Richard Brody
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196 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 21 Jul
Richard Brody’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, I think it's a very good movie.
I think its tone is all over the place.
For instance, I happen to love Leonardo DiCaprio as an actor, but I think that his performance is completely out of tune, discordant with the movie, that it's a comic performance, just like Sean Penn's.
I think he's a brilliant actor, but I think that he's completely misdirected.
And Benicio del Toro, especially.
I think Benicio del Toro gives that movie its moral and tonal essence.
But I mean, one of the things about talking about acting is that I actually think it's very much talking about directing, because the actors don't simply present themselves as they see fit.
I don't think Leonardo DiCaprio had necessarily the idea to perform like that.
This was the tone that Paul Thomas Anderson brought to the film.
And I think it was a mistake.
Is there a Schwartz this year, Alex?
Thank you.
Alex, David, thanks very much.
As opposed to a shoemaker's firm?
As opposed to the shy, retiring and modest Christopher Nolan.
I'm well aware of it. I think that Megalopolis has been reviewed for its publicity rather than for what's actually on screen. That the story of Francis Ford Coppola spending $120 million of his own money and, above all, the greatest Hollywood sin of all, not caring whether he gets it back, has cost that film significantly in reputation.
Dune Part II.
Dune Part 2 shocked me because I think it's a terrible movie. I think it's a sludgy movie. Dune Part 1 at least had an impressive sandworm. This one is an extreme close-up of a vacuum cleaner hose.
The winner is Adam Driver for Megalopolis. Adam Driver is the actor of his generation. He's almost like John Wayne or Cary Grant. He is... inevitably, always himself. And that, to me, is an enormous virtue, especially in a movie like Megalopolis, where he's playing such an extravagantly composite character, essentially a Leonardo da Vinci of urbanism.
And yet, he brings a real physicality, a real command to this role, and takes this $120 million and essentially puts it on his back with the sheer force of his personality.
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