So what the hell was wrong with his face ?! The whole damn movie he opens his mouth and makes some damn noise.. like aahhu. Was he about to have a stroke?
(SSDD)
yeah his eyes almost popped out at the end haha
That was real? I saw that movie, I thought it was bullsh*t
I was thinking he already had a stroke.
shareHe's older... He acted accordingly. And of course brilliantly.
shareAlbert Finney's early claim to fame was playing the handsome Ye Olde Englande ladykiller in "Tom Jones," which won the 1963 Best Picture Oscar.
As with all of us, he got older. His face fell with age. Some actors age hard but keep their great voices(especially British ones like Finney), but here was Finney with a garbled, smeared, hard to understand croak of a voice. Indeed, I haven't heard if he had a stroke, but maybe?
As the movie proved, an actor can lose a LOT of his "instrument," (the face, the voice, the trim body) and still carry the power of his past work and his ability to convey the character. This ruined old man has a LOT of iron in him, still. He proves it.
Well said, he still had a lot of iron in him. Albert Finney was always superb, even way back before Tom Jones, with the film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) which started the british kitchen-sink genre (a lot of great films).
But what a powerful film this was, and it has aged really well too. Sidney Lumet went out with a winner.