Dream role or sequence....

OK, let's work this through. For Saoirse's character to be near the commandant's quarters she couldn't be in the camp proper, she'd have to be a worker for him, the way Meryl Streep was for the Auschwitz commandant in Sophie's Choice.
But six minutes of emoting is a long time. Take this sequence, from Bergman's Persona, 1966. This is only about a minute and it's aided by the cinematic brilliance of cinematographer Sven Nykvist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx9iW3bOBhs
or this famous section from Shawshank Redemption, it's only a couple of minutes long and there are lots of other things going on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzuM2XTnpSA
But I'm game. What, exactly, would she be doing?

I didn't want to be accused of plagiarizing from Schindler's List. 

She would be reacting to every bit of the music with her amazing eyes/face by conveying the awe, sadness, joy and deep feeling and appreciation of the beauty represented by that voice, the wonderful expression of life with the obvious juxtaposition of the pure evil and horror surrounding her.

I'm not here with ideas yet (sorry ), but I'd like to point out that to me, Joan of Arc is already a dream role I'd want to watch her, that with the proper combination of pressure, production-director can be a devastating and powerful result, and may I say it will leave a very profound mark in cinema. A great potential in that one.

Absolutely. I've thought about it for a long time. The last version didn't do justice to the great story and character. BTW, I haven't heard back from the guy offering TC thing. I guess I'll have to send another email to see if he has the goods.

I would love to see Saoirse in the plum lead role as Dorothea Brooks in a remake of the television costume drama mini-series 'Middlemarch' (last made back in 1994).

Set around 1830 in England it is chiefly about Dorothea, a young well off and idealistic woman who is distressed by the living conditions of the poor on her Uncle's estate. Partly in a reaction against her families preferred choice of a suitable husband for her (the owner of the neighbouring Estate) she marries a much older man, almost entirely out of admiration for his refined and scholarly mind. But she lives to deeply regret it.

The story is even better than 'Pride and Prejudice' in my opinion and Saoirse would be perfect for the role.



The Players of The Game are the scum of the earth.

I love period pieces. This sounds quite good. I was just thinking, where has our good friend zorro been?

Zorro? Perhaps he has been off "...defeating the defeatless!"


The Players of The Game are the scum of the earth.

I Love drama Steve  I also, like Jlent, think a 6 min scene would be too much, but how about something like the durkirk scene in Atonement? Imagine as she walks in the middle of a gruesome scene, the camera following turned to her so we can see her face, but also the scene around, till we see she raising her arm, then cut. Next scene we see she touching the shoulder of the man playing the song....