Daily Gut: Leonardo DiCaprio to Play Sinatra?
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Leo DiCaprio playing Sinatra…that's just sad.
DiCaprio sucks. He needs to go to the gym or something, otherwise he's still just an extra that gets killed in the first scene of Star Trek.
Love my Red Eye which continues to kill in the ratings. Thanks Gut, Bill, Andy. Don't ever move the leg chair.
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The hell with Leo…I say Marty should go with Fred or Barney:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gVvmV3BnzM
"I liked him in Juno as the pregnant girl".
Nice one Greg!!
The Chairman of the Board is turning in his grave.
the only movie where I forgot he was Dicaprio, was "Blood Diamond", if I remember the title correctly. Even though it was a lefty film, I thought "damn, that was actually a nice piece of acting by him…"
On the other hand, everything else Dicaprio touches should burn in the same pit as Obama supporters.
Talk about miscasting!
Barney Rubble, what an actor!
Di Caprio as Sinatra ….This is a joke right?
This casting just underlines the difference between "movie stars" today and movies stars of the 40s and 50s. Sinatra was unequaled in his singing ability, but he could also dance with Gene Kelly and hold his own, could do comedy, and could also deliver a boffo dramatic performance. A quadruple threat…DiCaprio only misses the boat on four of those…
Actually, DeCaprio's a pretty good actor. The Aviator, Catch Me if You Can, What's Eating Gilbert Grape. But Gutman and most people here don't like him so I'm guessing he's an outspoken liberal.
Not even a Barrymore could play Sinatra, but the tad too feminine DeCaprio can? The boy can act and offered a believable Howard Hughes, but Frankie from the Rat Pack?
Iffy, very iffy.
…in a fiery pit of hemp by-products, and the smoke blown out by wind turbines.
I don't know for sure, but I have doubts that Leo is really Italian. If he is, he's got to be the least Italian looking Italian American out there. He looks Dutch to me. I'm only a quarter Italian, and I look 10 times more Italian than Leonardo DiCaprio.
Oh, and if 115 pounds of Frank Sinatra scares you, get to a gym.
I have seen Sinatra. I have seen DiCaprio. DiCaprio is no Sinatra. Sinatra can act and sing. DiCaprio lives in a green condo and believes in the tooth fairy.
Yeah, that believes in global warming.
Sinatra became a Reagan Republican – so expect Hollywood’s angry Leo to do a hit job on him.
First Howard Hughes and now this, next he can play John Wayne.
He kisses Al Gore with an open mouth on the lips to minimize the CO2 escaping.
Is there anything more obvious than stating Leonard Dicaprio is good at playing young man-children (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Basketball Diaries, The Beach) but you give him roles playing adults (The Aviator, Body of Lies, Blood Diamond) and he comes off the way he looks in Shutter Island trailers: he leaves you wondering who is that boy they dressed up as Mickey Spillane (and isn't that so cute)?
The only thing more obivous is how I just combined 5 sentences into 1.
Sadly with the exception of Russell Crowe, and perhaps Gerard Butler, there are no "manly" actors anymore.
To be far, I should offer up a suggestion for actors to fill the shoes of Ol' Blue Eyes. Then again, they already did it (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146165/).
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…or the Notorious B.I.G.
Yes, he's an "outspoken liberal", but that's not why I don't think he will do Sinatra justice. He's too big of an actor to play a real legend like Frank Sinatra. To those who know and love Sinatra, it will be DeCaprio playing Sinatra. And to those who don't know, DeCaprio is Sinatra. I think an unknown or a much lesser known actor will do a better Sinatra.
Give credit where it's due! anon made a relatively sane analysis. Stick to movies, stay out of polotics.
Instead of a film biopic ,why doesn't Scorcese do a documentary of Sinatra? Just focus on Sinatra and the audience wouldn't be distracted by DiCaprio attempting to get Sinatra ,"right."
That's funny!
"he leaves you wondering who is that boy they dressed up as Mickey Spillane (and isn't that so cute)?"
I like a lot of DiCaprio's movies, but he's not the manly smooth type for the role.
Fair enough.
And for that reason he'd do a lousy job as Old Rat Eyes?
And that makes him a crappy actor?
What's next Whoopie playing Sammie, she does an impression of his voice at least.
Tom Burlinson would be perfect to play Frank Sinatra. He is little known in the States. He is an Aussie actor who has already covered many Sinatra tunes in a stage show some years back. He actually sounds a LOT LIKE Sinatra.
Tom is also a pretty good actor who could pass for Sinatra as he has a few years on him but, still looks quite young (damn him!).
He's very good at several regional American accents so, you would have no trouble believing he is Sinatra on the screen.
His relative anonymity would help the movie as DohXs and VinceR suggest in comments above.
Look him up, listen to him on Youtube, he's pretty good!
Howsabout Harry Reid sings Don Giovani? Or maybe Bill Mahr in the lead role of a High Noon remake? Skewed reality, babies
Amazingly, the origins and purpose of all this chaos are predicted and accounted for in the prophetic, political Thriller book, BLACK ROAD 2012, which I bought on amazon, and was a real goose-bumpy, totally absorbing ride: http://tinyurl.com/amazon-BLACK-ROAD-2012
Lots of guys could do the part of the younger Frank, probably even Mark Wahlberg, but any viewer over the age of 30 would be so distracted by the look of anyone playing the role of such an iconic figure it be impossible to accept. And that big flat bobble head of DiCaprio is always in close-up. Always. The reason he is an actor is because it's hard not to stare. A hunchback waving a bloody stump at the scene of a car wreck gets less stares than that giant melon.
Yes Pogria, Tom would be a perfect choice and he has a very good singing voice and can certainly mimic Sinatra in song and looks are not a stretch either however DiCaprio, not even close.
I have actually never seen anything he's been in, so I have no idea what kind of actor he is, but he looks absolutely NOTHING like Sinatra, it would be a complete distraction to see his face pop up with a Sinatra nametag. He has a very round face, it just wouldn't work. Plus, stars from way back had a bit of a air. Manly, I would call it. And they knew how to wear fedoras. The little stars who try to wear hats nowdays just look stupid, they can't make it look like it belongs.
Sinatra wouldn't be caught dead in a Prius, or give a rat's a$$ about carbon emissions.
Sinatra was a man's man, not a metro-sexual man's boy…just sayin'…
It's not so much that he's outspoken as that he is empty headed.
that having been said he is a pretty decent actor and a pretty boy. He was quite the pretty boy in Titanic, and he did a creditable job portraying the mercurial and eventually neurotically paranoid Howard Hughes. I haven't seen his other films, having too many other things to do and little interest in a pretty boy playing at being a film-noir or spy-genre heavy.
As for him playing Sinatra, I don't mind it too much, other than that he does not look at all Italian. It's partly because Sinatra himself was not the heavy he pretended to be. He was more a pet than an equal among the mobsters he associated with, and if the Rat Pack ever needed a steel spine it would have been Dean Martin's, not Frank's. His portrayal in The Godfather was, I think, about right.
I think Whoopie's most pivotal role was as Buckwheat's mom in The Little Rascals movie.
Action/adventure needs its red shirts too.
even placing John Wayne as Ghengis Kahn was as badly miscast.
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His father is half Italian. Darken his hair and give him contacts and he would look too Italian to play Sinatra IMO. Sinatra was very fair with blue eyes. I think Leo could fit it perfectly. He is a very good actor and does not deserve the garbage you petty,jealous people are spewing. I would however prefer someone who could actually sing,I don't know if Leo can. I dislike the lip synching movies. Or maybe it will be a story of Sinatra's actual life, with out the singing part. That was his performing self.I would like to see a movie about Sinatra the person.
Leo is being used by the Refeali family. Bar is a puppet to use him for a voice for her homeland. Her father is a known former spy. Bad news. He needs to get a reality check before it's too late!
Isnt leo actually more german than anything else, i know hes a little bit italian but hes mainly of german heritage i believe.
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