@Eruditewitch lay off of Sarah…you seem very eloquent in your English, she seems like this may not be her first language, so perhaps there are some miscommunications. We understand your POV, as previously stated you wrote it quite well, but it doesn’t mean in any sense of the word that you are an absolute. Even if you are on the panel to judge the Oscar nominations I would not say you were an absolute, so please let’s be civil and allow everyone else to say their piece.
dan and rupert are ok actors but emma is the worst of the 3 espically in movie 5. she uses her eye brows too much ill i can focus is the bloody eyebrows. emma is just a pretty face i agree with that but i think she is a bit over rated, there are so many better actress out there.
I don’t think it’s just HP that gets them the award. Dan for example only recently started winning the gold statue, and this year he beat out Johnny Depp, which is a huge compliment. Both had huge movies/franchises. It seems to me that if Harry was a “Harriet” , and Rupert was the main man, Rupert would still not get the best male actor award. He just doesn’t have the “it” factor. Dan and Emma have it , I think. It’s why the Spiderman actor doesn’t even seem to get a nod, another huge franchise. No one recognizes Rupert or is interested in him- it’s why he never gets on those other end of year lists, even when he had his own movie out. Actors are a dime a dozen and need that something special. He’s just too ordinary- the audience wants to fall in love with someone. It’s also not just looks, though. Megan Fox didn’t win, for example and she’s gorgeous. To win these awards, they also DO have to be considered good actors, or else they would not get nominated. For those saying Emma is a bad actor, and acts with her eyebrows, look at it this way. She doesn’t have comedic scenes- that’s not her role. Her role is to explain things to the audience or being female, to humanize things (giving hugs, comfort etc.) Her role is more emotional compared to Ron’s, who is mostly played for laughs even in the book. (He gets all the funny lines). So if all or most of her scenes are emotional, of course her facial expressions would be the same. Same with Ruperts-the scared look he’s famous for.
I also disagree that “consensus was indifferent to Dan”. No. Dan got a lot of accolade for carrying Ootp . For those few mentioning rupert and emma, most mentioned how reduced their roles were. It brings to mind that IMDB writer who wrote how laughable that Rupert had been nominated in that public poll for best supporting actor against roles like Jake Gyllenhaal’s in Brokeback Mountain. It doesn’t even come close.
“Go ahead and find all of the positive critical reviews Emma has gotten that don’t mention her looks….”
I’ve seen plenty. “Good looks” is an excuse: There are a pretty nice amount of good looking actors out there that are panned for their roles and there are plenty that are praised. Looks don’t matter as much as you seem to think (at least not critically).
Anyway, I like them all. I’d say Emma and Dan are on the same level (naturally talented but with a long way to go) and Rupert is too underused to judge, imo.
I agree with YOU SARAH Totally!!! LOL! We have the same name!! Everytime emma or dan win an award people just say they didn’t deserve it and rupert does. THEY DO DESERVE IT!!! I mean rupert does too, but it’s not emma and dan’s fault that he never got nominated! ARGHH! And wouls the emma bashers just stop it! Coz there are heaps of emma fans that come here and probably leave with sad face coz of people wasting there time dissing Emma!! Emma is, to tell you the truth, one of my FAVOURITE actresses!!! Without her Harry potter would never be the same!!! People diss her about her eyebrows….I mean she only started that in GOF!! Don’t U realise she never did this in the first 3 films!!! Anyway i think she deserves the award, because not only does she act, but she is so nice and caring to us Fans and on top of all that…She’s the only actress I know that seems to be getting on with school and studies!
To be honest Emma is my favourite actor out of the trio, I just couldnt imagine another actress playing her role. She is hermione. I have to admit at first I was unimpressed with Dan but after GoF and OotP he has just gotten better and better. But in all honesty neither one of them deserve to win awards (yet), there are SO many brilliant actors out there.
@Radcakesfan. What a ridiculous and mean thing to say ‘no one recognises Rupert or is even interested in him’. It is clear from this site alone that is obviously not true, and that there are many many people who do think he has the ‘It’ factor. By making comments like these it seems that you are simply trying to antagonise others. It is actually quite sad and pathetic when people feel the need to praise one member of the trio while simultaneously ripping into another member (particually if they’re doing it just because somebody else dared to like him).
Sorry, i’m talking about the general public. Not everyone is a hp fanatic and knows who they are. Dan gets a lot of attention and is almost always in the press (he has had a lot of other projects besides HP) and presumably Emma has a huge fanbase because her numbers are always “up” and have been for many years (Dan’s too but not as high) and from what i’ve read it’s not just little girls. Rupert’s are never “up there”. shrugs
Oh and grapple, it seems to me there are a whole lot of people here antagonizing others by their criticisms. Why should some actors be ripped into constantly and not others? Everybody dishing criticism knows someone else is going to argue back or state their opinion.
To be honest if your not really interested in the HP films anyway I’d doubt you’d know who ANY of the trio are. I think you’r obviously determined to compare the trio against each other and I just find that completely pointless. I really dont care whos ‘numbers are up’ or whatever. It’s not a competition. Everybody is perfectly entitled to like who they like without recieving criticism for it or somebody else deliberatly bashing the person they admire.
Oh and Radcakesfan, I dont think any actors should ‘be ripped into constantly’. But you seemed to deliberatly set out to do that, not because somebody has criticised anyone, but because a few people expressed a preference to Rupert.
Actually, i don’t think Emma is a bad actress from what i’ve seen. I do think she has an affinity with the camera- the way she holds herself and she certainly swayed a ton of people with the hermione/ron thingie so I don’t see how they can call her bad all the time. Seeing as how they film a scene x number of times, and do it various ways, it is ultimately the director and the film editor who decides which take they like. If they end up choosing similar scenes (ie where she uses her eyebrows to convey sincerity or worry, which hmm, people do use), that’s their fault. I think it’s the internet and these comment boards which take a single idea and run with it. I’d bet less people would have noticed something or cared, had not that happened. Also there are people who know who Dan and Emma are but not the “red head” -“who?” i’ve heard radio and read forums/blogs etc mentioning just that. They’re kind of hilarious. About the numbers, ronfans know it themselves. Incidentally, you have noticed most others here comparing the trio to each other? Maybe read over this board…
Oh yeah, and about choosing those scenes with eyebrows lol, the thing is, those are the kind of scenes she gets, what few she gets, (considering everybody’s roles are cut down drastically from the book, including Harry’s)
Okay so there are people out there who dont know what Rupert’s name is. Does that really matter? i dont understand the point you are trying to make. I dont think that is ‘hilarious’ and really dont think that detracts from his abilities or achievments in his own right. You seem so concerned with ‘numbers’ or whatever, I really dont think they matter. Is this a contest where you are trying to see who is more popular then whom? lol. How pointless. And incidently I have read over the comments and as I recall there were other people who were saying something like ‘Im a fan of whomever but that doesnt meant I dont like the others too’.
But anyway, it doesnt really matter, If you cant see my point then, oh well!
Rupert never wins ANYTHING! I mean yay for Dan and Emma but it’s really unfair! Just cause she’s female…
I agree with KillerKitty I think Emma has gotten a lot of heat for her role, even from the beginning when she was just a kid, and she’s expressed publicly how much she wants to impress us fans. Perhaps it’s not as important anymore, but it can definetely be an extra stressor for her, which might explain her tick now. But I do think that she does a great Hermione and it’s up to the directors to watch that tick.
As for Dan…well I thought he made a huge improvement from GoF to OoTP I think he’s portrayed Harry accurately. I love the fight scene at OoTP his acting was incredible. I do think other actors should get more awards wink Rupert and Matt wink but will wait for HBP when Rupert has a more prominent role and Matt with Neville’s heroic acts in DH.
Also all award shows are based on some form of popularity…the only ones you could claim were not are things like the Math club, in which, obviously, the correct answer wins. So, don’t step on your high horse yet.