Comments by "Morgan King" (@MorganKing95) on "Top 10 Robert Downey, Jr. Performances" video.

  1. Most recognizable role, especially for today's audience, but not the best acted. Even though Chaplin received mixed reviews and was a commercial failure, Robert Downey Jr's performance was universally critically acclaimed, and he was nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA (which he also won), and a Golden Globe
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  2. grandpagohan1 You think it is easier to play a real character? When you play a fictional character, you can base his/her personality and mannerism much on the situations and given circumstances, or you can invent some of it yourself. When you play a real person, you know that he/she has existed and that the critics will butcher you if you play him/her inaccurately, and also if you don't look like the real person. You really have to research and study the real person to find out how he/she looked, walked, talked, and behaved, and then you have to make his/her life be illuminated to the audience. In addition, Charlie Chaplin was a silent movie legend, a genre that is not as normal to see today as back then, and he did those slapsticks and other comedic elements so incredibly well that it is very difficult to imitate; it is almost like trying to dance like Michael Jackson. Playing Charlie Chaplin is a very physical challenge in addition of finding his personality and mannerism. Colin Farrell's performance as Alexander the Great for example was panned because the critics and historians thought his performance was almost pure fiction and that Oliver Stone had skipped so many important parts of Alexander's life that his life was not illuminated at all. And in my country Norway, the movie "Kon-Tiki" spawned lots of controversy because Thor Heyerdahl's second-in-command in the film did not look like the real person at all, neither in appearance nor in personality Iron Man is Robert Downey jr's most recognizable role, but it is definitely not his most challenging role, and I think several other actors could had played him, it is just that Robert Downey jr. happened to get selected and now people cannot think of any other actor.
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