american actors in european films are always good

Ooooookay.

Thats because european films are better.

Well it gives American actors more interesting roles. Like Anthony Quinn is so stunning in La Strada but in America he got middling to average roles, exceptions aside. So it works for them. Then Ingrid Bergman became a whole other actress in her films with Rossellini.

Burt Lancaster as Prince of Salina is one of the greatest performances in film history. Radiating with intensity and tragedy. On paper, it should be the greatest miscast of all time...an Irish-American born to a family of circus performers in New Jersey and who became typed to gangster and western films playing the last great Sicilian aristocract...but on screen it speaks for itself.


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