Bale (as if it's not obvious)
i am saying this as a guy who owns posters for revenant, inception, departed, aviator, django and once upon a time and none for bale. Dicaprio has what hollywood wants and they noticed it very early on in his career with de niro and james cameron giving him incredible opportunities.
Bale didn't have what hollywood wanted until nolan saw bruce wayne in him. Until then he was just the boy spielberg hired for empire of the sun. So you gotta look at it from underdog perspective when you have bale vs dicaprio.
Dicaprio movies are highly rewatchable and entertaining but that is to be expected because his presence increases the budget of any movie and that attracts top directors like innaritu to try their financially risky projects with him. But Bale's roles are much more hard to pull off. I can easily see Bale playing many of dicaprio roles and bring more or less the same effect to the character. In case of revenant bale would have brought 1000 % more. But I can't see dicaprio playing half the roles that bale played.
It's the same character from blood diamond -> inception ->shutter island -> revenant. I don't see any difference between these roles. All those are roles that relies heavily on the empathy factor of a movie star. But i don't see a trace of american psycho in vice or the fighter or american hustle or bruce wayne. That to me is something an actor earns as opposed to being perks of his position like many of dicaprio's roles. Chris Evans making a netflix movie like red sea diving resort is not a challenge for an actor , they are just perks of being the lead of the biggest movie of all time. Red sea diving resort with chris evans is the same as inception/shutter island/revenant/blood diamond for leo. There is no risk there except the fact that betting on people showing up to the movie in masses which is not in his control. He couldnt answer why people wanna watch him ? he has no control over it. That seems unearned to me.But as i said...his movies are rewatchable.
i am saying this as a guy who owns posters for revenant, inception, departed, aviator, django and once upon a time and none for bale. Dicaprio has what hollywood wants and they noticed it very early on in his career with de niro and james cameron giving him incredible opportunities.
Bale didn't have what hollywood wanted until nolan saw bruce wayne in him. Until then he was just the boy spielberg hired for empire of the sun. So you gotta look at it from underdog perspective when you have bale vs dicaprio.
Dicaprio movies are highly rewatchable and entertaining but that is to be expected because his presence increases the budget of any movie and that attracts top directors like innaritu to try their financially risky projects with him. But Bale's roles are much more hard to pull off. I can easily see Bale playing many of dicaprio roles and bring more or less the same effect to the character. In case of revenant bale would have brought 1000 % more. But I can't see dicaprio playing half the roles that bale played.
It's the same character from blood diamond -> inception ->shutter island -> revenant. I don't see any difference between these roles. All those are roles that relies heavily on the empathy factor of a movie star. But i don't see a trace of american psycho in vice or the fighter or american hustle or bruce wayne. That to me is something an actor earns as opposed to being perks of his position like many of dicaprio's roles. Chris Evans making a netflix movie like red sea diving resort is not a challenge for an actor , they are just perks of being the lead of the biggest movie of all time. Red sea diving resort with chris evans is the same as inception/shutter island/revenant/blood diamond for leo. There is no risk there except the fact that betting on people showing up to the movie in masses which is not in his control. He couldnt answer why people wanna watch him ? he has no control over it. That seems unearned to me.But as i said...his movies are rewatchable.