The Lonious Monk;8857587 said:
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last time i checked scriptwriters and directors command the story not the actors.
But his point was that the actors choose the roles.
Also, some actors with enough pull can change the script.
they are not there yet , they dont have the pull yet and are you gonna deny working with Michael Mann , Ron Howard or Kenneth Baranaugh if they offer you a script?
Ben Affleck, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise and Matt Damon have a skill for turning scripts into gold simply off dialogue though.
Robert Downey Jr. has the same skill. I don't see Chris and Liam ever getting there.
When has Tom Cruise turned anything to gold based off dialogue alone?
Watch The Firm, Collateral and A Few Good Men.
But those were good movies all around though. He didn't make or break any of them. Hell, the most memorable lines from A Few Good Men weren't even delivered by Cruise.
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This is such a stupid opinion based on ignoring so much it is baseless. He was the fucking star of The Firm. Vincent in Collateral doesn't make the movie? So you think Jamie Foxx was the more interesting and charismatic character? "Well, Jack Nicholson's lines are more famous!" That's a two hander performance where both actors were playing off their dynamic chemistry, you think Pauly Shore could have helped draw that performance out of Jack Nicholson?
You wanted movies where Tom Cruise made the dialogue work off the strength of his performances and character work, you were given many and now apparently it's about quotables rather than actual fucking performances. It's a movie role, not a fucking guest verse on a street cypher. Next you'll be saying Die Hard should have won an Oscar instead of My Left Foot because you can remember "Yippee ki-yay motherfucker!" but can't remember any quotables by Daniel Day Lewis. This is such specious reductive reasoning that is excepting EVERYTHING else an actor does aside from reading the cool shit someone else wrote.
