Harrison
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I see that Leonardo DiCaprio is going to play the mountain man, Hugh Glass in this new western movie. Is Leo the modern day John Wayne or Tom Selick?
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Arik
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I think he's every bit as good. He's just different. No two people, no matter how good, will play the same role the same way.
I can't really compare him to Selleck since I haven't seen a lot of his movies. I remember seeing Magnum on reruns as a little kid bug that doesn't count. Saw a few Jesse Stone movies and Blue Bloods.
As for John Wayne. ....I'm gonna catch hell for this.....I never liked him as an actor. It didn't matter what you put him in he was always the same.
I can't really compare him to Selleck since I haven't seen a lot of his movies. I remember seeing Magnum on reruns as a little kid bug that doesn't count. Saw a few Jesse Stone movies and Blue Bloods.
As for John Wayne. ....I'm gonna catch hell for this.....I never liked him as an actor. It didn't matter what you put him in he was always the same.
Marshwheeling
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Leo can do this. It is an amazing story. Here is a pretty concise account:
Hugh Glass: Legendary Trapper in America’s Western Frontier | History Net: Where History Comes Alive – World & US History Online | From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher
Hugh Glass: Legendary Trapper in America’s Western Frontier | History Net: Where History Comes Alive – World & US History Online | From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher
THE PILGRIM
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Have written and deleted 3 posts.
If I really say what I want to say, big trouble ahead!
To the Original Poster- that would be a NO!
If I really say what I want to say, big trouble ahead!
To the Original Poster- that would be a NO!
Leonardo DiCaprio= An OK actor, but otherwise is another spoiled, misinformed, misguided, Hollywood Liberal that I have "zero" respect for.
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vito
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I plan on seeing this film. DeCaprio, in my opinion, is an outstanding actor who is fully capable of playing widely differing type characters, and doing all of them well. If you saw him in "Blood Diamond" you'd know that he is going to do a great job in this film. John Wayne was, well, John Wayne. He always played "The Duke" and that was fine in its way but I don't think his acting skills hold a candle to some of the better actors today (but some of this is just the more realistic style of acting that we expect in modern movies rather than the very stylized acting of years ago). Watch both the old and new "True Grit" and I challenge you to not agree that Jeff Bridges did a much better ACTING job than did John Wayne in the earlier version of the film.
WPWarhawk
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More like the modern day Richard Harris ... [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeJp7cvcpwg[/ame]
Arik
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Vito said it much better then I could have.
The first True Grit I saw was with Jeff Bridges. Great movie, great acting. A few months later, while channel surfing, I saw noticed that the original was on so I jumped on the chance to see it even though it was probably 1/3 of the way in. After the first 5 min I was getting bored. Forced myself to watch 30 min and couldn't take any more. Very flat.
John Wayne played himself, how great that was. He was an American and a man.
Leo, would feel most comfortable in a room with Hanoi Jane.
Leo, would feel most comfortable in a room with Hanoi Jane.
BearBio
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"Watch both the old and new "True Grit" and I challenge you to not agree that Jeff Bridges did a much better ACTING job than did John Wayne in the earlier version of the film."
I'll accept that challenge since Bridges did nothing but copy Wayne in every detail: mannerisms, vocal tone, etc. It was Bridges portraying John Wayne portraying Cogburn.
I'll accept that challenge since Bridges did nothing but copy Wayne in every detail: mannerisms, vocal tone, etc. It was Bridges portraying John Wayne portraying Cogburn.
CAJUNLAWYER
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The movie trailer looks pretty good. I'm sure I'll see it.
DiCaprio is a decent actor - certainly better at acting than Wayne was. Leonardo can play a wider variety of roles, because he is a phony. That's what acting is. Being able to do a convincing job of pretending to be something you're not.
John Wayne played nearly the same character in every film, because he wasn't acting per se. He portrayed people that were similar to him in terms of what they stood for and what they believed in and whose general character matched his. He was genuinely what you saw on the screen.
Less of a "great actor" and more of a "great American".
DiCaprio is a decent actor - certainly better at acting than Wayne was. Leonardo can play a wider variety of roles, because he is a phony. That's what acting is. Being able to do a convincing job of pretending to be something you're not.
John Wayne played nearly the same character in every film, because he wasn't acting per se. He portrayed people that were similar to him in terms of what they stood for and what they believed in and whose general character matched his. He was genuinely what you saw on the screen.
Less of a "great actor" and more of a "great American".
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Philadelphia Patriot
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I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was excellent in The Departed, but aside from that he's an okay actor. I find him to be "overly dramatic" to the point it's not 100% believable.
If you want to see another good Leonardo DiCaprio movie then watch Basketball Diaries. It's based on a true story.
If you want to see another good Leonardo DiCaprio movie then watch Basketball Diaries. It's based on a true story.
model70hunter
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Not a Leo fan. Yes I've watched a few movies he was in.
All my life I read all I could on the fur trapping era. I know who Hugh Glass is and what he did. He eventually cornered Jim Bridger who had been evading him for some years and let him live. Tells you a lot about his character.
Fyi Bridger and another greenhorn kid were ordered to stay with Hugh until he expired after the bear attack as the main group moved on. They got cold feet and skeered. They decided he would die, took his stuff and caught up with the rest. Herein lies his story, crawling, surviving with out weapons and making it back. I might have been a little harder on Bridger.
Heck yea I'll watch it trying not to compare Leo to a real mountain man.
P.S. I read today he is a close friend of ole Al Gore.
All my life I read all I could on the fur trapping era. I know who Hugh Glass is and what he did. He eventually cornered Jim Bridger who had been evading him for some years and let him live. Tells you a lot about his character.
Fyi Bridger and another greenhorn kid were ordered to stay with Hugh until he expired after the bear attack as the main group moved on. They got cold feet and skeered. They decided he would die, took his stuff and caught up with the rest. Herein lies his story, crawling, surviving with out weapons and making it back. I might have been a little harder on Bridger.
Heck yea I'll watch it trying not to compare Leo to a real mountain man.
P.S. I read today he is a close friend of ole Al Gore.
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I am reading Lord Grizzly right now--amazing account of the Hugh Glass situation. Can't recommend it more highly.
30-30remchester
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A lot of the original True Grit was filmed in the small town of Ridgeway, Colorado. Of course many photo's were taken by locals. In a frame in a local restaurant is a side by side photo of John in full western costume. The other photo was taken of him leaving the café wearing Bermuda shorts, Hawaiian shirt, straw hat, and sandals, drinking a large soda from a straw.
sigp220.45
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I like LDC, and I don't care what his politics are. The trailer for this movie looks good, enough so that I bought the 2002 book of the same name. The movie was shot with all natural light - no filters to make day look like night or big floods to help when clouds rolled in. It gives it a very forbidding look. I can't wait.
