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Some actors have depth but not breadth. You won't see Robert De Niro or Gerard Depardieu (two actors Day-Lewis greatly admires) play Edwardian dandies. But you will see Daniel Day-Lewis play English goons, Irish louts and American woodsmen. In 1986, in the early bloom of his career, his first two major English movies opened back to back in the U.S. He was a purring snob in A Room with a View, an ex-fascist gay punk in My Beautiful Laundrette. Just like that, a chameleonic star was born...
Tobias Wolff's subtle, vivid memoir, This Boy's Life, was converted into a one-track movie centered on the loutish, vicious behavior of Wolff's stepfather, played by Robert De Niro. Fried Green Tomatoes, released in 1991, was a masterpiece of artfully soft-edged propaganda, a regular Birth of a Nation of antimale bias: almost all the male characters were brutes or fools or slobs except for a mute, guardian black giant, who was a sort of eunuch figure, and a sainted brother who died an awful death when young and innocent, and a little...
...ROBERT DE NIRO...
Calogero's father Lorenzo (De Niro) is a bus driver who has forbidden his son to have any contact with the shady characters downstairs. Along with teaching him all the important stats about the Yankees and Mickey Mantle, Lorenzo has tried to instill in his son solid sense of family and religion. His advice is essentially this: Working to provide for your family is right and admirable, so stay in school and use your talent...
...almost exlcusively male cast teems with diversity and reality, largely due to directorial influence. Preparing for this piece, De Niro combed the streets of the city looking to fill the roles for his large cast. The result is a mixture of experienced and first-time actors who bring life especially to the film's lighter scenes. Particularly impressive is Chazz Palminnteri as the gangster Sonny. Palminteri, who also wrote the one-man play on which the film is based, shines even among a myriad of terrific performers...