Reply #84: I think you've just got a bias against him [View All]

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Brando in Apocolypse Now was just as much Brando as Hanks was Hanks in The Terminal. Brando had a rebel mystique that makes people think he's cool, but he was just a method actor, and method acting draws heavily on a person's own character, his own emotions and reactions. That's the whole definition of method acting, as much as there is a definition. Brando and Newman both created outward characters from their inner emotions, the same way Hanks does.

And I reject your argument that you can just reject the Oscars. Personally, I think that the winner is often just a political choice between the five nominees, and I'm sure some nominees slip in from time to time as flukes. One nominee, one win--I agree that doesn't prove much (but it proves something). But they don't wind up with five nominations and two wins. That's critical recognition, and to reject that is silly. He's also won four Golden Globes, and a slew of other awards and nominations, and not always for the same roles as he won Oscars for.

You may not like him, you may not appreciate his style of acting, but the critics and his peers disagree with you.