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Have you seen Patrick Melrose (2018)?
Yes
Partially
No, but I've heard of it
Never heard of it
Elizabeth Olsen as the Scarlet Witch
Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Super Bowl Trailer
Yes Elizabeth Olsen was wonderful. Yes she deserves an Oscar. But yk WHO ELSE WAS PHENOMENOL???????
Benedict CUMBERBATCH!!!! Benedict WONG!!!!! Rachel MCADAMS !!!!!!
AND MY FAVOURITE NEW TO THE MCU XOCHITL GOMEZ!!!!!!
EVERYONE WAS PHENOMENOL!!!! EVERYONE DESRVES ALL THE AWARDS EVERYONE DESERVES AN OSCAR.
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Multiverse of Madness is a doozy
As far as portrayals of Alan Turing go, we have what I like to think of as the "Big Three" - Benedict Cumberbatch, Derek Jacobi, & Ed Stoppard. There are certainly issues with all 3 of them - limitations of the medium, script/writing issues, accuracy, etc. But I do have to say that Ed Stoppard's performance is the only one that doesn't feel like a gross charicature. Like, don't get me wrong, it's a documentary where we see relatively very little of Alan and his full life. However, it feels like a certain amount of care is brought to Alan that we don't see in the other performances.
I think a big part of this is also the writing. The dialogue that Alan has feels so much more like how he know he would actually talk. It's very funny and he is so much more open about his sexuality. The only issue that I really have, and this is in no way Ed Stoppard's fault, is that he doesn't change his voice. There is no halting speech and it's not high-pitched. Which, I understand why that would be difficult to do. Cumberbatch and Jacobi try their best but miss the mark, so I can understand how it would be better to just not try at all. But just, in general, the entire performance feels a lot more natural and playful in a way that the others don't.
I will probably write more about this topic later (I really want to make a TikTok/video series about it) but I have been thinking about this more and more. And I wanted to get this out of my head.