Word: deniro
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While Redford dares to be good looking and a good man, deNiro plays for keeps--for greatness. He plays the megalomaniac's game, and nothing is certain. He makes you worry...
...pathological individualism that we are given here, and we always go for that. DeNiro exhilarates us in Mean Streets because he's his own man even when geing his own man is absolutely self-destructive craziness. He's burning with it. In this subterranean world of dumpsters and neon and bar-darkness, racketeers and ferret-faced, small-time hoods, he dares to be a total jerk. He's the problem child who won't stop playing, hyperactively needling the frayed nerves of the others, and exploding in careless bravura. He is wired. Johnny Boy digs the risk and the rock...
...DeNiro's thin face, flexed body and slurred speech we recognize the tension of what it would mean to be cornered, to have no options. The eyes are inflamed, puffed with misery, or else vacant with the unsatisfactoryanaesthesia of TV, and we know something has got to give. We suffocate with Travis; there's no sex, no contact, no fun, just anger and loneliness and introspection...
From Sea to Shining Sea [Jets and Jeremiads--And he is American as apple pie, DeNiro...
This Michael that DeNiro plays is one of those great American heroes who has it both ways. He is both perfect model and one of the guys. He is the leader of the group, but also a man apart, emotionally cryptic. He walks a narrower road than his buddies; we see him gracefully climb a mountain above their heads and, with snowcapped peak behind him, a male choir singing, and rain clouds swirling, stalk a buck and drop it with one shot. Then they're back in the bar listening to Chopin, his Teutonic supremacy affirmed. He relaxes with...