Gary Oldman: His best performance?
Is this Gary Oldman's best performance ever? Or is this the best Dracula performance?
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Gary Oldman is one of THE BEST actors of all time... Period.
In fact I will go even further & say he is the Greatest actor ever.
He is so intense that every actor performing along side pale in comparison & perhaps this may even be intimidating for most.
Sure there's other great performers, Daniel Day Lewis (a master) but I would really Love to see these 2 actors work side by side on some epic.
But Gary Oldman... it's ridiculous this guy has never been mention for an Oscar. It's not that no one knows how absolutely brilliant he is.
I guess you say he's like a Harlem Globetrotter... to damn good
Recently I've been thinking about actors who I generally think are amazing. But after watching this film tonight for the first time, Gary Oldman is in my top five favourite dramatic actors, next to Harrison Ford. For comedic performance I love Steve Carell, I've loved and hated him in his films. Every episode of The Office I always said to my friend who I watched it with, how great Carell is, and that I hated him in Way Way Back. But Gary Oldman is the Johnny Depp of good movies. While Depp is also a good actor, both have played vastly different characters in their careers, that sometimes it's hard to remember that for example, Jim Gordon was played by same guy who played Dracula, and Jack Sparrow played by Scissorhands.
But Oldman's performance in this is great. I've never been a huge Dracula fan. I've read the book, wasn't hugely fond. Seen several versions of the films, but this is the only one I've actually enjoyed quite a lot. I've never been scared by Dracula, I've been scared by vampires as a kid, but never by Dracula himself, but this was frightening. The make-up and costumes were brilliant, and bloody deserved to win those Oscars.
I watched this in 92 and just today. I would have to disagree on Oldman's best performance. While he was at the castle I thought his performance was fantastic but once he got to London everything fell apart. Keanu is wooden and boring you hope he gets killed off and he was considered for the role of Dracula?? Hopkins was way over the top, Ms Ryder well she is who she is and chose to bring a one dimensional performance. Tom Waits was good I liked his effort's. Actually watching it today I found the whole movie a little over the top and most performances pretty bad, but enjoyed it back in 92 so much I bought the blue ray today.
Funny how you'r taste in movies change, still love B-Horror tho so maybe
Best performance : Sid Vicious (Sid and Nancy) , Best Dracula
shareGary Oldman's always good. But he's not always right for the part. I agree with the person who didn't find him believable as a romantic Dracula. He's got the wrong kind of charisma for this part.
My favourite performance of his is one of the earliest ones, playing a skinhead in Meantime. That was *beep* inspirational.
Like most have said he's never put in a bad prformance including Dracula but a film that I can't believe hasn't been mentioned, was the brilliant State of Grace, great film and Gary carried the whole thing even with the likes of Penn and Ed Harris starring. Obviously his parts in True Romance & Leon are standouts. Also I loved him in Romeo Is Bleeding, very underrate movie. *beep* he was great even in Harry Potter.
shareI don't know about the best because he pretty much kicks ass every time, but it definitely is both my favorite performance of Oldman's and portrayal of Dracula overall. He has always been Prince Vlad in the back of my mind, at least up until he became Jim Gordon.
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ah yes, another case of obscene overracting being mistaken for talent. Scenery-chewing ham.
Are you trying to say that Oldman isn't talented ? He didn't overact in Prick up your ears, JFK, Romeo is bleeding, The Contender, Tinker Taylor.
And these are some of his best performances. share
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I agree. Most of the acting in BSD was appalling.
Oldman and Hopkins were both varying in grades of ham and the scenery was in tatters when either of them were on screen.
Reeves and Ryder were varying shades of wood veneer.
BSD was just a Coppola vanity project that may have Stoker's characters in it but it is a far cry for Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'.
The best screen version of Stoker's story was the 1977 BBC production with Louis Jordan made for British television.
You do realize it was on purpose, right? That perfectly fits the whole movie's over-the-top concept and approach? From this point of view it's a great performance.
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right, and so is Tommy Wiseau's from The Room.
and so is Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of NY and There will be blood, and Tom Hulce in Amadeus. They all overacted and chewed the scenery share