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Shows or Movies that were so well acted you could believe they were the real people they portrayed


Although I wasn't too convinced by Charlie Hunnam in the beginning of the show, I could believe by the end that every single on of those actors were bikers.

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Generation Kill - those guys did a good job of portraying soldiers in combat doing their jobs rather than trying to be all gung ho etc.

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J.K. Simmons as Jameson in the Spider-Man movies.

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Also J.K. Simmons as Terence Fletcher in Whiplash.

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And J.K Simmons as Schillinger in OZ. He was scary good.

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George C. Scott in Patton
I actually have a hard time recalling what General Patton really looked like, I just picture Scott

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Same here, I always picture big George when I hear Patton mentioned.

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Brian Dennehy as John Gacy in To Catch a Killer (1992) ⤵️
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0105604/?ref_=m_nv_sr_1

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Yep
Good one, pretty shocking movie and fairly accurate to the actual series of crimes

On a side note my mom met Dennehy on Broadway after some show he was doing
She said he was a total
gent, took pics with the crowd of fans and signed things for people
He was a real sport
Gotta love that

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Hell of a performance from him in that one, Definitely Oscar worthy if it was eligible. Good to hear that he's a good guy off screen. Would be good to meet him. He's getting on in the years now.

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many of asghar farhadi's films feel so realistic, you could almost believe they're documentaries.

a separation in particular always makes me feel like i'm watching real people. there isn't even a hint of artifice in it.

abbas kiarostami's close-up is an interesting, extreme version of this, a film that skirts the line between fiction & documentary. it tells a true story of a many who conned a family into believing he was an iranian film-maker, and it was made with the people who were involved with the story playing themselves.

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Willem DaFoe played such a convincing Vincent Van Gogh in the recent At Eternity's Gate it made the entire film!

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Ben Kingsley as Gandhi

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