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Bradley Cooper makes a great bad guy...


...but a bad guy with a heart of gold underneath.

He does that kind of character a lot, and so seamlessly. He was born for that kind of role.

Oskars problem with Eli is not her ambiguous gender, but her ambiguous humanity.

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I agree, but I think he does a mentally unstable character, like in SLP, the best.

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He played that role as if it were made for him. It's incredibly accurate. I know people EXACTLY like that, and he definitely nailed it. He carried it over to 'American Hustle' as well, albeit in a different type of role. More self aware in the latter, whereas in SLP, it's the characters ignorance or lack of self-awareness that causes his problems.

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