What movie was you're first Ralph Fiennes discovery?

[Lyra]

I haven't posted anything on this site yet so I thought I would begin at the beginning. If it's possible to recall, in what movie or television program did you have you're first Ralph moment? A place in time when the light came on and you realized what talent and/or handsomeness :) you were witnessing. The moment came for me when I was watching Red Dragon. It's the scene where he is waiting in his van for Reba to walk out of the building to wait for the bus. The way the blue lighting accentuated his facial features is what made my jaw drop. So, yes, it was his unbelievable handsomeness that hooked me at first. But then once I was hooked, I realized what a talented and phenomenal actor he is.

Can you remember the moment it happened to you?

[Zsuzsanna]

Dear Alice,
I envy you to see him so young on stage. Please, write us your impressions from him in these early classic roles. Everybody would like to read it, I think so. Please....

[Zsuzsanna]

I read the question now. What'about me, my first encounter with him was in 'Schindler's List' . I never heared his name and never saw a monster so terrible and so human at the same time. I adored his humbleness to disfigure himself for the role , I saw many actors playing an evil Nazi, but his was crushing astonishing sensational. I was in New York not long after and on the Booth Theater there was a showbill and pictures of Hamlet and here I learned that he is extremely beautiful, slenderly built with dark hair blue eyes and immediately after, that there is no ticket to the show. Since this time I tried to see everything he made. The second was 'Wuthering Heights' and his Heathcliff was extraordinary! He has a strong sexual emanation one can't define . His only film what I don't like is 'Avenger' ( and not The White Countess , which I look always when I'm in romantic mood). It's for him that I looked 'Harry Potter' and found this emanation even when he's totally uglified. I saw everything what he did on screen and bought it except 'Miracle Maker' If anyone could help me where can Ibuiy it in Europe I'd thank it very much.

[Marcella Heer]

That is very funny. I saw his Goeth in SL and didn´t know that I saw him life during the shooting of BoM awful film). I was an extra in it an had the opportunity to share the actors´ break and have dinner with them. I found him nice (and good looking) and forgot about him shorty after that. In SL I didn´t recognize him, but found him fascinating. I hated the character, but thought: that man in a different role, with a different hairstyle and less weight...must be georgeous. Some times later I was about leaving my house, when I saw in TV some glimpses of the Oscars. And suddenly there was a young man shown, who timidly smiled into the camera. Breathtaking, really breathtaking... I gasped: who´s that guy.?
Well, I had to leave the house and in my car I suddenly remembered. That guy was the actor who had played Goeth. My God....
Then I was hooked. And very eager to see QS. Georgeous. That smile.... sigh....
One day later I found an article about him in a newspaper and the had a list of his previous films... BoM was one of them. I cried....

Hey, we had shared a dish of gambas....

[Zsuzsanna]

I met him first in 1993 when Schindler's List reached Budapest. This film was an extraordinary sensation and the top was this unknown young actor who was formidable. He brought something elementary new in the personification of this terrible character: the complexity of the character. He gave a new (and terrible) shaping of fascisme remaining a multilayered human beeing. He taught us to see that human beings are capable to do everything, good and evil. And a great and humble artist who gives the maximum of his fantastic talent and doesn't shrink back to distort himself transforming into the part. In 1995 I was in New York and first I couldn't imagine from the beautiful black haired graceful and gracile Hamlet, that the actor was the same who played Amon Goeth. Sorry to say, tickets were unavailable. He's cathartic full with emotions and highly intelligent. His roles are clearly analysed, he plays with first class technic (beautiful voice perfect movements his tools are very restrained never hamming expressing always the the inner truth. He's the master of nuances. (Oscar must reach him).

[Darlene]

It was all an accident, I wanted to watch Shakespeare in Love with Joseph Fiennes(for the fifth time) the movie was not in, so of all movies, I decide to go with Schindler's list! ( I saw the Ralph Fiennes' name and said oh, brothers)
Can you imagine picking a movie so polar opposite?
and this was all 2 months ago!!

[trugannini]

Darlene, I see you've started a discussion on The English Patient. You're moving ahead fast!. Hang on, you're in for a great ride!!! :)

[Lily-Rose Riddle]

Red Dragon was on tv, in that scene when he first meets Reba, and I watched. His beautiful eyes got me since the very beginning, later I realized how talented he was. Then I saw Harry Potter, then Maid on Manhattan, Schindlers' List, Land of the Blind, English Patient, Onegin, etc.

I am trying to watch all of his filmography, but I'm having a hard time because some of the movies are not easy to get.

[Aleksandra Peric]

I was like twelwe years old when they showed English patient on tv. I didnt watch full movie but I remember one actor standing in front of the plane looking to me with that amazing eyes. Of course I didnt know the name or anything but that moment stayed in my mind. Much later I watched Game show and realised it was the same actor and that was it I completly fell for him, also I realised how powerfull actor he is and how his every part is full of emotions and done perfectly.

[Inés]

My first "contact" with him was in Quiz Show (and that was in 1994, I think, so I was just 13), probably that's one of the reasons I love that film so much... I went to see it to the cinema because it was directed by Robert Redford and had had good critiques, but I had never heard of an actor named Ralph Fiennes before. From the very first moment that I saw him I liked him so, so much, he's been stuck in my mind since then. At the end of the film, which was fantastic, I checked the cast to learn his name and had to make a certain effor to learn it by heart, as I didn't even know how it should be pronounced... Since then, he became my second favourite actor (I know, but Robert Redfor will always have to be my number 1) and I've been following his wonderful career, which most of the times has given me more reasons to keep and grow this admiration, which I believe will last forever.

[Liza]

Inés, Robert Redford skipped a generation with me! I enjoy his work, but both my mother and my daughter absolutely adore him! : )

[lexi21]

It was Schindler's List. I was in the 10th grade when I saw it. Didn't like it that much the first viewing(our class was reading "Night", which was about a man's experience w/ the Holocaust). But nearly 2 years later, I decided to rent it from the library. Honestly, I regret disliking it the first viewing, but now, I love that film. What got me the most is definitely Ralph's eyes and how intense it was. Then, goes a string of rentals like Strange Days, English Patient, Red Dragon, etc.

[Peachy]

Schindler's List. I am quite the Third Reich History buff, and his role as Oberstgruppenführer Goeth was amazing! He played the role well..not to mention he looked amazing!