{"id":9029,"date":"2012-12-10T18:23:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T16:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/?p=9029"},"modified":"2012-12-10T18:23:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T16:23:24","slug":"actors-their-niches-3-mads-mikkelsen-the-cheaterthe-cheated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/actors-their-niches-3-mads-mikkelsen-the-cheaterthe-cheated\/","title":{"rendered":"Actors & Their Niches 3: Mads Mikkelsen \u2013 The Cheater\/The Cheated"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mads Mikkelsen image via tumblr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Actors do have niches. Just remember Robert De Niro\u2019s roles, and look at how many times he has been a cop or a gangster<\/a> or a psycho. He\u2019s talented and diverse, but sometimes either actors find a certain type of role or those roles find them.<\/p>\n

And just how many times has the lovely James Marsden been in a love triangle?<\/a><\/p>\n

In this article, we\u2019ll look into the niche of Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen. Mikkelsen is an internationally successful and critically acclaimed actor whose roles range from a bond villain (Casino Royale) to a historical figure that played a huge part in a country\u2019s reform (A Royal Affair<\/a>), from a thief in a gang of friends (Blinkende lygter-Flickering Lights) to Hannibal Lecter (starting on NBC this winter). He also got the best actor award at Cannes in 2012 for his role as the wrongly accused school teacher in Jagten (The Hunt).<\/a><\/p>\n

Yet for all that diversity, some of his roles have the cheating factor in common. He seems to find himself as the cheater or the \u201cother\u201d guy. Or he just might the one being cheated on.. Let\u2019s take a look at all the cheating going on his films:<\/p>\n

A Royal Affair- He\u2019s the doctor that has an affair with the king\u2019s wife<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A Royal Affair movie poster via the movie’s facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s all the king\u2019s fault, really. He is obnoxious, womanizing and a tad mad. Sturensee (Mikkelsen<\/a>) is assigned to be his private doctor, and he begins to affect him in a positive way. But the not-so-smart king complains that his wife is way too boring (possibly compared to the all the women he\u2019s sleeping with!), and assigns Struensee to make her fun.<\/p>\n

You can read my A Royal Affair review<\/a> to find out more about the plot, but for the cheating, the king \u2013as crazy as he was- he totally should have seen it coming. I mean you don\u2019t just send your smart, sexy, wise and much nicer advisor\/doctor to spend time with your queen (Alicia Vikander) who is already cursing the day she married you- and marrying you wasn\u2019t her choice to begin with.<\/p>\n

And guess what? Struensee doesn\u2019t seem to find the queen boring after all. And as it turns out, the queen knows how to have fun-sexy fun at that-when it comes to the right guy. Of course the affair will get them in trouble, but hey-I have a feeling it just might be worth it. You only live once, right?<\/p>\n

Love You Forever<\/a> (Elsker dig for evigt) \u2013 Married\u00a0 guy sleeps with the victim\u2019s fianc\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mads Mikkelsen with Sonja Richter image via imgobject.com.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now, while I approve of Mikkelsen\u2019s character\u2019s position in A Royal Affair, I\u2019m seriously disgusted by the one here. His character is a typically nice family man with 3 kids until his wife has an accident and hits the fianc\u00e9 of a young woman (Sonja Richter).<\/p>\n

The police don\u2019t find the wife at fault, but her conscience wants to make sure the woman is OK, so she asks her husband to help her out, since he is a doctor at the hospital the fianc\u00e9 is staying at. I suspect that by now you see all the problems with this request: she just gave permission to her husband to be around a young, pretty woman to comfort her. Of course the poor woman doesn\u2019t know that it\u2019s in her husband to stray (he never has before), and is certainly not aware of the fact that the fianc\u00e9 is treating the girl horribly-completely shutting her out. She also doesn\u2019t know that her husband is practically her only friend.<\/p>\n

But still, it does make us think that if you feel guilty, you go making amends yourself and not send somebody else. It also makes us hope for a loyal guy who will stay loyal no matter what, especially if you haven\u2019t done wrong by him. It\u2019s natural and understandable that people fall in and out of love, but you wish they would have the guts to admit to it before cheating on you.<\/p>\n

Nu <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mads Mikkelsen in Nu. Image via manpaper.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is a short drama in black and white with no dialogue (if there was some I was too crept out by one character and the atmosphere to remember). Some decades ago a guy marries a woman, only to realize that he doesn\u2019t desire her-or any woman for that matter. Then he meets a man he is attracted to, but it is hard to have a relationship with a boyfriend if your wife is nuts (like Glen Close Fatal Attraction nuts) and is ready to do anything to get what she wants.<\/p>\n

He does kiss the man and probably does other things, but the ending\u2026Let\u2019s just say that there\u2019ve been many scary movies that crept me out a lot less.<\/p>\n

Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky- Cheats on sick wife while under the same roof with her and the mistress<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Image via wikipedia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Creative blocks, needs to seek refuge, poverty, sickness\u2026definitely too much for any man to handle. It is also very difficult to resist a free-spirited designer who doesn\u2019t care about anything other than herself. But it is one thing to accept her helping hand and move the whole family to her house at her request, it is completely another to have sex with her, repeatedly, while the wife is in the house. It doesn\u2019t make it any less disgusting that the house is a mansion. Yuck.<\/p>\n

Worse than Love You Forever in terms of the cheating? Absolutely. At least the other guy had the decency to cheat without his wife present.<\/p>\n

After the Wedding<\/strong> (Efter brylluppet)<\/strong><\/a> (*minor spoilers!!)<\/p>\n

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After The Wedding poster via amazon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After The Wedding will remain as one of the most impactful movies I’ve seen. The story is powerful, the acting flawless, the dialogue well-written and delivered. Not to mention, it makes the best of its grey characters. And the cheating has happened before the timeline of the movie as we see it, but without it, the story wouldn\u2019t have happened.<\/p>\n

So here it is:<\/span><\/p>\n

Jacob (Mads Mikkelsen) runs an orphanage, helping and educating as many kids he can. But he doesn\u2019t have the money, nor does the administrator, to keep it afloat. So despite how much Jacob hates Denmark (his own country) and the Danish (his nationality), he goes to meet the interested investor, who turns out to be the husband of his ex-girlfriend, who happens to be the love of his life. But the real complications arise when he is at the wedding reception of the couple\u2019s daughter where he finds out that their daughter, is actually his biological daughter-one that he didn\u2019t know existed.<\/p>\n

Of course the ex has some excuses: one, he cheated on her-with her best friend. So she fled, not knowing she was pregnant. He didn\u2019t come after her, and she met her husband- fell in love and got married. Why go after the cheating ex with whom she had a tumultuous relationship with when she has a happy marriage \u2013 and goes on to have 2 more children? (her logic, not mine)<\/p>\n

Jacob is furious, but he can\u2019t leave. He wants to meet his daughter and she wants to meet him. And the husband seems to put more and more roadblocks before he gives the money.<\/p>\n

OK, a lot of people cheat and that\u2019s wrong and everything\u2026but this is by far one of the most interesting movies that feature cheating that I have seen.<\/p>\n

Last but not least: Prague<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Prague poster via amazon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Now, to give him credit, he gets cheated on here. But he doesn\u2019t want to quit the marriage just like that, and yet he can\u2019t just go and forgive his wife (and whether she wants to be forgiven is another story), he does go on to hook up with another woman. I wouldn\u2019t consider it cheating when he was cheated on first- but he does attempt an extramarital activity, and he was cheated on. Talk about a theme.<\/p>\n

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Which of Mads\u2019 niche movies have you seen? Which ones do you like best? And if you had to compare between the niches of De Niro, Marsden and Mikkselsen, whose niche do you find to be the most intriguing\/fun?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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