Acting in films generally sucks. These are the only great actors in the history of film

Acting in films generally sucks. These are the only great actors in the history of film.

Prove me otherwise.

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Who is the 1st one

>Christopher Walken
>Not DeNiro, who was leagues above him, even in the same film
I can perfectly understand Cage, but putting Walken there is just pure bait. I feel meme'd.
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If you're going to include Chaplin then you should include Harold Lloyd too.

>watching films with actors in them

I can't, because you're right.

>He hasn't watched Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show

what are you, fucking gay?

Harold Lloyd wasn't really the humanist that Chaplin was. Also in the film Easy Street Chaplin was an extremely impressive martial artist.

I'll have to check these out, thanks.

DeNiro might have been arguably better than Walken in the Deer Hunter (truth be told I only used that image because it was from his most conventionally respected role). But as a whole, throughout their whole careers, De Niro just feels like a serviceable, leading man with a decent presence.

Christopher Walken can really take any role, and make the delivery an art in and of itself. His distinctive style made his short role in Annie Hall just all that more eerie and hilarious.

I'm afraid I can't chinese cartoons the other 10% of the time.

Duly noted.

who's talking about anime?

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>I'll have to check these out, thanks.
Don't even bother, you filmed theater peasant

>Chaplin was a humanist hurr durr
wow, you truly are the new andré bazin

Yeah, there's structural and landscape films too.

My first thought was anime because it's animated, with voice acting in a very foreign language, ergo acting is an almost nonexistent part of the film.

>you filmed theater peasant
Please explain that sequence of words.

It's an important part of the character he created for himself. I doubt Harold Lloyd could have captured Chaplin's Joy de Vivre in A Dogs Life, or his serious pacifism in The Great Dictator.

As an actor, director, writer, and sometimes even composer, it's easy to tell how easily his roles harmonize to get the themes or ideas of his movies across.

He is right but he should have worded it differently. Chaplin was a dramatist and a humorist at the same time which is his defense of including him.

Christopher Walken is a walking, talking meme. Al Pacino should be in that slot, nobody comes close to his performance in The Godfather II

>Chaplin was humanist wow
>Godard was playing with the medium of cinema wow
>Tarkovsky was so spiritual wow

come back when you have something interesting to say

DeNiro has had way better roles than any other actor:
>Mean Streets
>The Godfather Part II
>Taxi Driver
>The Deer Hunter
>Raging Bull
>The King Of Comedy
>Once Upon A Time In America
>Goodfellas
>Cape Fear
>Casino
>Jackie Brown
>The Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle

He made incredible characters with amazing displays, showing a range that most people don't give him credit for.

Watch Hud, with Paul Newman. Everyone in that movie puts on the performance of their respective careers.

I'm sorry, but except for the roles where he is just plain bad (such as when he put on a bad cuban accent and waved around a machine gun in Scarface), I see Pacino as just serviceable to the script and that's about it.

When an actor is just being serviceable to the script, displaying the overtheatrical emotions we expect from them, I really don't see the reason to applaud them. You might as well applaud the camera operator or makeup artist. In order to be a great actor they have to make the acting into it's own art form.

>DeNiro has had way better roles than any other actor

The roles in the scripts he was handed don't really say anything about the emotions he conveyed.

Chaplin wasn't just a humanist, he was a genius humanist. His scripts had themes of humanism, and his acting, making us root for the common man in his search for happiness, made us root for this themes. He was a triple or quadruple threat.

lmao you're gay

>makes list of meme performances
>not a single Klaus Kinski performance
m8...

Chaplin was selfish and only cared about himself on and off the screen

>The roles in the scripts he was handed don't really say anything about the emotions he conveyed.
It's not just that, he nailed the roles. Good roles have been handed to mediocre actors, with terrible results. But DeNiro gives something new to every character he plays. He is (or at least was during his prime) a true artist.

You mean the guy from Aguirre? I felt the cinematography and the rest of the film was trying to make him fit the stoic driven badass trope more than he was.

Could you pleb it out any harder?

You've only seen Joan Arc from Dreyer OP?