hall or Jayne Mansfield and...well, practically anybody. I enjoy the misses as well as the hits and I'm expecting your indulgence because I gave you a pass on that shallow thing.  |
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Post by sepiatone on Dec 1, 2022 17:41:07 GMT
Not shallow. Good looks are pleasing to behold, and we expect them in movies. Where else can you stare at good looking people? At MY house!!  But seriously, two good looking people doesn't automatically mean good "chemistry". Not to me anyway. In movies, most chemistry between a couple is created by a combination of.......... Well written dialog between the two principals. Along with craft skills that make the exchanges seem more honest and believable. In short, great writing and great acting. Which is why it's often said that William Powell and Myrna Loy had such good "chemistry" in those "Thin Man" movies. Powell could have more resembled Ned Sparks and the result would have been just as magic. Another angle...... Although I really like the movie BONNIE AND CLYDE, my personal feeling is that Beatty and Dunaway didn't have all that much "chemistry". Both good looking people no doubt, but for me didn't really click as a couple. Sepiatone |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Dec 1, 2022 18:00:30 GMT
Although I really like the movie BONNIE AND CLYDE, my personal feeling is that Beatty and Dunaway didn't have all that much "chemistry". Both good looking people no doubt, but for me didn't really click as a couple. Sepiatone Good example. I think Gene Hackman and Estelle Parsons have much better chemistry in Bonnie and Clyde, but (call me crazy, if you must) I also find them to be more skilled actors than Beatty and Dunaway. |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Dec 2, 2022 0:17:59 GMT
I love the chemistry between James Stewart and Arthur O'Connell in Anatomy of a Murder. I think it's a hoot that their idea of a good time is to get a little buzzed and open a law book. There's a very interesting situation in which both are each other's mentor, with O'Connell sharing his years of experience in the field of law and Stewart gently but insistently trying to keep his friend's burgeoning alcoholism in check. Stewart wisely uses the lure of a chance to work on a big law case to help bring his friend back around to sobriety. They're one of those odd couples who absolutely click because their mutual respect is so obvious.
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Post by Lucky Dan on Dec 2, 2022 1:33:25 GMT
I love the chemistry between James Stewart and Arthur O'Connell in Anatomy of a Murder. I think it's a hoot that their idea of a good time is to get a little buzzed and open a law book. There's a very interesting situation in which both are each other's mentor, with O'Connell sharing his years of experience in the field of law and Stewart gently but insistently trying to keep his friend's burgeoning alcoholism in check. Stewart wisely uses the lure of a chance to work on a big law case to help bring his friend back around to sobriety. They're one of those odd couples who absolutely click because their mutual respect is so obvious.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Dec 2, 2022 14:09:46 GMT
Sepiatone quote: "But seriously, two good looking people doesn't automatically mean good "chemistry". Not to me anyway."Oh I agree, in fact I think a lot of the famously beautiful actors are a little too conscious of their own eye-light and angle to seem really into anyone else.
So much depends on their focus on the other person. I think John Garfield had chemistry with all his co-stars because you could see him really listening to them. I sure feel the heat between Garfield and Lana Turner in "Postman."
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Post by Roy Cronin on Dec 2, 2022 15:18:49 GMT
Whatever you might call it, this chemistry was EXPLOSIVE!  |
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Post by Andrea Doria on Dec 7, 2022 19:59:11 GMT
Oh yes, that's the kind of overwhelming desire he might kill for.
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Dec 7, 2022 20:03:27 GMT
Oh yes, that's the kind of overwhelming desire he might kill for. Funny but the comment applies to both of the above photos and the male character as played by Garfield or Cliff. |
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