Korean Job Discussion Forums

[waggo]

I know this or something similar has probably been done before on this forum.

But I dont want to read just a name or a name with a one line comment.

Back up your guy with why you think he's the man.

I used to think it was Pacino.But NO!...Just this very week ive changed my horse to Ben Kingsly.

Last week i watched a little known low budget British gangster flick called SEXY BEAST.The plot was...well I couldnt tell you if it was a good movie or not ,it doesnt matter.What matters is that Ben Kingsley gave the Scariest most terrifying portrayal of a Psycho gangster that I have ever had the fortune/misfortune to watch....I was squirming!...I could actually imagine myself meeting this guy and how I could avoid dying...and I dont think i would be able to avoid it. The strange thing is he didnt actually kill anybody in the movie.

Now put this devil incarnate alongside his wonderful performance as Gandi and you have my man.
Honor him ...download Sexybeast and then youll know.

Whose your man?

[skinhead]

Sexy Beast is not just ticketty boo. Guy Ritchie's two were the best of a bad era, but Ben Kingsley's performance in Sexy Beast trumped any in the Ritchie films.

Greatest living actor..

There are a lot of great old ones still kicking who've proven their art more than once. Of the new breed, I admire Joaquin Phoenix. His range is outstanding - from Toby N Tucker in U-Turn to Comidus in Gladiator to Johnny Cash in that film about Johnny Cash. Ewan McGregor, Johnny Depp, Ed Norton, Adrian Brodie, even Jake Guilenhal, all produce excellent work when they're presented with challenging characters. I feel the scripts are not worthy of the talent these days. Cinema has a glut of writers but very few correspondents at the present. Independents who write their own scripts are puling some of the talent away from the formulaic proposals on offer, so I've always an eye out for independent releases and art house. I've spent more time under the footlights than in the cinemas over the last 12 months. With live theatre it is so much easier to proclaim, "oh she's a great talent and a natural talent" than when you see someone on celuloid.

[Satori]

There can be only one...Pacino

Hot contenders...De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, John Cusack, Edward Norton, Kevin Spacey, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Sean Penn...

[The evil penguin]

Eric. Doesn't have a last name and I don't know his korean name.
He's one of my elementary students.... Seriously, best actor off all time. If things aren't going his way (ie, we don'tplay a game when he wants... he's not allowed to speak korean when he wants..) he can let loose a show of angst and hysterical emotion (with a real flood of tears) that would put any hollywood actor to shame...

[mishlert]

Fellini once said that Italy has some of the greatest actors in the world and none of them are on the screen or stage.


Names listed are some of the greatest, but Chae Min-sik from Oldboy should be added.

[laogaiguk]

I think Morgan Freeman (men) is a pretty damn good actor.

[goodluck]

Has to be Edward Norton, steals every movie he's in, fantastic actor.

[Gopher]

Impossible to choose, but here's a list, in no particular order:

Nick Cage, Leaving Las Vegas.

Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon or Scarface.

Redford, multiple, too numerous to list.

Brando, Apocolypse Now!

Deniro, multiple, too numerous to list.

Cuba Gooding, Jr., Radio. (outstanding story)

Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Penn and/or Timothy Hutton, Taps or Falcon and the Snowman.

[Clutch Cargo]

My vote is for Jim Carey. Just because someone can play a good murderous psychotic doesn't necessarily make them a good actor. It's a sign of true ability if the person can nail the comic parts (physical and verbal) as well as the 'tug at the heartstrings' roles, and also play serious parts all in the same film. Jim Carey=comic genious.
btw, there are no female actors here yet.

[VanIslander]

Uh, we should make a valuable distinction.

Great acting in a single role? Many have done this, and not demonstrating RANGE, just appropriate behaviour to a character. Nicholson and Pacino are examples of guys who excel at a given type of role (narrow range of ability).

Great acting in several different roles? That's the hallmark of a truly great actor (IMO): to be able to change to reflect totally different characters. Deniro and Penn have shown they can do totally different kinds of characters.

Hybrids (bit of both types): Johnny Depp and Tom Hanks have excelled at doing different roles but they each have shown a limitation in terms of openly emotional characterizations: they tend to be distant, reserved, stoic or emotionally-stunted types of roles. No real range here.

I think the greatest actor of our time doesn't get the credit he deserves because he is so good at doing different types of characters that there's no consistency of expectation - we don't know HIM (his type) - we go to a movie and the actor is doing a totally different character each time, so we forget that it's the same guy who did the other roles!!! Like a chameleon, a great actor can change themselves completely!

Nobody has shown greater acting ability over the last decade than:

Geoffrey Rush

His portrayal of the pianist in Shine (1996) was phenomenal, as Marquis de Sade in Quills (2000) equally critically acclaimed and award winning. His performance in The Tailor of Panama (2001) underappreciated.

[kermo]

Pacino has got intensity and cojones, but that's about it as far as I can tell. He just rolls his eyes around, puts on a silly accent and does his schtick.

My laurels go to Daniel Day Lewis. He's precise, committed and utterly unrecognizable from movie to movie. Check him out:

A rather hunky warrior from "Last of the Mohicans" (sequel to "Mohicans Galore")


A surly homosexual London kid


An Irish writer with cerebral palsy


An English gentleman with an entire tree up his rear (note the lovely and talented Helena Bonham Carter in his arms)

[doublejeopardy]

[shortskirt_longjacket]

Bill Murray is making a compelling argument with his last few films.

[VanIslander]

[Hollywoodaction]

George W. Bush. He excels in both tragedy or comedy.