Drum roll please... JENNIFER LAWRENCE! I have been waiting for this moment. Like, seriously.
I absolutely adored Jennifer Lawrence in The Silver Linings Playbook. She plays the character of Tiffany, a widowed unorthodox woman. She is very blunt. She likes to be independent and hates it when men try to take the upper-hand. Several times, she and Bradley Cooper's character collided head on because Cooper had a controlling air about him.
As opposed to De Niro, whom I also blogged about, Jennifer Lawrence was more than just there. She was everywhere in the film, whether or not she was on screen. I felt that her acting was so phenomenal that the audience just cannot help but look for her in the scene. She is such an essential piece to the entire film and she played her part so well. I don't know how she did it but Lawrence managed to exalt a callous and uncaring personality, but you could sense the emotion running through her. Although she doesn't outright show or say it, the audience can feel Tiffany's love for Pat. Lawrence does this seamlessly through her acting.
Don't even get me started on Lawrence's on-screen chemistry with Bradley Cooper. Those two were on fire! They adapted around each other. Lawrence molded herself, not only around Tiffany's character, but also Pat. She included that fact that, despite barely meeting Pat in the film, he becomes a huge part of her life. It was almost as if Lawrence forgot about herself for about two hours and played the life of someone else. But it was convincing.
It just might seem weird seeing Lawrence play such a dark character because she's such a lively person in real life. In fact, her character seems almost too unrealistic. Any other actress may not have been able to pull off what Lawrence did. She took an unrealistic character and transformed it into someone that people get attached to and can relate to. There are obviously some parts in which you just have to take off your reality glasses and enjoy the show. That's certainly what I did. It is better to stop over-analyzing the film's unrealistic properties and just enjoy the phenomenal acting and story set before you.
I cannot really judge if Lawrence will win the Oscar because I have yet to see the other nominees, but I sure hope she wins.
