who is a better actor brad pitt or leonardo decaprio? - Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019) Discussion

[–] Threadkiller (2947) 5 years ago

While I personally tend to prefer Pitt's movies, I'd say that they are around the same level talent wise overall, even though Pitt is the more versatile, "chameleon". DiCaprio is generally more overrated.

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[–] LTUM (969) 5 years ago

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[–] Threadkiller (2947) 5 years ago

Personally DiCaprio has just never truly "sold" me on a character. Every character I've ever seen him play it just feels like Dicaprio the actor, playing a role. With Pitt i tend find it easier to forget I'm watching Brad Pitt the actor. e.g. Kalifornia, True Romance, 12 monkeys, Snatch

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[–] LTUM (969) 5 years ago

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[–] TaRaNRoD (1579) 5 years ago

"Personally DiCaprio has just never truly "sold" me on a character. Every character I've ever seen him play it just feels like Dicaprio the actor, playing a role. "

With the exceptions of The Departed and Django Unchained, I have the exact same feeling.

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[–] Threadkiller (2947) 5 years ago

Interesting. My opinions on the two examples you mentioned are polar opposite from each other. I'd say The Departed is the "closest"(but still not quite) I've seen DiCaprio come to being seamless in his embodiment of a character. Django Unchained on the other hand to me at least was peak DiCaprio the actor playing dress up and adopting a "serviceable" old timey southern slaver accent.

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[–] TaRaNRoD (1579) 5 years ago

Hmmm sorry I have a bit of a hard time to understand here haha. You say that your opinion on both is the polar opposite, but it sounds to me like you just gave a favorable opinion of both roles haha. Can you help me here please lol.

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[–] Threadkiller (2947) 5 years ago

The Departed = The most convincing I've seen DiCaprio embody a character
Django Unchainged = I couldn't help but find myself very aware that DiCaprio was "performing" & merely dressed up for the role, never selling me on "being" the character

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[–] lukejbarnett (1869) 5 years ago

have you ever seen him in the wolf of wall street. talk about getting into character oh my gosh. unbelievable performance.

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[–] lukejbarnett (1869) 5 years ago

exactly, he's more an actor than dicaprio. the point is to get so much in character that you are not acting. good point. plus with brad he's always having to give such great performances to get you past his good looks and to take him seriously as an actor, so for him to do this is even more impressive because he always has to be more impressive than most other actors to impress you watching him.

i'm really glad you also brought up him in true romance, one of my all time favorite films. he was so amazing in true romance. did you notice the way he plays a stoner high on marijuana? he plays it in a more difficult way than the standard way most actors would play it.

i'm also glad you brought up kalifornia, he was such a brute and dangerous man in this film. he was unpredictable, animalistic and intimidating and scary in this role. also he was great in well everything. it's easier to think of a specific good performance from him than a great performance because he has almost always, every time given a great performance. he was so great in troy. oh my gosh, he's spellbinding in this epic film. have you ever watched him in troy?

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[–] LiquidOcelot (2299) 4 years ago

Wow you just sound like a crazed fangirl now. His performance was nothing spectacular in True Romance, let's not exaggerate.

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[–] lukejbarnett (1869) 4 years ago

uh you don't know what you're talking about. if you did then you'd know that that is an amazing performance.

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[–] BuckSwope (3511) 4 years ago

He has about 30 seconds screen-time in True Romance. WTF? He "sold" that stoner character, did he?

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[–] lukejbarnett (1869) 5 years ago

exactly, pitt is more versatile and more a chameleon in his roles, he plays different characters that are widely varied whereas dicaprio kind of stays in the same intense characters.

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[–] yatzo376 (7435) 5 years ago

Decaprio has way more range.

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[–] lukejbarnett (1869) 5 years ago

you're wrong. brad pitt has played so many different characters and been more believable and more impressive with his performances than leonardo dicaprio.

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[–] yatzo376 (7435) 5 years ago

Pitts a low key stoner
Luckiest bastard alive!!

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[–] LTUM (969) 5 years ago

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Now that we know you're dumb I'd like you to write some more because it's amusing!

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[–] Galactus03 (4287) 5 years ago

Agreed......

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[–] ATG6 (3000) 4 years ago

DeCaprio is a great actor and rightfully gets lots of praise for his range and abilities, but Pitt is much more effortless. It's sort of like determining who is the better referee in the NFL or NBA -- the guy everyone notices for his style and flair and presence, or the guy who is so good you don't notice him and just watch the game.

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[–] Shooter (112) 5 years ago

Is this a serious question? Leo and its not even close.

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[–] MichelleDessler (419) 5 years ago

Agree!!

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[–] LTUM (969) 5 years ago

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[–] TaRaNRoD (1579) 5 years ago

This is an unnecessarily arrogant answer.

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Closeted elephants are the worst.

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[–] DracTarashV2 (4474) 5 years ago

Ah, Lou! https://i.giphy.com/media/wXrihNIRoVDZ6/giphy.gif

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[–] Bigcat (259) 5 years ago

Here I am flat on my ass and who do I got living next door to me.

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Roman Polanski!

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[–] LTUM (969) 5 years ago

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[–] lukejbarnett (1869) 5 years ago

are you kidding me? has trouble delivering lines??? have you ever seen pitt in troy? he gives one of the best performances in film history. and it's a role that doesn't even need as great of acting as pitt gives it. he overachieves, gives you more than you need in this film. in seven he shows a lot of emotion, in 12 monkeys he's so spellbinding to watch, he's on another level of acting that maybe 5% of all the actors in the world ever accomplish. in fight club he's equally spellbinding and riveting, i can't think of another actor in Hollywood who could have played that role as well as him.

he completely immerses himself in all his roles and is a chameleon when it comes to playing wide ranging, and varied parts. he was so amazingly great in a small role in true romance. i mean among all the standout performances in that epic and landmark film his performance was one of the most impressive and brilliant and he played it in a really unconventional way which required a lot of creativity and originality.

oh and dicaprio started out on growing pains, so don't give me that pitt wasn't really an actor he was just a model at the beginning of his career.

how can you say he comes off as very amateurish if you also said he is one of the best facial expression and body language actors of all time? that's a contradiction. why do you think brad pitt speaks weirdly or unnaturally in movies? i mean, he just has a different vocal style and delivery and quite honest that's what makes him so captivating to watch act and what made him a star. decaprio made it on his looks alone also. if you look back when he was in the first two huge movies which made him a star romeo and juliet and titantic, he was made a star because of his looks and not because he was a great actor.
you're wrong dicaprio is not as good of an actor as brad pitt.

when the list is made of the all time great actors brad pitt will be at the top of this list.

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[–] TaRaNRoD (1579) 5 years ago

You want people's opinion or you look for approbation?

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[–] LTUM (969) 5 years ago

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[–] TandyMan (10317) 5 years ago

Leo. I think Brad mostly plays himself. He just spins the dial from 1 to 11. But Leo actually assumes characters.

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[–] MaximRecoil (4041) 4 years ago

"I think Brad mostly plays himself."

That's true of every actor. The only exceptions are when they are playing a novelty character like Forrest Gump or Karl Childers. When an actor is using their normal voice and speaking style (which is usually the case) there's nothing to blatantly distinguish the character from the actor, unless you know the actor personally; well enough to be able to spot things that they would never say and/or do in real life.

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[–] snepts (11123) 5 years ago

This is an excellent question. At first glance I'd go with Leo because he has chosen a lot of very serious roles and has to explicitly carry the movie. Inception, Gangs, Wolf. Shutter, Beach, Titanic. I admire the sorts of roles he has chosen.
Pitt not as much. Not a fan of Ben Button, Troy was dumb, and he hasn't seemed to work as much. Fight Club is such an odd film and Norton shares the lead. And his romantic life seems like so much fodder for tabloids that it gets tiresome.
But Leo has gotten a little chunky in the face, and he doesn't exude a lot of personality. Pitt's a great looking guy and he's got some natural charm, so he's easy to watch on screen. I guess this movie is a way to easily compare them.

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[–] TaRaNRoD (1579) 5 years ago

Yeah, DiCaprio have this constant insecure look no matter how hard he tries to break it.

Pitt on another hand looks confident and charismatic.

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[–] lukejbarnett (1869) 4 years ago

look at how he was so overshadowed in gangs of new york by day-lewis. so, no if he is really a great actor then he wouldn't have been overshadowed or marginalized like he was in that film.

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[–] snepts (11123) 4 years ago

I have begun to reconsider my opinion about LDC over BP.
Leo has headlined a lot of very serious and thoughtful films while Brad made decent movies. But I'm willing to admit Pitt much of the time looks much more at ease with what he is doing while Leo is working hard.
But Pitt's clunkers like Troy drag him down. I thought that was a horrible performance, but Leo wouldn't have even tried to do something like it.
Good point about Gangs and DDL. It's an odd movie, almost a satire/caricature I would imagine of gang life at the time, but I wasn't there obviously. Leo seems like the relatively bland supporting actor.
So Pitt may have had better performances in movies that weren't as blockbuster as Cap's. I won't argue that too much, especially as their careers have matured.

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[–] lukejbarnett (1869) 4 years ago

are you kidding me? pitt's performance in troy was inhumanly great. this is a very nuanced, multi-layed, complex, textured performance. he made this character his own. which is precisely one of the many things pitt does better than dicaprio. with dicpario you see the work, the acting process with him, but with pitt you don't, it's internal, he acts natural and makes characters his own in an uncanny and unique and uncommon way.

dicaprio acts, pitt is. that's the best acting, where you don't see the process, you see the character, where you don't notice acting, pitt is the part. he's not a larger than life character, he's not extreme, he just is. i'm referring to dicaprio overplaying characters. it's better to be subtle like pitt than overplaying like dicaprio. i don't know why you're not seeing the quality difference there? dicaprio also has a problem with confidence in films whereas pitt is always confident in films.

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[–] snepts (11123) 4 years ago

I see your points. I do think Troy kinda sucked and listening to Pitt was painful, at least for me, but script and direction aren't his responsibility. I think that Cap's films with Scorsese made it appear he was the more successful person, ergo the better actor. But I'm rethinking this. I also thought Benj Button was a lousy film, but again, not Pitt's fault. He does inhabit roles with a lot of natural charm and ease, while LDC seems to have to rely on an intense quality in his performances. Not sure they could do each others roles convincingly, but I'm willing to consider BP might be a better actor.

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

DiCaprio

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