Perhaps the most ambitious and widely admired American actor of his generation
Playing diverse and idiosyncratic characters
Rarely was given a chance to play the lead role
Received numerous accolades and awards
"You are the most subjective person in the room"
Was known for a sometimes painful dedication to his craft
He had suffered from drug and alcohol abuse
"Anything I could get my hands on. I liked it all"
Relapsed more than 20 years later
Hoffman was found dead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Seymour_Hoffman
This gave a good idea of who this person was. It also gives an idea of American values at the time since he had a problem with drugs and alcohol yet he was still an ideal. It intrigued me to look up who this was and I did not know that he died or had a drug problem!! I really liked this actor as well. The biography gave an insight to the real Hoffman that people like me did not know. I just knew him as his characters. I like the title especially because it implies one of the views that people saw him as. They were not biased, yet you also used the line saying he was subjective too. These were good lines to portray two sides of his life. Nice job!
ReplyDeleteWhen I heard the news about Philip Seymour Hoffman I was devastated because he is one of my favorite actors. I felt like you did an awesome job talking about his life as a whole and did a great job using titles that describe him perfectly. Something I was unaware of before reading this was that he was rarely used as a lead role. I felt like you did a great job towards the end where it talked about his death. The second to last line gives people a clue of why he might die, then the last line states he dies but not what he dies from. But using context clues from the second to last line as well as where you say “He had suffered from drug and alcohol abuse” gives people a clue of what it is caused by.
ReplyDeleteOne thing that Eric's poem nails is that Hoffman was intimately aware of how flawed people are, and often brought that awareness to his acting, yet was undone by his own demons. His awareness and openness about those demons were likely integral to his ability to play so many different roles, often parts that were complicated---even unlikable. These features of Hoffman bring a lot of depth to your title and his observations about how subjective we are, including people whose professions are supposedly objective in nature.
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