Dont get me wrong, one of the greatest actor ever,but...
ALL of his movies are dramas..
I really want to see him in some of this roles:
Funny sport coach in sports comedy
Detective in thriller
Serial Killer in disturbing thriller
Any role in SF flick
Con man or gambler in these kind of movies
Gunnery seargent of marines in war flick
What do you think guys?
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shareI just want to see him work. Period. As for drama vs comedy, a Room with a View and Stars and Bars were both comedic performances. And he has comedic moments in many of his dramas (some moments actually provided by his improvisations). To me, Last of the Mohicans is a genre flick and not really a drama (its action adventure with some romance thrown in..and not exactly a deep film about native American and colonial relations)
"You are not only wrong. You are wrong at the top of your voice."
He was awful in Stars and Bars.
It's that man again!!
Have you seen it? I only ask because it is almost impossible to watch unless you download on amazon. He is too young and therefore miscast in the film and its a pretty mediocre comedy but he gives it his all and has genuinely sweet moments (IMO).
But for the sake of argument, we will take that one off the list .He is still funny in A room with a view and has genuinely funny scenes in his 'heavier' films. Gangs of New York, for example....Bill the Butcher, although sometimes erroneously dismissed as a deniro impression due to DDL's occasional DeNiro-isms in the role, is a performance with a quite a bit of scathing humor and old world charm (De Niro is not exactly known for either of those characteristics.) Even Plainview is darkly funny at times and his Lincoln has light comical moments.
"You are not only wrong. You are wrong at the top of your voice."
Saw it soon after its video release in the late 1980s.
We are not all young hipsters on IMDB!
There is a funny anecdote in a celebrity review segment on a late night British show at the time where an actor slates Stars & Bars and especially DDL's performance and said from now on I should call him Daniel D***head Lewis and because of him British actors will not get work in American films.
I always wished they went back to that actor a year or so later when Lewis won his first Best Actor Oscar.
It's that man again!!
That actor sounds like a prick.
However, I must say that judging one's comedic ability by just one film isn't really fair. Even Robin Williams has been unfunny and bad in a few of his comedies. Day-lewis is a character actor so obviously he's not going to be as comfortable trying to be funny as someone resembling himself. NOt to say that a prude like the character he played in Stars and Bars is exactly like himself but it is a bit closer to his background than many of his films. Perhaps that is why he overplays prudish Brit a bit too much in that film. But I still think he brings much more comedic undertones to his films than he gets credit for...I think its the method acting rep that is the reason for people's assumption that everything he does is so deadly serious. What I mean is that I remember a few people saying that they laughed in a few moments towards the end of There Will Be Blood and that it somehow indicated a mistake on DDL's part because obviously he would never try to be deliberately funny. But can't one be funny in character? Day-lewis once said that he found himself liking the character of Plainview because he made him laugh..he means to be funny.
"You are not only wrong. You are wrong at the top of your voice."
DDL please do something else...
Nooo...
Denzel tried comedy once and it didn't work out. These guys are dramatic talents and they should stick to what they're good at.
Just like certain funny-men shouldn't take on leading dramatic roles.
"Funny coach"...? Never.
"Detective"...? Too cliché.
"Serial killer"...? Done to death. (npi)
"Sci-fi"...? Not likely. ("Special forces"...? nope.)
"Con-man or gambler"...? Perhaps. If it's the lead in a dramatic/epic biopic.
"USMC GySgt"...? You mean like Clint in Heartbreak Ridge? LOL!! Not...
If anything, his next role (when ever that will be) will likely be in another historical epic/dramatic biopic, playing an interesting and charismatic, and/or powerful figure or literary character from history.
Wolf
"I Drank What?!" - Socrates
Does that mean DDL should never make comedies again? Because I have seen both those films, the problems with both films really had very little to do with him.
"You are not only wrong. You are wrong at the top of your voice."