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Best 'chameleon' in movies today?
CamusCanDo:
--- Quote from: Sox on 08 Mar 2008, 16:53 ---You're actually both wrong. But Narr is more wrong than Beat Mouse*. A character actor is a person who plays a very narrow range of characters, usually somewhere in the background of a movie. So, Johnny Depp is NOT a character actor, as he doesn't portray similar rolls in all his movies. He's also usually the leading man.
By definition, a character actor can not really be 'big time'. Recognisable, yes. But not hugely famous. So to clarify...
A character actor can be become an A-List actor depending on their roles in movies.
Steve Buscemi is an example of a character actor. Johnny Depp is not.
Danny Trejo is a character actor. George Clooney is not.
*Edit: Upon closer inspection of the post, Beat Mouse was actually 100% correct. Ooops!
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Just so I know I have this right in my mind, William H Macy would be a character actor, yes?
Symptom:
I don't remember ever finding Kevin Spacey not convincing.
analogthought:
While I hate to say this because in text it looks wrong, but I'd have to almost say Jim Carrey. Between Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine, and Dumb and Dumber and Lemony Snicket... the characters he plays in those movies are very different and he fits right into the role. I think.
captain zoe:
I can agree with you about Jim Carrey.
And I think Tom Hanks, too. There's so much he can do, I mean look at the difference between say, The Terminal and Cast Away, just to name 2 pretty wide extremes. He has a pretty big range.
Nodaisho:
--- Quote from: Narr on 06 Mar 2008, 23:28 ---Christian Bale usually plays a pretty stock role, though. Most his characters don't deviate too much from one another. Don't get me wrong; I love the guy's work and go see movies just because he's in it.
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So the paperboy, psychopath, gun-fu master, and superhero didn't deviate from each other? I have only seen him in Newsies (about a decade ago), Equilibrium, Batman Begins, and The Prestige, do all the others seem to run together or something?
I haven't seen much with Gary Oldman in it (that I remember), but he was the lead DEA guy in Leon, right? What I saw of that movie, he was very in character, either that or he was on leave from the looney bin while filming.
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