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- From: malhotra@duke.cs.duke.edu (Manish Malhotra)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
- Subject: Re: Robert De Niro, most overrated actor?
- Message-ID: <725139252@danube.cs.duke.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 19:34:14 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.210620.21267@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <7226@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil>
- Organization: Duke University Computer Science Dept.; Durham, N.C.
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- In article <7226@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil> jxxl@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke) writes:
- >ssastry@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sudhir K Sastry) writes:
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- >His performance in "The Deer Hunter" put him on the map for good. True, he's
- >not as versatile as Brando, but in the right role he's as good as it gets.
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- >John
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- Whoa ! Just a minute please. Talking of versatility, how about
- "Cape Fear" (a psycho-killer), "Awakenings" (a handicapped),
- "Godfather II", "Raging Bull", "Deer Hunter", etc.
- I would be surprised if you could show more versatility in Brando's
- roles. His roles in "On the waterfront", "A street car named desire", and
- "Viva Zapata" (some of his best roles in IMHO) etc. are very similar
- -- An angry young man. "Last Tango in Paris" and "Godfather" were some
- other good roles. But I really wouldn't say that Brando showed more
- versatility than DeNiro so far has.
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- Manish
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