Remarkable Performances

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Juice

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Some actors have the ability to convince an audience that he/she was completely oblivious to the close proximity of a team of movie makers while 'acting' out a scene.

The following are performances I considerer to be remarkable (please be aware that some of the movie clips will contain spoilers):


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Actor: Ralph Fiennes
Role: Amon Göth
Film: Schindler's List
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKie_34cpJI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR4wipToefE


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Actor: Ted Levine
Role: Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb
Film: The Silence of the Lambs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQb2m6VJ-eo


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Actor: Christoph Waltz
Role: Col. Hans Landa
Film: Inglourious Basterds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTorVuBxJsw&feature=related


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Actor: Carey Mulligan
Role: Irene
Film: Drive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxWBeq2BisA&feature=related

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Actor: Ryan Gosling
Role: The Driver
Film: Drive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InXohitZ_P4&feature=related


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Actor: Kathy Bates
Role: Annie Wilkes
Film: Misery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrfIWJeLTA4&feature=related


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Actor Edward Norton
Role: Aaron
Movie: Primal Fear

(He is one of my favorite actors. Other excellent roles include: Fight Club, American History X, The Italian Job)

Actor: Brad Pitt
Role: Mickey O'Neil (The pikey, best role for him I think)
Movie: Snatch

(Also another favorite, different roles yet perfect in each of them. Se7en, Fight Club, Inglorious Basterds, and just about every movie he has ever starred in)
 
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Actor: Kevin Spacey
Role: Lester Burbank
Film: American Beauty

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Actor: Adrien Brody
Role: Wladyslaw Szpilman
Film: The Pianist

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Actor: Tom Wilkinson (one of my favorite actors)
Role: Matt Fowler
Film: In the Bedroom

Honorable mention and unfortunately the subject of "parody":

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Actor: Bruno Ganz
Role: Adolf Hitler
Film: Downfall
 
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Actor : Cuba gooding JR
Role : Cookie
Movie : Men of honor
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Cookie!? Haven't seen the film, will try to get it somewhere.

Menace, of course Heath's performance will be added to my list. I'll continue to update the first post as I think of more masterful thespians.

TBlaar, the first time I ever saw Norton, was in Primal Fear. Wow. Haven't added Pitt because I can't decide between his role in Fight Club or Snatch. He was also pretty good in 12 Monkeys and Seven.
 
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Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis
Role: Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting
Film: Gangs of New York
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrkw1UgX3q0


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Actor: Heath Ledger
Role: The Joker
Film: The Dark Knight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrfCRF50qaA&feature=related


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Actor: Christian Bale
Role: Patrick Bateman
Film: American Psycho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzN3qO-qc8U


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Actor: Rutger Hauer
Role: Roy Batty
Film: Bladerunner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_saUN4j7Gw


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Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio
Role: Arnie Grape
Film: What's Eating Gilbert Grape
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYHOPSDrPIc&feature=related


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Actor: Steve Carell
Role: Brick Tamland
Film: Anchorman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN8j8wLmKIA
 
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TBlaar, the first time I ever saw Norton, was in Primal Fear. Wow. Haven't added Pitt because I can't decide between his role in Fight Club or Snatch. He was also pretty good in 12 Monkeys and Seven.
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Yeah, I chose Brad Pitt in Snatch because the role he played as that pikey was brilliant, he was just as good in Fight Club. He was also great in all other movies he played, Legends of the Fall, Meet Joe Black, Moneyball, the Oceans series.... The only role I think he didn;t do super well, was in Burn After Reading, but that was not really a role for him... they could have used anyone to portray Chad in that film.

And Norton, man, I also saw him in Primal Fear the first time, and he was great. After that, he always plays some kind of a bad-ass (American History X, The Italian Job) and for a relatively short and small guy, he does DAMN well portraying these roles.

If anyone has NOT seen Primal Fear yet, watch it, it will make you a Norton fan!
 
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Actor: Kevin Spacey
Role: Roger 'Verbal' Kint
Film: The Usual Suspects

Owns all.....
 
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Actor: Edward Norton
Role: Derek Vinyard
Movie: American history X

I really enjoyed this movie and he did such a good job in it.
 
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