Michelle Rodriguez Applies the Unix Philosophy to Acting

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ptz@dubvee.org⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

The short version of the Unix philosophy is basically, “Do one thing, and do it well”.

Michelle Rodriguez basically plays the same basic character in every movie: tough girl / tomboy who doesn’t take crap from anyone, usually wears a tank top, and dies about as often as Sean Bean.

And it’s not a bad thing.

While I haven’t seen every film she’s done, I have seen a lot of them, and she gives a stellar performance every time.

So she may play the “same character” over and over, but she does it very well.

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lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I highly recommend the Dungeons & Dragons movie. MR and CP had great chemistry.

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- nick@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I just watched it yesterday, it was incredibly fun. Sad I slept on it for so long.
  
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- ptz@dubvee.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s the second time I’ve seen that that mentioned today. Definitely going to have to check that out.
  
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  - surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s been two hours. Did you do it yet?
    
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  - Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s fantastic, drop what you’re doing and go watch it now
    
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- Servais@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Very good movie indeed
  
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pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s just called being typecast, and it’s super common. It’s actually pretty uncommon for high profile actors to escape that typecast.

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- ptz@dubvee.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, it is. But I think MR is probably one of the most typecast actors. I read a while back that she is well aware of that and even supports it.
  
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  - bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Same with Noel Gugliemi
    
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dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You took this from an UnpopularOpinion thread, didn’t you?

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- ptz@dubvee.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It was my own comment, so it was fair game.
  
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  - massive_bereavement@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    So you do one thing, and do it well.
    
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  - Servais@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Definitely
    
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spoon00@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
For no good reason: I cannot stand her. I wish her no harm. I don’t hate her, but I want her to stop being in anything. I probably need help.

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xeekei@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m pretty sure I heard her voice in Halo 2 as well. Playing random-ass no-name marine NPCs. Must be from before she got really big.

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- ptz@dubvee.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  She was in Halo 2! I think she was already big but just wanted to do it. On the Resident Evil commentary she talked about how she loved Half Life and smashing zombies with a crowbar so she probably was a fan of Halo as well.
  
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