Leonardo DiCapriowho turns 51 today, is a great picker of projects. The films he’s in (almost) always offer an extra edge.
His charisma and versatility, which includes unforgettable dialogue segments and minutes-long silent performances, leave the viewer in the dark about what he could bring to the table in each new film in which he stars. Surprise guaranteed.
What is the “extreme” character in your career? Those who forced him to show the world unprecedented interpretive aspects.
let’s see Four examples of extreme roles that the Hollywood star knew how to master perfectly.
Hugh glass The return He is his extreme personality par excellence. He fights with a bear, gets shot, gets punched, bleeds, sleeps inside a horse, endures unimaginable cold… and all without making any sound except those that come from panting and screaming.
The saga that Alejandro González Iñárritu’s hero must overcome to achieve his goal – or not – gave the actor a long-awaited Oscar.
The almost savage Glass faces the elements of nature and brutal betrayal; Jordan Belfort to the exact opposite kind of brutality.
Drugs, sex and money distort the reality of the stockbroker who enters The Wolf of Wall Street He is always in a state of complete ecstasy. Sometimes his excesses barely allow him to move (see the great car scene) and other times he suffers from loose corneas.
One of the best versions of the Scorsese and DiCaprio tandem (director and hero) that will be repeated on this list.
But first, Quentin Tarantino. Although in Django without chains He looks young, in the scenes dedicated to him showing DiCaprio at his most terrifying. Nothing about landowner Calvin Candie is right except the man he portrays.
To discuss the seriousness of his debut as a cinematic villain, we can talk about the now-famous tale of the Hand.
In her most memorable scene in the film, Candy delivers a racist monologue about the differences in skulls when one of her guards interrupts from one second to the next.
The landowner changes the tonal register of his speech, strikes the table before him with his open hand, The glass breaks and the glass becomes embedded. Meanwhile, Django (Jamie Foxx) and Schultz (Christoph Waltz) are ordered not to take their hands off the wood.
The truth is that that sincere and violent pressure with his hand on the glass cup opened his skin to the point that his blood flowed. The shot had to end shortly after his action, but he continued to act as if nothing had happened, and Tarantino took advantage of the convincingness of the situation to leave in the final cut the moment in which the actor’s limb drips with red blood cells.
As we expected, DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese appear once again as an infallible duo Evil island.
In one of the best psychological thrillers – literally – of the 21st century, the hero of this note plays Teddy Daniels, a police officer who must intrude on a Boston island to find out the whereabouts of a female murderer.
Without wanting to spoil anything, the events of the plot gradually lead to Leo assuming a more complex character than he initially thought.
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