He was a great psychopath in Leon (The Professional). Looking forward to Child 44. Good serial killer mystery novel set in Stalinist Russia. Based on a true story. _
Drexel in True Romance, you can't recognize him except for the facial features. People give Heath Ledger a shitload of credit for one performance that convinces people to forget the actor, mainly because Heath wasn't all that great of an actor before that. Gary Oldman does that in previously every role he takes. Fucking Dracula. Tell me that is Oldman. He's basically unrecognizable. Beethoven, Lee Harvey Oswald, Reverend Dimmesdale, Dr. Smith, that freakshow from Fifth Element, the Harry Potter werewolf, Commissioner Gordon. He will take any role and do it to perfection. It's a shame that one of the greatest actors of our time is about to be blacklisted.
Leon might've been a good movie if Oldman's character was the star, instead you have to sit through 2 hours of a pedophile fantasy to get this
Lol, there were definitely uncomfortable scenes in that movie, but no more than in "Beautiful Girls." One could conclude that she was jailbait before her time. No wonder Lucas wanted her.
I may have been put off by how highly rated/recommended it was also, aside from Oldman I just don't get it, and he was barely in the movie. I wonder if he takes smaller parts in general by choice or he's just not considered for starring roles. I might actually see that dumb Apes riding horses and shooting guns movie since he's in it.
Likewise, he's the only supporting actor that decides movies for me. Fucking dude is an amazing actor. He's so good that, as you say, he may be choosing supporting actor roles regularly by personal preference. And maybe that is the method to his madness. Great supporting actors who transcend the medium never go out of style. Great lead actors stick around for a few years, maybe earn awards, then inevitably get typecast, and many times stop acting altogether, and just pretend to act while being nothing but themselves, hoping the money train keeps rolling. De Niro, Denzel, Pacino, Brando, Hoffman, Nicholson. There are still greats out there that attempt to act, but for the most part... rubbish.
Blacklisted? You must be Joking! No matter the controversy, I am hearing Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is going to be huge and possibly the best "Apes" film since the original.
That's a candid, spot on assessment. And to think that Travis Bickle and Ratso Rizzo ended up going to the mat with Babs the beady-eyed shrew in that POS Meet the Fockers…
