Lead or Supporting: Alicia Vikander (Ava) in Ex Machina

[filmfanatic Joined: Mar 29th, 2020 Topics: 14 Posts: 13 View Predictions]

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Would love to hear why.

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[Nameizmann Joined: Jan 16th, 2020 Topics: 33 Posts: 701 View Predictions]

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Suppporting

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[Dan Backslide Joined: Apr 24th, 2016 Topics: 45 Posts: 3250 View Predictions]

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She’s a very big role, but Gleeson is in almost every single scene and both her and Issac are very clearly secondary to his role.

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[Riley Chow Joined: Oct 11th, 2010 Topics: 21 Posts: 2216 View Predictions]

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What he said, plus she is a robot.

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[Atypical Joined: Dec 1st, 2011 Topics: 95 Posts: 6246 View Predictions]

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Supporting

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[SN Joined: Dec 7th, 2014 Topics: 4 Posts: 3535 View Predictions]

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Lead. The movie centers around her. Screentime is not the only thing to decide what’s lead and what’s supporting.

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[Dan Backslide Joined: Apr 24th, 2016 Topics: 45 Posts: 3250 View Predictions]

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SN wrote:

Lead. The movie centers around her. Screentime is not the only thing to decide what’s lead and what’s supporting.

Yes, but the film centers much more around Gleeson.

You could also say that the film centers just as much on Issac as it does on Vikander.

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[nkb325 Joined: Feb 6th, 2012 Topics: 2 Posts: 812 View Predictions]

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In chamber pieces like this you could argue that all 3 of the prominent characters are the 3 leads, but in terms of awards categories I think since the story is told so completely from Dohmnall Gleason’s point of view and he’s in basically every scene, he feels like the true LEAD and the other 2 are secondary to him, as the above poster said. This is one of those cases were it feels sort of ok to call her the “female lead” but at the same I think her and Oscar Isaac are equally prominent and no one is arguing that he’s lead

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