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Post by pupdurcs on Apr 7, 2021 18:09:06 GMT
One of the great movie actors of our time turns 57 today. Happy Birthday Rusty! 
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Post by stephen on Apr 7, 2021 18:12:39 GMT
One of the few modern actors who could've been equally as seismic and successful in the Golden Era. The reason he worked so well in his prime was because he had that old-school presence and panache, but could fuel it with some of that rawness that the '70s and '80s crew made their bread and butter. Crowe obviously has had trouble getting back to his early peaks, but that does not mean he's been serving us only chopped liver since the early aughts. There's a lot of great stuff out there post-phonegate that's worth digging into, and it looks like Crowe's mellowed out and starting to get more interesting projects underway. I also hope he gets back to directing; I really dug what he did with The Water Diviner and I'd like to see him do something else on that scale.
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Post by wallsofjericho on Apr 7, 2021 18:20:25 GMT
Happy Birthday Rusty!
The Insider is one of the greatest performances of the 90s and Crowe is riveting in it.
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Post by pupdurcs on Apr 7, 2021 18:23:58 GMT
One of the few modern actors who could've been equally as seismic and successful in the Golden Era. The reason he worked so well in his prime was because he had that old-school presence and panache, but could fuel it with some of that rawness that the '70s and '80s crew made their bread and butter. Crowe obviously has had trouble getting back to his early peaks, but that does not mean he's been serving us only chopped liver since the early aughts. There's a lot of great stuff out there post-phonegate that's worth digging into, and it looks like Crowe's mellowed out and starting to get more interesting projects underway. I also hope he gets back to directing; I really dug what he did with The Water Diviner and I'd like to see him do something else on that scale. Depends what period you define as the Golden Era.
Crowe for me is a throwback actor, but he reminds me less of the 70's or 80's American guys than he does of the great leading men of the 50's and 60's. When I think of Crowe at his peak, I see him in the mould of Kirk Douglas, Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster etc . If he's like anyone who peaked in the 70's, it would be Oliver Reed, who was a spillover from that 60's era of international leading men . He had an unwavering masculinity that fit more with that period than the more navel gazing guys that would come later. There were lots of guys in Crowe's era trying to be clones of the 70's guys (ie Sean Penn). Crowe at his peak felt beyond that. And for the better, imho. I mean, Crowe is comparable in talent to most of those 70's guys, but his vibe and energy is closer to those from the era before them. |
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 7, 2021 18:38:10 GMT
Happy Birthday I make fun of him nowadays for his drop-off but when he was great to me - that was in his about 10 year run ~'91- ~'01 he was REALLY great. What a one-two punch to start that career Proof (nice guy) and Romper Stomper (not nice guy). Totally opposite, equally vivid:   |
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Post by stephen on Apr 7, 2021 18:47:18 GMT
One of the few modern actors who could've been equally as seismic and successful in the Golden Era. The reason he worked so well in his prime was because he had that old-school presence and panache, but could fuel it with some of that rawness that the '70s and '80s crew made their bread and butter. Crowe obviously has had trouble getting back to his early peaks, but that does not mean he's been serving us only chopped liver since the early aughts. There's a lot of great stuff out there post-phonegate that's worth digging into, and it looks like Crowe's mellowed out and starting to get more interesting projects underway. I also hope he gets back to directing; I really dug what he did with The Water Diviner and I'd like to see him do something else on that scale. Depends what period you define as the Golden Era.
Crowe for me is a throwback actor, but he reminds me less of the 70's or 80's American guys than he does of the great leading men of the 50's and 60's. When I think of Crowe at his peak, I see him in the mould of Kirk Douglas, Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster etc . If he's like anyone who peaked in the 70's, it would be Oliver Reed, who was a spillover from that 60's era of international leading men . He had an unwavering masculinity that fit more with that period than the more navel gazing guys that would come later. There were lots of guys in Crowe's era trying to be clones of the 70's guys (ie Sean Penn). Crowe at his peak felt beyond that. And for the better, imho. I mean, Crowe is comparable in talent to most of those 70's guys, but his vibe and energy is closer to those from the era before them. The Golden Era of the '40s and '50s is what I meant. He just also had some of that '70s/'80s-era rawness that lend more modern stylings to his performances. |
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Post by pupdurcs on Apr 7, 2021 19:00:17 GMT
Depends what period you define as the Golden Era.
Crowe for me is a throwback actor, but he reminds me less of the 70's or 80's American guys than he does of the great leading men of the 50's and 60's. When I think of Crowe at his peak, I see him in the mould of Kirk Douglas, Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster etc . If he's like anyone who peaked in the 70's, it would be Oliver Reed, who was a spillover from that 60's era of international leading men . He had an unwavering masculinity that fit more with that period than the more navel gazing guys that would come later. There were lots of guys in Crowe's era trying to be clones of the 70's guys (ie Sean Penn). Crowe at his peak felt beyond that. And for the better, imho. I mean, Crowe is comparable in talent to most of those 70's guys, but his vibe and energy is closer to those from the era before them. The Golden Era of the '40s and '50s is what I meant. He just also had some of that '70s/'80s-era rawness that lend more modern stylings to his performances. Personally speaking, I think a lot of screen acting became "modern" and "raw" in the immediate aftermath of World War II. I don't see Crowe's acting as any more "raw" or even modern than Douglas in Champion, Ace In The Hole, Paths Of Glory or Spartacus. Obviously Brando gets an excess amount of credit (unjustly) for modernising screen acting on his lonesome, but John Garfield, Montgomery Clift and Douglas (among others) had already started moving the craft of acting in American movies forward by significant amounts before he even came on the scene. |
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Post by TerryMontana on Apr 7, 2021 19:17:15 GMT
I'd like to see him again in a big, Oscar-baity project. I was never a fan but I can't disagree the guy has some great talent!
Happy birthday, Russ.
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Post by LaraQ on Apr 7, 2021 20:09:42 GMT
I must admit,I've really warmed to Crowe recently.He seems to have mellowed a lot over the last few years.
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Post by sirchuck23 on Apr 7, 2021 20:57:30 GMT
Happy Birthday to one of Hollywood's greatest leading men of the past 30 years! |
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Apr 7, 2021 21:36:19 GMT
Happy birthday. While I definitely prefer when he was still one of the biggest stars ever (The Insider a truly great performance), I've really grown to appreciate more menacing Fat Crowe. He's great in The Nice Guys, and even surprisingly even Unhinged.
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Post by futuretrunks on Apr 7, 2021 22:50:18 GMT
His late 90s/early 00s run was awesome, certainly. But people don't give enough credit to his work in 3:10 to Yuma, which was flat-out incredible (Ben Foster was superb as well, but not as complicated a role; Lerman good too). Also, I thought he was quite good in underseen stuff like State of Play and The Next Three Days.
But yeah, I'd love to see Crowe tap into his genius once again in a great prestige film. He's really good in The Loudest Voice, but it doesn't hit the same spot as something like Gladiator or The Insider.
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