TGT11: Actor to Actor #9

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What's the "Actor to Actor" series? First I pick out my twenty favorite performances of the year. Then I mix those twenty names all up and pick out two names at random. And then I imagine what a conversation between those two characters would be like. Rinse and repeat. For fun! So let's get to it. Here's MNPP's ninth pair of favorite performances of 2011....

The Artist's George Valentin (Jean Dujardin)

and Young Adult's Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron)

Mavis: Well are you gonna say something 

or are you just gonna stand there smiling

like a fucking serial killer?

George: ...

Mavis: I can't hear you! You're just flapping 

your goddamn lips like a deaf-mute or some shit.

George: [does a little tap dance]

Mavis: And he wins an Oscar.

George:

PREVIOUSLY

Ewan McGregor talks to Rooney Mara
Tilda Swinton talks to Mia Wasikowska
Juliette Binoche talks to John Hawkes
Michael Shannon talks to Charlotte Gainsbourg
Patton Owsalt talks to Tom Hardy

William Shimell talks to Jeong-hie Jun

Michael Fassbender talks to Elizabeth Olsen

Kirsten Dunst talks to Andrea Riseborough

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TGT11: Actor to Actor #9

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What's the "Actor to Actor" series? First I pick out my twenty favorite performances of the year. Then I mix those twenty names all up and pick out two names at random. And then I imagine what a conversation between those two characters would be like. Rinse and repeat. For fun! So let's get to it. Here's MNPP's ninth pair of favorite performances of 2011....

The Artist's George Valentin (Jean Dujardin)

and Young Adult's Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron)

Mavis: Well are you gonna say something 

or are you just gonna stand there smiling

like a fucking serial killer?

George: ...

Mavis: I can't hear you! You're just flapping 

your goddamn lips like a deaf-mute or some shit.

George: [does a little tap dance]

Mavis: And he wins an Oscar.

George:

PREVIOUSLY

Ewan McGregor talks to Rooney Mara
Tilda Swinton talks to Mia Wasikowska
Juliette Binoche talks to John Hawkes
Michael Shannon talks to Charlotte Gainsbourg
Patton Owsalt talks to Tom Hardy

William Shimell talks to Jeong-hie Jun

Michael Fassbender talks to Elizabeth Olsen

Kirsten Dunst talks to Andrea Riseborough

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TGT11: A Moment of 2011 Awesomeness

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This has been a moment of 2011 awesomeness.

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TGT11: A Moment of 2011 Awesomeness

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This has been a moment of 2011 awesomeness.

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And The Oscar For Best Man On Man Goes To

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I was waiting for somebody else to make this, but I got tired of waiting. Michel Hazanavicius and Jean Dujardin are my favorite couple today. (Bérénice who?)

And The Oscar For Best Man On Man Goes To

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I was waiting for somebody else to make this, but I got tired of waiting. Michel Hazanavicius and Jean Dujardin are my favorite couple today. (Bérénice who?)

Good Morning, World

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Congrats to Jean Dujardin!

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Good Morning, World

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Congrats to Jean Dujardin!

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Good Morning, World

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Oh my god I love him. The single greatest thing to come out of The Artist's success - not, not Uggie - is the fact that it's given the internet the wherewithal to slowly go and find and upload all of Jean Dujardin's old nudie clips from France-land. And yes hopefully one day I will get around to posting every last square of skin. For now, these shots are from his TV series Un gars, une fille (aka A Guy, A Girl) which was his big break, running from 1999 to 2003. These are what dreams are made of. Very good dreams. See more after the jump. 

Good Morning, World

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Oh my god I love him. The single greatest thing to come out of The Artist's success - not, not Uggie - is the fact that it's given the internet the wherewithal to slowly go and find and upload all of Jean Dujardin's old nudie clips from France-land. And yes hopefully one day I will get around to posting every last square of skin. For now, these shots are from his TV series Un gars, une fille (aka A Guy, A Girl) which was his big break, running from 1999 to 2003. These are what dreams are made of. Very good dreams. See more after the jump. 

Jean Dujardin Eight Times

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If you like Jean Dujardin - and let's agree it's obvious I do like Jean Dujardin at this point - then this is a great time to be you slash us slash we, because good god is he everywhere right now. (We could also say it's a good time to be Jean Dujardin, because duh.)

If you do not like Jean Dujardin... well, sucks to be you, frankly. (Also, you are a crazy person. How could you not like him? With the accent and the forward facing teeth and the dancing and the doggie antics? Is your heart made of stone??? You still eat Freedom Fries, don't you?)

He's even aware of the overkill, as that Funny Or Die video I posted this morning shows. Basically, he is ten steps ahead of us all, and he tap-danced his way for every single one of them. Backwards and in heels, even!

I do have to admit I kind of hope he doesn't win the Oscar now, even though he gave my favorite performance of the nominees and even though he'd give a killer speech lighting up the room with those enormous teeth of his. I'd rather he stuck around, is all, and his current omnipresence plus the Oscar, I think it might doom him before he's even gotten started here. Let's have none of that! Just give the silly thing to Brad Pitt so he and Angelina can have two statues for their stoned sex games from now on, his and hers, and me and Jean will be over in the corner whispering dirty things to each other while Brad gives his speech, y'all pay no mind.

Jean Dujardin Eight Times

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If you like Jean Dujardin - and let's agree it's obvious I do like Jean Dujardin at this point - then this is a great time to be you slash us slash we, because good god is he everywhere right now. (We could also say it's a good time to be Jean Dujardin, because duh.)

If you do not like Jean Dujardin... well, sucks to be you, frankly. (Also, you are a crazy person. How could you not like him? With the accent and the forward facing teeth and the dancing and the doggie antics? Is your heart made of stone??? You still eat Freedom Fries, don't you?)

He's even aware of the overkill, as that Funny Or Die video I posted this morning shows. Basically, he is ten steps ahead of us all, and he tap-danced his way for every single one of them. Backwards and in heels, even!

I do have to admit I kind of hope he doesn't win the Oscar now, even though he gave my favorite performance of the nominees and even though he'd give a killer speech lighting up the room with those enormous teeth of his. I'd rather he stuck around, is all, and his current omnipresence plus the Oscar, I think it might doom him before he's even gotten started here. Let's have none of that! Just give the silly thing to Brad Pitt so he and Angelina can have two statues for their stoned sex games from now on, his and hers, and me and Jean will be over in the corner whispering dirty things to each other while Brad gives his speech, y'all pay no mind.

I Am Link

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--- Counsel This - Ridley Scott is yapping his mouth already about a Prometheus sequel (all the better to get press for the first one), but now we know for real what he's really doing next, and that is the first movie script from The Road author Cormac McCarthy, something called The Counselor. And apparently Scott's been talking to his Prometheus star Michael Fassbender about being the lead in it. It sounds very Breaking Bad and/or Weeds - it's about a lawyer who thinks he can deal drugs on the side but things spiral way way out of control. As things tend to do, especially when Cormac McCarthy is involved. (pic via)

--- Paradise Really Lost This Time - John Milton can stop spinning in his grave, for now - director Alex Proyas, who made one good movie a very long time ago, is not going to make that big budget bastardization of his epic poem Paradise Lost starring Bradley Cooper as Lucifer and Benjamin Walker as the archangel Michael. The budget got out of control and the studio said no thanks.

--- Forget Fontaine - The writer of Eastern Promises has been hired to write a script for a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca. Technically I suppose he's just going to write a new adaptation of the book by Daphne DuMaurier. It's been a long long time since I read her book, so I can't remember how different the two are. As long as a tightly hair-bunned lezzie lovingly strokes some silky underthings, we're good!

--- Ghost Dad - You can't go wrong highlighting the one thing I really liked about Paranormal Activity 3 - that being hot pop Dennis, played by Christoper Nicholas Smith, who we'll hopefully get to see in something else sometime. Preferably he'll bring along those jeans to his next job. Or, you know, less, much less, far far less.

--- White Rice - Because Edward Zwick hasn't made enough movies about the experiences of non-white people shown to us through the eyes of a white person, he's setting up a movie about the building of The Great Wall in China, starring who else but that renowned Asian specimen Henry Cavill. I mean I love me some Henry Cavill, but come on. I can't wait for his movie about slaves starring Matthew Broderick... oh wait, nevermind.

--- And finally, have you seen this video of Jean Dujardin auditioning for his next roles? Love it. He's such a sex beast.
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Jean Dujardin's Villain Auditions from Jean Dujardin

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I Am Link

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--- Counsel This - Ridley Scott is yapping his mouth already about a Prometheus sequel (all the better to get press for the first one), but now we know for real what he's really doing next, and that is the first movie script from The Road author Cormac McCarthy, something called The Counselor. And apparently Scott's been talking to his Prometheus star Michael Fassbender about being the lead in it. It sounds very Breaking Bad and/or Weeds - it's about a lawyer who thinks he can deal drugs on the side but things spiral way way out of control. As things tend to do, especially when Cormac McCarthy is involved. (pic via)

--- Paradise Really Lost This Time - John Milton can stop spinning in his grave, for now - director Alex Proyas, who made one good movie a very long time ago, is not going to make that big budget bastardization of his epic poem Paradise Lost starring Bradley Cooper as Lucifer and Benjamin Walker as the archangel Michael. The budget got out of control and the studio said no thanks.

--- Forget Fontaine - The writer of Eastern Promises has been hired to write a script for a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca. Technically I suppose he's just going to write a new adaptation of the book by Daphne DuMaurier. It's been a long long time since I read her book, so I can't remember how different the two are. As long as a tightly hair-bunned lezzie lovingly strokes some silky underthings, we're good!

--- Ghost Dad - You can't go wrong highlighting the one thing I really liked about Paranormal Activity 3 - that being hot pop Dennis, played by Christoper Nicholas Smith, who we'll hopefully get to see in something else sometime. Preferably he'll bring along those jeans to his next job. Or, you know, less, much less, far far less.

--- White Rice - Because Edward Zwick hasn't made enough movies about the experiences of non-white people shown to us through the eyes of a white person, he's setting up a movie about the building of The Great Wall in China, starring who else but that renowned Asian specimen Henry Cavill. I mean I love me some Henry Cavill, but come on. I can't wait for his movie about slaves starring Matthew Broderick... oh wait, nevermind.

--- And finally, have you seen this video of Jean Dujardin auditioning for his next roles? Love it. He's such a sex beast.
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Jean Dujardin's Villain Auditions from Jean Dujardin

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Missi and Uggie and Jean, Oh My

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One of the greatest pleasures that The Artist's awards season saturation has given me, far more than the film which I liked a lot but didn't totally love, has been the platform it's given to sighting longstanding MNPP love Missi Pyle. She's everywhere, and she is amazing! I just wish she were in the film more. Hopefully all this media attention will give her more to do in the future. She is worthy.

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Missi and Uggie and Jean, Oh My

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One of the greatest pleasures that The Artist's awards season saturation has given me, far more than the film which I liked a lot but didn't totally love, has been the platform it's given to sighting longstanding MNPP love Missi Pyle. She's everywhere, and she is amazing! I just wish she were in the film more. Hopefully all this media attention will give her more to do in the future. She is worthy.

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