3Happy 35th Birthday, Michael Fassbender!
Because you know you love Michael Fassbender.
I think it goes without saying that Fassbender, playing a tortured, joyless, addicted masturbator, would not be nominated. To some degree, less perhaps in recent years, the Academy seems afraid the public will confuse the behavior of nominated characters with their own characters. They don’t want to be seen as sympathizing with masturbators.
Roger Ebert, probably expressing what i was thinking about Michael Fassbender’s snubbing by the Academy — it’s largely stuffy and has to do with outside perceptions of Hollywood being full of perverse, permissive libertines. Shame winning anything would somehow validate this.
They wuz robbed - Roger Ebert’s Journal
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I think they’re sexy….
4 actors I find sexy but cause other people to say “Ewwww, really?”
Hugh Laurie
Liam Neeson
Ralph Fiennes
Russell Brand
Fassbender Challenge (Award Edition) - Best Actress
And the award goes to …… Diane Kruger.
Ok, I know. Michael Fassbender has plenty of other movies where he spent considerable amounts of screen time with other actresses. Where he also wooed and swept said actresses off their feet. But I love his role in Inglorious Basterds, and I equally love the way he and Diane Kruger play off each other (in German no less). The scene is a lot of fun to watch (even though it has a pretty horrible ending for most of the characters involved).
The picture below shows one of my favorite moments from the scene where Fassbender’s character nonchalantly reaches over to light Kruger’s cigarette without breaking the flow in his dialogue (let it be known I find the gesture to be extremely sexy). :)
OTHER THAN SHAME—Michael role Most Deserving Award Recognition
Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre.
Michael Fassbender is amazing as Mr. Rochester, and this is without a doubt my favorite movie adaptation of Jane Eyre. He is so charming and has a boyish mischievousness about him in some scenes, while in others he is brooding and tortured.
There are so many scenes that are swoon worthy. Most notable, the scene in which Jane requests leave to visit her aunt, and he replies “Promise me you won’t stay long.” My heart melts further during the dialogue about the wages Rochester owes Jane where he offers her too much money, then gives her too little, promising to safe guard the rest until she returns.
And finally all the little, subtle, shallow observations that I love about Michael Fassbender in this movie.
- His hair: I love the curls. Especially the larger curls that randomly fall upon his forehead, effectively giving him what I call ‘superhero hair.’
- His accent: Enough said.
- 19th century clothing: Always a win. Fave outfit is when he’s helping to dig up a stump in the yard. That yellow vest is amazing.
- The scruff: Scruffy + killer sideburns = Win.
