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The next big Scorsese-Leo Project

davos

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Captroop Grand Master

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Great, Scorsese is going to ask Leo to do another terrible accent, and Leo is going to be overdo it trying to grab for an Oscar. I love these two individually, but I think it's time they start seeing other people. Scorsese is passing up a lot of emerging talent in the biz we could do wonders with, and Leo needs to take some more fun roles like Django Unchained, which will do more for his public perception and Oscar chances in the long run.

What I am going to look forward to with this film is the humanization of the monstrous H.H. Holmes character. Scorsese always does a great job not just taking the easy road and making despicable real-life characters seem irredeemably despicable. It's always much more dramatic when the villain is identifiable; even sympathetic.

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Leo should have at least 2 Oscars right now.

Go back, and watch The Aviator.

The Aviator was awesome but I never saw Ray Charles with Jamie Foxx. Can't say for sure but the Academy loves them some actors who play people with disabilities they don't really have. Leo was great in The Aviator though.

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Great, Scorsese is going to ask Leo to do another terrible accent, and Leo is going to be overdo it trying to grab for an Oscar. I love these two individually, but I think it's time they start seeing other people. Scorsese is passing up a lot of emerging talent in the biz we could do wonders with, and Leo needs to take some more fun roles like Django Unchained, which will do more for his public perception and Oscar chances in the long run.

What I am going to look forward to with this film is the humanization of the monstrous H.H. Holmes character. Scorsese always does a great job not just taking the easy road and making despicable real-life characters seem irredeemably despicable. It's always much more dramatic when the villain is identifiable; even sympathetic.

his south african accent was spot on in blood diamond. that wasn't a scorsese flick though.

 

I like Leo. Especially in the Departed. The scene where he is running around the corner as Martin Sheen falls off the building was some of the best acting i have ever seen in a movie period. The look of "fug what am i going to do" to his undercover character when the bad guys roll up was simply amazing. Those feelings were so palpable. I was engrossed with his character the entire flick.

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damn, just read the wikipedia on the killer. Scorcese is going to make this movie terrifying.

 

the upper two floors contained his personal office and a maze of over 100 windowless rooms with doorways opening to brick walls, oddly-angled hallways, stairways leading to nowhere, doors that can only be opened from the outside, and a host of other strange and labyrinthine constructions.

Some were locked in soundproof bedrooms fitted with gas lines that let him asphyxiate them at any time. Holmes would also lock his victims in a room where the walls were covered with iron plates and had blowtorches installed to incinerate them. One of the rooms on the second floor was called the "secret hanging chamber"; Where Holmes would take one of his victims and have them lynched. Other victims were locked in a huge soundproof bank vault near his office, where they were left to suffocate

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes

 

 

I gotta get that book.

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I see what captroop  means. I don't want to go all film snob but as much as i love Leo's work, imo, he falls into an odd trap of  being in scene chewing roles and a victim of his own success . 

He  does  need a lighthearted  role and  be a supporting actor.

the last  few movies  have l been ao over the top. Give me subtle

 

 

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I see what captroop  means. I don't want to go all film snob but as much as i love Leo's work, imo, he falls into an odd trap of  being in scene chewing roles and a victim of his own success . 

He  does  need a lighthearted  role and  be a supporting actor.

the last  few movies  have l been ao over the top. Give me subtle

 

 

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I'm honestly most excited about the movie actually being made.  I always thought Leo seemed miscast in Inception (He bothers me in that for some reason) amongst others but his best style fits (at least for me) are in The Beach (the first half), Catch me if you Can, and Gangs of New York.  I think he gets so sucked into his roles without quite being a method actor that he seems like he's acting in a separate movie than the rest of the cast a lot of the time.  Even in his good work. 

 

Leo better be Burnham because I think he could hit that out of the park.  Root and Holmes will be the castings that can make this movie a great one. 

I'd love Willem Dafoe as Olmsted. 

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