#jaye davidson

[oscar-nominee-tournament]

Oscar Nominee Of All Time: Round 1, Group A

(info about nominees under the poll)

JAYE DAVIDSON (1968-)

NOMINATIONS:

Supporting- 1992 for The Crying Game

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PEGGY ASHCROFT (1907-1991)

WINS:

Supporting- 1984 for A Passage to India

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[auroraluciferi]

“There can be only one Ra”

Stargate (1994) dir. Roland Emmerich

#stargate #film #1994 #roland emmerich #james spader #jaye davidson

[stephenrea]

The Crying Game (1992) dir. Neil Jordan

#the crying game #power couple if ever there was one. #wouldn't usually tag this but: #d slur #my nonsense #stephen rea #jaye davidson

[the-blue-fairie]

Riki Wilchins on The Crying Game (1992)

#riki wilchins #riki anne wilchins #the crying game #the crying game 1992 #jaye davidson #transgender #look i have mixed feelings about the film #for obvious reasons #but parts were absolutely powerful #and these words are powerful

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#stephen rea #jaye davidson #the crying game #1992 #filme

[fallen-chances]

every once in awhile I think about Jaye Davidson and love him. Served cunt in two films. Got nominated for 7 awards for TCG and was the first openly gay black man nominated at the Oscars. Got a million bucks for Stargate. Dropped off the face of the earth in '97. The Celebrity of All Time.

#jaye Davidson #Stargate #the crying game #my post #gifs

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#jaye davidson

[thegayfangrrl]

KILSOM Valentines (Round One)

#ra #stargate #xenomorph #alien 1979 #alien franchise #jaye davidson #kilsom valentines

[moviehealthcommunity]

Stargate (1994)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Stargate has multiple scenes where bright light is reflected off of water, sometimes creating a harsh flicker. There are sci-fi laser guns and machine guns used in multiple scenes, including sometimes in dark environments, which create strobe effects some of the time they are used. There are some alarm lights and electrical sparks as a powerful machine is turned on early in the film.

Most of the camera work is either stationary or very smooth. There is one potentially disorienting shot near the beginning where the camera looks downward while spinning.

Flashing Lights: 8/10. Motion Sickness: 2/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: A backstory is told about a child finding an unsecured firearm, with fatal consequences.

Image ID: A promotional poster for Stargate

#Movie Health Community #Health Warning #Actually Epileptic #Photosensitive Epilepsy #Seizures #Migraines #Motion Sickness #MGM #Stargate #October #1994 #Kurt Russell #James Spader #Jaye Davidson #Viveca Lindfors #Roland Emmerich #Rated PG-13

[movievillaindeaths]

Ra - Stargate (1994)

As Ra attempts to escape in his ship, Colonel Jonathan "Jack" O'Neil and Dr. Daniel Jackson use a teleportation system to teleport Ra's nuclear bomb to his craft just before it detonates. Ra discovers this too late and his alien body disintegrates in the ensuing explosion, which obliterates his entire craft as it reaches outer space.

#movie villains #villain deaths #jaye davidson #death by explosion #death by disintegration

[johnlone-collection]

David Cronenberg on the casting of M.butterfly

In M. Butterfly, viewers know that Song Liling is a man. The film, then, is about the creation and delusion of love, sex and romance,and finding the right man to play a woman was a task. A three-hour meeting with Lone, who was Emperor Pu Yi in The Last Emperor, convinced him that he'd found his man-woman. Lone is a believable woman, quiet-spoken but not without a certain steely edge. 【1】19930910 - Edmonton Journal "The original idea was that we were going to have Jeremy Irons and then, say, a beautiful unknown Taiwanese boy who was perfect as a woman and then would be perfect when he was transformed into a guy. "Well, that person turned out not to exist. Beautiful boys who were convincing as women stayed beautiful boys when they were supposed to be men. "And that's what happens to the Jaye Davidson character in The Crying Game. There's a scene where his hair has cut and he still remains this really cute girl. You never see her or have to see her as a man with the exception of the one scene where she is naked, which I think makes it non-threatening for a lot of middle-class men." In M. Butterfly, viewers know that Song Liling is a man. The film, then, is about the creation and delusion of love, sex and romance,and finding the right man to play a woman was a task. B.D. Wong, who played the role on Broadway couldn't get past the Cronenberg test: the actor who played Song Liling had to be believable in close-up. "I loved B.D. Wong. He's a very good looking man, but a very ugly woman. If he was in drag and came up to you at a party, you wouldn't fall for it." And a transsexual Cronenberg considered "would have to run around naked for the whole movie to convince anyone that he really was a man." A three-hour meeting with Lone, who was Emperor Pu Yi in The Last Emperor, convinced him that he'd found his man-woman. Lone is a believable woman, quiet-spoken but not without a certain steely edge.

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I was very convinced after trying to cast several unknowns or not-too-well-known Chinese actors that John Lone was the right man to play this woman. It was obvious that everybody except this character knew that this was a man playing a woman in the Peking Opera. In other words, it was a man who fell in love with a man could not admit that he was in love with a man and so deceived himself. He wanted to believe that this was a woman that he fell in love with. 【2】David Cronenberg Discusses M. Butterfly 2009

… And so then the question of casting went to the Chinese character Song Liling. Who will play this character? Now if you haven't seen the movie you should stop watching this now because from now on there will be many spoilers involved. It's impossible for me to discuss the movie without talking about some of the surprises that there are in it. So watch the movie and then come back. So the question is, who will play the woman who is the Chinese opera singer that the Jeremy Irons character falls in love with, who, in fact, is a man? Because it was very traditional in Peking Opera for men to play women's roles. And it was very interesting. When the movie was released, there was quite a bit of confusion in terms of the response to the movie because there had been two movies that came out at the same time. Well, that confused the response, I think, to M. Butterfly. One was The Crying Game, a Neil Jordan film, which pivoted on a woman who the main character falls in love with who turns out to be a man. That role was played by an actor named Jaye Davidson, who was really totally unknown. And of course the name Jaye is very androgynous. Could be a man, could be a woman. So when you see that name in the credits, it doesn't really give anything away. That movie was very successful and people were quite shocked in that film to discover that the character that they thought was a beautiful woman was in fact a man. The other movie that came out at about the same time was Farewell My Concubine, a Chen Kaige film about ,what？It was about homosexuality in the Peking Opera. Now, the chances of all of these things coming together at the same time was very odd, to say the least, but I now go back to the casting of this character. I was very convinced after trying to cast several unknowns or not-too-well-known Chinese actors that John Lone was the right man to play this woman. The problem there was that John Lone, if you have his name in the credits, he was quite famous for having done many films including The Last Emperor, Bernardo Bertolucci's wonderful film. John Lone was the grown-up last emperor and he was very well-known. So immediately in the credits, if it says Jeremy Irons, John Lone, you know that there's a man and ultimately as soon as you see him, you recognize him. And I think this was considered a flaw in my movie because people were not fooled that this character was a woman.They knew right away that it was a man. But actually, my understanding of the real story having done quite a bit research and talked to many people who had met the acutal people and also having talked to Bernard Boursicot, who was the man who Jeremy Irons is portraying. It was obvious that everybody except this character knew that this was a man playing a woman in the Peking Opera. In other words, it was a man who fell in love with a man could not admit that he was in love with a man and so deceived himself. He wanted to believe that this was a woman that he fell in love with. So it was quite a different structure from something like The Crying Game.

And it's in a way a more subtle response that you need from the audience because the audience is not being deceived but the character is. And that was our approach. And people have criticized the casting of John Lone not because of his acting because he's a wonderful actor but because of the structure that was assumed that was really not what we were trying to do. So that's a preamble into my experience of the movie which was very exciting for me.

#john lone #m. butterfly #david cronenberg #the crying game #jaye davidson #Youtube

[hamburgerbox]

Jaye Davidson

Ra Stargate

#art #painting #actor #movies #retro scifi #model #Ra #Stargate #jaye davidson

[iuvant-tenebrae]

Jaye Davidson for Vogue December 1993

#gender #vogue #90s #fashion #jaye davidson #upload

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[dannyreviews]

The Crying Game (1992)

Picture that it’s 2004, the height of Blockbuster Video and it’s another day of renting movies for the week. One title you keep hearing about is “The Crying Game” and not so much for the film itself, but for the plot twist. The internet wasn’t as full blown as it is today so you wonder what everyone was talking about a decade earlier. You watch the film and then you don’t care about the twist, and you get into the story, the characters and how everything will resolve itself. That week I rented “The Crying Game”, I did something I never did before and that was watch the film twice during the rental. 18 years later and about 30 viewings later, this film has become an all time favorite of mine and has opened my eyes to how flexible a film could be and the many possibilities it can take. 

The film opens with a British soldier named Jody (Forest Whitaker), who is kidnapped and held hostage by an IRA ring led by Jude (Miranda Richardson) and Maguire (Adrian Dunbar). Both of them are uncaring and ruthless, but it’s underling Fergus (Stephen Rea) that winds up befriending the hostage, who’s days away from possibly being executed. Jody tells Fergus about his life on the outside, with his girlfriend Dil (Jaye Davidson), a London hairdresser. When Jody dies in a botched escape, Fergus tracks Dil down to her London neighborhood, and the two become romantically entangled. Jude and Maguire, in turn track Fergus down themselves and try to rope him into a plot to assassinate a judge, but Fergus is torn between his love and care for Dil and his allegiance to the IRA. Which direction will he take?

Writer and director Neil Jordan was the best possible person to be at the wheel for this film, which if in other hands might have turned into a convoluted B or C-grade dud. Jordan divides the film into three parts that are so intricate in style, mood and genre that you think you’re watching three different movies. The first part is a chamber piece between hostage and captor. The second part is a romantic drama that is subtle in its subject. Finally, the film turns into a thriller with a gratifying climax and then the coda returns to the themes of the opener. Jordan segues through each portion flawlessly and the seams don’t show because the story is that involved and deep where you pay attention to every detail. In my case, with each subsequent viewing, I’m just as enthralled by the screenwriting and the requirements of each character in relation to the plot. This is why “The Crying Game” had to win Best Original Screenplay, not because of the famous plot twist, which plays no crucial role in the unfolding events, but because of its unique method of putting the plot together.

“The Crying Game” was Stephen Rea’s introduction to American audiences and he gives the best performance of his long career as Fergus. He makes the biggest shift in maturity, from a mindless follower to a somewhat reformed man. Miranda Richardson, who I think is one of the greatest actresses of the last 40 years, is simply superb as Jude. Not many films have a female villain and especially one like Jude that has no feeling or empathy. Richardson personifies Jude’s evil to a T, from pistol whipping Jody to intimidating Fergus and Dil outside the bar. The very underrated Adrian Dunbar is also excellent as Maguire, with a more muted evil to his demeanor, a contrast to his supporting role in “A World Apart”. Forest Whitaker, though only on screen for the first half hour, makes his short time on screen count for something. Jody is a regular person caught up in the worst possible situation and Whitaker holds nothing back. And then there’s Jaye Davidson, who steals the show as Dil, a character that seems normal and hardworking, but there’s something hidden that we the audience want to know. 

The drawback of “The Crying Game” is that during its release in the US, the subject of the twist was turned into a late night punchline. Many people didn’t care what the film was about, and just wanted to pay money to see what the fuss was about. I would like to think that out of all the people that went in with their mind on the joke, the majority came out enthralled with their lower jaw agape at the complexity of the film. The twist only takes up a scintilla of time, and before you know it, you’ve forgotten what it was. That’s another reason why the film won Best Original Screenplay. Jordan is telling you to look here, and then does a complete 180 by giving the audience their money’s worth with the climax that really should’ve been what people were talking about. “Don’t see it for the twist, see it for the resolution.”

Despite the manufactured joke, “The Crying Game” was a box office smash and a major contender at that years Oscars, scoring nominations for Best Picture, acting nods for Rea and Davidson and Best Director, apart from its Screenplay win. I would’ve nominated Richardson for Best Supporting Actress for “The Crying Game” instead of her one scene standout performance in “Damage” that same year. I think she would’ve won if the nomination was changed. It’s probably her most rich and flawless performance in her long career along with “Tom and Viv”. “The Crying Game” is a representation of a time when filmmakers took chances on their movies and stood out, something that is very lacking today, where 90% of the mainstream award winning films are homogenized mush. People will remember “The Crying Game” for years down the road, can you say the same thing about the past few Best Picture winners?

10/10

#dannyreviews #the crying game #neil jordan #forest whitaker #miranda richardson #adrian dunbar #stephen rea #jaye davidson #ira #ireland #irish republican army