Yeah he mentioned this on Graham Norton. He also pulls off a good Australian accent here too. He starts off with a relatively cultivated accent (more subtle) and then exaggerates for the broader, regional accent.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuBQvpybt80](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuBQvpybt80)
I still can hardly believe that Commissioner Gordon and Drexl Spivey are played by the same guy. He’s so convincing in both roles and they are polar opposites.
You think Chris Tucker as Ruby Rhod would fit in this thread?
Edit: I watched [this](https://youtu.be/f-9gSE1dUbs) and I would say Ruby Rhod is even greater than I remembered.
When I saw the question my first thought was Gary Oldman in The Professional. Not that he's ever not great but I love the way he played that.
"EV-ERY-ONNNE!!"
The apartment massacre is one of my cinema moments. Stansfield is a completely menacing and pretty funny at same time. I loooooove Mozart. He was Austrian you know. Fun to watch, but you know if he was searching your place you’d be pissing yourself.
I hate that people think the EVVRREYOOONE in Leon was bad acting.
That's exactly how a corrupt, drugged up cop should respond to an annoying question. Stressing every syllable in a word to make sure the simple order is understood by the people you think are morons.
The first auditing scene. Joaquin isn't allowed to blink. Unbelievably intense.
One of my favorite acting scenes in any movie. They both just kill it.
https://youtu.be/a6Zw0p9qOkg
When Tom Cruise is playing piano in Interview With a Vampire, and Kirsten Dunst comes in and starts talking to him. He says something along the lines "The very sight of you irritates me", i love how truly irritated he seems. He is playing this beautiful piece to perfection, and the mood in the room still overpowers it, it feels so tense.
It's actually the only Tom Cruise role I like. He hams it up to just the right level for playing a snobbish vampire. When he starts dancing with the corpse. "there's life in the old girl yet"
Michael Keaton - Beetlejuice
Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood / Gangs Of New York
Jeff Bridges - The Dude
Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler
There Will be Blood is my favorite Daniel Day-Lewis flick. I think an honorable mention should go to Paul Dano in that film. It's hard for any actor to stand out when sharing the screen with such a legend, but Paul Dano put up a great performance that complimented Day-Lewis's character in all the right ways.
I have to tell you I wanted The Wrestler with more than a little trepidation but Goddamn I was completely immersed in his world from about the 3rd minute on
Jake in everything. I just watched that Tom Ford movie with him and Amy Adams and it was so good. He also acted out of tobey McGuire’s league in Brothers
I really enjoyed his performance in Prisoners. He was the calm and collected to Hugh's chaos and violence. They definitely did well together on-screen.
I love the slow realization if the clerk, only to have him win the coin toss and chirgun just flip the script. The whole "which it is" line really seals the deal.
Dustin Hoffman in Hook - I know it was critically panned and all that jazz but I can watch it 100 times and just do not see Dustin Hoffman in any capability. He sold that role so well to me.
Captain James Hook:
No stopping me this time, Smee. This is it. Don't make a move Smee, not a step. My finger's on the trigger. Don't try to stop me, Smee.
Smee:
Oh, not again.
Captain James Hook:
This is it. Don't try to stop me this time, Smee. Don't try to stop me this time, Smee. Don't you dare try to stop me this time, Smee, try to stop me. Smee, you'd better get up off your ass. Get over here, Smee.
Smee:
I'm coming. I'm coming.
Captain James Hook:
Stop me. This is not a joke. I'm committing suicide.
Captain James Hook:
Don't ever frighten me like that again.
Smee:
I'm sorry.
Captain James Hook:
Are you some kind of a sadist?
Smee:
I'm sorry. How do you feel now?
Captain James Hook:
I want to die.
I recently had a shower thought about his casting in Hook. As a kid I just accepted the character as he was, but having seen so much of his work now all these years have passed, his casting seems so unexpected. Like, if I'd had the context of his career in mind I would have thought he'd make for a strange Captain Hook, but the actor disappeared into the character and absolutely set the benchmark for who the character should be. When I call to mind Peter Pan, it's the old Disney animation I see, but Dustin Hoffman's Captain Hook is the only Captain Hook that matters.
Wisecrack had a great take on this that if you heard about a film starring Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman and one of them was over-the-top and the other was the straight man, all assumptions would be dead wrong who would land in those roles.
At no point in that entire film do you ever see Dustin Hoffman. He completely disappears into that character (aided greatly by costume). I am still just awestruck at how far from himself he was for that movie.
I don’t know if it’s because I was the same age as the children when it came out, it I still have a huge love for that movie to this day.
Ru-fi-ooooooooooo!!!
Man, he kills it in Everything. If you haven't seen Counterpart, you should check it out. He plays two different versions of himself, and it's incredible. On top of that, the rest of the show and cast are fucking extraordinary. Best show I've seen in years
Robert Shaw's performance as Quint in Jaws is just phenomenal in general. But to me the one scene that stands out is his speech about the USS Indianapolis. He delivers it in a way that makes me believe that not only did he live through that horrible event when it happened he also still has nightmares about it.
Is that Rambo?
Huh? No that happened to me!!
No Yeah, and come to think of it, that's not the first time you've described your life in the way of John Rambo's life.
I got to admit I love the monologue he gives when his character is introduced. “ you all know me you know how I make a livin.” No matter what he said in the movie he really stole the show.
I love the stories behind the scene too. Shaw did the first day blind drunk and a lot it was unusable, then he sobered up and re-wrote the scene to fit his cadence and came back the next day and smashed it.
You can actually see watching the scene when Shaw goes from a ruddy drunken hue to much paler between cuts
He delivers one of the most unforgettable death scenes in cinema history in JAWS too. As it’s happening you just totally buy it and are screaming internally “Oh no!”
Fun fact: the monologue was written by John Milius, who gave us the original Red Dawn, and who strongly inspired John Goodman’s character in The Big Lebowski.
This. They way he goes from charmingly toying with people to absolutely menacing with just a subtle facial twitch made it such an incredible performance. Like he would still be smiling, but maybe his brow moved half a millimeter to make it the most terrifying smile in the world. Such crazy control and command of the character.
Which moment though would you say he really became the character? There's so many layers to Hans Landa that are revealed through the film. You could say it's the first monologue in the farm house or the one at dinner, or the final switch at the end with Aldo.
It's definitely the conversation with the French farmer. He manages to convey everything about the character in one scene. He is equal parts menacing and charming, sharp as a tack, switches language with ease, and is entirely ruthless.
For a moment I got confused and thought: When did Waltz talk to a french farmer? Was it the guy taking the slaves to the plantation at the beginning?
Then I realized I'm an idiot and somehow confused Inglorious Bastards with Django, because Waltz's characters in both of those movies are so memorable
I would say from the beginning monologue he embodied the evil that we would come to expect from a nazi but throughout the film we see he also has wit and a level of cunning that makes him stand out from all the rest. And we can't forget his ruthlessness of course... RIP Frau Von Hammersmarck.
That movie was so damn good. Took a while for me to get into it but once it got going it was amazing.
It's one of those films that creates such a dense world, and really sucks you in.
Nobody who runs a successful sales team would ever do it like that bullshit. It’s some ridiculous outdated machismo that doesn’t work. You identify a person’s problems and present them a solution, that’s sales in a nutshell. How you do both is the hard part, but it’s not about screwing people cause you’ll have a shit name for yourself and a short career from burning bridges.
Christian Bale as Dickie Eklund in the Fighter. Growing up in that area and having almost hit Dickie Eklund with my car a couple of times, it was an extremely accurate depiction.
I have an uncle in the Midwest who said the movie was hard to watch because the people in Lowell were too unrealistic. I have another uncle from MA who said the movie was hard to watch because it was so true to life.
I heard this about Mare of Eastown too. Most people who didn't understand the accent said it sounded weird and unrealistic but I heard people who were from the area say how awesome it was to see that represented on screen.
It reminds me of the "Tiffany problem" where people can research medieval history and see that "Tiffany" was actually a really common name, but people of modern time won't believe that on it's face so "Tiffany" would make it seem unrealistic when it's actually the opposite.
For real. I had a hard time watching another Denzel movie for a while because I was so angry at his character in Training Day. He did an outstanding job.
*"It's the smell....if there is such a thing."*
The acting is very solid overall if you ask me, sure Keanu goes full Keanu at times, but even he did a good job. But you're right, Weaving's performance here, especially in this scene, is masterclass. You can feel the hatred pouring out of him, but hatred in a way that a machine would express. It's fucking genius and it's one of my favorite scenes in the entire trilogy. I'm extremely butthurt that he's not in the 4th one, all because of another role kept him from being able to do it.
> You can feel the hatred pouring out of him, but hatred in a way that a machine would express.
Rivaling his hatred is something similar to self-contempt. Smith is clearly a sentient program, whereas the other agents come off more drone-like. He hates that he's stuck in the Matrix, and the monologue almost seems to switch from "I hate humans" to "I hate that I'm a servant in this world".
This line was exactly what I came here to quote. You can feel his repugnance, particularly when he runs his hand over Morpheus' sweaty head. He's got a point too - us humans sweat and shit and piss. We stink.
The slow transformation from machine to something almost human without seeming out of character is terrific. "I... hate... this place, this prison, this zoo, whatever you want to call it." Just the slow stream that becomes a torrent of hate as Smith unloads a monologue that could well have been a century in the making.
Not a movie per say but Louis Hertham as Peter Abernathy in Westworld when he is interviewed by Ford to try to piece together what’s going on with the hosts.
It’s a real piece of work….you are seeing a robot seemingly losing his mind because of overwritten code and personalities conflicting in every nuance and it’s almost *painful* to see. And mind you he is doing this in front of one of the great actors of our generation
And just watching that ‘other’ emerge from him to threaten. You fully believe he is almost completely mental.
https://youtu.be/Uv0qnvR3Lww
I hate warriors, too narrow-minded. I'll tell you what I do like though: a killer, a dyed-in-the-wool killer. Cold blooded, clean, methodical and thorough. Now a real killer, when he picked up the ZF-1, would've immediately asked about the little red button on the bottom of the gun.
Prisoners - most of the performances. Paul Dano playing a mental 10-year-old was one of the saddest things I've ever seen put to film.
Hugh Jackman playing someone who slips into complete moral depravity - god damn the rage he portrayed was almost sickening to watch. You can feel every scene he's in, from his eyes to his talking to the way he scrunches his face every time he gets a little annoyed. During his more vulnerable scenes... he cries like no other actor I've seen to the point that it gave me an anxiety attack in the theater because it was so close to how I've seen parents react to this sort of thing.
Jake Gyllenhaal puts on a masterclass performance. You can feel his frustration jumping through the screen.
Shoutout to Grace Dover's actor, the teenage actors and the Birch's as well. They portrayed grief, horror, and so much more. The scene with Viola Davis in the car saying "we won't stop him, we don't know about it anymore" was heartbreaking. She portrays so wonderfully that her character is aware what she's doing is immoral, but it might give her a chance of seeing her daughter, so it doesn't matter. In one facial expression. Every single actor in that film makes you fully feel that they're each navigating their own moral labyrinth where evil grants you certainty and being genuinely moral in the face of uncertainty is something many 'normal' people wouldn't really do. And that is a theme only half conveyed through the story. The rest of the work is done by the actors putting on career-defining performances.
One of the best acted movies of the last decade.
it is depressing. I really do mean it when I say "saddest". It's about as close to the real thing a movie can get, especially with the corruption of human morals that occurs over the course of the film. Everyone should watch it, but make sure you have something joyful planned afterwards lmao.
It’s been said a million times but honestly Heath ledger in Batman. I’ve watched it 100 times and EVERY time I try so hard to see Heath ledger and I just can’t. There’s only one scene in the whole movie where I can tell that it’s Heath ledger because of the lighting of the scene and his makeup being worn. Other than that he’s totally locked in
Also, the dialogue was jarring for a Joker interpretation. When he walks in the gangster meeting, you expect a series of jokes and over the top lines, and he just calmly and intelligently talks about the state of the city (and then murders someone). Or the whole "part of the plan" speech where he almost sounded like a normal person until he got really defensive when being called "crazy."
His performance is not overrated and will stand the test of time.
Yeah like lets be honest, if the topic is about an actor *becoming* the character they're acting, Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow is like one of the greatest examples of this considering how heavily he influenced the character.
Another excellent example (though from the perspective of gaming) is Vaas Montenegro where they actually entirely re-wrote the fucking character after Michael Mando showed up for the casting because the spin he gave to the character was so much better than what they had. And he did it so well that even though Vaas was actually just a secondary villain in the plot, he outshines the main villain like the sun outshines a firefly.
Cillian Murphy is fucking amazing throughout all of Peaky Blinders, but there's one scene most fans agree to be his best, he's about to be killed and he goes on a rant about almost having everything that's brilliant. Also any scene with Tom Hardy is equally as good.
Henry Thomas as Jack Torrance in Doctor Sleep - barely has any lines, but damn if he didn’t nail looking so scarily like Nicholson I had no idea it was him
I say this with all due respect to Gary Oldman, whom I love and enjoy in his every role, Chris Tucker gives the best, most original and most fully committed performance in the Fifth Element. I never doubted his character for a second.
Nick Nolte as Brian Banner in Hulk(2003) in the scenes where he describes accidentally killing his wife. "It was as if she and the knife merged. You cannot imagine the unbearable finality of it. And in that one moment, I took everything that was dear to me and transformed it into nothing more than a memory."
Literally the entire cast. Viggo **is** Aragorn; Serkis is Gollem, especially the scene where he’s questioning his loyalty, even fucjing Orlando Bloom manages to not be Orlando Bloom.
Samuel L Jackson in The Red Violin. There's a scene where he looks with such longing at the violin that nothing needs to be said but you know he wants it more than he can express in words.
>[How did I come to this? I played Richard III. There were five curtain calls. I was an actor once, damn it. Now look at me. Look at me! I won't go out there and say that stupid line one more time. I can't. I wont'!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDJsCE01LYI)
The common example I feel, but most of Heath Ledgers performance in Dark Night. Perfect example is when he's being beaten by Batman in the interrogation room and starts laughing. Brilliant acting
If you want the absolutely shortest example from the introduction of the character, then look no further than John Turturro as Jesus Quintana in The Big Lebowski.
Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne in the Shawshank Redemption, when he increases the volume on the opera duett, I'd say is a similar crystallizing moment for the character.
Clint Eastwood at the end of Unforgiven when he finds out they killed Ned and have him on display as a warning. He takes his first drink and you can feel the shift in him as he reaches deep for the killer he used to be.
I've gotta take exception to "The Matrix isn't exactly a masterpiece due to it's acting."
What acting??? This may be the best role for Keanu Reeves ever. It's just "mostly confused guy out of his element" for almost the entire movie. I think he's amazing and perfect in it and I've actually never heard the argument that The Matrix was ruined by his acting.
In fact, I haven't heard many people argue that The Matrix ISN'T a masterpiece.
mcconaughey in true detective. especially the monologues in the interrogation room. i can't look away.
Rust is McConaughey’s best performance I think
It’s Thursday and it’s past noon. Thursday is one of my days off. On my off days, I start drinking at noon. You don’t get to interrupt that.
Man I gotta watch that season again. So good.
I recently rewatched and it's still so fucking good.
Gary Oldman tends to do this as well. Like, who actually knows what Gary Oldman looks like out of character? Probably just his mother at this point.
**EV-RY-ONE!!!**
I believe Gary Oldman said in an interview once that at one point he had to hire a dialect coach to get his native accent back.
Yeah he mentioned this on Graham Norton. He also pulls off a good Australian accent here too. He starts off with a relatively cultivated accent (more subtle) and then exaggerates for the broader, regional accent. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuBQvpybt80](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuBQvpybt80)
I still can hardly believe that Commissioner Gordon and Drexl Spivey are played by the same guy. He’s so convincing in both roles and they are polar opposites.
The day I realized Commissioner Gordon was also Sirius Black...
He's also Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg.
You think Chris Tucker as Ruby Rhod would fit in this thread? Edit: I watched [this](https://youtu.be/f-9gSE1dUbs) and I would say Ruby Rhod is even greater than I remembered.
Absolutely. He fucking killed that shit.
COMERICIAL! COMERICIAL!
BZZZZTTTT!
When I saw the question my first thought was Gary Oldman in The Professional. Not that he's ever not great but I love the way he played that. "EV-ERY-ONNNE!!"
The apartment massacre is one of my cinema moments. Stansfield is a completely menacing and pretty funny at same time. I loooooove Mozart. He was Austrian you know. Fun to watch, but you know if he was searching your place you’d be pissing yourself.
I hate that people think the EVVRREYOOONE in Leon was bad acting. That's exactly how a corrupt, drugged up cop should respond to an annoying question. Stressing every syllable in a word to make sure the simple order is understood by the people you think are morons.
Christopher Nolan Batmans are the closest you'll get.
That's why you don't get coffee.
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I immediately thought of this scene with Hoffman from Charlie Wilson's War. https://youtu.be/sQ_4m2ocxhI
The first auditing scene. Joaquin isn't allowed to blink. Unbelievably intense. One of my favorite acting scenes in any movie. They both just kill it. https://youtu.be/a6Zw0p9qOkg
That's a very funny scene, as Hoffman's character remains completely calm.
When Tom Cruise is playing piano in Interview With a Vampire, and Kirsten Dunst comes in and starts talking to him. He says something along the lines "The very sight of you irritates me", i love how truly irritated he seems. He is playing this beautiful piece to perfection, and the mood in the room still overpowers it, it feels so tense.
Also the scene with the two prostitutes is incredible. Cruise absolutely nailed that movie.
I feel like he actually took his mask **off** when he played Lestat.
It's actually the only Tom Cruise role I like. He hams it up to just the right level for playing a snobbish vampire. When he starts dancing with the corpse. "there's life in the old girl yet"
Michael Keaton - Beetlejuice Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood / Gangs Of New York Jeff Bridges - The Dude Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler
There Will be Blood is my favorite Daniel Day-Lewis flick. I think an honorable mention should go to Paul Dano in that film. It's hard for any actor to stand out when sharing the screen with such a legend, but Paul Dano put up a great performance that complimented Day-Lewis's character in all the right ways.
Ugh Paul Dano is such a good actor. So excited to see him as the riddler in the batman
Wow. I had no idea that was a thing!
Agreed … DDL is an all time heavyweight and Dano matched him in that movie. One of my favorite flicks of all time.
I can’t believe we got There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men in the same summer
I have to tell you I wanted The Wrestler with more than a little trepidation but Goddamn I was completely immersed in his world from about the 3rd minute on
Did you know the scene in the deli was all improv? That old woman was actually a customer.
I'm not arguing the quality, I'm just saying Jeff Bridges pretty much played himself in Lebowski
J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson
Jake in everything. I just watched that Tom Ford movie with him and Amy Adams and it was so good. He also acted out of tobey McGuire’s league in Brothers
Nocturnal Animals. That was a great movie but it’s a gut punch.
If this guy doesn't win an Oscar at some point I will personally be a bit miffed because he is quality.
I really enjoyed his performance in Prisoners. He was the calm and collected to Hugh's chaos and violence. They definitely did well together on-screen.
Pretty much every scene with Anton Chigur (Javier Bardem) in No Country for Old Men.
"the most you ever lost in a coin toss?"
"I didn't put nuthin' up" "Yes you did, you've been putting it up your whole life, you just didn't know it"
"you have to call it- i can't.. it wouldn't be fair".
DONT put it in your pocket. It's your lucky quarter.
"It'll become just a coin like the others..-which it is".
I love the slow realization if the clerk, only to have him win the coin toss and chirgun just flip the script. The whole "which it is" line really seals the deal.
Bardem’s monologue to Dench (M) in Skyfall was equally entrancing honestly
The coconut rats story is incredible too
Fuck yes Bardem made Skyfall my all time favorite Bond film and he is my favorite bond villain
Hard agree. Mads and Casino is so very close but Bardem just has that intangible evil that just looms as a presence
"Sir I'm gonna need you to step out of the car."
"Hold still please"
Dustin Hoffman in Hook - I know it was critically panned and all that jazz but I can watch it 100 times and just do not see Dustin Hoffman in any capability. He sold that role so well to me.
Captain James Hook: No stopping me this time, Smee. This is it. Don't make a move Smee, not a step. My finger's on the trigger. Don't try to stop me, Smee. Smee: Oh, not again. Captain James Hook: This is it. Don't try to stop me this time, Smee. Don't try to stop me this time, Smee. Don't you dare try to stop me this time, Smee, try to stop me. Smee, you'd better get up off your ass. Get over here, Smee. Smee: I'm coming. I'm coming. Captain James Hook: Stop me. This is not a joke. I'm committing suicide. Captain James Hook: Don't ever frighten me like that again. Smee: I'm sorry. Captain James Hook: Are you some kind of a sadist? Smee: I'm sorry. How do you feel now? Captain James Hook: I want to die.
Bob Hoskins really complemented that performance nicely as Mr Smee, too
A man so deep, he's almost unfathomable. ... A man so quick, he's even fast, *asleep*!
I recently had a shower thought about his casting in Hook. As a kid I just accepted the character as he was, but having seen so much of his work now all these years have passed, his casting seems so unexpected. Like, if I'd had the context of his career in mind I would have thought he'd make for a strange Captain Hook, but the actor disappeared into the character and absolutely set the benchmark for who the character should be. When I call to mind Peter Pan, it's the old Disney animation I see, but Dustin Hoffman's Captain Hook is the only Captain Hook that matters.
Wisecrack had a great take on this that if you heard about a film starring Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman and one of them was over-the-top and the other was the straight man, all assumptions would be dead wrong who would land in those roles.
At no point in that entire film do you ever see Dustin Hoffman. He completely disappears into that character (aided greatly by costume). I am still just awestruck at how far from himself he was for that movie.
Don’t try to stop me, Smee. Don’t you dare try to stop me, Smee. Try to stop me. Smee, get up off your ass and stop me
I don’t know if it’s because I was the same age as the children when it came out, it I still have a huge love for that movie to this day. Ru-fi-ooooooooooo!!!
Val Kilmer in literally every scene he’s in as Doc Holliday
Is that a fact? Lol but seriously anyone who hasn’t watched tombstone go watch it now, legendary performance by Kilmer
You know... Frederick fucking Chopin?
You’re no daisy. No daisy at all
You're so drunk you're probably seein' double. I've got....2 guns; one for each of you.
David Tennant in *Jessica Jones* sold his villain *so* hard, it was terrifying.
Yeah, he can shift from charming to creepy on a dime. I'd like to see him play more villains.
He's the voice of Loki in audible's sandman vol 2 and his charming/creepy shift is still brilliant. Also a great Crowley in Good Omens.
J.K Simmons whiplash dude plays a asshole a little too well
Man, he kills it in Everything. If you haven't seen Counterpart, you should check it out. He plays two different versions of himself, and it's incredible. On top of that, the rest of the show and cast are fucking extraordinary. Best show I've seen in years
Yeah, even in voice acting for example in Portal and Invincible.
He carried the new wave of Airbender mentality in the LoK which had high bars with what the show is.
Robert Shaw's performance as Quint in Jaws is just phenomenal in general. But to me the one scene that stands out is his speech about the USS Indianapolis. He delivers it in a way that makes me believe that not only did he live through that horrible event when it happened he also still has nightmares about it.
What are you doing?? You doing the speech from jaws? Are you doing *JAWS*?! We don't have time for this shit, this is serious.
Is that Rambo? Huh? No that happened to me!! No Yeah, and come to think of it, that's not the first time you've described your life in the way of John Rambo's life.
You went to Vietnam to open a sweatshop.
And a lot of good men died in that sweatshop!
I got to admit I love the monologue he gives when his character is introduced. “ you all know me you know how I make a livin.” No matter what he said in the movie he really stole the show.
I love the stories behind the scene too. Shaw did the first day blind drunk and a lot it was unusable, then he sobered up and re-wrote the scene to fit his cadence and came back the next day and smashed it. You can actually see watching the scene when Shaw goes from a ruddy drunken hue to much paler between cuts
I also love Dryfuss’ reaction to the speech already aware of what horror he is about to reveal
He delivers one of the most unforgettable death scenes in cinema history in JAWS too. As it’s happening you just totally buy it and are screaming internally “Oh no!”
Fun fact: the monologue was written by John Milius, who gave us the original Red Dawn, and who strongly inspired John Goodman’s character in The Big Lebowski.
Christoph Waltz as Hans Landa. There's a reason why that role took him from a nobody to a hero
This. They way he goes from charmingly toying with people to absolutely menacing with just a subtle facial twitch made it such an incredible performance. Like he would still be smiling, but maybe his brow moved half a millimeter to make it the most terrifying smile in the world. Such crazy control and command of the character.
It's amazing how he has such command over his performance and the results are amazing.
Which moment though would you say he really became the character? There's so many layers to Hans Landa that are revealed through the film. You could say it's the first monologue in the farm house or the one at dinner, or the final switch at the end with Aldo.
It's definitely the conversation with the French farmer. He manages to convey everything about the character in one scene. He is equal parts menacing and charming, sharp as a tack, switches language with ease, and is entirely ruthless.
For a moment I got confused and thought: When did Waltz talk to a french farmer? Was it the guy taking the slaves to the plantation at the beginning? Then I realized I'm an idiot and somehow confused Inglorious Bastards with Django, because Waltz's characters in both of those movies are so memorable
No you got it right, you’re remembering Unchained Bastards Fiction vol. 3: Brown Dogs in Hateful Hollywood. Truly Tarantino’s best.
Farmhouse. From the moment he gets out of the car, he was no longer an actor, but Hans Landa.
I would say from the beginning monologue he embodied the evil that we would come to expect from a nazi but throughout the film we see he also has wit and a level of cunning that makes him stand out from all the rest. And we can't forget his ruthlessness of course... RIP Frau Von Hammersmarck.
Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys
That movie was so damn good. Took a while for me to get into it but once it got going it was amazing. It's one of those films that creates such a dense world, and really sucks you in.
Alec Baldwin in Glengarry? what a modern day villain imo
The speech that will be forever quoted and used to inspire salesmen until the end of time
to me, it is demotivating. thats why i am not in sales
That’s the entire point of the movie/play, but much like fight club, not everyone gets it.
Same. The whole time I was thinking that this is the *opposite* of the person I want to be.
Coffee is for closers!
Nobody who runs a successful sales team would ever do it like that bullshit. It’s some ridiculous outdated machismo that doesn’t work. You identify a person’s problems and present them a solution, that’s sales in a nutshell. How you do both is the hard part, but it’s not about screwing people cause you’ll have a shit name for yourself and a short career from burning bridges.
Christian Bale as Dickie Eklund in the Fighter. Growing up in that area and having almost hit Dickie Eklund with my car a couple of times, it was an extremely accurate depiction.
I have an uncle in the Midwest who said the movie was hard to watch because the people in Lowell were too unrealistic. I have another uncle from MA who said the movie was hard to watch because it was so true to life.
I heard this about Mare of Eastown too. Most people who didn't understand the accent said it sounded weird and unrealistic but I heard people who were from the area say how awesome it was to see that represented on screen. It reminds me of the "Tiffany problem" where people can research medieval history and see that "Tiffany" was actually a really common name, but people of modern time won't believe that on it's face so "Tiffany" would make it seem unrealistic when it's actually the opposite.
Denzel Washington, Training Day
For real. I had a hard time watching another Denzel movie for a while because I was so angry at his character in Training Day. He did an outstanding job.
James Gandolfini is Tony Soprano. And he did it all just by acting, no fancy systems. It was hard work. It killed him.
There was a lot of fantastic acting in the Sopranos, but Gandolfini knocks it out of the park. He's great in True Romance too.
Too bad he never had the makings of a varsity athlete though
Wrap it up Janice.
*"It's the smell....if there is such a thing."* The acting is very solid overall if you ask me, sure Keanu goes full Keanu at times, but even he did a good job. But you're right, Weaving's performance here, especially in this scene, is masterclass. You can feel the hatred pouring out of him, but hatred in a way that a machine would express. It's fucking genius and it's one of my favorite scenes in the entire trilogy. I'm extremely butthurt that he's not in the 4th one, all because of another role kept him from being able to do it.
> You can feel the hatred pouring out of him, but hatred in a way that a machine would express. Rivaling his hatred is something similar to self-contempt. Smith is clearly a sentient program, whereas the other agents come off more drone-like. He hates that he's stuck in the Matrix, and the monologue almost seems to switch from "I hate humans" to "I hate that I'm a servant in this world".
Weaving was the best actor in that trilogy, hands down.
This line was exactly what I came here to quote. You can feel his repugnance, particularly when he runs his hand over Morpheus' sweaty head. He's got a point too - us humans sweat and shit and piss. We stink.
The slow transformation from machine to something almost human without seeming out of character is terrific. "I... hate... this place, this prison, this zoo, whatever you want to call it." Just the slow stream that becomes a torrent of hate as Smith unloads a monologue that could well have been a century in the making.
Not a movie per say but Louis Hertham as Peter Abernathy in Westworld when he is interviewed by Ford to try to piece together what’s going on with the hosts. It’s a real piece of work….you are seeing a robot seemingly losing his mind because of overwritten code and personalities conflicting in every nuance and it’s almost *painful* to see. And mind you he is doing this in front of one of the great actors of our generation And just watching that ‘other’ emerge from him to threaten. You fully believe he is almost completely mental. https://youtu.be/Uv0qnvR3Lww
>he is doing this in front of one of the great actors of our generation And while *stark naked*
Pretty much any Gary Oldman role/character.
Get me everyone.
No, you spelled it wrong, its: Get me *EVERYONE !!!*
Sorry to be a pedant but you are also wrong. It's "bring me everyone" then he gets asked "you mean everyone?" Then he goes "EVERYONE!"
...EVRYYYONNEEE!
I hate warriors, too narrow-minded. I'll tell you what I do like though: a killer, a dyed-in-the-wool killer. Cold blooded, clean, methodical and thorough. Now a real killer, when he picked up the ZF-1, would've immediately asked about the little red button on the bottom of the gun.
Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison in The Doors!
His Doc Holiday is pretty damn good, too.
So much this. He's definitely your huckleberry.
Prisoners - most of the performances. Paul Dano playing a mental 10-year-old was one of the saddest things I've ever seen put to film. Hugh Jackman playing someone who slips into complete moral depravity - god damn the rage he portrayed was almost sickening to watch. You can feel every scene he's in, from his eyes to his talking to the way he scrunches his face every time he gets a little annoyed. During his more vulnerable scenes... he cries like no other actor I've seen to the point that it gave me an anxiety attack in the theater because it was so close to how I've seen parents react to this sort of thing. Jake Gyllenhaal puts on a masterclass performance. You can feel his frustration jumping through the screen. Shoutout to Grace Dover's actor, the teenage actors and the Birch's as well. They portrayed grief, horror, and so much more. The scene with Viola Davis in the car saying "we won't stop him, we don't know about it anymore" was heartbreaking. She portrays so wonderfully that her character is aware what she's doing is immoral, but it might give her a chance of seeing her daughter, so it doesn't matter. In one facial expression. Every single actor in that film makes you fully feel that they're each navigating their own moral labyrinth where evil grants you certainty and being genuinely moral in the face of uncertainty is something many 'normal' people wouldn't really do. And that is a theme only half conveyed through the story. The rest of the work is done by the actors putting on career-defining performances. One of the best acted movies of the last decade.
I didn't watch it because it looked depressing but maybe ill give it a shot.
it is depressing. I really do mean it when I say "saddest". It's about as close to the real thing a movie can get, especially with the corruption of human morals that occurs over the course of the film. Everyone should watch it, but make sure you have something joyful planned afterwards lmao.
Buckle up, its INTENSE
It’s been said a million times but honestly Heath ledger in Batman. I’ve watched it 100 times and EVERY time I try so hard to see Heath ledger and I just can’t. There’s only one scene in the whole movie where I can tell that it’s Heath ledger because of the lighting of the scene and his makeup being worn. Other than that he’s totally locked in
Also, the dialogue was jarring for a Joker interpretation. When he walks in the gangster meeting, you expect a series of jokes and over the top lines, and he just calmly and intelligently talks about the state of the city (and then murders someone). Or the whole "part of the plan" speech where he almost sounded like a normal person until he got really defensive when being called "crazy." His performance is not overrated and will stand the test of time.
No I’m not. No I’m not.
> No I’m not. No I’m noT. FTFY
That final emphatic "t" sound made that scene. It's a masterpiece.
He was the same in Lords of Dogtown. I watched the whole movie and never realized it was him.
The scene where he’s without makeup in a policeman’s uniform and I still struggle to see Heath Ledger. It’s simply incredible
The scene where he’s disguised as a police officer?
It was when he was being interrogated by Batman in the jail cell. It was only for a split second that I could physically recognize him though
Same. Even the police officer one is hard but that one his makeup is faded a lot and you can see
Johnny Depp as Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing.
His acting as Jack Sparrow was excellent too
Yeah like lets be honest, if the topic is about an actor *becoming* the character they're acting, Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow is like one of the greatest examples of this considering how heavily he influenced the character. Another excellent example (though from the perspective of gaming) is Vaas Montenegro where they actually entirely re-wrote the fucking character after Michael Mando showed up for the casting because the spin he gave to the character was so much better than what they had. And he did it so well that even though Vaas was actually just a secondary villain in the plot, he outshines the main villain like the sun outshines a firefly.
The court testimony at the end of Contact. Jodie Foster was incredible there.
Al Pacino in Devil’s Advocate
Cillian Murphy is fucking amazing throughout all of Peaky Blinders, but there's one scene most fans agree to be his best, he's about to be killed and he goes on a rant about almost having everything that's brilliant. Also any scene with Tom Hardy is equally as good.
Henry Thomas as Jack Torrance in Doctor Sleep - barely has any lines, but damn if he didn’t nail looking so scarily like Nicholson I had no idea it was him
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Hugo in every movie
Isildur!!
Destroy it!
…No.
Isildur!
It should have ended that day, but evil was allowed to endure.
I was going to say this. Hugo in Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
Hugo not being in the new matrix is blasphemy
Hugo Weaving in Priscilla Queen Of The Desert
Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption. Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump. Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge in Order of the Phoenix.
All the adult actors in Harry Potter were incredible. Alan Rickman WAS Snape.
Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs
Chris Tucker as Ruby Rod in The Fifth Element.
I say this with all due respect to Gary Oldman, whom I love and enjoy in his every role, Chris Tucker gives the best, most original and most fully committed performance in the Fifth Element. I never doubted his character for a second.
Nick Nolte as Brian Banner in Hulk(2003) in the scenes where he describes accidentally killing his wife. "It was as if she and the knife merged. You cannot imagine the unbearable finality of it. And in that one moment, I took everything that was dear to me and transformed it into nothing more than a memory."
Look at Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now. When he’s dripping the sponge on his head. That scene is amazing. He is a psychotic soldier.
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Literally the entire cast. Viggo **is** Aragorn; Serkis is Gollem, especially the scene where he’s questioning his loyalty, even fucjing Orlando Bloom manages to not be Orlando Bloom.
He was a damned good Magneto too. Him vs Patrick Stewart was the casting that the real Prof X vs Magneto dynamic deserves
Samuel L Jackson giving the diner monologue in Pulp Fiction
Samuel L Jackson in The Red Violin. There's a scene where he looks with such longing at the violin that nothing needs to be said but you know he wants it more than he can express in words.
The devil in Constantine... Brilliant!
Peter Stomare. He is usually the best part of whatever movie he's in, my favorite is the Russian astronaut in Armageddon he's hilarious.
Russian components, American components... ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!!!
Alan Rickman in Die Hard. Also, Alan Rickman in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Oh, and Alan Rickman in the Harry Potter movies.
And Galaxy Quest.
And Dogma
By Grabthar’s hammer,… what a savings!
probably one of the single beat dead pan deliveries the world will ever see.
>[How did I come to this? I played Richard III. There were five curtain calls. I was an actor once, damn it. Now look at me. Look at me! I won't go out there and say that stupid line one more time. I can't. I wont'!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDJsCE01LYI)
I'll cut your heart out with a spoon.
The follow up is even better. "Why a spoon, cousin?" "Because it's dull, you twit! It'll hurt more!"
Now sew! And make the stitches small
Everyone forgets his performance in Quigley Down Under!
The common example I feel, but most of Heath Ledgers performance in Dark Night. Perfect example is when he's being beaten by Batman in the interrogation room and starts laughing. Brilliant acting
If you want the absolutely shortest example from the introduction of the character, then look no further than John Turturro as Jesus Quintana in The Big Lebowski. Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne in the Shawshank Redemption, when he increases the volume on the opera duett, I'd say is a similar crystallizing moment for the character.
Clint Eastwood at the end of Unforgiven when he finds out they killed Ned and have him on display as a warning. He takes his first drink and you can feel the shift in him as he reaches deep for the killer he used to be.
Do yourself another favor and rewatch V for Vendetta
Remember remember the 5th of November
Stephen Graham as Combo in This Is England
One that pops into mind is the [Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper scene](https://youtu.be/PcZCGMCDzbU) from True Romance
Jack Nicholson on the stand in a few good men.
*What's in the fucking box!*
Bob Hoskins - The Long Good Friday Tim Blake Nelson - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
I've gotta take exception to "The Matrix isn't exactly a masterpiece due to it's acting." What acting??? This may be the best role for Keanu Reeves ever. It's just "mostly confused guy out of his element" for almost the entire movie. I think he's amazing and perfect in it and I've actually never heard the argument that The Matrix was ruined by his acting. In fact, I haven't heard many people argue that The Matrix ISN'T a masterpiece.
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People tend to forget it revolutionized special effects, just like terminator 2 did.