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.
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
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.
The Guardian "The King's Speech" Review
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jan/09/kings-speech-philip-french-review
This is a useful source at it helps to show how her personality is like on screen, with the quote:
"Helena Bonham Carter is a warm, charming, puckish presence as Elizabeth, very much aware of her royal status when first approaching Logue using a pseudonym."
This shows how her performance is percieved by the viewer and that this is accomplished from her range in acting abilites, which is helpful with knowing that Elizabeth is a real person, so she is having to channel her personality in her acting. This quote also establishes how her royal status is defined, something that is unique from her other films.
This is a useful source at it helps to show how her personality is like on screen, with the quote:
"Helena Bonham Carter is a warm, charming, puckish presence as Elizabeth, very much aware of her royal status when first approaching Logue using a pseudonym."
This shows how her performance is percieved by the viewer and that this is accomplished from her range in acting abilites, which is helpful with knowing that Elizabeth is a real person, so she is having to channel her personality in her acting. This quote also establishes how her royal status is defined, something that is unique from her other films.
The New York Times "A Room With a View" Review
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A0DE7DC1230F934A35750C0A960948260
This source is useful due to the quote:
"The real star of the film, though, is the very beautiful Helena Bonham Carter, seen here recently in the title role of ''Lady Jane.'' As Lucy Honeychurch, Miss Bonham Carter gives a remarkably complex performance of a young woman who is simultaneously reasonable and romantic, generous and selfish, and timid right up to the point where she takes a heedless plunge into the unknown."
It shows that her performance in the film is not straightforward, but instead that she shows a range in her acting abilities, hacing to express various traits at once. This helps with discussing her varying nature of roles and the differences in her acting peformances from different films.
This source is useful due to the quote:
"The real star of the film, though, is the very beautiful Helena Bonham Carter, seen here recently in the title role of ''Lady Jane.'' As Lucy Honeychurch, Miss Bonham Carter gives a remarkably complex performance of a young woman who is simultaneously reasonable and romantic, generous and selfish, and timid right up to the point where she takes a heedless plunge into the unknown."
It shows that her performance in the film is not straightforward, but instead that she shows a range in her acting abilities, hacing to express various traits at once. This helps with discussing her varying nature of roles and the differences in her acting peformances from different films.
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