11 Jul Sissy Spacek and Judy Garland Contrast

Question Description
Students will watch one of the movies on list 1, paying careful attention to one of the actor’s listed. After watching the film the student will then choose an actor/film from list 2 and also watch that film. The objective is to compose a paper comparing and contrasting the two-actor’s performance style, believability and physicality. You can do some brief cited research on the actors training if you’d like but it’s not necessary. The important thing is to focus on what similarities or differences you see in each actor by watching each film. Did you believe or prefer one actor to the other? Make sure you choose two movies you’ve never seen and that your own response to the two actors in each film is apparent in the paper. Minimum word requirement is 600 to 750 words, but feel free to expand if needed. Again, if research is used cite all sources!

You are suppose to write on one actor from a film from list 2 (years 1920 to 1979) to papers to an actor from Response 1 list (years 1980 to now)

list 1:

Timothy Hutton, Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland: Ordinary People (1980)

Sissy Spacek: Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980)

Jack Nicholson: The Shining (1980), A Few Good Men (1992), As Good as it Gets (1997), About Schmidt (2002)

Robert DeNiro: Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982)

Peter O’Toole: The Stunt Man (1980), My Favorite Year (1982)

Robert Duvall, Michael O’Keefe: The Great Santini (1980)

Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor: Stir Crazy (1980)

Mel Gibson: Gallipoli (1981), Hamlet (1990), Pocahontas (John Smith) 1995

Paul Newman: Absence of Malice (1981), The Verdict (1982), Nobody’s Fool (1994)

Robin Williams: The World According To Garp (1982), Awakenings (1990), Aladdin (1992), Good Will Hunting (1997), One Hour Photo (2002)

Jerry Lewis: The King of Comedy (1982)

Glenn Close: The World According To Garp (1982), Fatal Attraction (1987)

Mel Gibson: Gallipoli (1981), Hamlet (1990)

Richard Gere, Louis Gossett Jr.: An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)

Jessica Lange: Tootsie (1982), Sweet Dreams (1985)

William Hurt: Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Children of a Lesser God (1986), Broadcast News (1987), A History of Violence (2005)

Debra Winger: An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Terms of Endearment (1983), Shadowlands (1993), The Lovers (2017)

Sean Penn: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Milk (2008)

Meryl Streep: Silkwood (1983) The Bridges of Madison County (1995), Music of The Heart (1999), Adaptation (2002), Julie and Julia (2009), The Iron Lady (2011), The Post (2017)

Cher: Silkwood (1983), Moonstruck (1987)

Shirley MacLaine: Terms of Endearment (1983)

Matthew Broderick: War Games (1983), Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

Sally Field: Places in the Heart (1984)

Molly Ringwald: Sixteen Candles (1984), Pretty in Pink (1986)

Haing S. Ngor: The Killing Fields (1984)

Whoopi Goldberg: The Color Purple (1985) Ghost (1990)

List 2:

Ava Gardner: Showboat (1951), The Night of The Iguana (1964)

Vivien Leigh: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Marlon Brando: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), On the Waterfront (1954)

Ethel Waters A Member of the Wedding (1952)

Donna Reed, Burt Lancaster: From Here to Eternity (1953)

Audrey Hepburn: Roman Holiday (1953), Sabrina (1954), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1962)

Montgomery Clift: From Here to Eternity (1953), The Misfits (1961)
Dorothy Dandridge Carmen Jones (1954)

Pearl Bailey: Carmen Jones (1954), Porgy and Bess (1959)

Judy Garland: A Star is Born (1954)

Grace Kelly: Rear Window (1954), Dial M for Murder (1955)

James Stewart: Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Ernest Borgnine: Marty (1955)

James Dean: Rebel Without a Cause (1955), East of Eden (1955), Giant (1956)

Robert Mitchum: The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Yul Brenner, Deborah Kerr: The King and I (1956)

Rita Moreno: The King and I (1956)

Dorothy Malone, Robert Stack: Written on the Wind (1956)

Henry Fonda, Lee J Cobb: 12 Angry Men

Rock Hudson: Giant (1956), Pillow Talk (1959), Seconds (1966)

Andy Griffith: A Face in the Crowd (1957)

Paul Newman: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Elizabeth Taylor: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Suddenly Last Summer (1959), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

Juanita Moore: Imitation of Life (1959)

Doris Day: Pillow Talk (1959)