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Originally posted by MisterEbola
DeNiro trying to impersonate a southern accent??? HAHAHAHA!!
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This illustrates that Robert De Niro is not a great Movie Actor no matter how many times James Lipton tells him he is. De Niro is a great Movie Star. Some people are such magnetic personalities on-screen that they could play the same basic character again and again and people would pay to see it again and again. De Niro is no longer handsome, but he's still a Star. That does not make him an Actor, however.
Jim Broadbent, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Bill Macy are Actors. Harrison Ford, Clint Eastwood and De Niro are Stars. One is not better than the other; the world needs Stars more than it needs Actors, and no one would have infinite patience to watch Bill Macy be himself in 110 minute stretches for his entire career.
Of the original list, it's probably only really fair to criticize the Actors. Olivier, Postlewaite and Streep should have done better (with the caveat that it's unfair to Postlewaite, who was playing a character that was, um, quite inventive). The rest have an pass, I guess.
