An interesting observation into her role in Fight Club, it remarks on her she “creates” the character and is a good look into her performance is varied, particularly as this is one of her first roles outside her previously stereotyped “English Rose” type of performance. It also gives a sexualised view, which is also different from her other well-known and mainstream performances. It also good that “probably so angry” refers to how interpretation is opened due to the many complexities in that Helena creates in the role and that she leaves a strong impression.
Thursday 6 October 2011
Roger Ebert “Fight Club” Review
"Helena Bonham Carter creates a feisty chain-smoking hellcat who is probably so angry because none of the guys thinks having sex with her is as much fun as a broken nose."
An interesting observation into her role in Fight Club, it remarks on her she “creates” the character and is a good look into her performance is varied, particularly as this is one of her first roles outside her previously stereotyped “English Rose” type of performance. It also gives a sexualised view, which is also different from her other well-known and mainstream performances. It also good that “probably so angry” refers to how interpretation is opened due to the many complexities in that Helena creates in the role and that she leaves a strong impression.
An interesting observation into her role in Fight Club, it remarks on her she “creates” the character and is a good look into her performance is varied, particularly as this is one of her first roles outside her previously stereotyped “English Rose” type of performance. It also gives a sexualised view, which is also different from her other well-known and mainstream performances. It also good that “probably so angry” refers to how interpretation is opened due to the many complexities in that Helena creates in the role and that she leaves a strong impression.
Helena Bonham Carter Interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FBfaPziSgc&feature=related
During this interview, Helena discusses getting into character not only in Harry Potter, but also talks about her preparations and feelings towards becoming a character in general.
2:24 – 2:32
“I find almost, like, the small the part, the bigger foundation you’ve got to create to give it some hope of credibility.”
This shows how dedicated she is to her roles and her beliefs that even her small parts must be fully fleshed out in order to get the best out of her performances
Ashe also she speaks about that if she is cast in a role that feels similar to what she has done, that she likes to try and a play it a little differently than she has done before.
0:53 – 1:03
“I’ve played witches before, so I’ve done a few. In Big Fish I did. So I thought ‘I’ve got to play it differently, this one’, but this one’s sadistic evil, I haven’t really quite done sadism before I don’t think.”
This shows how that even if the character does have similarities to previous work that she will always make the new one feel unique and as something she has never done before.
Helena Bonham Carter Interview (King’s Speech DVD)
In this interview Helena first talks about the role she is playing, then goes on to describe the fact that she is portraying a real person.
“It’s always tricky to play someone who actually lived. It’s your responsibility and you do have to be polite, I think, and respectful ... with the Queen’s Mother, it was quite different – she’s got this very soft, sweet, somewhat vague, you know, gentle exterior, but I think underneath, there’s a whole other personality going on and I wanted to play that duality, really, and that underneath she was very strong and that it was her strength that kept him going”
I believe this will be very effective in discussing her various roles and performances as she talks about the difficulties in portraying a real person and also how she chooses to interpret her role, which helps her get into character for the film.
Wednesday 21 September 2011
Helena Bonham Carter Handbook
This is a very useful book which details her personal life and career, with references to every one of her films from "A Pattern of Roses" and "A Room with a View" to "Harry Potter" and "The King’s Speech". It shows the different roles she takes on and the way she varies between her performances and provides information and content to her films.
This will help to get evidence and facts easily and can help locate and identify the sources needed when discussing her selected films and shows the different genres and how the films differ from each other and for her over the years as her career progressed.
This will help to get evidence and facts easily and can help locate and identify the sources needed when discussing her selected films and shows the different genres and how the films differ from each other and for her over the years as her career progressed.
Thursday 15 September 2011
Interview with Helena from 2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3665069/I-need-to-learn-to-keep-quiet-and-obey.html
This interview is interesting and helps with discurring her various roles and performances as she discusses how her roles have developed naturally and that she has never changed her performace in fear of typecasting:
"...it wasn't deliberate. It's convenient for journalists to impose that, but it really wasn't. I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors."
She also mentions about the films she chooses and her reasons:
"You know what? I hope people go and see it, because it's such a tiny film, made for no money - I loved the writing, and that's what made me do it."
This shows that her career is down to her own choices and that her attraction is the writing of the films and this could help weave in with the variety of her roles as the writing of any genre could appeal to her if the writing is deemed worthy.
This interview is interesting and helps with discurring her various roles and performances as she discusses how her roles have developed naturally and that she has never changed her performace in fear of typecasting:
"...it wasn't deliberate. It's convenient for journalists to impose that, but it really wasn't. I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors."
She also mentions about the films she chooses and her reasons:
"You know what? I hope people go and see it, because it's such a tiny film, made for no money - I loved the writing, and that's what made me do it."
This shows that her career is down to her own choices and that her attraction is the writing of the films and this could help weave in with the variety of her roles as the writing of any genre could appeal to her if the writing is deemed worthy.
Interview with Helena from 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/feb/06/helena-bonham-carter-interview
This interview is significent as she talks about her career and the changes she has made over the years and how she feels about the performances she gives and the films she picks:
"It was Brad's idea for me to be in it. In the six weeks when you're up for an Oscar, there's a little window where you're offered everything. Seventh week, when you haven't got it, you're fucked. Forget it. So you have to get in there. I was offered so many nice parts, and I went for Fight Club."
In the interview also includes how aging affects her acting and how her roles have developed:
"Ageing has helped hugely... There's no question I'm a better actor, and you leave behind a certain typecasting. I was like the corset bimbo."
She also talks about her different styles and defies Hollywood conventions in her appearanes, which doesn't hinder her films:
"I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things – get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened."
Everything that she talks about helps to further get a grasp on the development of her career, which helps when writing about her various roles and performances over the years.
This interview is significent as she talks about her career and the changes she has made over the years and how she feels about the performances she gives and the films she picks:
"It was Brad's idea for me to be in it. In the six weeks when you're up for an Oscar, there's a little window where you're offered everything. Seventh week, when you haven't got it, you're fucked. Forget it. So you have to get in there. I was offered so many nice parts, and I went for Fight Club."
In the interview also includes how aging affects her acting and how her roles have developed:
"Ageing has helped hugely... There's no question I'm a better actor, and you leave behind a certain typecasting. I was like the corset bimbo."
She also talks about her different styles and defies Hollywood conventions in her appearanes, which doesn't hinder her films:
"I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things – get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened."
Everything that she talks about helps to further get a grasp on the development of her career, which helps when writing about her various roles and performances over the years.
Slant Magazine "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" Review
http://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review/sweeney-todd-the-demon-barber-of-fleet-street-blu-ray/1418
This review helps establish her character in the film and also how her performance and choice of wardrobe are used to enhance the acting seen:
"As Sweeney's meat-pie cooking accomplice, a slyly covetous Helena Bonham Carter wears her hair in an auburn rat's nest and dresses in glamorously careless dishabille, all torn lace and tattered flounces, as she wields her rolling pin to wallop stray cockroaches. The comic songs fall to her, ditties extolling her foul baked goods or guiding Sweeney to choose a likely victim, but she also indulges in a surreal fantasia of marriage and mock family life with the resolutely morose Sweeney, the two joined together as butcher and baker, at least until they waltz into an infernal furnace."
It shows that her portrayal contains elements of gothic (particularly in her appearance) that are mixed with certains amounts of comedy and also presents her diversity by hilighting the fact that she sings in this role, something not common with her other work. It also signifies her wicked and evil nature that is present and how her character works in contrast to anything else she has done.
This review helps establish her character in the film and also how her performance and choice of wardrobe are used to enhance the acting seen:
"As Sweeney's meat-pie cooking accomplice, a slyly covetous Helena Bonham Carter wears her hair in an auburn rat's nest and dresses in glamorously careless dishabille, all torn lace and tattered flounces, as she wields her rolling pin to wallop stray cockroaches. The comic songs fall to her, ditties extolling her foul baked goods or guiding Sweeney to choose a likely victim, but she also indulges in a surreal fantasia of marriage and mock family life with the resolutely morose Sweeney, the two joined together as butcher and baker, at least until they waltz into an infernal furnace."
It shows that her portrayal contains elements of gothic (particularly in her appearance) that are mixed with certains amounts of comedy and also presents her diversity by hilighting the fact that she sings in this role, something not common with her other work. It also signifies her wicked and evil nature that is present and how her character works in contrast to anything else she has done.
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