Charlotte’s Web
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Tonight I viewed Charlotte’s Web, a movie adapted from a children’s novel. I must say the movie was very well pulled off…except for one thing.
Get Dakota Fanning OFF the screen.
She can’t act. She never could, but now it’s worse. She gets worse in every single movie she does! She IS NOT AN ACTRESS! How is it that so many people just fall for her? They love her! She has way too many fans, and it’s getting out of hand. Everyone just sees a cute little girl on the screen, and they think, “aww, she’s cute, and she’s young, and she’s a girl, and she’s on the screen! She must be good!” No one seems to stop to think about the fact that during the movie, instead of thinking about the movie, they are thinking about HOW CUTE DAKOTA FANNING IS!
She takes your attention away from where it should be, and that is because she is not real! There are very good actors out there, whose faces are all over the place, who haven’t got a problem with this! Because they can act so well, that even though their face is so familiar to us, we still see them as the character during the movie and not as the actor.
But this isn’t so with Dakota Fanning. She’s a semi-decent actress, I’ll give her that. But she isn’t nearly good enough to overcome the fame that makes her face so recognizable…so NOT the character she is supposed to be.
What other little girls do we have for roles like these? Well, I suggest AnnaSophia Robb, whose stunning performance in Because of Winn-Dixie didn’t get as much attention as it deserved. She isn’t popular enough yet to be tested, but when she is, I think she will pass the test of overcoming the familiarity of her face.
In short, Charlotte’s Web was a great movie, but could have been 87 times better with a good actress in the lead role.
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Totally. That’s actually what turned me off of the movie as soon as I first saw the trailer–I thought (without even thinking
), “Oh, it’s another Dakota Fanning flick.”
War of the Worlds was cool, though, but that was mostly because things blew up.
Yes, the producers of War of the Worlds managed to overcome their tremendous disadvantage of having Fanning on the cast.
Okay…so when actors like Robert DeNiro and Denzel Washington praise Dakota for her acting ability, and ask to reshoot scenes with her because they didn’t feel their performance was on the same level as Dakota, they have no idea what they’re talking about, right? When Steven Spielberg reschedules his production around Dakota’s schedule, he doesn’t know what he’s doing, right? When directors have Dakota as their first choice in casting a role, they don’t know what they’re doing, right? When studios cough up $3 million to hire Dakota, they don’t know what they’re doing, right?
We are soooo lucky to have you set everyone straight.
Otto,
Appreciate the comment. I understand there are differing views on her acting level, and that I’m in the minority. However, the fact that people praise her doesn’t really get your argument anywhere. There must be some famous actor/actress you don’t like, but the very fact that they’re a celebrity means they have received praise.
You seem to have missed the topic of my blog, though, for which I apologize, as I should have been more clear. My point is that people should look at Dakota’s acting skill, and not at the fact that she’s a cute little girl. People do treat her differently because of her age, and I don’t think that’s right.