Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster is having one major stellar career.
She is the brightest star in a galaxy of stars. Jodie Foster
isn't just an actress, she is a genuine artist...
Let's begin with Bugsy Malone where Jodie Foster
played a gangster's moll, then Taxi Driver where, at the age
of 14, Jodie Foster played an underage prostitute in a film
starring Robert De Niro... A gangster's moll, an underage
prostitute! Jodie Foster has never held back. She is fearless,
and she has the talent to back it up. After a load of films
including Foxes and Candleshoe, with David Niven, Jodie Foster
took on the demanding and troubling role of a rape victim
in Accused, for which Jodie Foster won a very deserved Oscar
for best actress. Jodie's portrayal of Sarah Tobias made me
uncomfortably angry and it also made me think very deeply. In short, I had an experience that affected me and I realise
that that is the power of Jodie Foster's talent. And as I
look back on all the films with Jodie Foster, I realise each
one has afforded me an experience. Let us consider Little
Man Tate, which Jodie also directed. I challenge anyone to
tell me watching that film isn't a profound experience. Silence
Of The Lambs, another Oscar for best actress for Jodie Foster
and a deeply disturbing experience for the rest of us. Nell,
a wonderful film and a poignant experience, Panic Room, well
that is one hell of an experience! My heart was doing flip-back
somersaults! Contact, I love that film and thank Jodie for
sharing the experience of hope the film gave me. Flightplan,
an intiguing film and a surprisingly strange experience and we must
not forget Inside Man. That brings us to The Brave One, a
movie that, in my opinion, is absolutely brilliant! Jodie
Foster embodies the vigilante character with such understanding
the audience is only left to empathise, which creates a very
interesting moral dilemma for the viewer... I love this film
and Jodie Foster delivers a performance amongst the best of all time...
Awesome. I loved the story premise and the result lived up to that
premise!!
I'm struggling to think of an actress living
today who becomes the character they portray at the subliminal
level Jodie Foster achieves, and yet her performances are
often driven on intensity. The speed at which Jodie forces audience involvement and seduces the viewer into the character
still surprises me and I've been a huge Jodie Foster fan for most of my life. Art, for me, is about the
experience. And an artist is one who offers new perspectives.
And a great artist is one who offers perspectives that poke
us in the eye. Jodie Foster never fails to poke me in the eye. Jodie is not only a great artist, Jodie foster is the art. It is Jodie foster's finger tha pokes me in the eye... Persistently ;)
Tim Rees
Raw Nerve
The novel they considered too controversial!
The black Governor of Georgia, Janice Mathias, is the leading contender in the race for the White House! The Ku Klux Klan plot an assination and much, much worse!
Gideon is the man who makes the difference when he tears the dark veil from the face of white supremacy!
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