Benedict Cumberbatch News

[sittything]

Christopher Walken?!  I've always thought he's good looking.  But I like Alan Rickman too, soooo.... and my mother did make that face over Hiddles, so my judgement may be questionable.  lol

 

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

 

Now that is cool!  Would love to know what that app is, just for kicks.  That article you linked to includes one quote that I fully agree with: "Mali Finn, a casting director in Hollywood, said 'I don’t think that you need the face of a Leonardo DiCaprio or of a Mark Damon. To be famous, I think you simply have to have a face that is distinctive.'"

 

And "distinctive" ain't classically handsome.  If you doubt that, just ask yourself if you'd recognize the model for a classical Greek statue if you saw him on TV.  I find faces of that sort to be nice looking but hardly memorable.

 

But it seem to apply to men. Look - how many women with looks, let's say, of Danny DeVito, Jean Paul Belmondo, Depardieu, Robin Williams, Christopher Walken, Ron Howard, Malcolm McDowel, Jack Black, Dustin Hoffmann, Richard Harris, Harvey Kaitel, John Goodman, Jon Voight, Bob Hoskins... would make it into first row of stardom - just because of their talent? 

 

Kathy Bates. Whoopi Goldberg. 

Anyone Else?

 

 

True.  But I think that's merely a byproduct of women not being taken so seriously as actors, which is hopefully changing.  So we may be in for a bunch of interesting female faces on our screens in the not-too-distant future.

[Arcadia]

Yes, I had seen him in War Horse too...didn't know who he was or who Tom Hiddleston was either, so I looked past both of them...

I saw Warhorse because I'm horse crazy, but I have to admit I didn't care much for it, so I didn't pay attention to anyone in it. Not even the horse.

 

I should also add, however, that i didn't know who Martin Freeman was before Sherlock, and I'd seen him in the Hobbit, but didn't know who he was.  i'd also seen Love Actually and didn't know who he was.  I've since made a point of purchasing some of his works also.

I wish I could remember where I first saw Martin, because I recognized him the moment he popped up in Love Actually. But I can't think of anything I might have been able to see him in before that! It's weird ... although I may have seen "Love" a year or two after it was released. At any rate, I've been a MF fan ever since.

 

Empirically, is BC handsome?  My initial gut reaction is no, but I guess he must be if so many women think so.  He's definitely not classically handsome, though.

I think BC is dynamically sexy.  I've never seen him in person, but I suspect that photos don't do him justice -- it's what he can do with his face and his body movements that make him someone you want to watch.  And when those actions are paired with behaviors that are mesmerizing (like Sherlock or Khan), then he becomes sexy in those moments.

 

I think Sherlock is sexy, but do I find BC sexy? I find him mesmerizing, definitely, but is that the same thing? And are either of those the same as being handsome? I think Martin is sexy, but not mesmerizing, and definitely cute more than handsome. Same with George Clooney; sexy (something to do with his smile and his voice, I think): not handsome or mesmerizing. He been in mostly excellent movies, though, I'll go see anything he's in.

 

At any rate, I was riveted by Sherlock almost from the moment I clapped eyes on him; but I fell head over heels for BC the first time I saw him being goofy in an interview. Cute as a bug AND funny as heck; aghghghgh, I'm a goner!

 

Hmmm ... who do I find sexy, mesmerizing and handsome all at once? Ah. Denzel Washington. OMG, that man is the perfect storm....

[Arcadia]

How did I miss this when it first came out? One of the less routine TIG interviews. http://www.bigissue.com/features/interviews/4547/benedict-cumberbatch-interview-i-increasingly-feel-the-need-to-step-back

[sittything]

Not surprisingly, Lara Pulver is nearly perfect... lol

 

 

8.49 out of 10

 

- Your face has great horizontal symmetry

- Your ears are too long for your nose

- Compared to your eye width, your innerocular distance is nearly ideal

- The ratio of your face width to nose width is nearly ideal

- The ratio of your face length to face width is nearly ideal

- Your mouth is too wide for your nose

[Arcadia]

And yet her score and Ben's are nearly identical....

[sittything]

Yeah, I'm not really getting how the score is calculated.

[Carol the Dabbler]

... I was riveted by Sherlock almost from the moment I clapped eyes on him; but I fell head over heels for BC the first time I saw him being goofy in an interview. Cute as a bug AND funny as heck; aghghghgh, I'm a goner!

I find Mr. Cumberbatch most engaging a] when he's speaking candidly in interviews, and b] when he's doing mo-cap for Smaug (not the finished film, the raw mo-cap footage).

 

Not surprisingly, Lara Pulver is nearly perfect... lol

And yet her score and Ben's are nearly identical....

What puzzles me is how they could hope to be the least bit accurate or consistent when people's facial expressions have such a big temporary influence on things like the width of their mouth and the length of their face. They should require us to submit only mug shots or photos from driver's licenses!

 

[sittything]

I didn't do Loo b/c I couldn't even find a decent forward facing shot.  So I got annoyed and quit.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

I found an image that mostly works for Loo.  I've seen her ears just enough to get the top even though they are hidden by hair (sorry not going to try to post the link(s) at this hour).

 

Her score: 8.63 out of 10  Everything is nearly ideal except her ears are too long for her nose.

 

 

Rupert Graves: 8.02 out of 10 His ears are too long for his nose and his nose is to narrow for his face width

 

 

Una Stubbs: 7.52 out of 10  Her ears are too long for his nose, nose is to narrow for her face width, innerocular distance is to big, mouth too wide for nose, & face to wide/long (the picture I found that showed her ears the best had her smiling)

 

Mark Gatiss: 7.07 out of 10  His nose width to face width was nearly ideal. Everything else was too wide, short, big, long.  (He was smiling slightly in the picture so of course his mouth would be too wide)

 

Andrew Scott: 6.7 out of 10  Face width to length ratio is near perfect and that's it.  Sorry Moriarty the site didn't like you (it looked like a promo shot for his Moriarty).

[Yusree]

If you used my picture, the score definitely will be 20 out of 10

The remark will be: Are you an angel?!! You're to perfect to be human   

 

Beauty come from within yourself, you need to be confident of yourself, you're beautiful / handsome if you think you are

At least, that what i think

 

 

Edited April 10, 2015 by Carol the Dabbler
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[J.P.]

This is interesting. And fuel for Sherloly I suspect. :D
Benedict Cumberbatch stars in 'My Dear Bessie'

[besleybean]

No Sherlolly!

Love them both, though I do.

[sfmpco]

Ben is currently in China and should be back in Britain in a week.

[sittything]

No Sherlolly!

Love them both, though I do.

 

bwahahahaha...

 

 

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

I'm so jealous because Sophie Hunter can speak dozens of different languages while I'm sitting here struggling to remember what the Spanish word for rice is.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Arroz...for some people language comes easy for others it is harder.  It also helps to start learning language at a younger age rather than an older age.

[sfmpco]

Awwww... he's going to be a really good dad.

 

https://twitter.com/DetectiveShezza/status/587698964193005568/photo/1

[sfmpco]

Interview with Ben in Shanghai

 

http://m.tv.sohu.com/v2324559.shtml?channeled=1211010100

[J.P.]

Ben on being starstruck

[sfmpco]

Ben at the Laureus Awards in China...

 

http://m.ewn.co.za/2015/04/14/Cumberbatch-talks-sport-ahead-of-2015-Laureus-awards

[joanneta1]

Seriously, they are applying the thousand-year old canon of beauty that the Mongol dynasties invented for choosing imperial spouses and concubines to men? It is too hilarious to be taken seriously, and I don't care which crackpot out of which university came up with that old chestnut! And in BC's case, widely spaced eyes have been a sign of remarkable intelligence in the Western world, all the way back to Cardinal Richelieu!  

Consider   the Italian founder of brain size equalling higher brain power, Cesare Lombroso, not to mention Franz Joseph Gall and his theory of phrenology,  etc. Even in ACD, in The Final Problem, Professor Moriarty charges Holmes with less prefrontal development than he would have expected from his massive intellect. All this has been discredited as invalid.

[Inge l-w]

I first saw Amazing Grace, not for BC but for Ioan Gruffyd, having been a Hornblower fan from the collection of novels by C.S. Forrester ( another doctor turned author), and then from Star Trek into Darkness. At first I was quite appalled ( dear Sir Humphrey Appleby, I do so miss Nigel Hawthorne) when my friend at the cinema whispered that the guy was playing in a modernised version of Sherlock Holmes. End result, here I am, pestering all and sundry with my opinions! Have a flaming !

[sfmpco]

Okay, so apparently Sophie  is ready to pop, so to speak, as Ben just acknowledged from the Laureus Awards that he keeps checking his phone to see if anything is happening back home.  Hopefully he's on his way to the airport now to go back home.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWQgFStolpg&feature=youtu.be

[J.P.]

:o Please - not during the convention!

 

I have a colleague expecting his first child too. Today he asked his wife not to call him with any trivial stuff anymore, because he gets a little heart attack each time she calls.