DiCaprio Just Bein' the UnDiCaprio
By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (27)
I know a lot of folks believe that Leonardo DiCaprio plays a variation of himself in every movie he’s in, but I actually think something of the opposite, although the result is similar. I think he’s too studied — that he gets so wrapped up in delivering the lines just as they should be delivered that none of his personality seeps through. The effect is the same: he sort of is the same person in each movie, but I don’t think it’s a version of himself. He’s too muted; too controlled; too self-aware.
From his scenes in what is now the second trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island, that doesn’t seem to have changed. Granted, I like the guy — I think he’s a great actor. I just think he’s stuck too far inside himself. Even when he unleashes, it seems controlled.
This trailer suggests that Shutter Island — which has recently been bumped out of Oscar contention and into a February release date — is a more supernatural affair. It looks very promising, and has a lot of Scorsese’s Cape Fear vibe to it. In fact, there’s a brief shot of Elias Koteas in this trailer, and he looks like a dead ringer for DeNiro in Cape Fear. If anything, Shutter Island looks like a nice reprieve for the horrible movies that otherwise generally dominate February.
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Comments
Posted by: DeistBrawler at October 5, 2009 6:10 PM
Saw this trailer with Zombieland on Saturday and I was impressed. I hate Leo, have hated him ever since the girls started crushing on him in Titanic. However he grew on me with The Departed and Gangs of New York, in this trailer I actually went "Fuck Yes!" I'm glad to see him go against the pretty boy appeal.