Word: dicaprios
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...DiCAPRIO: We tried to make Amsterdam more human through the course of the film - tried to embody what it would be like for him achieving success, getting emotionally attached to a woman for the first time, and receiving admiration from a father figure who ironically is the one who dispatched his own - and show how all these things would affect him as a person. Eventually he realizes that his father's battle wasn't really an individual one, but more a battle for his people...
...DiCAPRIO: Absolutely. Frank is unconsciously propelled by his father's resentment toward huge corporations and the Government and the IRS, and he goes out and fulfills some of what his own father was missing in his life...
...DiCAPRIO: Frank had mastered the art of misdirection; in many ways he was like a magician. He also had this unbelievable and profound ability to gain people's trust. It was amazing to actually meet the man, 40 years after all his exploits, because it is so inherent in him - something that is almost unconscious...
...DiCAPRIO: That's right...
...DiCAPRIO: I get asked this question a lot - about the difference between Marty and Steven Spielberg. But it would only be fair for me make that distinction if I worked on similar films with both of them. Like an epic with Spielberg, or something that was like an independent road movie with Marty. They're most definitely Great American master filmmakers, but it's hard for me to compare...