DiCaprio has had one of those "lucky careers" that seemed to propel him forward from one major collaboration to another: Titanic first and above all, then a run as "Scorsese's in-house star after DeNiro," which in turn kept Leo marketable to keep getting offered the best scripts at the highest pay...including two (so far) from the very successful QT.
But it seems like the movies outdistanced Leo's own "star quality." The cute and slender "boy star" of Titanic aged out of his child star days into an only sort of good looking man with a very big , odd looking head and a weird face. This happens to many child stars -- they don't grow into handsome adults -- but Leo somehow succeeded anyway. mainly from his luck in getting major roles offered to him. Success begat success.
Meanwhile, I don't think QT is overrated at all. He may be an obnoxious motor mouth with weird looks "off stage" --but he fought his way up from video store clerk obscurity with a series of brilliantly written ORIGINAL screenplays(only one is from an Elmore Leonard novel, Jackie Brown) and then -- outta nowhere -- proved himself to be a fine action director with the fights in Kill Bill, the car chases in Death Proof, and the shootouts in Django Unchained. QT has won Best Screenplay a couple of times, been nominated on others, and wrote roles that won Oscars and Oscar nominations for a whole bunch of actors -- everybody wants to work with him.
So...DiCaprio. Not so much overrated and just one of the luckiest SOBS in Hollywood. Let's face it: we hate him cuz he gets all those babes. (But QT got babes too, and married one of them.)
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