Directors have no say in how budget gets accumulated. To do movies like gangs of New York..producers will have a list of stars from which director has to choose if he wanted to make it at that budget. Try making gangs of New York with a nobody and that movie can’t be made.Leo isn’t a bad actor he is more serious than Johnny Depp and a better actor than Matt Damon,Brad Pitt and Ben affleck. Thats it. He is lesser of the two evils.
I agree that the partnership between Leo and Scorsese is, apart from an artistic one, also a financial one and that Leo's brand helps Scorsese. I'm just disputing that Scorsese doesn't like Leo's acting and squeezes his nose whenever he's making films with him.
I have no problem in calling him the new charlton Heston or Cary Grant or Humphrey bogart ...all great stars with great movies....but he is no Brando or De Niro...he is no chameleon...
every time he puts out a movie for awards his attack or campaign is two fold....1) his performance , which his marketing team and film team raves about which anyone will do about their stars. 2) his movies are all big budgets movies that studios don’t make anymore. So he is gonna ride the coattails of “people watching his movies”...had those movies were made by other stars,they might not be such huge successes. It’s not his performance alone ...it’s the situations surrounding the movie as whole...”it’s shot in natural light ....give Leo an oscar”....”it’s a huge budget period piece...give Leo an oscar “...”the direction of the movie is great...give Leo an Oscar”....bottom line is movies are great despite him and not because of him...look,he is not a bad actor ...he is just serviceable...he never elevates the material..the material is already great..he just rides the coattails.
I dropped a link above of Tarantino discussing his original choice for Calvin candie...I guess who it was??? 20 yrs ago..he would suite and now he is old...of course it’s kurt Russell...when actors exit projects..it’s not gonna one out like that....even Tarantino is not too balsy to let out the secrets of production.
Kurt Russell was going to play a character called Ace Woody. You can look it up.
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Cobpyth's Movie Log ~ 2019
Cobpyth's Movie Log ~ 2019